That feeling of being grounded… It’s a feeling that you can’t quite describe to someone until you actually achieve it yourself. It’s like trying to describe salt to someone who’s never tasted it… How do you describe it? It isn’t something you can tell the mind. You have to experience it through the body. It is a visceral. You can’t be grounded for someone else, and they can’t be grounded for you, just like eating right or working out… someone else can’t do these things for you.

I think most people in today’s society only feel this feeling at fleeting moments and sometimes I wonder if today’s teens even know what it feels like at all. With our attention being drawn to and fro with the internet, meetings, school, kids appointments, traffic, relationship stressors, big T and little T traumas, hormones being imbalanced and so much more… often times we don’t even know WHAT a grounded feeling is or what we are even looking in that feeling. We operate in high functioning fight or flight, on hyperdrive most of the time. I’m talking from personal experience. Especially after experiencing the trauma of loosing my spouse, I’ve had stress and nervous system dis-regulation wired into my DNA. The smallest of things could potentially set me off down a road of almost panic all day long. I like to coin my panic attacks “silent panic attacks” because outwardly I function for the most part, but inside I’m like a pin-ball machine, with my attention pinging all over the place, heart racing and overwhelm to the max.

Recently I’ve been on a journey to get super grounded in my body… like never before. This requires a lot of self love, slowing down and doing things differently. My main goals are to becoming super grounded and focused, intentional in all aspects of my life and to land softly into my feminine more often. I honor and embrace my masculine, it has picked me up in the darkest days, it has sustained my family and sometimes it is down right badass and fun! But it’s now time to find balance between the two. Honoring both sides of me. Wholeness means loving both.

Some things I am doing to be more grounded:

Morning meditation

Eating organic food from the earth

Intentionally slowing down

Letting myself drop the ball more often

Going with the flow instead of micromanaging

Movement (working out, walking, dancing)

Nervous system actives… humming, singing, saying mantras, tapping, etc.)

What do you do to get grounded? Have you ever actually felt it in your body???