Grounding is an important practice during a spiritual awakening to ensure that you are amply tethered to the physical world. It also helps you better integrate your spiritual experiences with daily life, promoting holistic wellness.
If you feel ungrounded, it’s likely because your attention is residing in the past or the future and not in the here and now. Try incorporating these simple, yet effective, grounding techniques into your daily life to balance yourself.
1. Boosts Your Immune System
Spiritual grounding is one of the most important things you can do for your body, especially if you have been doing any type of psychic work. This is because it is easy to get ungrounded after energy work and if you don’t do something to ground yourself, you can experience all sorts of health problems.
Grounding involves connecting your energies to the earth to prevent them from becoming unbalanced and moving into a state of disconnection from spirit, body, and soul. It is also a necessary step in any healing process because it helps to bring the energy back into your body so you can feel better and take control of your life.
There are many different ways to ground yourself, but some of the most popular ones include walking barefoot on the earth, burning white sage, or doing a grounding meditation. You can also use a grounded stone or wear one around your neck to help keep you plugged in and connected to Mother Gaia.
Many people find that when they practice a grounding meditation, they are more relaxed and centered. This is because the practice helps to reduce stress, improve sleep, and boosts the immune system.
2. Helps You Sleep Better
If you struggle to get a good night’s sleep, it could be because you are ungrounded. Studies show that when people ground themselves to the Earth, it helps re-sync their circadian rhythm with the planet’s global electrical circuit. This leads to deeper and more restful sleep.
Spiritual grounding involves a simple practice that reconnects your energy with the Earth’s. You do this by walking barefoot, touching the ground with your feet and hands, and meditating. You can also find a grounding mat, pillow, or patch. All of these methods are effective and offer a wide range of benefits, from improving immune function to relieving stress and pain.
When you are grounded, you feel centered, strong, and balanced. You may feel more connected to the universe or a higher power and live in a more synchronous pattern with our planet.
Some practitioners believe that you can even ground down to the atomic level and influence electrons, protons, and neutrons within our physical body! Unfortunately, there is not enough clinical data to validate the healing claims of those who advocate grounding. One naturopathic website describes their grounding as “spiritual” without ever referring to the Bible or Jesus Christ, which should be a red flag for bible-believing Christians.
3. Reduces Stress
Spiritual grounding reduces stress by connecting you to the energy of the Earth. It also helps you become more centered and balanced in your daily life.
One way to ground is to walk barefoot on the grass or sand, which allows you to directly connect with the Earth’s energy. You can also ground by imagining roots growing from your feet and down into the Earth, or by meditating in nature.
When you’re ungrounded, your mind can easily go on a wild ride and get stuck in fear, worry or panic. You can try having a mindfulness journal as you might feel disconnected from your body and like you’re not present in this moment. If you are ungrounded, it’s important to do a grounding practice regularly to re-establish a sense of balance.
Some people unconsciously ground themselves by focusing on things outside of their body, such as family, career, appearance or their home or car. These aren’t necessarily bad, but it’s important to remember that you can only be grounded if you’re fully connected to your physical body. By grounding, you’ll be able to refocus your attention on your body and listen to what it needs. In addition, you can let go of any unwanted or excess energy down your grounding cord.
4. Increases Focus
Spiritual grounding increases your ability to focus, making it easier for you to work on tasks and make decisions with a centered and balanced mindset. It also helps balance the flow of energy throughout your body, ensuring that you aren’t overly charged in certain areas and are not depleted in others.
Increases Emotional Resilience
Being ungrounded makes you more vulnerable to feeling swept away by strong emotions, like fear and anxiety. Often, this happens because you are unconsciously grounding to something other than yourself, such as your family or career. When this happens, a change to these aspects of your life can feel devastating and create panic and confusion. Grounding retethers your energy to yourself and to the Earth, creating stability and security that enables you to navigate life’s challenges with confidence and ease.
To ground yourself, close your eyes and imagine that your energetic ‘roots’ are sinking into Mother Earth through your feet or base chakra (if you are seated). Connect with the texture of the grass, soil or sand underneath you and allow her pure energy to fill you up. This grounding practice works best outdoors, but you can do it in the comfort of your own home by sitting near a houseplant or burning a candle or incense with grounding scents like sage or pine.
5. Reduces Anxiety
Anxiety can be a normal response to stressful situations, but it can also make you feel unsteady and unsafe. When you’re ungrounded, it’s easy to focus on the things that can go wrong or the negative aspects of a situation, which can lead to catastrophic thinking, recurring panic attacks, and feelings of dread and impending doom.
Spiritual grounding can help calm these overwhelming feelings and return you to the present moment, so you can reframe your perspective and take control of your thoughts and emotions. This can help reduce the frequency of anxiety attacks and the negative effects they have on your life.
One of the most common ways to practice grounding is by focusing on your senses. Start by identifying five things you can see, then four things you can touch, three sounds you can hear, two smells, and finally, one thing you can taste.
You can also ground yourself by taking a walk in nature and paying attention to the feeling of the earth beneath your feet. Another great way to ground is by gardening. Get outside and dig your hands into the dirt, savor the smell of fresh soil, and pay attention to the changing colors and textures of plants in your garden.
6. Reduces Pain
Grounding allows you to connect with the Earth and reawaken your body’s natural energy, which can reduce pain. If you are someone who feels overwhelmed or experiences chronic pain, you can use spiritual grounding to help your body and mind cope with the stressors.
Spiritual grounding can also be used as a release technique, helping you to let go of negative or unwanted energy. This is especially helpful if you are an empath, as it helps you to discern your own feelings from those of others.
Simply imagining your energetic ‘roots’ sinking into the Earth can help you to feel grounded. This visualization works best if you are in nature but you can practice it anywhere. You can focus on a stone (like red jasper or amethyst) that is soothing to you, or you can simply close your eyes and imagine connecting with the Earth’s core through your base chakra.
You can also eat grounding foods to support your mental and physical health. Root vegetables, for example, can have a very grounding effect, as well as green tea that is high in the antioxidant epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). Just take time to enjoy your food and feel your connection to the Earth through it.
7. Helps You Connect
Spiritual grounding induces tranquility and equilibrium in your body, allowing you to feel deeply connected with your spiritual guides. It also aids in amping up your energy levels, improving your focus, and allowing you to interpret the messages your guides send you.
Being grounded allows you to take the time to enjoy life’s small, simple gifts and understand that nothing is permanent in this physical world. It also helps you stay present and not worry about the future or dwell on the past, as both of those are detrimental to your connection with your guides.
Grounding is a practice that can be done anywhere in just a few minutes. All you need to do is get out in nature, walk around barefoot, and feel the earth beneath your feet. You can also try meditating, doing yoga, or simply sitting by a tree or plant.
When you’re not grounded, it can be easy to become unbalanced and rely on things like your family, work, appearances, or even technology and the opinions of others for a sense of stability. This can lead to anxiety, confusion, or even hysteria if those things were to ever disappear from your life.
