I'm not going to go into great detail on this here because I need to sleep soon. But I'm going to get it off my chest before laying down for the night. Maybe I'm the only one ...
I was reading the CNN website last night and found 
A while back, you wrote something on your blog about learning how to fly but not knowing how to land (or something like that). I thought I would like to ask you about this as I think I have pretty poor grounding skills. The magickal mind-frame is easy enough to achieve, but getting back out of it is hard. Thanks! ~G.M.
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I came to this problem from the opposite direction! It was damn easy for me to get grounded, but freeing up my mind to stop all my second-guessing and just LET GO DAMMIT! was much more difficult. So congrats on being able to achieve that magickal mind-space!
The easiest ways I’ve found to get grounded again are to partake in the mundane world. This means involving your physical body on some level. These are the things I have found that work for me when I need to ground and ground hard:
- Eat something heavy, such as steak or other dense protein.
- Sex. I prefer the raw and passionate kind for grounding purposes, but pick your flavor. *smile*
- Do chores around the house.
- Take a bit of salt under the tongue. It’s a jolt, but it reminds you of your physical self. Good in emergencies when you need to ground fast, but can have the equivalent effect/feel of being dropped back into your body from a height.
- Lie on the ground and let your backside “root” until you come fully down.
- Hold a grounding stone in your receptive hand for 5-10 minutes. I have a hematite sphere I use.
- Do some yoga poses that focus on “rooting” the body. Mountain, Five-Pointed Star, Corpse Pose work well.
- Have someone give you a foot massage or massage your own feet. This will stimulate the reflexology points for your entire body and create good body balance and a good physical feeling. It helps to bring your energy all the way back down into your feet (especially good because magick requires us to use our upper chakras as opposed to our lower ones — awareness-wise anyway).
- Mentally visualize your chakras balancing out and “closing” or becoming filtered. Western chakra training differs from Eastern chakra training in that for Westerners, there is a huge focus on having “open” chakras (as in “not blocked”). But Eastern chakra training emphasizes “closed chakras” (as in “protected and enclosed system unto itself”). Make sure your chakras aren’t flung wide open post-ritual by allowing the chakra “blossoms” to close slightly, as though the flowers were closing up for the night. The energy will still be there, still unblocked, but the petals of the chakra flowers will be a gentle filter to allowing further energy in. I tend to visualize my chakras spinning slightly and the petals nesting closed, but I can still see the light of the energy filtering through the petal edges. This helps to both ground and to keep you from remaining bombarded by energy coming and going post-ritual.
Let me know if some of these help out. I tend to make it a priority that everyone eats immediately after ritual and to do a quick energetic check to make sure folks aren’t running around too much on an energy high after circle. When you’re working alone, it is VITAL that you check yourself.
Photo by Eddi 07 (via Flickr).
EileenDalla |
Tuesday, 11th August 2009 at 7:19 PM