Where are you going?
How will you get there?
Are you in uncharted territory?
Why do you need to feel you are in control?
Do you ever wonder what is stopping you from having an adventure?
I saw variations of these questions all over the place and thought … well, that just about sums the energy we are in at the moment, doesn’t it?
We have no idea where we are going or how we will get there. We always seem to be in uncharted territory, so, in the end, it usually comes down to whether or not this scares us. If it does, it always means we will then try and maintain control … which, of course, is completely daft. How can we have any control over the chaos we are currently experiencing – on all levels: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual?
We are sitting in the eye of the storm most days, even on good days, and no one can never even hope to control that. And, yet, some of us still try….
So, perhaps now it is time to finally get serious about clearing all the emotional baggage we stupidly insist on carrying around – sometimes from lifetimes ago, and it always seems to show up in a depressingly familiar and repeating pattern. If we can learn to recognise the patterns and release them, we can at least no longer feel a ridiculous need to control every aspect of our lives. We need to learn to go with the flow… and have that adventure! Seriously, who wouldn’t want an adventure? All it really comes down to is – how much do you want one? If the answer is no, you should immediately start asking yourself why! Adventures are fun!
But to do all this and feel secure rather than scared as we embark on something new and exciting, we have to be fully present in our bodies all the time and our bodies have to be firmly anchored to the Earth. And we need to be deeply, deeply connected to our Mother.
I mean if we aren’t connected to the planet and the nurturing energy which flows from it every moment of every day, we are really just orphans and that Is a terrible thing to be when our Mother is still there, more or less waiting for us to notice her! And, when we are lucky enough to have a Mother who is the size of a planet, how scary can an adventure be if she has got our backs?
So, below is a meditation to do while you are considering all these questions and how they affect every part of your lives. Or you can just do the exercise. Either works quite nicely! It is a lovely way to ground and the exercise can be adapted in many different ways as well to make it more appropriate for what you want to achieve while you are doing it.
As I always tell my students, the only thing which ever limits when you are working with an exercise is what you think you can or cannot do with it…
Grounding Meditation
- Relax and focus on your breath
- Set the clear intention that you want to ground firmly in the earth and re-connect on a new and deeper level with Mother Earth.
- Now take your awareness to your base chakra and see or sense the red energy it holds in your chakra system.
- Now intend to send this red energy down into the earth and direct a strand or beam of this red energy to go down one leg and flow out through your foot into the earth. Then repeat with the other leg.
- Now take your awareness to your sacral chakra and see or sense the orange energy it holds in your chakra system.
- Now intend to send this orange energy down into the earth and direct a strand or beam of this orange energy to go down into the base chakra, going through it into one leg, and flow out through your foot and into the earth, as before. The repeat with the other leg.
- Now take your awareness to your solar plexus chakra and see or sense the yellow energy it holds in your chakra system.
- Now intend to send this yellow energy down into the earth and direct a strand or beam of this yellow energy to go down into the sacral chakra, into base chakra, and, finally flow down one leg, and flow out through your foot and into the earth, as before. The repeat with the other leg.
Notes:
- This procedure grounds the energy of all the chakras related to the physical body into the earth, leaving you feeling very firmly grounded and secure.
- It also means your body feels fully supported by earth energy which will filter in to it through the physical body chakras more smoothly and easily.
- You can leave all these strands in the earth for as long as you like. All you have to do is decide what you want and set the best intention to achieve this.
As I said earlier, you can adapt this exercise in many ways.
One useful way is to connect to the healing energy of your choice and channel it into each chakra before you run the energy of the chakra into the earth.
You can use Reiki symbols in each chakra to cleanse it before running the energy down.
You can visualise the colour for each chakra as you work with it, or use the vowel sounds associated with them.
You can clear the knee chakras and the feet chakras before you do the exercise to ensure the energy is not blocked somewhere else in your system, preventing you from connecting to Mother.
You can also use it as a diagnostic technique – the shade of red, orange and yellow you find in these three chakras will tell you a lot about whether they are blocked or not and how much work you need to do to clear them. It is information you can always use if you want to keep them spinning at the correct rate.
You can also add to it and, when all three energy strands are flowing down into the earth, allow Mother’s energy up into your chakras. See or sense her beautiful golden energy flowing up chakra by chakra, tinting the red, orange and yellow with gold. If nothing else, if you are visual it looks quite exquisite!
Just go with whatever feels right for you. You are, after all, the person who is connected to your energy system and you will know what is needed to clear it, balance it, expand it, re-calibrate it to a higher frequency or just bring it back into alignment. And, probably the only problem you will have is trusting that you know all this! Do yourself a favour – run with the fact you really are that good rather than resist it!
So, find a few minutes and a nice quiet place and consider all the questions at the top of the article. The answers might just surprise you and they will certainly help you progress during this bizarre time, or at least show you why you are stuck and not making any progress at all.
What you then do about it is always your choice. This is your journey and you should continue it in your own way and at your own speed, not someone else’s. You do not have to adopt someone else’s reality as your own. And if you find you have, please start asking yourself why and decide what you need to do about it.
And, last, but definitely not least, you really should be considering all the many different ways you can have that adventure…
Have fun!
Bright Blessings Gailx