How do people come ungrounded?

We've been talking about grounding all week, and today we're going to talk about the grounding tube. How do people come ungrounded, anyway?  Coming Ungrounded We can come ungrounded in times of trauma--both physical trauma, like being in a car accident, or being born, and emotional trauma, like discovering your spouse has a pornography addiction or seeing a big fat F on the top of a school assignment you desperately needed to pass. When we experience trauma of any kind, we have the potential to become ungrounded. But how? This is the question that I've been stunned more people don't ask. HOW does it happen?? HOW does grounding and ungrounding work? ​​​​​​​The answer is the grounding tube.

The Grounding Tube The grounding tube is more or less what it sounds like, which is why I named it that. It's a tube--the connector tube between body and spirit. When a person is grounded, the tube is extremely contracted, and resides at the crown of the skull, where it is protected by the bones of the skull and hopefully an intact arcline, which you may have seen depicted in Christian art as the halo.  When a person comes ungrounded, the grounding tube sort of unfolds like a Slinky, stretching out as the spirit actually seems to escape from the body. When we are partially grounded, it's because part of us is in the grounding tube and part of us is still in our body.  When we are not grounded, the spirit is basically floating above the body, hopefully connected by the grounding tube.  When the trauma is severe enough, the grounding tube can actually explode, fragment, flee entirely, or all of the above. This creates a severe separation between the body and the spirit that prevents grounding basically forever, until the tube is properly healed and reinstalled, and the spirit wants to come back, and the body wants it back.  The grounding tube can flee for many reasons, including birth, abuse, sudden physical impact (like in a car accident), or even emotional trauma--and the grounding tube can even have fled prior to mortal birth. When a person has had trouble grounding since "forever," a good place to start looking is trauma to the grounding tube dating to birth or pre-earth life.  Healing the Grounding Tube Healing the grounding tube is not much different from healing anything else. You need to clear the trauma that caused it to leave in the first place, restore the integrity to the system, and make sure all the other pieces associated with it want it back. Then you need to make sure it knows how to function and wants to function.

Where grounding begins... in the skull?

So far this week we've been talking a lot about grounding and how it is way more complex than most people understand. Today I wanted to talk about one of the most important pieces to grounding... the skull.  Skull utilization in the grounding process When you really think about it, though, it makes some amount of sense. If the body and spirit are not fully connected, and if the spirit feels "outside" of the body... how did it get outside? Well, probably through the head! Up and out! There are several modulating pieces of energetic anatomy associated with the skull, in different areas. One to connect the right and left brains; one to connect the body and the spirit; and one to connect the brain to the spine (and then from there to the root and then to the feet and then to the earth--those are all different pieces of this complex system). Obviously the skull and brain contain many, many different pieces of energetic anatomy, just as they contain many different bones and lobes and systems in real life. In case you thought energy work was simple--well, it can be simple, but also, it is very much not simple. However complex the human physical body is, the energetic body is many, many times more complex. The skull has many connections to the grounding process. If the various aspects of the skull are not in perfect energetic alignment, and if they are not intact, and if they are not "on," and if they don't know what they're doing, you're going to have a hard time grounding.

A Simple Exercise Obviously, taking care of this system is... complex! The word of the day when it comes to grounding. But there are things you can do at home to start realigning your systems.  One simple exercise I recommend doing today is to set a timer for five minutes. You're going to sit in a chair with your feet flat on the ground and your spine perfectly straight, or as straight as you can get it. You're going to place your own hands right on top of your head, right on your crown, and you're going to breathe deeply and slowly for those five minutes, and you're going to imagine or think about what it would be like for a circle there to heal. This circle connects to the "grounding tube," and it needs to be functional in order for the body and spirit to be fully connected. So just breathe for those five minutes and imagine that circle being filled with light and healing up and cracks that might be in it. If you can't imagine the circle there, just imagine filling the space where it should be with light. You can send out a mental call to that circle: "Grounding tube connector piece! I want you back! Help me help you come back!" and see what happens!  I am so interested to hear your experience!

Grounding Mechanism Basics

Yesterday we talked about the basics of grounding: what it is, why it's important, and the basics of how it works.  Today I want to talk about a thing I call the grounding mat.  Some people buy grounding mats... including me. I really enjoy these grounding mats from VibesUp, and in addition to several mats, I have body wraps, coasters, and a pyramid... and bracelets, and a water bottle, and a sleeping mask, and all sorts of stuff from that same company made of the same stuff. I love how it makes me feel, and how the coasters and water bottle actually make my water taste different! These are not affiliate links, by the way--I get a total of zero anything from you ordering any of that, except for the joy of altruism from sharing something I super love. ... I love it!! But the grounding mat I'm talking about today is TOTALLY DIFFERENT!!!!!

