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Grounding is a therapeutic practice of energetically connecting to the earth. Standing with bare feet in the grass, sand, dirt or pebbles directly connects the body with the earth.
Grounding reduces inflammation, blood pressure, stress and improves energy and sleep.
Here is a Grounding Meditation to calm anxiety, relax the mind and calibrate the body.
Photo by: Amal Ben Saad @amalbensaad
Grounding is a practice of standing barefoot in the grass and imagining light entering through the top of your skull through your body and down past your feet into the ground. The light entering symbolizes a new beginning and pushes any negativity or pain into the earth. Standing in the sand can be a grounding experience especially with the flow of the ocean waves washing away any stress, frustration or grief that you carry around each day. Those emotions can become very heavy and interfere with your daily responsibilities if they are not released every once in a while. Water is very healing and comforting during rough times. This weekend try to place yourself near a body of water and definitely have those bare feet ready to release pent up emotions. Allow the lightness of the air to fill up your lungs while pushing down all of your troubles. Don’t worry, all of those emotions will pile back up on you soon enough so you will need to make this grounding thing part of your new cycle of releasing and resetting. Now, you will have a go-to stress reliever when you need it that can consist of you doing this while standing on your own lawn.
The next step to this process is writing or drawing right after your grounding experience. It’s important to capture this moment to see where you are in tuning into what your body needs.
Enjoy your beautiful and free weekend!
P.S. Remember when being “grounded” over the weekend was a bad thing…like the worst, life ruining thing EVER? Haaaa