As someone who has been off the grid for an extended period and has occasionally gone back within society (mainly for work related ventures, amongst other things) I have a unique perspective of the benefits to living off grid.
Some of my properties are merely 30 miles away from large cities while others are so many miles away even driving there and back would take up the majority of the day. That is however besides the point, the key is, the changes between the two are so immense that it is staggering at times. It can be so congested and stagnant. The Benefits to living off Grid are the opposite of being on it, freedom of mind , body and spirit
Health
Think about the amount of time spent sitting every day. You sit in the car, you sit in your chair at work, you go home and sit on the couch and then lay in bed for the evening. Your body is getting minimal exercise even if you workout out. You have to remember the human form was built for travel not to remain stationary. A great deal of health issues revolve around a sedentary lifestyle.
Society is built to exact a certain convenience on each citizen. No forging for food, drive to the grocery store or have food delivered. No walking to work, businesses are zoned to be far enough away from homes to make it too treacherous for most already caught in that inactive state. Round the clock stationary entertainment at a click of a button. Surgeries and drugs to give you the body you won’t without having to exercise for it.
Your health will skyrocket when living off the grid. There are always things to do. Plants to water, animals to care for, crops to tend to and grow, things to build, your land to protect. There is constant movement. You will finally be able to have a true nights rest which is one attained after many days of working to full exhaustion. The difference between this and just exercising a lot is purpose. Everything happening off the grid is done with life purpose.
Mentality
When is the last time you woke up and felt good. Like you had a grasp on your life and you were the one dictating your decisions? Living off Grid gives you that in such concentration you may overdose on the first hit. Society is a one size fits all mantra however it doesn’t mean what you think it does. Instead of making sure every unique being is able to remain as they are and find a place amongst all the other individuals, pieces of you are cut off and melted down. You are then placed in separated molds to fit the needs of society. The ones who are unable to remain as they were modeled are marked as unstable and become outcast.
The mind is warped from a young age to believe certain things to be true. To be dominant with a particular hand, read and process a certain way. Go to certain places at certain times, eat certain things, take certain drugs etc. This is all a constant weight on the mind helping it keep the form that it was modeled into.
Living off the grid allows you to remove some of that mental infrastructure, allowing you to think about things you havent given much though to since you were a chile. Your imagination begins to reform and your ideas take new shapes. This mental clarity is effervescent. Like a drink of the purest water, cool to the touch, after being parched for days in the desert.
Clarity
Drugs are introduced into society at a very young age. Disorders are handed out like lollipops. That is on top of the recreational drug use like marijuana and alcohol. Minds are so clouded with beta blockers, anti depressants, stimulants, depressants, ideas of others etc. All tools to deal with symptoms rather than changing the lifestyle of the user or helping them find ways to live in the world with their condition or affliction.
You may find that outside of the environmental factors in society that make you hyper active, depressed etc, that you are sated. There is no one off grid to tell you, that you are too sad or that you have to much energy, you just are. You can come to terms with your self and figure out what is best for you.
You never no someone until they have the means and space to become who they are meant to be. Living off the grid will give you that.
Individuality
Society is made to quash this a birth. You are registered, have your gender, race and ethnicity recorded in some fashion, acquire your citizenship, placing you in a large demographic of other “individuals”.
As you are raised layers of yourself continue to be shed and you are re-skinned with elements that allow you to integrate fully with society. You are taught proper behavior, language, fears, rewards, rules, etc. However, all of these things pertain only to your living situation and who you need to be in that particular situation.
No one needs to be taught who they are, they need to be taught who they should be. -Midas
This changes living off the grid. You get to mold yourself. No one will decide how to integrate you into a life of your own making. You can be yourself and do the things you want to do. Live the way that makes your feel good.
Change Your Circumstances
How are you? I’m not asking like a random acquaintance. You saying you’re okay means nothing to me. What does okay even mean, other than content with the circumstances of your life, or is that a lie.
The benefits to living of the grid is changing your circumstances. You have tried whatever form of living you are currently in, is it working for you? Are you Happy? Fulfilled?
You may not find that living off the grid but you will change your circumstances, You can always go back to your former life if things don’t work out or try something different. The thing to take notice of is that you have to do something. The benefits to living off the grid are endless but are not the same for everyone .The one constant is changing your circumstances, everything else will come later and living off the grid will definitely do that.
On must alter themselves before they can alter their fate.
What do you think of the benefits to living off grid? Are you willing to try? Let me know in the comments below
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