Basics · 1.3

Grounding expanded

The idea at the heart of this classGrounding

Grounding A seated figure, split light and dark and softly lit, sits on the crest of the earth, drawn as a mound of rounded petals in moss, plum, rose umber and mustard, with a pale flower and a pearl at its center. First a peach cord draws down from the base of the spine to that center. Then pearls of light run down the cord and fade into the center. Then cords are made and undone in turn: red, yellow, blue, brown, a waterfall of six wavy strands, and roots that fork as they go down. Then green streams rise from the earth into a flower at each foot and up the legs. Last, an egg of lilac and pale blue stands behind the figure for the aura, and the center of the head, the aura and the frame of the room each get their own cord to their own point in the earth, while the body's cord and the streams step back. the center of the head the aura the room

This class’s practice

Grounding the whole body

5 steps, playing in turn. Choose a number to hold one.

Sit with feet flat and eyes closed. Make, destroy and remake a cord from the first chakra to the earth's center, in any image.

00:32 to 02:17

Release other people's survival energy from the first chakra at the base of the spine. You keep compassion without carrying their burden.

02:56 to 05:11

Let go of emotions you picked up from other people, especially around the belly and lower back.

05:43 to 06:15

Move through shoulders and chest (responsibilities), neck and head (obsessive thoughts), then feet, legs, arms and hands, sending each down the cord.

06:15 to 08:29

If you feel spacey, breathe more, widen the cord or change its image. Send nervousness and irritation down, check the cord, then open your eyes.

09:00 to 10:33

All 5 steps: Grounding the whole body
  1. ISit with feet flat and eyes closed. Make, destroy and remake a cord from the first chakra to the earth's center, in any image.00:32 to 02:17
  2. IIRelease other people's survival energy from the first chakra at the base of the spine. You keep compassion without carrying their burden.02:56 to 05:11
  3. IIILet go of emotions you picked up from other people, especially around the belly and lower back.05:43 to 06:15
  4. IVMove through shoulders and chest (responsibilities), neck and head (obsessive thoughts), then feet, legs, arms and hands, sending each down the cord.06:15 to 08:29
  5. VIf you feel spacey, breathe more, widen the cord or change its image. Send nervousness and irritation down, check the cord, then open your eyes.09:00 to 10:33

Basics 1.3, 00:32 to 10:33

One release route can be joined by other target-specific cords.The body's cord The foot channels The earth, with its center Head, aura and room cords The red, yellow, blue and brown cords in step III are source examples. Every other color only tells parts apart; it is not the color a cord, the earth or earth energy should be.
The body's cordLets energy goDown from the base of the spine to the center of the earth.
The foot channelsBring energy inUp from the earth through a chakra in each foot.

Keep target and direction clear: grounding releases downward; intake channels bring energy in.

Grounding is taught as communication with the earth, where you can release others' burdens without losing compassion.

Renew the image and recognize communication

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Grounding can be remade throughout the day. Sit with the feet flat, close the eyes, and bring awareness back to the body: feet, legs, torso, arms, hands and face. Then use the creative part of awareness to make a cord from the first chakra to the center of the earth.

Make it, destroy it, and make it again. Add color, image, quality or play until the cord fits the present moment. A yellow cord may work at one time of day, while green, blue or brown works better later. The useful cord is the one that speaks to the body now.

A cord of energy is also communication. Grounding puts the body in communication with the earth. Through that relationship, excess energy has somewhere to go, and the body has a steadier place to be.

First chakra, survival and other people’s burdens

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The first chakra is an energy center near the base of the spine, with a slightly higher location sometimes described for women. It is not a physical object or an exact measurement. It sends, receives and spins, and it relates to body health, safety, survival and well-being.

Because it receives survival energy, other people's survival concerns can get mixed into it. Home, work, family, friends and people in crisis can all leave energy in this space. Grounding lets that energy leave without harming them and without harming the earth.

Release does not remove compassion. It means you do not carry someone else's burden in your first chakra. Sometimes that burden was not fully theirs either. Let their survival energy go down the cord and be neutralized.

Then let the first chakra move. When it is grounded well, its spin can become more natural. The grounding holds the chakra in relationship with the earth while the energy center clears.

Move through the body, then adjust

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Use the cord through the rest of the body too.

  1. Release emotions picked up from others, especially in the belly and lower back.
  2. Release responsibility from the shoulders and chest.
  3. Release obsessive or foreign thought from the neck, head and face.
  4. Release aches in the feet and legs.
  5. Release tension in the arms and hands.

This makes the grounding wider than one point at the base of the spine. The first chakra stays rooted, and the whole body can use that route to clear.

If you feel spacey, adjust the tool. Breathe more. Widen the cord. Change its color, image or texture. Ground the whole body, or ground one place in the body that needs help.

To finish, light up the energy behind nervousness, anxiety or irritation and let it drain. Check the center of the earth, the first chakra, and the connection between them. Then breathe and open the eyes. The point is to run more on your own energy, with less interference from what you have picked up.

Recording notes

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Recordings

  • Class 1 Chords Lesson #3 ~ Grounding Expanded.mp3

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Practice

The guided practice runs from 00:00:14 to 00:10:56. Do it whole, from the preparation through the return. It uses tools from earlier lessons.

Includes a complete return. The chakra-location qualification and compassion distinction are consequential source conditions.

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