I am always so humbled with my reiki work, clients, opportunities, learnings… this week I was guided (I meditate before each reiki session with the intention of my client’s highest good) to share a beautiful grounding meditation called Blessings Round the Tree of Life by Mara Berendt Friedman:

Bless the tree that gives us life–bless the life that gives us love
bless the love that gives us strength–bless the strength that is the tree

In this time of enormous change, it is vital for us to send deep roots of trust and love into Mama Earth. In doing so, we tap into Her magnificent strength and nourishment, thus grounding our bodies as we expand in consciousness to fully embrace Spirit.

Beautiful. 

Grounding is how we connect; it’s how we pause to remember our roots, our connection to sanity, our connection to Spirit/God/Goddess/Great Mystery/Allah and Earth and Nature.  Grounding ourselves is also remembering to breathe.

Hug a tree.  Sit beneath one.  Stand like one.  Grow one.  Be one.  Be ONE… one with each other, with Nature, with all.  I remember hugging trees often when I was a child, awed by their presence, and talking to their spirit like a friend. Imagine your feet rooted to the ground–roots actally growing out of your feet and extending into and through the earth, all the way to its center, where there is a beautiful Source of bright white light, peace and joy.  Pull in that light, those nutrients–just like tree roots would–and feel the earthly nourishment of love, peace and joy flowing through your body with your bloodstream. Feel your solid, strong core, like the solid, strong trunk of a tree.  Know that even challenges can be opportunities and will become the leaves on our branches and add more growth to our trunk and branches, allowing us to become more beautiful and changed.

I am grounded through various means, but some of my favorite, instant grounding catalysts include yoga, writing, my dog Harley, deep breaths, star-gazing, meditation/prayer, standing in the grass or on the ground barefoot, mountains and walking/hiking/snowshoeing… and–my newest one–sea salt baths.

More importantly, discover what grounds you and return to It (even if multiple means) on a daily basis.  What helps you breathe? What reminds you of what is important?  What grounding practices last anywhere from a couple of seconds to hours or days?  No judgment.  Observe what helps you ground.  We can mix it up and vary our approaches, but imagine the peace we maintain if we ground at least once every single day.  Something so simple can be so easy to forget if we don’t consciously make the choice to ground, and sometimes the Universe graciously steps in to offer us a grounding opportunity–and we know it because we breathe, we pause… and we remember.