Grounding Meditation
July 12, 2007
When I hear my husband saying “earth to Mary”, it’s a sure sign I’m not grounded. It’s such a perfect phrase — “earth to…”. Being grounded has to do with our connection to the earth and to our own physical existence. When we are grounded our attention is focused on the here and now. Our minds are coordinated with our bodies. We are more balanced, less likely to make mistakes and have accidents.
There are lots of ways to get grounded. If you’ve become ungrounded because your are over-stimulated and your mind is scattered from multi-tasking and the general fast place of life, unplugging from your computer, TV, cell phone can help. Spending some time in silence helps the mind settle down and brings you back into your body. Time in nature paying attention to the sensations, sights and sounds also helps reconnect us to our bodies and the earth.
For those who are ungrounded because of too much meditation (which makes you feel “spacey”), focused activity can be a great antidote. Doing sudoku or crossword puzzles or something that requires that kind of mental concentration can quickly make the mind more focused. Doing some physical work or household tasks carefully and with full attention also helps.
There are many kinds of grounding meditations and visualizations. One very common one involves imagining your feet growing roots into the earth. Another involves visualizing a line dropping from your tailbone (or root chakra or tan tien in the lower abdomen) straight down into the earth and anchoring it.
We’ve just added a podcast episode which helps you ground by focusing your awareness on the lower body, feet and sensing your connection to the earth. Once you’ve done this process a number of times, you will be able to repeat the process automatically when needed.
What helps you to ground?
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I am ungrounded by people. I am affected in enclosed space. Does it mean that I cannot take the energy or because I am sensitive to energy?
Hello Huiying,
To answer your question, it would be helpful to know what you mean by being “ungrounded by people” and “affected in enclosed space”. If you’d like to give a bit more detail, I’ll see if I can answer better.
I can say that there are some people who are very sensitive to energy so that being around a lot of people can be a bit overwhelming because of all the “signals” they are picking up.
Modern technology is truly a gift from God! I found your website today after reading on another website about chakras. I did your grounding meditation as I sometimes am scattered, have lower body blockage of energy, etc. During the meditation I envisioned myself down in the warm brown earth, connected and accepted, and it was very emotional. That was a new and nice experience. Thank you. I look forward to more experiences as I listen to all of the meditations.
How beautiful, Tiffany! You are very welcome.
If you are picking up energies from areas or other people, then imagine yourself in a bubble – only good things flow through to you – love, joy, happines etc and any negativity, bad thoughts or those people who enjoy sapping other people´s energies cannot get through to you. Also wear Rose Quartz to protect you as well. These things work.