I always emphasise the importance of grounding to all my clients. As someone who spent years meditating through and contemplating my own debilitating, dissociative, flat-affectionate & fear-filled states, I cannot stress enough how grounding takes your spiritual, energetic and healing work 'into' the next level.
Even when you case is not as 'extreme'.
First and foremost, grounding nurtures the carnal, conscious mind, the one susceptible to fear and confusion. So as we stretch our consciousness, grounding 'leaves' the conscious mind where it feels safe and only the part of our consciousness that is ready to 'go' stretches out (so to say).
Imagine you're trying to stretch a long, elastic ribbon as much as you can. You have to anchor it well at one end. You won't be able to stretch it out if it's dangling loose.
Fear attracts fear based frequencies. Unless you can detach from fear in fairly total surrender, this is as far as you can go.
Proper grounding reassures the carnal mind and lets it expand along at a safe pace. With practice, the 'grounding point' will be shifting.
The effects of ungrounded practice are especially visible, and can get quite acute, when meditating with certain traumas. Not all, it depends on many factors, but it's the case often enough to bring it up as a pattern.
It's a very simplified explanation of how grounding presents to me in my own spiritual work and how I work with others, but I believe it gets the basic idea across. There're so many angles to grounding.
I really suggest you don't underestimate the grounding element in your practice. It won't hold you back, on the contrary - you may be able to access amazing states much faster.
Happy stretching 🌞
Even when you case is not as 'extreme'.
First and foremost, grounding nurtures the carnal, conscious mind, the one susceptible to fear and confusion. So as we stretch our consciousness, grounding 'leaves' the conscious mind where it feels safe and only the part of our consciousness that is ready to 'go' stretches out (so to say).
Imagine you're trying to stretch a long, elastic ribbon as much as you can. You have to anchor it well at one end. You won't be able to stretch it out if it's dangling loose.
Fear attracts fear based frequencies. Unless you can detach from fear in fairly total surrender, this is as far as you can go.
Proper grounding reassures the carnal mind and lets it expand along at a safe pace. With practice, the 'grounding point' will be shifting.
The effects of ungrounded practice are especially visible, and can get quite acute, when meditating with certain traumas. Not all, it depends on many factors, but it's the case often enough to bring it up as a pattern.
It's a very simplified explanation of how grounding presents to me in my own spiritual work and how I work with others, but I believe it gets the basic idea across. There're so many angles to grounding.
I really suggest you don't underestimate the grounding element in your practice. It won't hold you back, on the contrary - you may be able to access amazing states much faster.
Happy stretching 🌞