We are Spiritual Beings, encased in physical bodies, here on the Earth for the purpose of learning, discovering and growing, before we return to the Spirit Realms at the end of our physical life.

As we live on the Earth we are going to ‘create’ – something.  Whether that is a business, a child, a relationship or more, we are going to manifest changes in our life and the lives of those around us.  To bring more of a sense of stability to ourselves and whatever we are working towards, it is helpful to be ‘grounded’. 

‘Grounding’ was a term I heard very early on in my exploration of the more spiritual side of life and energy therapies.  But no-one explained exactly what it meant!  “Improve your grounding,” I was urged.  “You’re not very grounded today,”  I was sometimes told.  BUT, no real explanation of WHAT exactly ‘grounding’ was or HOW to achieve it and maintain it.  I sat through and practiced grounding ‘meditations’ – with little or no understanding of the mechanisms of what I was practicing. 

Once I was introduced to the idea of the Human Energy Field it fascinated me and I devoured all the books I could find about it.  Barbara Brennan, Anodea Judith, Gill Edwards, Carolyn Myss, C. W. Leadbetter, Alice Bailey, Caitlin Matthews were just a few of the authors I explored.  And I began to gradually build my own understanding of ‘grounding.’  Along with Barbara Brennan’s amazing books, my Energy Field Healing training later on in life provided the best understanding of grounding for me.  

The Human Energy Field, in very straightforward terms, is like a large egg-shaped bubble that appears to surround the physical body.  In fact, it emanates out from deep within the physical body and expands beyond it.  When the Field is healthy it should be equally expanded all around us, about arm’s length from the physical.  A healthy, expanded Human Energy Field therefore dips down into the ground below a person’s feet!  This connection, of the Human Energy Field with the Earth, IS our ‘grounding’, our capacity to be ‘grounded.’

However, in the modern world it can be difficult to maintain an expanded, healthy Energy Field all the time.  When we are stressed, traumatised or upset we tend to ‘pull away’ from life emotionally and mentally.  This has the result of affecting our Energy Field and it is pulled inwards, closer to the physical body.  This is when we can lose our connection to the Earth and become ‘ungrounded.’  As life eases and we relax and calm down the Energy Field relaxes, expands again – and we are grounded once more.

The difficulty is that sometimes life stresses go on for a long time – and being in an ungrounded state for a long time is not healthy or comfortable. 

Signs you may not be well grounded

Grounding helps us to feel stable, firm on our legs and secure in ourselves.  We find it easier to be focused, to be Present in the moment whatever we are doing.  Therefore, it follows that if we are not well grounded our legs can feel weak and we may find it hard to focus.  It will be easier for events of life to throw us off, for us to feel overwhelmed or struggle with decision-making.

Its interesting to consider the notion of ‘manifesting’ – creating – related to our grounding. 

The more we are connected to the ground the more we are capable of creating what we hope to achieve.   Ideas we want to bring into being come into form by creating the energetic pattern of our inner vision in the physical.  Only the ground gives you the particles to build mass.   Therefore, if you want to manifest something you have to be engaged with the Earth, which means being grounded.

Some methods to help with grounding

Sitting Quietly

Sitting in silence, with your eyes closed, for 5-10 minutes, is a very straightforward way of calming the Energy Field and beginning to allow it to re-ground itself. 

Meditation

Any meditation that concentrates on moving energy downwards into the earth will assist with grounding.  If you do higher meditations, always take your focus into the ground beneath you at the beginning and again at the end of any meditation.  This will help with the meditation itself and will ensure you return more easily and fully to the physical.

Focused Breathing

Using a downward-focused, ‘grounding’ breath while you are sitting quietly or meditating can help. 

Physical Exercise

Anything that brings the feet into contact with the ground, particularly when done with intent, can help to improve grounding.   Particularly a focused or meditative walk in nature.

Eating/Drinking

Brings the focus back to the physical.  One reason why we give a shocked person a cup of tea!

Using grounding crystals

Dark red, earth-coloured or black are generally good for grounding.   Hematite, smoky quartz, black obsidian, black kyanite, jasper and others.  Hold in the hands, place between the feet, or wear on the body.  If the crystals have terminations, point them towards the ground.

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If you’d like to learn more detail about grounding and how to improve your grounding and the grounding of those around you, these and other healing skills are included in:

THE FOUNDATIONAL DIPLOMA IN ENERGY FIELD HEALING  

The next course starts in SEPTEMBER 2023.   Come and join me.

 You can find more details at  www.energyfieldhealer.co.uk   

(Clue:  the energy of people seeps into places, and the energy of places affects people)

How do you feel about staying in hotels?  I always liked the idea – who wouldn’t? -  a few nights where someone else sorts breakfast and does the tidying and cleaning, a brief holiday from all the domestic tasks.

Sometimes in the past though, it didn’t turn out as well as I hoped.  There were times I didn’t feel comfortable in the hotel room.  I didn’t sleep well.  I put it down to being in a strange place and not my own bed.  Years later, I discovered there was more to it than that.

When I started to learn about energy, first my Crystal Therapy teacher, then my Reiki teacher and then my Energy Field Healing teacher all spoke about the Energy of Places.  It began to make sense. 

The simple fact is, the energy of people – their emotional and thought energies – seeps into the places they spend time in;  and the energy of places – affected by lots of people over time – can then affect anyone else who comes into that place.   This includes not just hotel rooms, but offices, public buildings like hospitals and shops, and even your own home.

If you think about this, you will recognise it.  The feeling of a place, or a room.  Some places are comfortable and welcoming.  In others we don’t feel so easy.  There are stories that old battlefields feel odd, sometimes its said birds don’t sing there. 

I find hotel rooms a particular issue – perhaps because they have so many people in and out of them.  Every few nights the occupant/s of a room change, and so more energy is added.  A cleaner comes in every day, sometimes different cleaners, adding their energies. 

This really came home to me one night in a large hotel in the north of England, not long after I had completed my Energy Field Healing training.  On a couple of days break with my husband, we had dinner and settled to sleep in our room.  Except I couldn’t sleep.  I felt restless, with odd thoughts and unsettling emotions disturbing me.   By 3.00am I was growing frustrated.  I thought, almost aloud – ‘What is this?  This isn’t me!’   Then the penny dropped – hotel room!  Lots of people!  Lots of energies!   Damn!  In the joy of a few days holiday, I’d forgotten.  In a second I was up and out of bed, checking the room, and myself, and clearing both using my Energy Field Healing skills. 

Almost instantly the room felt better, calmer, and so did I.  Back into bed and I was fast asleep within a couple of minutes.  Bliss!  

Every model of healing has its own way of clearing the energy of a space, whether that is the symbols of Reiki, the smudging of shamanic work, or the techniques of Energy Field Healing.  I’ve come to find the Energy Field Healing model the most detailed and useful in this instance.  As healers we clear the energy of a room before we do healing, so it is an energetically ‘clean’ space for us and for the client, and this is the way I most commonly clear any hotel bedroom I use.   

For my family I use the same techniques to keep the energy of our home clear and balanced and uplifting.  I feel it helps with life generally and keeps us all calmer and more grounded.  

These skills are covered in the FOUNDATIONAL DIPLOMA IN ENERGY FIELD HEALING and the next course starts in SEPTEMBER 2023.  

If you’d like to learn these, and other healing skills, come and join me.   You’ll find more details at  www.energyfieldhealer.co.uk

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Thoughts can change as we learn and grow.

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It is important you always make up your own mind - about everything.

I am not you, and don’t know you or the details of your life. 

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