Week One
Earth Star Chakra
Up until recent times the Root Chakra was considered to be the main channel of connectivity to the Earth and all its strength and power. The process of raising planetary and personal vibration initiated in 1987 with the Harmonic Convergence, the initiatory celestial event that began the 25 year cycle of transition into the Aquarian Age, has allowed new information to be revealed at a staggering pace. That we are able to hold the new frequencies is a direct testament to humankind’s collective growth (significant though we most often hear and see media reports showing only chaos and fear and confusion).
The revelation of the Earth Star Chakra ushers in a new frequency of connection with the Earth at a time when it is absolutely welcome and necessary. Use it to support a solid foundation during your personal challenges and shifts.
From 12 to 18 inches below the feet there is an energetic plate, much like the flat base of the green army men in the movie, Toy Story. Through this plate run two tubes of energy, one, on the left and entering the left foot and, one, on the right, exiting the right foot. Earth power and grounding energy flows through the Earth Star into the left foot and circulates through your body, clearing, cleansing, and energizing. That which is cleared and cleansed circulates down the right leg and out through the foot and Earth Star to be recycled.
This conduit of support runs constantly, though it is amplified when you bring your attention and focus to it. If you are aware of an area or chakra in your body that needs support visualize the energy moving through it in a left to right direction.
Being solid on the earth is to be able to live fully and flow with the unique experiences of these times. This is the first of a whole series of powerful grounding tools I shall offer. Use them. Check back regularly for a new tool...
Week Two
Breath and Breathing
Being grounded in the body is being connected to the Earth to access support and energetic power. One sure fire way to get back into the body is to focus on breathing. Breath is the elixir of life, the substance that we can least live without, for the shortest period…being that critical. The breath contains not only the vital oxygen that sustains cells and tissues and replenishes the blood stream, but also the chi, the life force, the substance that nourishes the energy bodies and flows through the body’s energetic system.
Breath can nourish, cleanse, and sustain. Deep breathing that allows the entire volume of the lung to be utilized is what is critical in the big picture. In the Western world we are devoted to getting things done. We gulp air to get the energy necessary to complete the 10, 00 things. It results in shallow breathing that does not reach the base of the lung where the greatest capacity for volume is, due to the shape/design of the lung. This type of breathing is shallow and very much accompanied by movement of the upper chest and shoulders. The Eastern world, by contrast, is more about being. Deep, slow breathing is taught regularly to children as they grow up. The capacity to get centered has been the tradition of the East where meditation, yoga, mantra, and chant have been foundational tools to reconnect with the body.
To use the breath wisely, breathe to the belly. Put your hand on the solar plexus area just below the rib cage and breathe in. Make sure the hand moves outward, which indicates that air is reaching the bottom of the lung. Breathing slowly allows the super oxygenation of the cells and tissues, slows heart rate down, allows for greater focus and clarity…on and on. You will notice quickly hen breathing this way how the world seems to brighten, the senses heighten, and a feeling of balance takes you into your solid physical self.
As infants/newborns we natural breathed in a circular way with no interruption. This allowed the full intake of oxygen/chi and supported the natural cleansing process that is our design. That cleansing, health affirming capacity shifted when we heard our first “ssshhh”, which stopped the breath. There began the storage of energy that eventually lead to dis-ease. Yes, this breathing thing is that important. Experiment with it. Breathing quickly will energize you whole body. Breathing again in an uninterrupted circle will support the flow of emotion and assist in releasing stored energetic toxic debris. All types of breathing bring you into your body…and ground you. You will relearn how to breathe rather quickly with just a bit of focus and sustained effort.
Visualize the air moving up through the feet and sweeping the body as you inhale. As you exhale visualize that same air, now filled with energetic debris, flowing down the right foot into the Earth. Allow yourself to become solid on the Earth. Slow down, breathe, and rediscover your power.
Week Three
Speak Your Birth Name
When we are in body we are creating foundation on which to live with all of our faculties. We are able to listen to our bodies and the myriad of nuance calls it makes throughout our day. We are in alignment with our emotional self, being trusting of the movement of the energy and the short lived capacity it holds to help us clear the moments of living. Our mind softens into clarity when it is grounded into the physical. And when in body we provide the perfect touch stone for Spirit. In the dance between Heaven and Earth, Spirit and Body, we live the good life in this magnificent Earth dimension.
When we incarnated we were like this in design. We were not able to engage the physical to the degree that would tap into its mighty resources, but we were actually more in tune with the sensations and the use of all of the elements. Emotions flowed on the breath and had their short lived life span. Our mind was open and receptive and free from judgment and fault. We built experiences and perspectives based on what we were being fed on all levels by those around us. Our profound Spiritual connection was unfiltered and we moved as if we were still in the ethers, for awhile.
Though so much of that natural way was programmed out via family and culture, it is not gone…mainly just dormant. The wake up call of the times is that we are remembering who we are in big ways. A seemingly simple tool has been made available to us by the wisdom of the cosmos. It is the calling and the claiming of the original birth name. The first, the middle, and the last form the frequency of I Am That I Am Expressing As Me. Choosing to speak it out loud activates three specific capacities: 1)we call forth our original template to be fully present for the moment; 2) we send a frequency call to all etheric beings aligned to the frequency to be immediately available to us; and 3) we call forth a protective energetic sphere to surround us, keeping out any lower vibrational energy.
Your name brings you home to your body and the original design, establishes your personal cocoon of safety, and brings forth Celestial Assistance that you can use. What a profound tool. The more you speak the name out loud the more it serves you, opening you up to very specific and useful information that is just for you.
