Who would have thought my 40s would be my best years?
So much growth
I recently had my 41st birthday and it was probably my best birthday I have ever had in my life. We didn't have any big plans or go do anything spectacular on my actual birthday. It was just spent at home with my family.
One thing I did get myself was a houseplant. We haven't been able to have houseplants in our home because the cats would destroy the leaves, so I decided to get a large one like this so that they have a harder time getting to the leaves.
After I brought it home, I decided that I needed to head back to the store to get a really nice pot for it to live in. The pot is huge and will lift the plant up a bit so that the cats have a harder time getting any of the leaves. It is also really heavy, so I won't really have to worry about it tipping over.
It was kind of a pain to move it from the little pot into the huge one, but we got it and I think it will do a lot better in its new home.
I did end up getting a couple more plants for our kitchen area and my daughter's boyfriend got some plants for his music studio. There are so many health benefits to having live plants in the home. The larger plants I bought are supposed to help with purifying the air and that is something that we really need here in the area of Utah that we live because the air quality is so bad. We are surrounded by mountains on all sides and the air just settles down and we have to breath in so much junk in the air.
Over the past year or so, I have really started to focus more on my health and living for the future. I've had some pretty bad health issues in my 30s and knew that I needed to make some changes to how I view life. I've started to focus more inward with myself and have been doing a lot of yoga, meditations and working out.
I really think that cannabis has played a very large part in my path to becoming more healthy and centered as well. A lot of people think that cannabis use can make someone lazy and ruin their life, but it really all depends on your mindset and intention with what you want out of the plant.
Another pretty life changing thing I my wife and I started was intentionally grounding ourselves to the earth as often as we can.
We watched The Earthing Movie and it is all about the importance of grounding. In short, the earth is a huge battery and once plastic soled shoes were invented, it disconnected us from the earth. Our bodies are full of electricity and when we are grounding with the earth, we allow a free flow of fresh electrons into our bodies to cleanse and flush it out.
Grounding is something that humans and animals have been doing forever, and it wasn't until recently that we disconnected from the earth. With our clothing, cars, offices we work in and our homes, we have basically removed ourselves from receiving the benefits of the earth.
My wife ordered some pillow cases that are grounded and a grounded mat for the foot of our bed. So as we sleep, we are connected to the earth and getting the benefits. It seems crazy, but I have been sleeping so much better since we got them. I seem to be getting a lot deeper sleep. My wife has been tracking her health and sleep with her Apple Watch for a few years now and there is even a huge increase in her heart rate variability once we started grounding.
I would have never thought that I would be so much of a hippy as I move into my 40s, but I really think that the hippies were onto something. I did a pretty large mushroom trip on New Years Eve and it was pretty life changing for me. It's weird because it has taken a few months to really notice the effect that the mushrooms had.
A mushroom trip can be a pretty cool experience for that day, but it is really interesting to see the changes in your brain long term after doing mushrooms. If you plan on doing psychedelic mushrooms, make sure that you go in with an intention and meditate during the experience. They really can be life changing.
I think that people around the world are beginning to wake up and see how easy it is to heal yourself naturally. I really think we are in the beginning of a health revolution and these natural remedies will be more widely accepted.
Life is weird. I never thought I would make it into my 40s, let alone that I would be in the best shape of my life. Your health is all you have, so make sure to take care of it. Go outside, put your feet in the grass and touch a tree. I guarantee you will feel better.
Impressive beard. Also happy birthday.
Thanks man. I don't know how long I am going to let it go before I start to trim it. I want to be a wise wizard one day.
Grounding... I like that word. Yea its crazy how advanced nature really is... goes beyond the tech we see today. Its crazy there are so much we dont know yet even with all this tech around us. For example... we have no idea how clouds in the sky really form. I mean... what??? lolz.
Nice post and I love your pic with your family~ also you beard is getting more majestic by the day. One day... can I touch it? me wanna touch the magic beard which now has properties of Korean ginseng. :)
I will let you touch the beard. It is full of wisdom now. I am starting to look like a garden gnome.
The earth is weird man. It is basically a huge battery that gets energy from the sun and disperses it out to everything that is grounded to it. All these cancers and big health issues are a recent thing for humanity and it stems from us disconnecting from earth's energy.
Once I touch~ I will be in total state of Nirvana..... Bliss in pure form.
An old man told me one time that the cure to any diseases is knowing and understanding the habit of drinking water. He told me we humans drink too little and add too much shit to it for flavor and sugar. But pure clean water he said helps clean our body inside out starting from the very cells. so cool right? :)
I rarely drink anything other than water nowadays. Soda and alcohol are gone out of my life. Water is one of the most important things you give your body. I'm starting to look more into soap and how that affects your body as well. Your skin is your largest organ and a lot of the soaps that are sold do so much damage, but hey, I guess they smell good while they are killing your skin.
Ya @whangster79 Grounding is a cool word, I was thinking the same thing.
On cloud formation, we do know how they form don't we? See link..
https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/clouds/how-clouds-form#:~:text=Heated%20by%20sunshine%2C%20the%20ground,air%20to%20form%20a%20cloud.
LOLZ~ Yea I saw the link and its how we learned it in school hehehehe. However when I looked more deeply into it through the rabbit hole I realized its a lot more complex than that... to the point that even our super computers fail to create an accurate model of it. Its why its hard to predict the weather even with all this crazy tech we have today. Nature it seems.... to be the absolute high tech of all. :)
https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2013/03/13/science-of-clouds/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWe%20don't%20understand%20many,peculiar%20case%20of%20fluid%20flow.
