How To Use Your Grounding Nature
Working with intuition, healing work or psychic development is all basically energy work. If you are trying to do energy work, you first need to learn how to “ground” yourself. Grounding is done to keep you in control, calm and secure. You need to prepare yourself and learn how to be relaxed and in control before you start. Another thing you need to know about energy work is that after doing it, you can feel spaced out, dizzy, and out of touch with reality. Learning how to ground yourself is essential so that you can “come back down to earth” after finishing.
Below are some common grounding techniques. Practice them first and then choose one to use both before and after doing any energy work.
Breathing techniques
1. Breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth.
2. Take slow deep breaths and imagine with each breath in, you are breathing in light. When you exhale you are breathing out anything you want to let go of.
3. Visualize your body filling with light.
4. Continue until you are calm.
Yogic Grounding Technique
1. Stand with your legs shoulder width or wider.
2. Put one hand on your lower back near your root chakra, located at the base of your spine.
3. Put your other hand over your head.
4. Take a deep breath.
5. As you exhale, bring your top hand down in front of you. As you bring it down visualize that you are pushing any negative energy down into the floor.
6. Switch hands and repeat as many times as you need to until you feel calm
and grounded.
Growing Your Energetic Roots
1. Sit or stand comfortably with your hands on your legs.
2. Take a few slow, deep breaths.
3. Imagine that you have roots growing down through your legs and out of the soles of your feet, deep into the earth, anchoring you.
4. Continue focusing on your roots digging into the earth until you are calm and relaxed.
Wear or Carry Grounding Stones
1. Wear a grounding stone in a pendant, in a piece of jewelry, or carry one in your pocket.
2. When you feel the need to ground, rub the stone and focus on its solidness.
3. Hematite, carnelian, jasper, tourmaline, flint, tigers eye, jet, smoky quartz or any darkly coloured or redish stone will help with grounding.
Meditation
Meditation is one of the best ways to prepare for energy work, or for that matter, life in general. Meditating on a regular basis keeps you aligned and in touch with your inner self. It clears the debris out of your mind so that focusing on any task is much easier. Therefore it naturally makes sense that it helps with the intuitive arts.
It can be as simple as doing breathing exercises for 5 to 10 minutes per day. Sit quietly and comfortably and focus on your breathing. Concentrate on keeping your breath deep and even. Be sure you are filling your whole chest and stomach with air. Try to keep your inhalations and exhalations equal in time length. You may count slowly to yourself as you breathe in and out. The average person can do this to a count of 5 or 6 fairly easily. With practice this can be increased to 9 or 10.
Once you have mastered some simple breathing techniques you may wish to move on to more advanced techniques.
A basic meditation to relax the mind and body is a good way to prepare. I have a similar meditation on my CD “Spiritual Simplicity”. It is often easier to have a cd playing to keep your mind on track or to have a friend read through a meditation for you.
The process of relaxing the mind and body is fairly easy. Just start with a breathing meditation and then begin to focus the mind on different body parts. Starting with the feet, slowly relax each body part. Move up to the knees, the legs, the hips, the trunk and end up with the head and face. Refresh yourself with a nice deep breath and then focus on whatever task you are working on.
If the concepts of grounding and meditation are totally new to you, it is advised that you spend a few days, or even up to a few weeks learning some simple meditations and practicing some of the grounding techniques described above. Learning the focus and control of meditation will make you more successful.
by Bonnie Adam
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