Hally’s Hints
Grounding Your Energy
When we consider that we are made up of predominantly water and energy it is no surprise how sensitive we really are; sensitive to our external forces whether it is planetary alignment, the moon stages or even projections from other people.
The amount of times we can go home from a party feeling drained and put it down to having a late night never considering we may have assisted someone unload onto us. The downside of this is that if we are unaware of this, we believe it is our own energy reflection and a whole internal process begins to deal with it. The thoughts that follow can be in line of “what’s wrong with me” or “why I am so emotional” all the while not recognising that we have kindly taken something home.
It is important to include grounding in your day to day life, particularly for those that work with energies. With this said, a good practice of grounding is recommended irrelevant because it will assist with decreasing stress from work, removing energies that may have been consumed through food or gained through touch.
Before I go into the basic fundamentals, one thing to understand is that energy is a beautiful and powerful thing. We each have the ability to use it to our advantage providing us with greater awareness, directed energy to assist with focusing and healing.
Like with many elemental attributes it is important to respect the boundaries including your own. I will never advise to use energy to harm another or for greater gain through injuring someone. When I speak of taking advantage it is in line with maximising the potential of your own skill to assist you in furthering your spiritual journey.
Using our attributes to manipulate another will only result in this coming back by three, if you are lucky, not to mention that chain reaction this can cause throughout the planes. Worst of all, this will take you to a dark place which can create a spiralling hole that you find yourself drawn to more and more. Then, eventually you find yourself consumed with nothing else and to get out of this is near impossible. Naturally something I advise to avoid at all costs particularly when we have everything we need within us to provide us with light, love and happiness. Sometimes the dark can seem very tempting, rest assured it is a farce and will cost more than you could ever imagine.
We often consider that easy is better because we tell ourselves it’s all too hard and so seek some form of reprieve. The funny thing about easy is that is a matter of perspective. We believe the unknown to be fearful and hard because we have no control over it, yet will look for an easy out when it does not provide anymore of a guarantee. Using your energy is along the same lines. Because it is part of who you are allow it to naturally guide you and assist you, which in turn will be very easy. When it is forced it will be hard and we tell ourselves that it can’t be done – simply it is a matter of working with the energy rather than against.
In terms of grounding daily there are multitudes of ways this can be done and it really comes down to your own personal practices.
- Initially I would smudge myself and my home before I left for the day and when I came home.
- Now I have a salt lamp burning in every room and cleanse my home regularly.
- I also do the traditional Reiki grounding of placing the palm of the hands on the balls of the feet (same hand to same leg, never cross over) and allow the calm to fill me.
- There is burning white sage regularly.
- Also, eating grounding, rustic foods will also assist with grounding. Ensure it is cleansed from external energies and this can provide a harmonious way of grounding.
When you ground yourself consider the senses that you have and use this as a basis for grounding:
- Taste – eat grounding food.
- Smell – smudging, burning incense or essential oil.
- Feel – smudging, holding the salt lamp and taking a breath in, hugging a tree, sitting on the earth (or embracing plants in your home or garden).
- Hear – lie on your couch, bed or somewhere comfortable and listen to the universe; the birds, the wind, the rain.
- See – Look beyond the material world; see animals, the universe live and breathe by sitting in a garden or looking out of your window.
As energetic beings we are very powerful and very blessed to experience life in such a myriad of ways where each day provides something fresh for our senses.
The more our awareness grows the more we are able to connect to our ethereal selves and the universe in its true and natural state. It is this power that is so beautiful and in this, we want nothing other than to be.