grounding

What is Grounding:  A coping strategy to immediately connect you with the present moment and the earth we are living on often through bringing awareness to the senses. Connecting with earth physically and energetically brings us out of our heads and into our bodies. 

  • Why? When?

    • Coping: Triggers, feeling disconnected, stress, anxiety, intrusive thought, feeling out of control. Sleep problems, weight gain, light/noise sensitivity, Dizzy.

    • Would you live in a house that is ungrounded? Electricity in a house that is ungrounded has no direction or clear path to follow. Reconnect to purpose, clears up confusion and provides stability in tumult.

    • Earth: mother/teacher: wisdom, power, compassion ~ getting connected the earth is alive. Can we treat it like an object to be used at our whim?

    • Forgetful, misplacing, lacking energy, tired, continual daydreaming, over stimulated, bumping into things, spacey.

    • Self limiting beliefs, emotional turmoil, taking on other’s energy.

    • EMF’s free radials

    • Before and after magical work. Before/After being around difficult people. Energy vampires.

  • BODY/MIND: Science has shown

    • Improve Sleep

    • Normalize day-night CORTISOL rhythm

      • Natures built in alarm system. Body’s main stress hormone. It works with parts of your brain to control your mood, motivation and fear. Fuel’s “fight or flight” instinct. If it stays on can cause Anxiety, depression, headaches, heart disease, memory and concentration problems, problems with digestion, trouble sleeping, weight gain.

    • Reduce Pain

    • Reduce Stress

    • Shift autonomic nervous system from sympathetic (fight or flight) toward parasympathetic (rest & digest) activation (muscles relax, heart rate decreases)

    • Speed Wound Healing

    • Reduce Blood Viscosity

    • Experience Less Pain

    • Increased Immune Response

    • DIRT: Soil bacteria: Mycobacteium vaccae

      • Success with trials to fight drug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis and boost immune system.

      • Oncologisy Mary O’Brien: lung cancer patients

        • Significally improved patient quailty of life

          • happier, more vital, better cognitive function. Reduced the emotion toll of advanced cancer

      • Neuroscientiest Chirstopher Lowry injected it into mice and then stress tested them

        • Showed far less stressed behavior, acted like antidepressants

          • Activated part of brain responsible for producing serotonin ~ related ot immune system

  • SPIRIT

    • Intuition works with your senses so being in tune with those senses allows you to be more in tune with intuition.

    • Electrons move freely between the earth and the grounded human body. The Earth’s magnetic resonance vibrate at the same frequency as our heart rhythms and brain waves.

    • Connecting with the energy of the earth. If you’re intuitive and absorb other people’s energies. Helps you release it. Gain more energy, tap into the energy of the earth.

    • Before and after magical work

    • Bring thoughts, idea and creativity into the real

    • Energetically: release excess energy and sending it back to the earth and tapping into the energy of the earth. The earth purifies the energy we put back into it. “Attention goes where energy flows.” Release negative energy.

    • Plug you into the earth: balance

    • Spiritual grounding should help integrate spiritual lessons into the real world. Allow you to put intellect aside and EXPERIENCE spiritual work rather than thinking through it. Helps you ensure you receive the energy you want. Grounding brings us out of our heads and into our bodies.

  • PRACTICES/TOOLS

    • Root Chakra:self-preservation, earth element, survival instincts. Base or Root Chakra: Physical identity, base of spine. Forms our foundation. Used to ground essence with physical body. Determination, prosperity, security and dynamic presence.

      • Color: Red/Black

      • Primal energy of survival fight, flight, freeze is initiated from Root chakra. Animal nature survival.

      • Erik Erickson stages of development 1st is trust vs. mistrust. Feeling secure in the world.

      • When your needs are met you feel grounded and safe.

      • Personal integrity, self-esteem and sense of belonging.

      • imbalances: anxiety, worry, panic, depression, frustrations, resentment, anger/rage. Not fitting in, low self esteem. Poor focus, disorganization pessimism, negative thinking.

    • Grounding Meditation: Imagine Being a tree, visualize roots coming out of your feet/root chakra.

    • Hug a Tree: The roots go deep in the earth complexly connect to water supply and nutrients that help it grow strong and tall. A tree also sways, reaches for light and changes with the season which emphasize that being grounded doesn’t mean rigidity, like stone.

    • Yoga

      • Child Pose

      • Sukhasa or Easy Pose

      • Warrior 2

      • Triangle

      • Mountain

      • Tree Pose

      • Pigeon

      • Bridge

      • Savasana

    • Herbs

      • Cayenne: bright red color aligns with root chakra. Magically it’s used for protection and strength.

      • Dandelion: helps balance adrenals. Tea is best. Magically used for wishes, divination and calling upon spirits.

      • Nettle: Particularly for men. Tea. Magically removes curses.

      • Rosemary: Just the smell can bring your focus inward and downward and help center you.

      • Sage: Garden variety. Burning is grounding, drinking and eating. Prosperity, protection, healing and deeper wisdom.

    • Acupressure points (see below)

    • Crystals (see below)

    • Essential Oils

      • Vetiver

      • Sandalwood

      • Cedarwood

      • Frankincense

      • Lavender

      • Myrrh

      • Patchouli

      • Cypress

      • Camomile

      • Cinnamon

      • Rosewood

    • MISC

      • Eating Root Veggies, Hands and Knees, Exercise, Bodywork, Bath, Drinking Water

Press or put a grounding essential oil blend on this point for grounding.

Stomach 36 is great for grounding and for increasing energy.