Managing Your Energy, Part 28: Clearing Up Confusion About Grounding, Part 5: Right Use of Visualization
The most effective way for an individual to address grounding may vary during different stages of personal development. Various approaches produce somewhat different qualities of experience and types of awareness.
In practicing grounding, visualization can be used as a guide to enhance Sensing, keeping Sensing primary. A gentle suggestion via imagery works better than overemphasizing visualization and running the risk of substituting images for actual experience. Do not allow suggestions you give yourself to become a stand-in for actual sensory experience.
Energy is your guide: Notice whether your energy responds and changes as you focus your attention using a particular technique. If your energy is not responding, do not push with your mind. Try a different approach, and emphasize Sensing.
One more point before we move on from the important topic of mental interference: A mental filter of the known can block or distort direct perception of energy and events. Filtering experience through the lens of what we have experienced previously and already know prevents one from experiencing what has hitherto been unknown, impeding both learning and perception.
Feeling like one does not belong on planet Earth can interfere with grounding. This feeling is intensified by being unable to ground. More people than you might imagine feel they do not belong here. Their experience is often viewed as social or emotional isolation. This sense of alienation is not always social or emotional–although feeling one does not belong here can certainly impact our interactions with others. Feeling disconnected can be a cause, an effect, or a vicious circle of alienation.
The following strange experience speaks to questions about belonging and grounding. I am not saying I believe in the implications of this experience. I will say that I do not disbelieve either. I call this sort of thing “an experiential reality.” A dream, for example, is an actual experience. It has a reality as an experience. A powerful dream can influence how we live.
In Egypt, I unintentionally ‘downloaded’ a technique that has worked well for grounding people who feel they are from other planets. When this occurred, I was standing between the feet of the sphinx, in the middle of one of a series of shamanic initiations. I was not fully engaged, let alone expecting anything. Then I ‘saw’ energy spiraling down from what could only be a wormhole in space, from another galaxy, off to my right. This small, twisting cyclone of energy entered the top of my head, went through me into the Earth, ran through the planet like a bead, wrapped up around Earth’s sphere, and simultaneously anchored from the core of Earth to a planet below the Earth and off to my left.
I am not often a seer. I do receive direct guidance in fully formed concepts, and sometimes in words. Sometimes I translate from feeling to imagery, to communicate more easily. This experience was primarily visual. I have only had a handful of primarily visual experiences.
Before the Egypt trip my Guidance had announced, in words, that the trip was going would make a permanent change in my grounding. I had no idea what that meant, and was not looking for anything.
While I did not believe I was from another planet, I have felt that way from time to time, and joked about it with friends.
After this odd initiation I have been consistently able to ground. Initially I had to use a technique that accompanied the experience I just shared. Within a year I became able to use more direct techniques as well. This was a transitional or remedial technique. A modified version has worked with most of the people I have met who were unable to ground before that. They have been able to repeat it on their own after being shown just once.
The commonly-used tree image still doesn’t work for me. In my opinion it works much better to tap into to the molten core of the Earth. The energetics are powerfully magnetic and the experience is deeper. One can also access any other point on the globe from its core.
Does visualization assist or overpower your experience when you Sense energy or ground yourself?
Have you had a interesting experience that changed the way you ground?