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?