Grounding and Centering - By Stacey Burdash
Grounding and centering is the base of psychic development. It can help you sleep better, remember dreams more clearly, meditate better, as well as help handle stressful situations.
Centering:
Make sure you are in a very comfortable position with your feet firmly planted on the floor. Gather all of the energy inside of yourself into a magnificent, round ball of light in the center of your body. Once you find your “Center,” feel how calm and steady you feel.
Grounding:
After you have centered yourself, move onto grounding. Start by breathing deeply; feel the clean air moving in and out filling your entire body. As you release your breath out, feel all of your worries and cares of the day dropping away slowly through your feet and your hands, into the Earth below. Imagine this energy flow taking roots into the Earth, growing stronger and thicker with each breath. Feel your roots grow thicker as they pass the layers of Earth, the soil and rock, pushing deep into Mother Earth.
Visualize the water table within the Earth under all these layers. When you feel your roots enter the water, draw the cool, fresh Earth energy back up through your root system up into your glowing centered ball of energy. Pull this energy into your entire body, through your spine, arms, legs, charkas, then through the top of your head.
Take in all of this great Earth energy, feel its power fill you, feel it flow over your center bringing you a constant stream of new energy and a route for all negative and unwanted energy to flow away to be cleansed and made useful again.
As the energy flows through the top of your head, imagine this forming into huge branches of a tree. Feel this powerful tree, or energy, reach into the heavens to tap into the pulsating Power of the Sky. Draw this down through the branches of your tree, down into your arms, into your center.
Now you are connected to the power of the Earth and Sky. You are now grounded.