In its early use the name also activates the release of energetic baggage. Childhood events and beyond that were retained as unexpressed/unprocessed become energetically attached to the name. Anything that happened is called up to process out. Some are immobilized by this and struggle with speaking the name. This can create quite a fearful/angry/sad vibration when one first calls the name into use. I assure you that this is temporary and will move the more you allow it. It works and clears by repetitive use. Use it and watch the old ways fall apart. The goal is, at the very least, to reach a place of neutrality with it…that is a place of balance. This place gives you back to you.
For women the cultural tradition of taking on the name of the husband in marriage has disempowering potential. Sometimes the vibrations of the names are so intense and disturbing that they push the couple away from one another. Ideally you want to reclaim your name and then have the option of which to use based on the feel. Play with this and watch your power return.And, if you are from another culture and were Americanized with your name it is likely shortened and mispronounced. Reclaim the original pronunciation and the totality of the name to get back to the core of you. The repetitious use will lead to acceptance, clearing, and remembering of you.
At that point you may be guided to take on a new name. That new calling is a frequency process that will lift you up to an ascended vibration that serves in expanded ways. At this point you have access to both ways. Use the birth name to ground you into wholeness. Use the new name for expansion into the multi dimensional soup from whence you have always come. Speak your name when you are out of alignment. Speak it when you walk out the door in the morning, before demanding situations, before you address challenges, before you travel, when you wake up, when you go to sleep…you get the picture.
Week Four
Chanting
Becoming ungrounded is to lose both focus, and the capacity to be fully in the Now. Circumstances distract, the mind wanders, our attention drifts to the past or the imagined future. Often this is a sweeping energy that mis-directs long before we even realize it. Thus, honing the awareness to look for the signs is a critical foundation to the entire grounding process. Not knowing you are ungrounded keeps you ungrounded. Take time developing your awareness about this. Notice how the body feels, the sensations, the aches, the pains, the shutdowns. Notice circumstances that set you on another path before you realize it. You get the picture. This kind of paying attention is essential for the application of all 52 of these sessions.
This week’s tool is chanting. Chanting has certain qualities including:
Chanting is like giving your mind something to do. It shifts the thought that is cycling and provides a replacement, typically of life-affirming higher frequency. It sets you energetically away from the pattern you were just incorporating. This allows the energy then to resettle which pulls you in a downward motion, relaxing into the body, towards the Earth…thus grounding.
For anyone born in North America, Native American chants or songs with that feel are very consistent and powerful grounding vehicles. Native music aligns to the Earth by design. When we sing it we call for an Earth reunion. Calling upon the Apache Power Chant, or Wani Wachialo, or Kuake Lano Lano, or We Circle Around will get you back into your body.
Ideally, singing these chants out loud verbally is the best. But, every time the chant is chanted, it unifies tissues and inner body systems with the vibration. In other words it becomes a part of you. From then on, any recall on even a mental level will create the relaxation/centering/grounding response.
Repetition is the key to chanting along with the intention and topic. Select chants that serv e you. Find ones that carry the feel and the rhythm and the melody that speak to you energetically. You can even choose to make up your own based upon the need. Take an affirmative phrase that supports what you need to do/be in the now and start to speak it/sing it. It will fall into a natural rhythm that rises from your own being. The whole spontaneous chant will do its work for the moment it was created. Often, these types of songs disappear as soon as their use is over.
If you resonate with chant and mantra then consider subscribing to the Chant/Mantra of the week where you receive one to apply for that week. You will find that they start to parallel your life needs and serve as remedies to distraction. Follow this link to explore.
Check out also two CDs, Chants, and The New Vibration for more resources. You can really bring yourself home to your body in a powerful way when you choose chanting as a tool.
Week Five
Use Energetics
The sensations of being ungrounded, or not being fully in body, are either interruptions to the flow of energy within the body, or the release of energy held in a variety of “reservoirs”. The interpretation of the sensation is what can lead us into a quagmire recycling fear thoughts and patterns, or into the sunlight where we are free to roam and ride the waves of the Now moment. This is our point of choice where we personally create our own heaven or hell. Knowing this will allow you to work with the energy consciously for different results than in the past.
As always it is the awareness that something is going on that is the foundational springboard for the integration and subsequent re-grounding. Unless you notice the sensations you will be well into the pattern before even realize it. Being out of body feels like a true separation from the physical, much akin to a spaceyness or a strong anxiety. You can see how much I underscore paying attention in these early presenting of the tools.
There are certain things that can be done depending on the type and the location of the energy that is rising or falling. Wise is the one who learns to notice where in the body the sensation first appears. Often it is the road map to the kind of issue that is calling and pushing you out of body. One leaves the body mostly because they have retriggered a cesspool of fearful residue energy that is seeking release. Rather than embrace it and flow there is a “run-away! reaction that does its best to keep us from feeling this terrible thing.
Sensations in the lower belly are typically fear based, the mid-section anger based, the chest grief/sadness based. The throat issues are mostly about the unexpressed. All the energy that was tied to the decision to not talk about what happened is surfacing to im[pact the physical tissue and function of that area…mostly to get your conscious attention to work cooperatively with the movement. The vacating feeling that starts at the forehead is an unwillingness to look differently at what is going on. Spacing out removes us from new thoughts and strategies and usually guarantees the status quo…which is often what the fearful part of us (the child) desires most. Getting dizzy and having trouble walking are sure signs that your programmed self is wanting out of whatever is going on or what has been triggered, which may or may not be related directly to what appears to be happening. Remember that nothing is as it seems. The grounded one uses this to step back and look with a heart open wide.
Here are some grounding tools when this kind of energy rises into your awareness:
These are some tools that work. The bottom line is movement, whether it is physical or verbal. Sitting still only serves to exacerbate and amplify the stuck energy. It will likely push hard and then retreat …but will intensify as the reservoir is replenished….so that the next time will be more demanding. Stay in your body…