Be Here

The topic heavy on my mind and being; GROUNDING. Spring is a new season, the season of sowing seeds and nurturing them to grow. Tending to the ground and shaping it into the ideal home to hold a seed and allow it to transform. Amidst this new season + new energetic season, we are also entering a new eclipse season - rooted in transformation and renewal. If you think for a second that we are going to get through that energetic transition with ease yet without grounding techniques - you’re outta your mind. And how exactly do we do that?

I’ll leave you with a method I use that is centric to getting into your body no matter where you are or how much time you have. You need nothing to settle into this exercise, simply trust in yourself to experience what it feels like to be in your body in this moment in time. 

Not doing anything with your body, just fully being in it. Knowing nothing has to change, nothing has to adjust. Grounding meditation is a deep act of observation, not action.

Get yourself here. This moment. Close your eyes. Allow your senses to explore. What is happening around you right now at this very moment. Feel texture beneath your fingertips. Where is your body in contact with the surface beneath it, feeling the pull of gravity, something pressing back into it? The way the air, temperature, maybe even wind feels on your skin. The sound of your breath, perhaps the person’s breath nearest you. Perhaps the sound of traffic, birds, or chatter in the distance. Afford yourself the time and space to be here and be in your body. Observe the gift that this is.

Take a deep breath in expanding into every corner of your lungs over the course of eight seconds. Hold it for a moment. Count to four. Or eight. Let it go over the course of eight counts. Keep doing this. Do a body scan from toes to nose. Where do you feel tension? Where do you feel heavy? Light? Pull your shoulders down away from your ears. Where can you physically relax yourself? Inhale. Exhale. Not looking at this act of presence, of grounding, as a task to check off a list of things to do. Acknowledging all that it is, all that it can be, the foundation it is solidifying to allow you to launch away into the rest of your day. Afford yourself the gift to be present for it - don’t let it be another day that happens to you. Be. In. It. 

We spend so much of our time as human “doings” when truly we are meant to be human “beings”. In order to lean into this, we must learn to be.