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Recieved: 2001/03/10 14:00
Subject: [K-list] Grounding Techniques (long)
From: Druout
On 2001/03/10 14:00, Druout posted thus to the K-list:
Dear list,
This is the group of Grounding techniques so far. Any others?
Thanks everybody!
Love, Hillary
Can anyone give their best grounding techniques? I definitely feel the need
to be more "grounded"...
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Just a little bit of daydreaming sitting with your back up against a
large tree might work. I does with with me. The simpler the better in my
case. When I engage in a more involved meditation, even if it was meant for
grounding, I get all energized again.
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i highly recommend Mystress Angelique's Grounding Visualization, as do so
many other folks on the list... it has changed my life, and is the
foundation of the powerfully gentle and balanced way that my K now flows...
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Working with clay is a very grounding experience. You put your hands into
the earth (clay) and mold it into something new. The smell and feel of clay
has a tremendous psychological effect. It's so strong I can feel it wash
over me as soon as I dig my hands in. It's very calming. Try it today! Art
centers in your area will probably have a few pottery classes.
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If you are not eating meat then you may want to include some... it
is very grounding... for a short time during the process i found that
for myself it was needed....
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Not just meat... though if you do, try to choose organic, free range
types...eating root vegetables can also offer some help... along with the
tree meditation... take off your shoes, loosen any tight clothing, sit
comfortably & breathe deeply & easily... feel your spine as the trunk of a
multicolored energy tree with its roots firmly lodged in the earth & your
branches unfurling against the sky or sit with your back against a fire ant
free tree & simply breathe or try the microcosmic orbit meditation...
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Get some good deep tissue massage. After a few
sessions you'll start to feel the difference in your
body. Once the body connects in kinesthetically it
will be easier to get back there.
A lack of groundedness can be caused by fear, the
flight/fright response. The adrenals influence the
base chakra. Fear is the creation of thought. As lao
zi said, "Stop your think, end your problems."
Usually energy follows thought. In meditation
(observation without judgement)the reverse can take
place. We can observe our energy, without judgement,
and the thoughts that arise from that flow. In this
way we get to see our conditioning as it dissolves,
instead of just changing the conditioning.
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I find Hatha Yoga grounds me!
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I have a short, version of the sunset sal[ute], almost a 2 breath
ground, (although now it is a little longer)...
any was,,, bend over and touch that ground (forward strecth)
now imagine a sword comming up out of the ground thru a pool of water.
put your hand in prayer position and then raise the up to chest level
as you come out of your forward bend. (prayer hands = sword)
now spred legs a little farther apart. place sword over head and
go into a slight back bend,
turn hands into triangle, palms up, spread open palms towards sky,
bring down the energy of father sky (like a lightning bolt)
send it thur your body to the center of the earth,
lower hands to side, now energy comes back up from the center of
the earth, as you raise hands and place the palms to your heart wile
breathing in
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I would add the Dragon & Tiger qigong for grounding (even better,
balancing).
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on another list we were just talking about grounding...
we had quite a variety of responses....
some suggestions...
*ground deep in the mother earth's core...sending cords down to her
*M&M's (most kinds of chocolate will work)
*meat ( it's not the quantity that so much counts)
*showers
*sex
*dancing
*jumping up and down on the ground
*laying on the grass
*touching trees
*asking the stone people to help you
*drink lots of good water
*actually anything that makes the body feel it's physicality is good
*having someone push and pat down on your shoulders with the intention
of you returning into your body
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These are very powerful, and can result in the release
of a lot of emotional baggage.
You can use any one or all of them .. and they work in
different ways, depending on the symptoms of
ungroundedness which are being experienced.
1. When going to sleep at night .. or in a lying meditation.
Breathe in through the soles of the feet and out through
the top of the head .. then breathe in through the top of
the head and out through the soles of the feet. (use both
nostrils at the same time here .. )
This sets up a wave motion through the body ..
2. When energy is rampant .. or when you feel the need.
The fingers of one hand placed in the centre of the top
of the head .. the fingers of the other hand placed in the
centre of the perineum (the muscle joining the two halves
of the pelvic floor, between the legs between the genitals
and the anus). Hold this position for 10 minutes .. then
switch hands for another 10 minutes.
3. Any time you feel light headed .. or heavy in the shoulders.
Sit cross legged on the floor leaning up against something ..
or outside leaning against a big tree. Hold the sole of the
right foot with the left hand and the sole of the left foot with
the right hand. Breathe normally and maintain the position
for as long as you feel like it....
These methods are very powerful because they are simple
and do not rely on anything else than what you already have
or are .. and do not require visualisation or creating anything
that is not already part of you. They encourage the reconnection
of the body natural energy flow.
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Of all the ways I worked with grounding the energy, as in physical
excersize, working the chakras, eating dense protein, mentally
processing the emotions until they "lift" and change from fear to their
more expansive energies etc.... one of the most elegant ways was the
following:
One night, I took a friends suggestion and personified the energy in
meditation. I was so tired. It was so intense, I just didn't have
the energy, but I made myself do it. She came in, beautiful, fiery,
strong. I asked her "What do you want of me?" She replied "Forge". I
asked her "How can we do this without pain?" She opened her arms and I
went to her and just felt my self being held. It comforted me. I felt
myself let go. I felt the energy become full in me, alive. I could
feel the energy change. When I came out of meditation, it was different,
this kept the potency (unlike the other ways to lift or turn seem to
lighten the potency).
