Being in our body has never been more important. It has never been more important to us as individuals and to the collective to be grounded in our physical bodies. Connect with your physical body at this time because of all that is going on with you personally and with the collective. The more of you who are grounded, the better the results will be.
We use physical practices and preparations to return us to balance.
To be grounded means that we are fully attached to the earth. Grounded people can draw on their full faculties, abilities, and experiences, and thus are able to handle any situation – fearless and ready for action.
Being grounded means surrendering to gravity or getting into your weight. “I know where I stand, and I know what I stand for”; that is ground. There is a better place to start from that starts inside and builds out to reflect a deep inner sense of confidence. GROUND is our connection to the qualities and capacities of that energy.
Find Ground
- Bring attention to your legs and feet on the ground
- Go with the downward flow that is in harmony with gravity
- Drop all your weight down into your feet. “Feel Your Feet” to let your breath drop low in the abdomen
- Keep sending the energy downward into the ground
- Imagine your feet and legs are roots dropping down and anchoring deep into the earth.
The experience of establishing Ground can be a very powerful one. Stand in Ground. Breathe in Ground. Walk around in Ground.
From Poet and Philosopher, David Whyte
Ground is what lies beneath our feet. It is the place where we already stand; a state of recognition, the place or the circumstances to which we belong whether we wish to or not. It is what holds and supports us, but also what we do not want to be true; it is what challenges us, physically or psychologically, irrespective of our hoped for needs.It is the living, underlying foundation that tells us what we are, where we are, what season we are in and what, no matter what we wish in the abstract, is about to happen in our body; in the world or in the conversation between the two.To come to ground is to find a home in circumstances and in the very physical body we inhabit in the midst of those circumstances and above all to face the truth, no matter how difficult that truth may be; to come to ground is to begin the courageous conversation, to step into difficulty and by taking that first step, begin the movement through all difficulties, to find the support and foundation that has been beneath our feet all along: a place to step onto, a place on which to stand and a place from which to step.
– excerpt from ‘GROUND’
©2015 David Whyte and Many Rivers Press
