The Essentials of Grounding

Being grounded is a phrase that is used quite regularly with regards to health and wellbeing. We have a cultural awareness of someone being ‘grounded and stable’ or perhaps you know someone who you feel is ungrounded and regularly ‘away with the fairies’.

But what does it mean energetically and why is it important?

Being grounded is a very specific energy pattern that helps you to remain strong and resilient. You can think of it as a core essential, the foundation for all other parts of your energy system that impacts everything about how you feel.

You need to be grounded for energy to move through your body. When your system is grounded, it simply means that the electromagnetic flow in your body is moving from beneath the ground all the way up to above your head. And at the same time, it's moving from above your head all the way down your body and beneath the ground. So to be grounded, your energy needs to be moving through your whole body system.

When you are grounded you feel safe, solidly present, able to think clearly and process information well, you feel energised and stable. You feel nourished by the very ground that you are standing on.

Being grounded helps prevent or heal inflammation, helps with sleep patterns, helps your heart stay relaxed and strong, helps with stress reduction, pain reduction, boosts your immunity and is involved in many, well most other, positive indicators of health.

And all of these results are due to the fact that when you are grounded, you are exactly how you are energetically and biologically designed to be! 

But what happens when that flow of energy is compromised and you are not grounded? When that energetic pole is not being nourished and cleansed? Yep, you guessed it, you feel off.

For many people being ungrounded may make you feel:

• Dizzy and discombobulated

• Unable to remember things or to think clearly

• Nauseous

• Tired and lethargic

• Irritable

• Stuck

And if you are someone who is chronically ungrounded then these symptoms can solidify into chronic patterns of imbalance leading to ill health or disease.

So now you know WHY you want to be more grounded, let me share all the easy ways HOW you can be!

The first thing you can do is to ask yourself a simple question several times a day – ‘how grounded am I right now?’

Until you are practiced at this, it can be useful to think of a time when you have been most grounded/connected/stable and give that a rating of 100%. Now think of a time when you didn’t feel stable at all, you felt dizzy or discombobulated, anxious, and rate that as 0%.

If you are someone who loves visuals then maybe one of these images below will help you check in and rate your grounding.

Check in right now and ask, ‘How grounded am I right now?’

Assess it. You’ll be amazed at how quickly you will get an accurate insight into what your energy is doing and just how grounded, or not, you are. After all, it is your energy, so you know it intimately. Assessing and correcting your own groundedness is a brilliant way to ensure you can maintain your energy levels and your resiliency while working online with clients. 

If your grounding is anything less than 75% then bring in some of the following grounding corrections,

• Awareness – the minute consciousness comes in, your energy system responds. Anytime you're feeling a bit knocked off, a bit wobbly, a bit shaky, take a few conscious breaths while you think about being grounded. While you're doing that, you might want to place your hands over your heart, your lower abdomen or on your thighs.

• Being consciously in nature – this really helps you to receive all of the natural electromagnetic flow that is always around you. Try sitting in the garden for a few minutes, being in the park, going for a walk in the woods or on the beach.

  
  

• Walking barefoot on grass – this is a way for you to be as close to the earth as you are able to be, so electrons can leap through your skin and fast track your recharge.
  

• Energy practices – the videos below are helpful when you're feeling ungrounded, such as tiredness, irritability, dizziness or being unable to think clearly.

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With love,

Prune