Grounding

Grounding

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What Is Grounding?

Grounding is a way of connecting ones energy back down to earth, especially if you have not been yourself for awhile, worried, stressed, pressured or just literally overthinking or working without giving yourself the break you deserve.

When you are un-grounded life can certainly bring you down on every level and can leave life feeling very chaotic. It is good practice to practice connecting with the earth on a daily basis to disconnect from the chaos of your internal world and the external.

How Do You Ground Yourself?

Here are a few simple ways of grounding yourself:-

1) visualise yourself as a tree. First, close your eyes. Next, visualise roots growing out from your feet. “Extend” these roots through the ground and going all the way down. Anchor them at the centre of the earth.

2) Meditation that involves bringing attention to the physical body helps. With a body check-in, you scan each body part in turn; observing head to toe (or vice versa). You become aware of your physicality even whilst you delve into spirituality. If you are grounded, you are conscious of yourself, surroundings and earth. With breath meditation, you also bring your awareness into the now. Hence, you are less in the head space, neither getting thoughts caught in the past or the future.  It is how you can develop a strong sense of BE-ing. You don’t have to spend hours in meditation. In fact, just half an hour a day is enough to expand your awareness. For grounding purposes, sitting on the floor, which puts your body (buttocks and feet primarily) in touch with Earth to meditate is a much better option to sitting on the bed.

3) Working with soil or clay helps in grounding. Simply touching earth helps. Gardening in fact is a wonderful grounding activity! Working with clay adds an element of fun! take some children’s clay and play with it for some time.

4) Physical activity also helps to remove any accumulated toxic energy in your aura. When you shift your energy from an overloaded mental focus to a physical one, you are able to clear away mental debris. A clear pathway in your mind allows for a magnification in your auric field. Getting physical puts you in touch with your body. Where previously stagnant, life force starts to circulate in your body. You experience a sense of wellness throughout.

5) Getting connected through physical activity does not necessarily mean that you have to join a gym. All it means is to allow your mind a chance to take a break. Going out by the ocean or just being in nature is a wonderful way to revitalise. While outdoors on the beach or in the park, consider taking off your footwear. Experience the sensation of Mother Earth beneath the soles of your feet and feel the gentle breeze on your hair! Enhance the cleansing effect by breathing deeply and being present to the moment.

6) According to Ayurvedic Medicine, there are grounding foods that you can eat. Grounding foods include those that come from the ground. Hence, these will be foods like potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots and ginger. Other grounding foods include avocado, mango, papaya, grapes, olives, berries, coconuts, figs, melons. Vegetables include green beans, egg plant, and yams. For flavouring your food, use warming spices such as ginger, nutmeg, garlic, cinnamon, cumin, coriander and cloves. A dash or two of fennel and/or sea salt into your food will be great! Drinks should be warm and not cold.

7) How to ground yourself with crystals? Different crystals can help you ground in various ways. For instance, Obsidian is a volcanic rock, which is black and opaque. Its properties make it excellent for blocking energy and suitable for people who are hypersensitive. Other grounding crystals include Black Tourmaline, Smoky Quartz or Jet. To pick out the most suitable rock for yourself, seek the advice from the owner of a crystal shop or outlet. It may also be the case that you find yourself drawn to a particular crystal. Simply hold the crystal in your hand and imagine any unwanted energy flowing out of you and into the crystals. Occasionally, put your crystal on the ground to drain and clear it of its negative charge. Putting in a dish of sea salt overnight apparently helps too.