Grounding

Staying grounded.  Such an important part of the change process.  This doesn't have to mean that we're adding weight or heaviness or difficulty to our journey.  Sometimes that's how it has felt to me.  Like I've been grounded.  Stopped.  Slowed down.  A more expanded view of grounding includes honoring the large changes that are happening, facilitating and inviting energy into those changes, and allowing them to unfold in their natural organic way.  During this allowing process, it is often helpful to reconnect with larger Earth energy by spending time in nature, possibly even by just sitting on the ground.  This sort of grounding offers balance and support to the change process which can often be experienced as unsettling or chaotic.  Change is good, and we can befriend it as we revisit nature and stay grounded.

"The desire to replenish, rebalance, and come into inner harmony and natural rhythm is a universal longing that spans time and traditions.  We can nourish it in nature...
In traditional societies of North America, individuals who are in transition go on vision quests, spending time alone in nature without diversions.  This allows them to go within, listen deeply for guidance, and reflect upon what is true and right for their spiritual development and life purpose.  Narritjin Maynuru Yirrkala, an Australian Aborigine, said, 'We long to see the ground.  It is our power.  And we must stay close to it or maybe we will get lost.'"                                                      -Angeles Arrien