The Grounding Mat

Yesterday I mentioned the energetic grounding system, and how it is a complex system comprised of many pieces. The grounding mat is one of those pieces. If it is not in place and functional, the person cannot be fully and sustainably grounded.  You can muscle test right now or ask your intuition if your grounding mat is currently properly installed beneath your feet. If you look with your spiritual eyes, it will look like a circle maybe 2-3 feet in diameter right under your feet, connecting your feet to the earth. If you can't even imagine that there under your feet, then yours is probably missing! To call back a grounding mat, several things need to happen. First, we need to identify why the mat fled in the first place, if it is gone. From there, we need to fully resolve the trauma and teach the mat, the body, and the spirit why that event was important. We need to help each of those three components feel comfortable having the mat reinstalled, before we can reinstall it. When the mat is there, we need to make sure it is intact and the proper size. We need to be sure it wants to be there and knows how to function. We need to help the body understand how the system functions as well. All the different components of the body's system need to be on board for the mat to be willing to turn back "on" if it has been off. These are things you can start muscle testing on or using your intuition about. One thing you can do is write a letter to your body about it: "Body, is my grounding mat there? Why did it flee? If it doesn't work right now, why not? What are things I need to start addressing in order to make my grounding mechanism start functioning again?"  Etc. Then skip a line and write a letter back to yourself from your own body. See what it says! I would be so interested to hear what your body says about this.  I'll be talking more about grounding mechanisms tomorrow... be on the lookout! Sending you all the good vibes!!

getting grounded

Happy Monday!! Ever heard of grounding? When we are "grounded," it means our left brains are connected to our right brains; our bodies are connected to our spirits; and our body-spirit is connected to the earth's energy, too.  When we are grounded, we have a sense of peace and calm that is very different from how we feel when we are ungrounded. Being grounded brings a sense of self-connection, a sense of stability.  Contrast this to ungroundedness: my classic example of being ungrounded is when you're sitting there at night, completely unable to sleep, because your brain just won't turn off. When it feels like your brain is going a million miles a minute, somewhere above your body, you are ungrounded. When you feel calm, peaceful, internally connected to your own spirit, and very stable, you are most likely grounded.  How do we ground? This is an article with 5 ways to get grounded, and I do recommend it.  But some people have a difficult time grounding, even if they do all the exercises and take the appropriate steps to ground. Why is that? It turns out that the process of grounding is much more complex than just touching the earth with your bare feet or concentrating on the here and now. Kind of like how the process of digesting food is more complex than just eating and drinking. In the case of digestion, there's an entire bodily system in place that handles a plethora of different digestion-associated functions. Your brain helps you choose what to eat; your hands bring it to your mouth; your teeth chew and your saliva breaks down the food; your esophagus helps the food travel to your stomach... then we have stomach acid breaking down food, and a whole continuing chain of hundreds of actions and reactions through numerous organs that work together to make it so we can eat food and derive nutrition from it.  It turns out--while grounding is not quite as complex as digestion, it is much, much more comparable to digestion than most people understand.

Grounding Mechanisms

This is why some people are easily grounded and some people just. cannot. stay. in. their. bodies. It all comes down to the grounding mechanism. The system that actually governs grounding. It turns out to have many pieces. When I do a grounding session now, there are a minimum of 11 different energetic "organs" that I work with--things you can't read about in a book. I discovered them while asking the tough questions: why do some people ground easily, and others don't? When our grounding systems are functional, even if we come ungrounded, we easily re-ground.  Grounding is necessary for accurate muscle testing, quality sleep, and freedom from anxiety and depression.  This is a quotation from a woman who recently had a session on her grounding mechanism: I feel really good. Almost like I’m whole again! It’s amazing to feel and stay grounded like this. I actually feel like I’m on the earth now and gravity is working. I’ve usually felt light and like I barely put weight or pressure on it. I’ve had to concentrate and be aware of grounding and now it feels like it’s more of a natural thing.  I actually feel connected now!  Healing the grounding mechanism is like healing the digestive system. There are many moving parts that all need to work in concert for proper, sustainable grounding. But when the pieces are functional... it changes everything! How do YOU ground? How does grounding present in your life? What do you do to ground? How can you tell when you're grounded or not?