Grounding Meditation

Hola gorgeous souls!

This week I wanted to share about the importance of grounding & centering in my spiritual practices.

I use grounding in my personal dairy practices, as well as leading grounding meditations in the womens circles and retreats I run.

A little explanation of grounding if you're not quite sure what it means.
So often we can get caught up in our heads with thoughts and our heart and belly regions with so many feelings and meditations. Without balance, we can feel swept away by our emotions and stuck in a whirlpool of thoughts. We feel headsy, flighty, head-achy, overwhelmed, breathless and uncentered.

Grounding brings our heads, hearts and bellies in alignment with our feet and our connection to the Earth. The Earth is where we come from, where we are born from, and it is what connects us with our home, each other and the natural healing energies of nature. In this meditation, we ground to balance ourselves, bring ourselves into the present and receive the healing energy of the Earth.

I can best explain grounding by telling my experience of grounding.
Before I ground myself, I can feel fidgety, distracted and disconnected. My head is aswim with thoughts and my body is filled with so many lost, unreleased emotions that I feel stale and stuck. I go outside, place my hands on Mother Earth, and I begin to breathe. I do my meditation, and there becomes a place of stillness. A whisp of wind brushes my cheeks, lifting the ends of my hair. A bird flies past, and I smile. Tenderly, I fall back in love with myself. Gently, I remember who I am: a beautiful being, as much a part of this earth as a waterfall, a forest song or a thin reed of grass. I become whole again, as I remember the Earth is my home. I become balanced, uniting thought and feeling with knowing.

This is the gift of grounding. I created the above poster as a mini retreat reminder. Bliss is only a breath away.

The Meditation for Grounding poster is available in my Etsy store if you wanted an extra daily retreat reminder.

With love, spirit and joy,
Leonie

Goddess Leonie is a 25 year old artist, writer, photographer and spiritual teacher. She runs womens circles & retreats, as well as creating artworks to celebrate the Goddess in each of us.

Visit her online dream palace at www.goddessleonie.com
& her Etsy Goddess art store at http://goddessofleonie.etsy.com