Finding moments of calm and connection can be challenging. Adding in the complexities of separation may make it impossible.
Sometimes the best thing to do is to change your surroundings. It might be time to move all the energy outside and begin your ‘Grounding’ practice.
‘Grounding’ can aid in connecting and centering your energy helping you to reconnect with the earth, while you find balance in your lives. This is especially important in moments when you are holding onto another person's energy and cannot release it.
To begin this simple practice, step outside.
You may choose to do this as a habitual daily practice or as a tool you use as needed. Whichever you choose, this practice will be beneficial.
Once outside remove your shoes.
Take a walk barefoot on grass. This will help to align your natural rhythm with that of the planet.
Take a deep breath in. Ensuring that breath fills your belly, rather than staying in your chest. Diaphragmatic breathing encourages your body to relax and takes you out of ‘fight or flight’ response mode.
Close down your eyes and place your right hand over your heart space and your left hand over your belly.
Begin to take in any noise around you.
Then focus on your breath. Complete eight cycles of breath, breathing in slowly through your nose, and out through your mouth.
And then gently open up your eyes and place your palms down on the grass.
You could interact with nature in any way that feels best for you in the moment, especially if you are grounding with children, you may prompt them to find the biggest leaf, the longest stick, a perfect pinecone, or a round pebble. And with each interaction with nature, they will be grounding their energy and tuning it back in with the Earth.
You may find it beneficial to change the setting, and move your ‘grounding’ practice to a different location; beach, forest, river bank etc.
And lastly if ‘grounding’ practice is a concept that’s too ‘out there’ for you to get behind, you can think of it as a barefoot game on the grass with the kids or a barefoot walk along the beach. Whatever way you frame it, spending time outdoors is going to be beneficial.
“Remember that Meditation is not a way to enlightenment nor is it a method of achieving anything at all, it’s the actualisation of wisdom, the ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.”
© Meditations with Alma - Alma Rowhani-Farid 2024
Alma Rowhani-Farid- Alma is a Meditation Teacher and Doula working in Mount Gambier and surrounds. Alma runs weekly sessions, monthly circles and workshops under Meditations with Alma.
“Meditation has always been a part of my life, as children we were thought to reflect on each day to learn from it. In 2017 a friend and I decided to run free yoga meditation sessions at the Blue Lake Soccer Club. It was such a successful night that when she moved - I decided to continue the meditation section of it. We ran it out at Our Tribe space for a donation and then they sold the building. I now run most sessions out of Inner Sanctuary Collective and the Girl Guide Hall”
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