Being an intuitive or a person who does a lot of energy work can lead you to lose touch with your body and the human experience.

In my case, at some point in my life, I had too drastically changed my life, how I was approaching my spiritual path by including intense grounding practices to my everyday routine.

Being an intuitive or a person who does a lot of energy work can lead you to lose touch with your body and the human experience.

Grounding is not only reserved for situations where you need to calm your nervous system or focus your scattered mind, but it can also assist you in realigning your energy field, that’s helping you more in your work as an empath or lightworker in more meaningful ways than just focusing on “being out there” all the time.

In this article, I will present you with some thoughts and provide you with some simple practices to start your grounding journey.

So, let’s jump right in.

What Grounding Does Beneath the Surface

If you do some research around grounding practices that are currently popular, you might mistakenly think this practice is all about building a healthy mental and emotional state, and that these practices do not apply to someone who has devoted his time in more elevated beyond mind and emotion energy practices. But this is far from the truth.

I had to find it the hard way that by not being grounded, my spiritual journey would suffer too. After channeling for years and doing intense energy work, at some point I felt irritable, my mind was drawing me to million directions, and the levels of my physical chi dropped, which resulted in me not be able to integrate the high energies I was working with to my physicality and funnily enough after a while not being able to continue interacting with the said energies.

I had to find it the hard way that by not being grounded, my spiritual journey would suffer too.

So, when you apply grounding to your spiritual practices, the fact that it helps you to calm your nervous system, calm your emotions, and also help you regain focus mentally, will immediately affect your aura, or energy field and thus aiding you in reabsorb its scattered chi or life force energy back to you.

But let’s explore these ideas a little further.

Reinforces intuitive clarity and presence

One benefit of grounding that we did not discuss above is that it helps you reconnect much deeper with your intuition.

By practicing techniques that are calming of your emotional body and also as discussed above focusing of your mind, you are more able to listen to your intuition which often presents itself quietly that cannot be heard when you are upset, or you are not focused.

Restores energetic balance by syncing with Earth’s natural rhythm

I would also like to add the energetic value that grounding can bring to you.

In my experience calming your emotions and focusing your mind, beyond having a positive impact on your nervous system and how you interact with your intuition, it also has a positive effect on your basic energy centers, your chakras.

I would also like to add the energetic value that grounding can bring to you.

Each chakra has an important function in terms of your everyday experience, but also how you interact with the world of subtle energies. One of the most important chakra that can help you access a sense of stability in order for the other six to function properly, is your base chakra, your first chakra which is the base on which your energy system is built on, and is functioning like how a strong foundation maintains a stable house.

Your base chakra also connects you with the energies of mother earth, which is a nourishing connection and without her support, your body and soul can become disconnected because the earth energy nurtures the body in order for it to house the soul effectively.

3 Effective Practices That Can Help You and Your Grounding Endeavors

Until now, I discussed the theoretical basis of what grounding is, and below I’m going to share with you 3 practices that can help you in your efforts to bring balance back to your life through grounding.

1. The Self-Assessment Ritual: Tuning Into Your Current State

Using the Grounding Scale as an Energy Check-In

Let’s start with the first practice I want to introduce to you that of self-assessing your grounding state using a scale from 1 to 10. This scale has this similar function as with the scale used to assess the pain levels that someone might experience.

Here, 1 represents a state where you’re totally scattered energetically and mentally, emotionally irritated and unbalanced, while 10 represents a perfect and harmonious state where your mind is focused and your emotional body is calm and fully functional.

Cultivating the habit of assessing your state of how grounded you are can move you from functioning on autopilot to being aware of where you’re at energetically and also in how approach your day. In this way, it can be easier for you overtime too quickly recalibrate yourself back into harmony.

2. Awakening the Senses to Anchor the Soul

Grounding Through Mindful Sensory Engagement

The next step, after assessing your state of how grounded you are, could be the following practice of refocusing your awareness of the discomfort of imbalance to your five senses.

What I mean by this is that if you find yourself not grounded enough, you can choose one of your five senses to focus on, like naming three things that you see around you, or naming three things that you hear, etc.

For me, what I like to do is when I have the time is to lie down, take a few deep breaths, close my eyes and turn my awareness towards the sounds that I can hear from far away. This practice has a very calming and expanding effect on me that helps me tremendously to reduce any stress I might experience, and just be, which is also a way for my mind to quiet down.

3. Energizing the Body: Movement as a Grounding Practice

Releasing Stuck Energy Through Simple Physical Acts

Over the years, what I’ve realized is that grounding can come in many forms, and beyond learning more internalized and sensory focused ones I described above, you can also utilize a more extroverted way off grounding.

What I’m talking about is movement. By either stomping your feet, or shaking your hands, or tossing to the wall a soft object like a pillow can awaken your body and bring back a sense of vitality to it. These simple acts can help you release tension and help stuck energy to get moving.

I also like to dance. Especially to electronic dance music (EDM) which has been one of my favorite genres of music for a long time. When feeling stressed or scattered, I will just put on my headphones, press play and let the beats and the music direct my body, thus helping me to get out of my head and move into my physical form.

Conclusion

in this article I talked about the benefits of grounding to your energy field, and spiritual practices along with some ways on how to apply this knowledge.

Grounding doesn’t have to be complicated. You just need to build some small habits that you can carry through the rest of your life. In this way, you will maintain and balanced emotional and mental state that will help you sustain your intention to energetically build strong roots to the earth literally and figuratively. Something that will support you in furthering into your path of self-realization.

Till next time, take care.