30+ years ago, as I began exploring energy healing, grounding was the furthest thing from my mind! I wanted to see energy, connect with my spirit guides and experience the heights of the spiritual realms. I thought grounding was the opposite of all these things, and I thought I was already grounded enough. What I’ve learned is that healthy and powerful expansion is 360* and not just vertical.
For many years I was living mostly out of my body much of the time. I’ve learned that this is a strategy which began at a very early age, to feel safe. By pulling up and out of my body I could be in Spirit, and not feel physically or emotionally the pain that was too much to feel. But for many reasons it’s important, healthy, and more effective to be in our bodies.
There are many energetic strategies most of us learned, usually in childhood, to feel safe. These pull us up and out, or away from our wholeness, our true essence. As children they were effective and needed strategies, but as we move forward, working to heal these is helpful. Being ungrounded and disconnected to our true essence can cause issues… feeling invisible, frozen, struggles manifesting, issues with power struggles, self esteem, and even health issues. Every area of our life can be effected.
I’ve come to love the yumminess of being really grounded. I now know that awareness, intuition and spiritual experiences are clearer, steadier, truer, and more trustworthy when the root is strong, and the foundation wide.
Grounding is a shift in your energy field. Many people don’t realize that energy healing can assist with grounding. I assist many of my clients to ground, and they leave saying they feel more like themselves again, more whole, like they ‘came home’, feel calmer, mind quieter and clearer.
Ready to Ground?
🪷 Bring your awareness to the lower half of your body several times a day; feel your feet on the ground, imagine your base wide, slow down and deepen your breath. One way to widen your base is to imagine a triangle that extends from a point just below your belly button, out to each leg. Widen your feet to widen the base of the triangle that rests on the earth.
🪷 Get out in Nature. Sit on the Earth.
🪷 Inhale some earthy essential oils such as vetiver, or pine.
🪷 Go to a qi gong class or find one online
🪷 Slow down, pause, and do nothing for 1-5 minutes
🪷 Free grounding meditation, Ground, available here: https://www.bethbudesheim.com/guided-meditations
Remember, if you want to expand, first ground. The spiritual realm is truly equisite and the grounded realm is delicious. As you ground, you may rise, expand your consciousness, become more whole, more aware— at the same time.
Warmly,
Beth
