Tools for Grounding

To facilitate and encourage connection with the Root Chakra and the Earth.

Being able to ground yourself as a Lightworker allows you to live with ‘your head in the heavens and your feet on the earth’. Feeling ungrounded usually is the result of a combination of things that may include: stress, too rapid or extended expansion of the Third Eye and Crown chakras, being in phase of rapid spiritual growth or even an imbalance of the body, mind and spirit. A question we are asked the most often at Reiki Ottawa is ‘What are the best ways to ground myself’?  As this could be a weekend seminar, here are four key areas that you can easily incorporate in to your daily practice and life:

Food – Eat root vegetables! This is any vegetable where the part that you eat is grown under the soil. This includes:  parsnips, carrots, potatoes, yams, sweet potatoes, radishes (particularly good if red) ginger, garlic, rutabaga, turnip, onions, beets, edible tubers (think dandelion root for tea).  These following foods where the edible part is above the soil are also great: any red fruit or vegetable, such as   tomatoes, apples, red berries, pomegranates, red plums, blood orange or red peppers. Also try mushrooms, other edible fungi and nuts. Some people find that small amounts of meat are helpful.

Plants – All plants will help with connection to earth. Sitting under or placing one’s hands on a tree is the quickest way to ground. Grass and moss, which are one of the largest groups and oldest types of vegetation on this planet, can be utilized to plant you solidly on the earth. Its prevalence and tenacity makes it easy to find in even the most urban of places.

And subtle and expansive energy to consciously connect with is known as “ green hum.” It is the 'base melody' of the plant world. Its root system can spread for hundreds of miles making it an excellent communicator for earth energies.

Crystals – Exploring and utilizing our friends from the mineral kingdom can really assist with grounding. You may need to explore which works best for you, as most people have one or two that best resonates with them. For grounding, you avoid clear crystals denser stones (one’s that you cannot see through) as they tend to open the higher chakras, which can contribute to that experience of being unbalanced or unfocused. Some of the most optimal stones to use include jasper (especially red mookite), other red stones (except red coral), sodalite, seraphinite, calcite, obsidian, black tourmaline, agate.

It is essential for Lightworkers to fully embrace and actively choose to incorporate practices that ground them. The biblical reference "As is above, so is below" refers to grounding as well. You can only expand in the heavens as much as you expand and are planted in the Earth.

 

~ Love and Light Samantha Smith and Kathy Glover Scott

 

Samantha Smith is an integral member of the Reiki Ottawa team. An experienced Reiki Master Teacher, Certified Life Coach, facilitator and gifted Intutitive, She brings to her First and Second Degree and Reiki with Animals students an energized, grounded ,empathic learning experience.

For April she is offering her 'Super Sam Experience' - a 90 minute session with an Intuitive Reading followed by Reiki focusing on the issues and goals that come through the reading. You can reach her at Samantha@ReikiOttawa.com