Grounding to Earth

Grounding to Earth

Here is a sample exercise to help you ground. In this example you 

will ground to earth. While grounding to any element is possible, 

earth is probably the easiest, especially if you are starting out. If 

another element calls to you, or you already have your own way of 

doing this. Feel absolutely free to use it.

Stand or sit comfortably on the floor or ground. If you are not on 

the first story, that is okay, just be as close to the actual ground 

as you can for the space you are in.

Visualize roots slowly extending from your feet (or other body parts 

touching the surface). Slowly they travel down, down, until the meet 

the soil. This is easy if you are outside, if you are not, imagine 

them traveling down throughout the layers of building, down through 

the foundation and eventually into the soil. Imagine the feel of the 

cool,

secure soil all around your roots, keeping you safe, taking away all 

impurities. Aboriginal people who don't have much access to water 

bury themselves except their face in earth, and emerge totally 

cleansed and renewed. Imagine the smell of fresh, wholesome earth, as 

if you were turning over dirt to plant the first seed of spring.

Imagine that you are a giant, redwood (or other tree of your 

choosing). You are sturdy and confident. You are part of the earth, 

yet distinct from it.

Your roots go down deep into the earth and all excess "nervous" 

energy, tension and stress flow down your roots and seep harmlessly 

into the earth, where the loving earth accepts and is nourished by 

it. In return the earth sends back calming nutrients, stability, and 

ancient serenity.

You are an ancient tree, your roots go deep into the ground. You have 

been here before humans walked this area, you have seen so much. You 

have seen most of your old comrades die, be struck by lighting, be 

chopped own to build for the people, but you withstand.

As you stand there, you think about the rings within your mighty 

trunk. The ones just inside your bark remind you of last spring's 

rain. The thin inside that of the cold year when you didn't grow so 

much. Continue to work inward until you reach the center rings, those 

rings of dark wood at your core that represent the inner you, your 

heart, your oldest part. Breath from that part. Suck the air in 

through all the rings to that central core. Feel your life force 

gather and recharge in you center. Pull it back from the outermost 

limbs where the growth may be unbalanced. Feel the sap brimming in 

your core. Once you feel totally charged, let it go and it will 

course through you, back out energizing you, but at your center is 

still the central heart of your energy, calm, full and ready for 

anything.