Grounding

Well, it's been a really trying couple of weeks! Because of that, I've been really getting in touch with grounding exercises and meditations. I'm a woman that appreciates simplicity and the bustle of my overactive mind truly needs it in order to accomplish something as still and balanced as grounding.

So, one of my favorite grounding mini-meditations has been imagining a single long root coming from my tailbone reaching far to the center of the earth. There in the center I imagine a great glowing, dense swirl of life force energy. A warm, nurturing, motherly comforting energy.

I actually imagine that my long "tap root" goes down to a level of earth right above the energy swirl and spreads out into smaller (but equally as strong) root divisions. They spread out in an area right around the energy swirl and receive it's energy through the warmth of the earth the roots are in (it is warm because of the energy swirl) and from the swirl itself.

I imagine pulling up balancing, grounding, supportive energy from the energy swirl into my body and imagine with every breath in my connection to that energy and the earth grows stronger and stronger. I grow more and more centered and calm and unaffected by whatever is stressing me out.

When I breath out, I release all the stress with the mental picture of it being contained in an encasing of carbon dioxide. In this meditation, the carbon dioxide appears as a greenish ball or gust of air that contains the worry, the unhealthy thoughts, etc.

I also imagine that the plants, as representatives of mother earth, take this negative energy and transmute it into positivity (since plants breathe in CO2), which helps me to remember that all seemingly negative things are good with the right perspective.

This always works for me. Enough deep breaths and enough conscious thoughts and I can propel myself to a much better place.

I hope it might work for you if you find you need some grounding sometime:).