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This article is from The Sedona Journal of Emergence
Standing on Higher Ground Greetings, dear friends and namasté! What a wonderful word ‘namasté’ is… ‘The divine in me sees and acknowledges the divine in you!’ There is such power and hope in the simple word… Used in greeting it opens the energy of very high interaction and aligns the participants ‘soul to soul’. Used as a farewell, it blesses the journeys of all involved… So, we greet you in love, in light and… namasté! For a few short minutes, we ask you to center yourself within the sacred resonance of your heart center as you breathe gently and deeply and begin to relax. Imagine that you are standing within your own sacred heart, enveloped by the light that shines eternally within. Sense the desire of Source to experience life in the physical dimensions so that He/She might grow. Know unequivocally that your purpose as soul is to be the experiencer for Source. From this position of centering, notice the flow of divine light coming to you from Source, entering via your higher chakras and pouring jubilantly throughout your entire being. Witness that this euphoric energy doesn’t just bless the upper chakras… it blesses all your chakras. Next feel the energy traveling down your legs and your tailbone, moving into the ground and to the chakra just below your feet where all the tendrils of light join, form a braid and continue in this mode to travel to the very heart center of the earth. Receiving from Source… giving to earth. Lifting in the resonance of the divine and grounding in the energy of Gaia. Feel the birth of gratitude in your own heart. Feel it as it expands and overflows throughout your being… Sense the peace that floods your aura as all these energies unite. You are inspired… You are grounded… You are grateful… You are soul. A friend of the channel came to her recently and asked for help ‘getting grounded’. This request began a long flow of thought and energy which led them both to a new and deeper understanding of grounding. It is time to move beyond the simplistic process of ‘dissipating excess energy’ and to expand this wonderful concept with new potential. For those of you who are confirmed tree huggers, don’t stop! That is a wonderful practice which does ground you and blesses both you and your planet. We simply wish to expand this opportunity. In actuality, each and every step that you place is an act of grounding. Does that leave you with a ‘so what’ kind of energy? Then consider what you are grounding with those steps… You are grounding the thought you are having as you step. This is one of the reasons why so many teachers have been repeating the suggestion to learn to be the conscious creator of your thoughts. What you think about is what you create. Energy does follow thought 100% of the time. Every thought is a prayer, and no prayer goes unanswered. What is grounding? Many think of grounding as an intentional reduction of energy, almost like a pressure valve which protects one from too great a build up of energy, both positive and negative. Grounding, to us, is a process which brings spirit to the physical. Rather than a battery designed to store energy, consider that you are a conduit… a bridge… which connects heaven and earth, the infinite with the finite. The act of moving spirit into an appropriate and aligned connection with your planet and/or your physical experience is grounding. Your resonant signature (your aura and all it radiates) determines what you ground and is the invitation to that energy. Grounding helps to adjust the resonance of the energy of the bridge (whether it be person, place or thing) to align with the spiritual energy which is choosing to experience this dimension. Because each one of you is the instrument of the grounding, your focused intention (hugging a tree, stepping, meditation, play) is one of the primary ways for God/Goddess/All That Is to experience the dimension you are presently enjoying. What we are suggesting is that you realize that you are constantly choosing either a ‘higher ground’ or a ‘lower ground’… with every step, every thought, every breath… As you awaken each morning, choose the thoughts and emotions you would like to ground or anchor into your day before you step out of bed. This is a pivotal moment for the tone of your entire day… as you step you anchor your energy quite firmly and it stays anchored until you change it. True grounding will not ‘turn off’ a spiritual experience. Have you ever been to a metaphysical class where you became inspired and lifted to such an extent that you were cautioned to ground yourself before driving home? Did you feel disappointed after you grounded because you lost that feeling of euphoria? The truth, however, is that you did yourself a great service… Yes, you focused yourself for a safer drive, but you also locked in the spiritual experience. You grounded the teachings you had just received and aligned them more acutely with your own resonance. When grounding is practiced in the morning after a night of meaningful dreams, you will find it much easier to remember your dreams later in the day. This wonderful process helps to lock the higher dimensional experience in the 4D reality and thus in your memory where it can be accessed easily. Grounding is both giving and receiving. As you offer yourself to be a pure channel to Source and your soul (this offering process is also known as ‘surrender’), you give the divine an elegant pathway to enter and experience the physical dimensions. As spirit moves along this route, you receive the blessing of its resonance. As you pass the same energy along to Gaia, you give the energy and healing to her. What a wonderful balance this creates! As well, receiving the flow of unconditional love from Gaia and sending the same on to source lifts you and grounds you in the resonance of source. Gratitude is an important element in grounding. Gratitude is the glue of spiritual work and play. Whenever you give a healing session, gratitude is the adhesive that completes the effort. Prayer and gratitude are partners in your communications with God/Goddess/All That Is. Meditation and gratitude are the tools of cocreation. Gratitude is equally important when grounding to lock in the effect you initiated so elegantly. Lower consciousness grounds itself chaotically. Often it’s only desire is to dump uncomfortable energies. Also, believing in the old adage that there is safety in numbers, the lower ground aims for alignment with group contracts such as poverty, illness, obesity, alcoholism, prejudice. Higher consciousness knows that all of life is divine (whether obvious or not) and grounds itself in unconditional love, compassion and service. If you are standing on higher ground, you are: Present in the moment Attentive to this experience Creating balance repeatedly Ready to live your part in the divine plan Practicing compassion Choosing service (big, small or both) as a way of life Loving ceaselessly and without agendas Experiencing gratitude universally Have you ever met someone who was not well grounded? There is often an unfocused energy about them which leads to missed opportunity, poor focus in the present and inability to handle physical life details well. Most people do not trust ungrounded people since they tend to be forgetful, chronically late and irresponsible. For those of you who can see energy, ungrounded individuals often appear misaligned with their own souls, almost like the soul is floating just a few inches or feet too high. Sometimes just imagining that their souls are putting on the shoes of the physical body is enough to ground and align them. A meditation like the one at the beginning of this channeling can be useful because it can be functioning perpetually thus creating a constant state of lifting and grounding… in balance, in safety, in alignment. Your own soul, your higher self, your guides and guardians, even God/Goddess/All That Is are all patiently waiting for you to discover this level of grounding for it is one of the key methods that allows them dynamic access to experience and growth in this dimension. It is a vital tool of your partnership with them all! If you ground like this will you be more aligned with the physical world? Absolutely! And that alignment will be in ways which most people have only dreamed possible. Have you not asked for the help or participation of guardian angels? Guides? God? This doorway of experience brings them to you as cocreators, as coparticipants… as friends. As they align with your 4D experience and you, they will give you the gift of their love and involvement in gratitude for the gift of opportunity you have given them. True partnership joyfully shared… how wonderful!
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