Grounded….an Adjective, a Noun, a Verb…Redefining for Real
Can getting grounded bring me back to balanced working order, the way nature intended me to be?
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) defines GROUNDED as
mentally and emotionally stable: admirably sensible, realistic, and unpretentious
grounded [?gra?nd?d]
adj
sensible and down-to-earth; having one’s feet on the ground
I do aim to know where I belong in myself, the earth and in relation to others. I do want to be more mentally and emotionally (as well as physically and spirituality) stable.
I do not aim to be admirably sensible, realistic, and unpretentious.
Ground \Ground\ (ground), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Grounding.]
1. To lay, set, or run, on the ground.
2. To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
Being rooted and grounded in love. –Eph. iii. 17.
3. To instruct in elements or first principles.
4. (Elec.) To connect with the ground so as to make the earth a part of an electrical circuit.
I do aim to lay, set or run on the ground. Bare footed on red clay ground in Georgia grounds me.
I do not aim to be fixed firmly into any strand of reason.
I do aim to be rooted and grounded in love and to connect with the ground as part of my electrical circuit.
Here’s one of my actions to ground:
I align whatever parts of my body are on the Ground. I connect my legs, my nervous system to the earth.
I inspect for any necessary repairs.
I close my eyes, connect with my breath and remember….
We Ground planes in order to protect the flying public, to allow for inspections to occur, to have time to make any necessary repairs and to maintain the planes in safe, working order. We can do the same with our bodies.
Like any receiver I need to plug it in before I can receive the various frequencies. Grounding is the process of plugging ourselves into the earth and the world.
Ground is home. It’s familiar, safe, and secure. It has a power of its own. Life Dorothy in the Wizard of OZ says, “There’s no place like home.”
So I click my heels in Get Up Pose ( from Kundalini’s Frog Pose) and keep them together and lifted while practice 26, 54, or 108 of these until I feel my I feel ready to follow my own yellow brick road.
How do YOU Ground?
As Earth Day approaches this year, I am struck by what it means to truly foster Peace on this planet. I remember as a child, learning about anti-nuclear protestors who chained themselves to fences and were forcibly removed and jailed. These brave souls became my heroines and heroes in the late 1970’s and 1980’s. I was moved to tears singing Dylan’s “Blowing in the Wind” and hearing stories of civil disobedience and the message of non-violent resistance. Later in the 1990’s, when I danced barefoot on my very first Earth Day, a lump would form in my throat when I celebrated each small victory (and the Gigantic Hearts) of environmental protestors who sacrificed so much to save a single tree and worked to preserve open space for our children’s children. Peace.