Grounding

Grounding – or sometimes referred to as Earthing – involves being in direct physical contact with the ground. A variety of gadgets can help you ground yourself if the weather is cold, but an easy and FREE way to ground yourself is to simply connect with the ground by standing or walking on grass or sand. Grounding is something that pretty much anyone can implement in their lives without much effort.

You may have heard people refer to a person as being “grounded” or having a “grounding presence.” Grounding connects your personal energy to the energy of the Earth. Feeling your feet on the ground provides a connection between your past and your present and helps keep you in the here and now.

If this sounds like a feeling you’ve experienced before, you are not alone. If you haven’t, there is a good chance that merely thinking about it will help you realize this incredible feeling.

BENEFITS OF GROUNDING

1. STRESS RELEASE
Grounding is a one of the easiest ways to release excess stress and negative emotional energy. Connecting your energy to the Earth’s means any energy you are carrying that isn’t serving you in a positive way will naturally make its way down to the Earth’s energetic core and be cleansed and recycled. With the negative energy purged, you are open to receiving positive energy from the Earth.

You release additional stress through the shift in perspective that grounding brings you. It allows you to see the forest for the trees.

2. ADDED MENTAL CLARITY
Grounding allows your active mind to rest as your energy travels towards the ground, allowing mental clutter to move down as well, until it leaves and disappears into the Earth. This leaves only essential thoughts and ideas that help you be a better person.

3. IMPROVED RELATIONSHIPS
Grounding allows you to see other people for who they truly are, stripping away the façades that often plague our modern society. This happens by feeling people through their energetic connection to the Earth. Feeling people through their grounded energy allows you to strip away any assumptions you may have created in your mind. This can allow a regular improvement to your relationships.

4. INCREASE PHYSICAL HEALTH AND BODY AWARENESS
Grounding connects your body directly to the Earth’s core, leaving you in a state of embodiment. This act of being present in your body will help you make healthy choices for yourself. It may help you notice a certain food causing you discomfort. This awareness can be incredibly helpful in choosing a better diet and help you be healthier overall. When your energy is centred in your body, you may also gain better motor skills and balance.

5. IMPROVED SELF-AWARENESS
Grounding is an essential step in gaining a greater awareness of your own inner world. We not only become present in our physical bodies, we also become present in our energetic and emotional bodies. You will start noticing a change in how you react to the patterns that make you tick. This conscious awareness will give you a better understanding of your own habitual thoughts.

Grounding will help you process and channel your emotional energy in a healthy and useful way.

6. CONNECT WITH YOUR SPIRITUAL SIDE
Regardless of your spiritual beliefs, grounding can help you tap into it by giving you a stronger connection to the Earth’s energy and all the energy around you. This connection is vital in every form of spirituality and can, therefore, help you be a more spiritual person.

7. IT JUST FEELS GREAT
Achieving groundedness is incredibly peaceful. It allows you to move past your worries and helps you be more present in every way possible. It opens you up to positive feelings and emotions and allows you to appreciate the beauty this life and your world has to offer.

So, take some deep breaths, treasure the world around you and let the positive energy flow!

Lorne Marr is a fitness enthusiast and blogger. Visit his site at http://lornemarrfitafter45.ca.

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