Week 1 - The Grounding Work
Notes:
Signs you’re ungrounded
Afraid to tap in because of what might happen (this can have other causes, but mentioning it here as well, because it is intertwined)
Knowing too much about people without asking to open doors. Inability to listen because you’re off in space—seeing things and can’t come back down.
Going out but you can’t come back—inverse of this, can’t go out
Emotionally flooded about others but can’t root into your own emotions about things
Patterns of avoidance, flooding, checking out
(It is worth mentioning here that when I first had my shaking experiences/Kundalini, people told me to ground, and my intuition told me that I was releasing blocked energy that needed released. This was an important part of my process that then led me to grounding—so grounding isn’t a singular focus, but rather a more integrative part of the process. Often time it is a catch-all word for needing to go back and do some kind of Inner Work that is not specified. Thus, it leaves you confused. When in a more realistic representation—this can be a long, long process of healing mind, body, spirit, soul, and story.
Ground:
Grounding isn’t simply hugging a tree or bringing energy down. In many cases, it is clearing deep wounds, processing old emotions, clearing energetic patterns, and changing your physical life so that you can come into full resilience with yourself and those around you. Don’t have others around you? Rebuilding life is key. Also, please recognize that human connection is not the only form of connection. Many sensitive individuals find connections to the animal kingdom very grounding and healing.
Through taking care of others, we take care of ourselves. We can examine the ways in which we take care of others and witness internalized patterns of self-destruction, perfectionism, and lack of faith (i.e. no matter what I do, I am not good enough.) It is important to remember that when you love fully and purely, you receive love.
I am asking about narcissistic relationships—what if one is giving constant love but not seen. Narcissism cannot exist when one party is fully in the purity of love. The vast majority of times in these sorts of unbalanced relationship, both parties are performing energetic manipulation in order to receive something—whether it is love and adoration or continued patterns of being unseen.
In many ways this course is designed so that we assist you in grounding and in healing previous ways to ground. How do we heal and create more meaningful relationships? How do we step into the life we want and fully embrace what is? Challenges will be received by all beings on the physical path—when we can be in our own body and view our lives as a witness—then we are seeing ourselves through God’s eyes. It takes many years of shedding unshed tears often times in order to do this. We cannot simply close feelings in a closet, but music see, interact with, witness, shift perspectives, and in fact dance with our own story.
The Discipline of Love/ Discipline of Grounding:
Feeding self and others is a way of grounding, as are the repetitive tasks of growing food, raising food, and preparing food. The more active your hands are in the process, the more benefits that one will receive from the life-giving process. We are telling you here that this is often the answer to the deepest depression. FEED. Feed others, feed yourslef with food with a purity of ingredients. It is the most important thing you can do with your time, and for many people, it is the language through which you can speak to God.
We may marvel about the need for beings to eat so consistently. Part of this is the interwoven connections of humanity, but part of this is that it is a service for the Divine to feed others. The secret is that you can feed bodies and souls at the same time. A sensitive one can taste the rage in food, just as a sensitive one can taste the love and devotion with which it is prepared. Please start to observe the intentions that you taste in food rather than just the product.
We are telling you about food because it is an important way to ground and in fact an important way to connect to one’s own soul. Eating disorders are spiritual disorders of the highest degree and often reflect our relationship with our worthiness or nourishment/lack of nourishment in life. Even in the spaces where we are screaming for others to step forward and take care of us it ,important to remember that our hands are the Divine’s hands that also can take care of ourselves. Explore the rage of why there was no one there. How do we become the person who is there? How do we ensure that we are there for those we care about—not because we are their victims or dependents—but so we step forward in the face of love
Grounding= showing up for the worldly things that matter in addition to the other worldly things that matter
If you aren’t enjoying the worldly things, clear mental patterns to create new patterns that feel better in your body
Homework:
Think about grounding patterns and practices in your own life. What are you avoiding? What emotional patterns are preventing you from diving deeper into the change?