February 19th, 2009
Grounding and the body
So much of our approach to the spiritual, especially when you start out in the game, begins in the head. When new concepts flood our consciousness, the first thing we usually do is apply our thinking. All excited with our new understanding of life, we work tirelessly, trying to help others understand and take on board the spiritual movement. Being in our heads and in the clouds makes me question whether this is really living in the present.
Spirituality nearly always is on the upward move, to the mental plane, to the heavens. Our spiritual development needs to move away from mentalising and the processes of thinking. Through feeling our feet on the ground, taking our awareness to our bellies, our hearts and the body we start trying to pull ourselves back down to earth. Grounding means we fully engage with our experience of life.
It might be uncomfortable to be in our bodies, and it might be easier to exist in this ‘ascension phase’, believing that we manifest our lives around us through our ‘thinking patterns’. Until we actually experience real grounding in our reality, we will continue to think we create our lives from the space of our heads. Real creation, begins in the body. Facing our upset in very physical way is what we call grounding. This is a very invaluable aspect of spiritual counselling.