Does any of this sound familiar?
Too much to do?
Can’t keep up?
Frenzied pace?
Stressed out?
You catch every cold and flu that’s going around?
Blood pressure is up?
Sound healing and grounding techniques are the biggest tools I use when I start feeling frenzied. How I respond to a situation, especially a stressful one, is my choice. It doesn’t change the amount of ‘things to do.’ However I can choose to approach this problem from a different frame of mind.
Sometimes I find it quite challenging to catch myself on those days when my emotional responses feel like they are on a runaway train.
I have spent too much of my life up in my head – always thinking, explaining, trying to figure things out. I had a zillion thoughts that were going nowhere fast!
Well, it wasn’t until I started actually inhabiting my body that everything started to get more manageable. That is why I say grounding is one of the biggest tools I use. When I become more present and grounded in my body, then I am able to stop the runaway train. Sometimes I can even change its direction.
So what does it feel like to be “ungrounded”?
- Feeling ‘spacey’ – Have you ever looked into someone’s eyes and noticed that there is nobody home? This is lack of presence.
- Thinking too much – non stop mental chatter.
- Talking too much – non stop verbal chatter – talking too fast.
- Daydreaming – Have you ever been driving along and have no remembrance of how you got to where you are?
- Clumsiness – that’s me. I have always loved to walk. I solve many of my problems on my walks. Well, one day, I was so absorbed in my thoughts that I actually walked into a lamppost. This is so embarrassing!
Grounding is a process of becoming aware and present in the physical body. It can also be a way of releasing excess emotional energy. Like the grounding your house has to dissipate the excess energy if your house gets hit by lightning. Becoming aware and present in your body brings strength, balance, purpose, creativity, calm, health, expanded awareness and connection to spiritual essence.
You may be familiar with the attention being given nowadays to the expansion of consciousness that humanity is experiencing. Sound can certainly trigger such an expansion – mainly because of its stimulation of altered states of consciousness. I always thought that this meant that we were expanding our spiritual connection and essence only.
However, as I learn more about sound and about my own expansion of consciousness, I have come to believe that this expanded consciousness needs to be grounded into physical form, meaning our physical body. Especially if we are to make a difference, not only in our own lives, but in those of others.
Why and how do we become ungrounded? Here are some of the things that can lead to being ungrounded or lack of presence.
- Pain or trauma.
- The frantic pace of life nowadays.
- Not wanting to be in a physical body.
- Uncontrolled, frantic thoughts or worry.
- Picking up energy from other people.
- Negativity from our own thoughts or from other people.
- Too much stress.
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I welcome you now to the eye of the hurricane. The calm centre of the storm. Like the giant oak tree, you can bend and sway, but your roots hold strong to the earth. Once you can feel that, you can step into the strongest winds around the eye and not get blown away.
Grounding is not permanent, however. We can become ungrounded with a thought. Likewise, we can become grounded with a thought or a sound or a physical experience.
Stay tuned for my next blog where I will share some of the sounds and techniques that will put you in the calm center of the storm.
In the meantime, I would love to hear what your favorite grounding techniques are.
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About Sharon Carne:
Sharon Carne, BMus, M.F.A. is an author, speaker, musician, recording artist, sound healer, Reiki master and consultant. Sharon is the founder of Sound Wellness, whose programs are at the forefront of education in how sound and music can be easily applied to your everyday life – to reduce stress, help you concentrate, energize you, inspire you, support your health and so much more.
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