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Daily Question, June 27

What anchors (or has anchored) my life amidst the storms?

  • Varsha

    This has a very short answers. Friends. One friend in particular is always there 🙂

  • Gregoire

    Faith in my God and my aspiration to holiness have helped me to overcome many things in my life and also led me to gratitude. I have also been blessed with a wonderful wife. She has been a guiding force to steer me toward all that is good. Namely, caring for others first. Maintaining a peaceful heart and an attitude of acceptance are my one two punch against adversity.

  • Ose

    Taking a deep breath, then the next, then the next. Talking or being with friends. My faith in His Love.

  • Elaine

    Movement practices, Essentrics and Iyengar yoga.
    Physical activities,-bike riding, walking, swimming,
    Gratefulness practice,
    Friendships. .

  • Cathie

    That Spark within and the support around me.

  • Anonymous

    What anchors me in the storms in my life are my art and my music.

  • Dusty Su

    Knowing that each situation would be very different a year (or however long) from now. The storm’s power, pain, and persistence will have have a lot less influence over me and others.

  • Don Jones

    I think it is an unfiltered, raw honesty. Seeing things as they really are, and acceptance. The Truth has always served me, even in my lowest times.

  • Mary Pat

    What anchors me best is being able to get quiet, go down to my office space, and write, journal, or whatever my soul leads me to do for peace. Sometimes, it is meditation, other times it is journaling, which for me is writing my feelings and insights, and sometimes a memory or a plan for the future, or poetry. What is always the same is the need to connect with my soul. Always. In some way….it is necessary. And my family. Past and present.

  • Antoinette

    Right now what anchors me is letting go over and over again.

  • sb

    What a lovely question and one which immediately triggers feelings of gratefulness for my anchors: my parents, gradually handing the baton on to my wonderful husband; my faith; the nature around me that never fails to heal and calm; my natural optimism………

  • GratefulOne

    “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.” – Louisa Mae Alcott

  • Neil

    I would have to say a combination of things have anchored my life over the years; certainly friends and loved ones (past and present) that I can have conversations with, movement (qigong, Tai chi, yoga) and stillness (meditation, sleep), spiritual teachings (Taoism, Buddhism, Law of Attraction…) have all allowed me to reset and weather the difficult spots that will always be part of life. I’m so grateful to have these tools.

  • SK

    My understanding that this too shall pass. That I can endure anything as it’s only temporary. That my spiritual practices and deep abiding faith are so much a part of my essence that I just need call out to God and He knows.

  • sunnypatti

    My daily practices anchor me – meditation, gratitude, prayer, yoga. Each of these things help me to stay centered and aligned.

  • Pilgrim

    My family, first and foremost, along with friends. And the familiar … nature, music, Spirit. I am thanking Christine for her perspective (below).

  • DeVonna

    Faith is my anchor. My faith teaches me that God is with me no matter what I face and I have felt His presence. The knowledge that God cares not just for me but for all humankind encourages and helps me.

  • Kelly

    My faith in God. My Higher Power never leaves me, never abandons me and is consistently there for me at all times…unfailing love! It’s my only true anchor ⚓

  • Michele

    Inner strength.

  • Holly in Ohio
    I've weathered some quite big storms in my life. Many of you mention that your family is your anchor. Mine was not. I once lost everything in life that much mattered... I lost all the people. Every one. And had to begin, in one of the roughest periods of my life, when I was quite messed up, and most vulnerable, without support. My anchors were determination and logic, and after a very dark night I found gratitude. It must sound strange that I say determination and logic. More like obstinance ...

    I’ve weathered some quite big storms in my life. Many of you mention that your family is your anchor. Mine was not. I once lost everything in life that much mattered… I lost all the people. Every one. And had to begin, in one of the roughest periods of my life, when I was quite messed up, and most vulnerable, without support.

    My anchors were determination and logic, and after a very dark night I found gratitude. It must sound strange that I say determination and logic. More like obstinance and reasoning. The unwavering decision to hang on, and reasoning to sort out the confusion and to find solutions. I would say over and over to myself, “There are things that I know, and things that I don’t know. Start with what you know.” I knew I wanted to feel better. Okay, figure it out. I tried many things, but it was gratitude that shown like a star. It is how I addressed and rode through each wave of the storm, until I could see light again, and the seas calmed.

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