Do You Need To Ground Your Energy?
If the world of Spirituality is relatively new to you, you will hear a lot about Grounding, Protection and Sacred Spaces as you get more involved with creating a Spiritual Path or Practice. Obviously it will be up to you as to which you pay attention to and which you don’t, if any. Believe you me, there are plenty to choose from!
Over the next three Posts I'll be discussing Grounding Exercises, Protection against Energy Vampires and creating Sacred Spaces. In this Post let’s take a closer look at Grounding.
The idea behind ‘Grounding
your Energy’ is known and practiced to a degree in Eastern Metaphysics
however it has been mainly made popular in Western style Spirituality mainly by
the New Age Movement. Those who teach these techniques swear by them and they
seem to work. Somebody, somewhere, at some time must have come up with the idea
and as we entered into the Millennium it became a very popular teaching.
From a personal
perspective, Grounding is not taught in Reiki, or at least not in the Usui
Reiki System, because it wouldn’t work. The whole idea of Grounding is to clear
any excess Energy stored in your body after carrying out whatever Practice you
were doing, such as Deep Meditation, Chakra Balancing, Past Life Regression,
Tarot and so on, and which may have left you feeling a little spaced out or
overly energetic. You then ‘send’ this excess Energy into the ground, in effect
earthing yourself. From a purely Reiki perspective this wouldn’t happen because
you don’t ‘store’ any Energy in your body in the first place, it flows through
you because you are the Conduit and not the Vessel and this is
what I base my view upon.
The thing is, as I see
and understand it, we are all made of Energy. We are Energy Beings in a slow
moving, lower vibrational, Energy Body which we, as a result, view as being
physical. Quantum Physics has proved conclusively that we are all Energy and continues,
from a scientific aspect, to explore this to see what else can be uncovered and
verified and add weight to what Yogis and Mystical Teachers have been teaching
down through the ages.
Therefore, if we are all
made of and connected already to all this Energy, and that includes everything
in, on and around this ‘University of Life’, why do we need to Ground
ourselves? To me it doesn’t really make sense. Perhaps it started out as a course
filler, an extra bit of teaching to round off a training or exercise which
involved Energy work - and I’m certainly not against that by the way - and then
it became popular as those who were taught it also passed it on with a little
embellishment here and there. Or perhaps a Spiritual Teacher had an unsettling
experience which they believed was resolved by using a Grounding Meditation.
That’s how it usually
works, right? And also, just like Reiki in the early days, bits get added on to
established practices and mediations as Teachers wanted to leave their own Mark
and eventually it evolves into something else. We are very good at that aren’t
we? We are experts in taking something simple and overdressing it, wouldn’t you
agree it? I mean, look how the Victorians decorated everything in a very ornate
way with swirls of flowers and intricate designs, from mundane kitchen floor
tiles to Pumping Stations for Sewage!
However, on saying that,
as I’ve said there may be other Spiritual Practices which could potentially
leave Energy Residues in your body, and which may require a meditative
exercise to help calm you, bring you back to Earth, as they say. I’m certainly
not disputing that; my perspective is based on my personal experience, and I
haven’t needed to carry out any Grounding Exercises after a Meditation or
Energy Exercise or even Past Life Regression sessions, but then I also haven’t
taken part in an Ayahuasca Ceremony and by all accounts you certainly need
Grounding after that!
So, does that mean you
shouldn’t try any of the Grounding exercises offered? No, certainly not. What
didn’t really work for me may work for you. To be honest it was all the
Ritualistic stuff attached to it that put me off. I prefer a more
straightforward approach in the main, minimalistic to an extent – basically if
it’s not needed then it’s purely decorative. But don’t let my personal opinions
sway you, find out for yourselves, try them out and see if they work for you or
not.
For me there is only one
Grounding Exercise that works without fail and that’s getting out into good old
Nature. There is nothing more calming as far as I’m concerned than being in the
woods, especially ancient ones, or a beautiful park or by the sea or ocean. I
love mountains too, just not the climbing bit so much!
By the way, for any Grounding Exercises or Meditations you don’t need to be sitting, standing or lying in a certain position, nor is there a need to carry out certain movements and the like, so there’s no need to feel left out if you have mobility issues of any kind. And that goes for any meditative practice, they can all be done in whatever position is comfortable and best suited for you and guess what? They still work!
Do You Need Protecting From Energy Vampires? That's what I'll be covering in Part Two, see you then.
Namaste,
J Sadler-Scott
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