Being spiritually aligned is a rewarding path that can offer you many gifts coming from Source. But there comes a time when you, as a person involved in spiritual practices, or energy work, can feel unbalanced.

This may come in the form of either feeling “out of your body”, or experiencing your energy being scattered, or feeling energetically drained, and physically fatigued.

This happens because you’re not grounded. In this article, I’m going to explain what grounding means in this context, and ways on how you can apply grounding practices in your everyday life. So, let’s begin.

Why Grounding Helps You Feel Safe, Present, and Centered

Before laying out the techniques that are going to assist you in becoming more grounded, let me explain to you why it is crucial for you to be involved in grounding practices in your everyday life.

Being grounded is a state of being where your mind is not in constant turmoil by thoughts that scatter your awareness to million places. Your emotions are frequently calm, and you feel aligned with your energy, and the core or your own being.

When you are working with high vibrational energies, your energy field is open. Also, the fact that you can work in this way implies that you are a sensitive person to these energies along with energies coming from your environment and other people.

Being a highly sensitive person is also a very physical trait where your brain processes more information deeply than the average person.

Being grounded is a state of being where your mind is not in constant turmoil by thoughts that scatter your awareness to million places. Your emotions are frequently calm, and you feel aligned with your energy, and the core or your own being.

All the above factors can cause you experiencing the “side effects”, that I listed in the introduction which need to be addressed through grounding.

What You’ll Gain from The Following Grounding Techniques

Now that I’ve explained why it is important for you to stay grounded, as a spiritual and sensitive person, I want to introduce you to some techniques that I have been using for quite some time now with great results, in bringing my attention back to my body and calming my energy field.

These techniques are not helpful to only people that are doing the work that you do, or following any path towards self realization, but also for people that have a tendency to get overwhelmed by outside stimuli, and are overthinkers.

Here are some benefits you will experience when applying these techniques:

• Feeling calmer.
• Being more mindful of the present.
• Have more control over your thoughts.
• Lead a more embodied spiritual life.
• Set boundaries in order for you not to absorb energies that are not yours.

These are some of the many positive experiences you might have when you apply the following techniques consistently.

1. Reclaim Presence with the 5-4-3-2-1 Sensory Reset

How the 5-4-3-2-1 Technique Works

The 5-4-3-2-1 technique is very simple to apply with great grounding results.

The way it works is to name 5 things you can see, 4 things you can touch, three things you can hear, two things you can smell, and one thing you can taste.

Even though this technique is deceptively simple to apply, it is an emergency kit for when you’re going through a very intense emotional upset.

You don’t need to be in a state of emergency, though, to benefit from this practice. You can use it anywhere and whenever you feel you need to get back to yourself. And, if you apply this technique, frequently, it will come naturally to you when you will need it the most, especially when you are overwhelmed with emotion and unable to think straight.

2. Use Self-Narration to Interrupt Mental Spirals

What Self-Narration Is and Why It Works

Another simple, yet powerful grounding technique you can apply in your life, especially in dealing with negative self-talk, or repeated negative thinking patterns, is the self-narration technique.

The way this technique works, (as you have probably guessed by its title), is to turn your attention to what you are doing, and naming it as you are doing it.

When you’re describing your actions as you are doing, like saying out loud or inwardly (“I’m walking to the kitchen”, or “I’m pouring tea” as you go about doing these things), you are interrupting your usual thinking patterns, by turning your awareness away from them and focusing your attention to tangible actions instead.

I remember once, when I got into a very negative mental spiral. I didn’t know the technique back then by name, but at some point, I started naming my actions as I was going about them. This reduced my anxiety that my negative thinking had produced to a grade degree.

By describing my action as I acted on them, I didn’t solve the fact that my brain was trapped in a web of negative thoughts, but gave me my power back and also my ability to regain my composure and not be swayed by these thoughts.

3. Practice Open Awareness to Invite Soft Stillness

What Is Open Awareness and How to Do It

A more, for lack of better words, “sophisticated” grounding technique, is that of cultivating open awareness.

What I mean by this is to train yourself shifting your awareness towards a broader scope of sensory signals, thus creating space for you to distance yourself from whatever troubles you at the moment you need to apply this way of perceiving.

To be more specific about what I mean, just imagine yourself sitting on a bench under a tree, with an open view of a lake in front of you. Instead of focusing on the things that are closer to you, you just let your senses expand.

Soften your gaze and let your peripheral vision come into play. Also, instead of focusing on the sounds that are near you, let your attention be drawn to sounds that are far away from you. Because seeing and hearing are the most prominent senses for most of us, start with those two and then if you want, you can also include your sense of smell and even touch to the above practice.

Your Light Deserves to Be Anchored

Core Takeaways: Presence, Peace, and Personal Power

So, this concludes the list of simple grounding techniques I wanted to share with you.

Before closing I would like to ask you to think of those techniques, not as a rigid regime of disciplines that you must impose upon you, because this will create the opposite of what you want to achieve adding more stress to your already overwhelmed, and overloaded nervous system.

When I talk about consistency in practice, I mean applying these techniques as often as you can without forcing yourself. Just pick the one that speaks to you the most, and go with it.

Even 5 minutes of your day dedicated to a grounding technique is enough for you to cultivate your ability to strengthen your sense of presence in the moment (that will aid you in managing your worry thoughts, or unpleasant memories that come up as you go about your day), and your sense of personal power.

I also want to mention here that grounding can help you set boundaries, which one way for you to not be a sponge of thought forms and negative energies that surround you in your everyday interactions with your environment and other people.

Even 5 minutes of your day dedicated to a grounding technique is enough for you to cultivate your ability to strengthen your sense of presence in the moment…

The above is more important to people that are intuitives, do a lot of energy work, and follow a spiritual path that demands more of them than what an average person has to deal with in their day-to-day lives.

Conclusion

I would like to leave you with some final thoughts regarding grounding.

Grounding can be more than just a way to be calm and collected or helping you in reducing your stress. It is also a way for you to root your awareness back into your body and your earthly experience.

People who are empaths, healers, or do a lot of energy work are easily tempted to stay “out there” thus creating an imbalance between the spiritual and the material part of them.

So, I hope the techniques that I presented to you, if you choose to use them, may become your doorway of realigning both your spiritual and physical selves, stay grounded to your own energy, and bring more empowerment on your own path of self-realization.

Until next time, take care.