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We should not forget that grounding is a physical body thing, so that energy
can flow through our body from the atmosphere around us to and through the
soil of our good earth.
It is electro-magnetism first before we even start thinking the more
symbolic kinds of grounding. That is what I like about Susan's list of
collected suggestions below.
We live too much on rubber, nylon and concrete that isolate us, carpeting
that only increases our static electricity. Many of us we work and live many
floors up. Cars isolate us not only from touching the earth with our feet
but also from physical contact with things, nature and people we see. A car
can be called an 'isolation tank' in the negative sense of the word. Start
walking...
Water, water, water? Drinking it may not do the job...
I find in my practice that many ppl. who have neurotic problem have nerve
problems. Many also have an aversion to water, bathing, showering,swimming,
walking and ...dancing in the rain.
Drinking processed water, even if bottled is almost useless... that's why
some of us have to drink so much of the stuff, it has no electro-magnetic
qualities anymore. Drink fresh rainwater, stream water, molten snow. ...
Airate you skin, brush yourself vigoriusly, run up a temperature, run up a
sweat... the seaty salts are the electrolitic crystals that process solar
rays into our nerve ends. (Is that why apes like to pick the from each
other?)
Each nerve end in our skin is a little chakra, and we have so many,
something like flowerbuds on the branches of fruit trees. But before the
buds develop, so to say, these nerve ends have to be exposed to the
elements...., yes, earth, water, fire (solar energy), air, space. Grounding
is an earth-universe binding and harmonizing process.
When we are not grounded, when we don't have our feet firmly planted in the
soil, these buds and shrivel and will not produce the leaves and flowers and
eventually be fruitous. We are like autonomous freely ambulating fruit
trees, the dancing kind, Krishna and the Gopis in the pond, Ramakrishna like
singing and dancing in that warm and humid Indian climate.
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I would like to share my methods with you
Preparation:
Take a shower or bath and make sure you genuinely sigh from the heart at
least 3 times with increasing depth and length. If in the bath allow the
water to drain completely taking with it all your worries down the plug
hole. If in the shower turn off the water and stand still allowing some of
the water to evaporate off your body and feel the soothing cool air as
vividly as you can-Imagine you are a brand new factory model and are oozing
and steaming in peaceful excellence.
1)Be seated in the lotus position and breath in and out deeply reducing your
breath volume by about 60% with each inspiration until you can imagine that
inner and outer compartments are equal. Continue until there is literally
just a trickle of breath leaving your lips and the tiniest of vacuums
drawing a new breath in.
2)Be mindful that all bodily tension and unruly thoughts are actually the
fallen or scattered energy of peacefulness. Do not fight distractions or
annoyances. Embrace them as tho they are your dispersed flock of sheep which
if lovingly collected will gather back in the fold of central peace and
attention. You must relax each one individually as it occurs as a lost child
of peace and it will ease and dissolve. Imagine this flock to be unto
runaway trickles of mercury on a flat surface which you must catch and
return to the central resovoir of stillness by moving your attention around
keeping track of where your consciousness is. You must be able to detect the
current disguise of this runaway peacefullness be it an itch, your plans for
the day, or the swallowing reflex and remember that it isnt an independent
force but simply your fallen goal incognito. This energy of peacefullness is
always changing from one thing to another trying to elicit impatience or a
reaction from one who doesnt realise its true name. If one wrongly believes
in the agency of these forces as beyond oneself then we fall into a
temporary trance until we remember that its energy needs to be named and
returned to the goal at hand.
3)So once you start to recognise the energy name it and then recall its true
nature as perfect stillness and peace. You have just created a mimetic wave
which is identical to the sensation and will cancel it out through
destructive interference returning this misspent energy to your goal. Just
remember that during meditation we can become obsessed like a dog chasing
its own tail not realising the wagging tail is part of us and is misspent
peace. Dont react , instead feel it moreso and gently return it to its
rightful place. The solution is always in the problem. Transmute the
reckless energy by reminding it of its true home. Dont thrash around in the
water trying to find your reflection. let it settle and relax the mind from
jumping from tree to tree. Eventually it will realise there is no
existential danger and will want to stay put.
4)Imagine this stillness growing until it is almost too much to face and at
this point surrender completely. Your mind and body has become as still as a
vast lake and above the horizon is as below it and a perfect reflection
thereof.
5)If you have chosen a vision to focus on try to see it without looking at
it. Dont try to construct it. (the eye that sees without seeing itself).It
will become top heavy or lopsided because the right brain will be vying for
control over how it looks and the left over the correct proportions. No,
just breath through both nostrils whilst remembering what the goal is and
through the ida and pingala nadis this will dissolve the master-slave
relationship of the two hemispheres and a balanced image will appear in the
stillness from activation of the sushuma nadi. Dont try to maintain it by
force. Eventually once you have attained an inner stillness you will wish to
purposefully stymie your own will by meditating in increasingly distracting
millieu which once you have mastered them will lend their energy to support
incredible breakthroughs in alacrity and concenhtration which will enable
you to subtly direct the traffick of events without. So you stor up the
distractions to create the entropy needed for quantum leaps.
One or more of these rules works 90% of the time for me. I find the shower
(or bath) is essential and eliminates stubborn thoughts and mental static. I
suggest considering at least 45 minutes of this a day and setting an alarm
clock.
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