Grounding and Protection, the Basics
Grounding and Protecting
It is so important always, and now more than ever, to be grounded at all times. Here are a couple of grounding exercises that you can return to several times a day if you need to. Use them any time you feel that you need a bit of help or that things are getting a little bit slippery under or around you. They will help.
The first is pretty basic and provides a framework or template for beginning a grounding practice that can evolve as you tune in and figure out exactly how your field works and what you specifically need to connect to the Light and to be grounded on the Planet.
The second exercise was channeled from my friend and colleague in Light, Ahramein, a tree deva who I’ve known and worked with over many lifetimes.
Equally important as grounding is protection. To be honest, it is not all love and light out there and any time you are working to expand your spiritual practice, the intention to work with Light and only Light is essential. We must continuously ask for help in warding off any and all energies that are not of Light. Here are a couple of things you can do:
• Call on Arch Angel Michael, Arch Angel Gabriel, Arch Angel Uriel and Arch Angel Rafael and ask that they surround you completely in celestial light, love, peace, healing and protection.
• Call on Christ and the Army of Light to surround you completely in a protective and impenetrable forcefield of white light.
• Ask Christ and Arch Angel Michael clear and transmute any and all energies that are not of light from your field.
Ground and protect each and every time you sit down to receive the messages from your soul, or from the Light, or from your guides if you’re in direct communication with them.
* A note on Christ and the Christ Light: I want to be very clear here that calling on Christ is not exclusive to Christians, nor is it related to religion in any way. Like the angels, Christ is a being of Light who can help, and is willing and able to help, particularly in protecting against energies that are not of light and in clearing energies that are not of light. If you have a complicated relationship with Christianity, and because of this feel uncomfortable calling on Christ, then call on Arch Angel Michael and the Army of Light for your protection and clearing.
(And if you feel called to explore this more, you could look into your feelings and see if you can differentiate the energies of Christ — the being of Light — and the religion of Christianity. Going into and feeling this difference has helped me heal some of the rifts that were created from my early life when I was pretty deep into organized religion.)
And now, as promised …
A basic grounding exercise
Visualize a brilliant white ball of light 50 feet above your head. See the light coming down from that ball of light, all the way down until it comes through the crown, just above your head, and then comes through your head, neck, down through your spine and torso, down and through both legs and down and out the bottoms of your feet and into the Earth. Keep visualizing that brilliant white light moving down and into the Earth until it meets up with a brilliant white ball of light 50 feet below your feet. Once it connects to the ball of light below, visualize bright white light coming up from the ball of light below and then completely surrounding your entire body and your entire electromagnetic field in a sphere that begins below you and extends out to all sides — to the left, to the right, in front, behind — and then flows up and around the top of your body until the sphere around your electromagnetic field is completed above your head. Continue to visualize yourself completely surrounded in this sphere of bright white light while the light continues to flow up to meet up with the brilliant white ball of light 50 feet above your head.
A Grounding Exercise from Ahramein:
Visualize yourself as a tree. Not a little tree, but a very big, very old tree that has been alive for centuries. It has seen many generations of people come and go from these places and spaces and still stands strong and tall. Visualize your body as the trunk of the tree. Notice what the bark looks like, what its texture is, how it feels, what colors it is. Visualize your roots growing out of the bottoms of your feet and see and feel them extending out and down, deeply into the Earth. See the connection you share with the Planet through those roots. Feel the flow of life-force that is shared, how the Planet supports you through this connection, and also how you support the Planet. Visualize golden white light flowing through those roots and see them growing deeper into the Earth, and continuing to grow deeper until they meet up with a golden white ball of light deep within the Earth.
Next, visualize the branches of the tree growing up and out of the top of your head and shoulders, stretching up and up and up above you into the sky, reaching for the beautiful golden white sun above. Feel yourself stretching up and soaking in the rays of that beautiful sunlight. See that sunlight coming down from above and surrounding you completely — all the way down from the tops of those branches to the bottoms of those roots and meeting up with the golden white ball of light deep within the Earth. Then visualize beautiful golden white light coming up from that ball of light deep within the Earth, coming up from below the roots and surrounding you completely from the bottoms of the roots to the very tops of the branches.
In case you’re interested …
Here are a couple of links to episodes of the Welcome to the Garden podcast that I’ve done on grounding and protecting and clearing your energy field.
• https://anchor.fm/jodie-fletcher/episodes/Clearing-Your-Energy-Field-is-Essential-Self-Care-eeg8e7