What flavors do you find "grounding?"
What flavors do you find "grounding?"
Title is basically it.
For me, it's usually coffee, or anything spicy, like cayenne pepper. Apple cider vinegar usually does it, too.
Grounding?
12I think it means forcing you to reassociate with the current moment.
7Thanks for the clarification
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Same here, I have no idea what that could mean
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A lot of tea for me, especially earthy flavors. Shou Puerh tea is like a magical grounding experience for me every time I drink it. I love coffee and drink that daily, but when I really need to just be I break into the puerh stash.
For evenings I like a lot of herbal teas. Rooibos is probably my favorite. Lately I have been drinking a lot of lemon ginger tea with a splash of apple cider vinegar before bed.
8I can't even think about doing anything productive without coffee or tea in my hands.
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I don't think I've ever considered this before. How interesting.
My first thought is mushrooms. I think it's the umami of them specifically. Totally unrelated, but I also think bourbon & Scotch would qualify. I tend to be very intentional when I'm in the (infrequent) mood for strong spirits, and it tends to be a quiet evening with a fire and/ or instrumental jazz.
6Damn.
Didn't know where that was going for a second cause certain mushrooms definitely DO NOT "ground" me lol
By the end though I feel like you'd be a chill person to share a lagavulin with
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That's a thing? Like relaxing? I don't think I have experienced that.
5Haha, thanks. I wasn't interested in relaxing...more grounding.
Like I wouldn't consider hot peppers relaxing (maybe once the endorphins kick in), but it does help me stay in the moment. Stuff like that.
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Garlic cheesy bread, buffalo chicken wraps, biscuits and gravy
5I'm noticing a lot of people are listing relaxing flavors and not grounding flavors. Grounding is something that "brings you back to Earth" and puts you right in the moment in front of you.
For me, this is something really sour (usually candy). It kind of knocks me out of whatever zone-out I was in, or hyperfocus. It's like a reset switch.
4Not sure that's an experience I'm familiar with, especially from food / drink. I'll have to watch out for it. Do you happen to know where the term emerged from? Seems like lots of people here didn't understand it, is it used more often in different contexts or communities?
1Those are a lot of great questions that I don't think I have the answers to unfortunately. It's possible it has different uses, but in both layman use and in professional experience (developmental disabilities, anxiety), grounding seems to have the same meaning. There is a thing called "grounding exercises" or "grounding techniques" that are used to, as I mentioned, bring the person experiencing the heightened state of emotions back down to a stable state.
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I guess something bitter like coffee or beer, but it might be because they're chemicals that mess with my brain in fun ways
2Thanks all for the input!
1Unsweetened licorice lozenges or black coffee
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