Cheers!~
Ah ya, but I suppose there are so many variables that predicting things with certainty is almost impossible, especially anything beyond a few days
It’s great to hear that… my 40s are the same. Best time ever! I’m mid 40s in half a year. Never thought I reach it too…
Yes, take care of your health, it’s all we have. You are right, it looks like people are waking up.
Have an awesome Thursday 👋🏻😊
That's awesome that your 40s are treating you so good too.
Thanks 😎🤩 let’s have fun in our 40s
I agree bro. People have lost touch with what really matters. When I'm in my garden I love to work barefoot and I also believe it reconnects our energies. Awesome post and Happy Belated Birthday homie!
Man I would love to spend time out gardening. I bought some grounding stakes for my indoor plants and I can't wait to see how they respond to being connected to the earth again. I've heard that you can get some amazing results just from grounding your plants.
For sure man! I was researching them a couple months ago and it seems like thats how the old timers used to get those huge veggies. I am definitely gonna try it on my outdoor plants this year!
Your outdoor plants should be grounded already unless you have them in plastic pots outside
You and your wife look so happy! Also nice ass beard 🥰
Also I would have to say the 40’s has been great to me as well so far. It probably is because I finally grew the F up lol
I've grown up and slowed down. I used to care about the dumbest stuff, but family is all that really matters.
Happy belated birthday dude! I'm planning on getting a Monstera for my gaming room but now I'm worried my cat might eat it.
Thanks man. If your cat is anything like mine, the newness of the plant will wear off and they will leave it alone.
Life is beautiful, you just need eyes to see it, Every relation you have in your life is beautiful, I think age doesn't matter. But I wish you best of luck for you future life.
Thanks. Good luck to you as well.
I discovered this pleasure recently - walking barefoot on the ground and grass...
Lovely cats!
Mushrooms rule! 😎
Happy birthday!
I have no worries about those two tigers, as I can notice they are already sitting next to the plant and planning how to climb on it while no one is watching.😂
Thanks to them I could never manage a single plant in my flat.
Still impressed with my 30's, looking forward to that new stage, happy one to you!(:
Thank you.
Since I have started gardening, my perspective towards life and nature is completely transformed. I have started giving attention to the very little things in life more mindfully. Growing the plants from the tiny seeds is just a miracle.
That’s awesome man. I feel the same way.
I am also sharing the beautiful pictures of the flowers straight from my garden here on hive. People really appreciate our efforts.
When I first met you on HIVE I did NOT clock you as a hippie, haha. It's been really cool seeing this transformation and there certainly is a lot of peace to be found in the realms of meditation, yoga, plants, and mushrooms - haha, I feel like I've just described me (though I can't do cannabis anymore - it makes me anxious!).
Your 40's are freaking awesome. I'm struggling more now at 51, more due to menopause and other life stresses - I'd go back to 41 any day as I also LOVED my early 40's.
Ya, I've had quite a bit of internal growth these past couple years. It's nice being in a place in my life that I can focus on my own healing. As far as the anxiety with cannabis, I would recommend finding a strain that works best for you. Granddaddy Purple is probably my all time favorite strain. It's a pure indica and it is super mellow.
You are blessed indeed and it makes me feel happy. That's one of the advantages of getting older I suppose.
I have had enough of cannabis, if I'm honest. Hops will do that mellow for me. I think not all plants work for all people - cannabis definitely isn't mine and I'm not sure it ever was! :) But i love how it perfectly matches with others.
Im glad that you found something that works for you.
The lasting hippy trippy mushroom effect is indeed very strange, especially the flashbacks :D
happy birthday a little bit later...
i'm also in my forties ;)
the house plant is really beautiful in that pot!
ps. reading the comments about the beard and looking at the picture... makes me wanna leave my wisdom hair, because i was about to shave completely...
still going outside with same style brown hat and similar sun glasses :)
/my beard is now half an year old and the hair a little bit older/ :)))
last time i saw a picture of you on a festival there was none :)
I've been growing my beard for about 16 months now. I am trying to figure out the length I want to keep it at. It really does feel like it is hairs of wisdom because ever since I've been growing it out like this, is when I have been going through the most changes in my life.
You are indeed having a nice time and that is a very beautiful thing. Well, there is never a time to be happy in life. Happiness can come at any stage and I hope that the happiness in you lasts forever.
Have a nice time!
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Cheers to more growth 🍻
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I really don't think anybody's 40s are going to be their best years. You're not lucky for that because you deserve it, man. You work so hard. Congratulations. I didn't celebrate your birthday because I didn't know when it was haha, happy birthday man. I wish the best for you always.
Thanks man. It's been a long road to get to where I am.
I like the house plant man. I had to convince my wife that house plants were a good idea. She thought they'd be too dusty, ha ha. She likes them now, I think they are essential inside a home. No chance of the kids knocking over that pot either!
The grounding thing sounds really interesting man, I'll habe to look into it.
I can see your cats looking at the new plant thinking .. " ah a new scratch post!", ... hope you can keep it safe!... it's funny I've really been looking into mushrooms, especially as an aid to meditation. it's difficult in the UK unless you get the spores yourself and give it a go, .. early days but I need more information, .. good to hear from you, .. good memories!
So far the cats have left the big plant alone. They have chewed a bit on the smaller ones.
Mushrooms can be a great addition to meditation. There are a lot of sites you can order spores from and they aren’t too hard to grow them. The main thing is to be super sterile with everything.