It may seem hard to stay grounded when the world around feels like an unsafe place to be, when our financial situation keeps us awake at night. Is not always easy to stay connected when so many people trigger our anger and frustration, when the daily life and society expectations has no place for connection because we are in a hurry from work to home to keep working there. It may seem impossible to stay centered when others make us feel like we don’t matter to them and when our particular situation seems to be limiting us and our possibilities. Those are all things we need to work on but, what to do in the meantime?
What can we do to “feel” grounded, connected and centered in the middle of all that chaos?
Daily meditation helps achieve a state of balance, but let’s be “real”, life sometimes gets so hectic that when we finally have the “time” to sit down and meditate, we fall asleep.
This are techniques that may help you during those days.
The final goal is to retrain our mind to think differently and stay in the moment, so we actually feel grounded, connected and balance.
What to do:
Start doing this 3 times a day, then 6, then every time you remember, and after that it will become the way of your consciousness. It can be done at any time during the day:
Breathe deeply 3 times, feeling your lungs expand.
First start with Grounding: focus on your whole body at the same time; is like when you are cold and feel your “whole body”, that, try to feel that but without the cold.
Second, connecting: Pay attention to the first thing, person, animal, whatever it is that you see. Name it, and name 3 things that make you whatever it is that you saw, using “I am”. So for example, if the first thing I see is a house I would say: “I am safe”, “I am a keeper of value”, “I am supporting”. If is a dog: “I am loyal”, “I am friendly”, “I am a happy”. If you are at the office and you see a phone: “I am communication”, “I am a channel for connection”, “I am receptivity”. Think positive.
Third, centering: Find your heart, fill the rhythm and in 3 heartbeats say “I . am . now” or “I . am . here” which ever resonates.
Another quick way is to focus on our senses by answering this questions:
Space: Where am i? – Not to name the place but to feel your body in relation to the space where you are at the moment. Example: I am standing in the middle of the room, I am leaning against the wall, I am driving, I am at the check-up line. Or: sitting, standing, walking, running, etc. The important thing here is to consciously check what you are doing by bringing the focus to your body.
Sight: What do I see? Colors, shapes, things, etc.
Smell: What do I smell?
Hearing: What can I hear? Try to pick a sound and stay with it until you name it.
Taste: What taste do I perceive? (no need to be eating or drinking, taste your saliva and try to name the flavor, if you can’t just try to separate whatever it is that you taste.
Touch: How does the temperature feel?. The temperature around you, not yours.
And for a third option:
Visualize your legs turning red all the way up to the center of your chest, hold the red here. Go up and focus on your crown with the color white, from there keep going down until you reach the center of your chest again. Where red and white meet, they explode in green or pink (if its easier to visualize) and it spills outward. If you can, take a second to also visualize everything turning that same color, no need to hold it that long, just for a quick moment, if you really don’t have that extra second, just start walking while visualizing a green or pink carpet underneath you.
Remember these techniques are meant to be like a quick “pick me up” when we feel overwhelmed, disconnected, we woke up late and had no time for morning meditation, etc, we still should find the time to meditate daily for our own benefit.
May this help someone
Blessed be
Alchemist Eyes / Diana Chiques
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