Ground & Centre by Katherine Genet

Author:Katherine Genet [Genet, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wych Elm Books

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Grounding With The Elements

Grounding with Earth

This is the ultimate grounding/steadying element since we spend all our time walking and balancing ourselves upon the earth. Use it to your advantage, and as you can see from my story above, the spirit of earth (and every element) is more than willing to work with you.

Possibly the easiest way to clear your energy specifically with earth, is to imagine yourself a tree, as I did. Trees are deeply rooted in the earth, as well as naturally reaching to the sky, which gives you twice the bang for your buck.

Or you could imagine yourself standing or walking on any piece of ground that suits you. We once had a small, dormant volcano sitting a few hundred metres from our back porch, and a fun grounding exercise was to imagine walking up its flanks and letting my energy flow and mingle with its own. Try doing this exercise (minus the sleeping volcano unless you also happen to have one handy) by physically walking while you visualise yourself connecting with the earth underfoot and giving your energy into the soil. It's effective, and it's also invigorating.

This combination of physically doing a thing while energetically doing your ritual is fundamental to inner-world, magical practice. The more you can ritualise your practices in this way, the more effective they will be. What we are really trying to achieve in the big picture, is the exercise and acknowledgement of spirit. Gear all your practices towards this, and you will, quite honestly, be transformed.

One summer when I was in my twenties, I decided that I would walk barefoot as often as possible. I did so, doing it as a magical practice, being mindful every time I walked that I was grounding myself, exchanging my energy with that of the earth beneath me, and connecting to the earth’s spirit in a way that woke my own to greater awareness. That was the summer when the magic really kicked up a gear in my life. On top of all the other things I’d been doing, some of them for years, that one thing more opened a door to magic in a way I’m still reaping the rewards of almost thirty years later.

With that in mind, you can think of all sorts of ways of grounding your energy with earth. Fashion things out of clay while sending your energy into the medium. Get your hands dirty in the garden while going through your exercises. Or perhaps even put aside a particular tray or pot of soil that you can dip your hands into while consciously clearing and grounding yourself. Really, you're limited only by imagination and inclination.

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