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Let’s talk about grounding, and how you might be able to interact with yours.
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Honestly, I have yet to become an expert grounder myself. Don't worry, the techniques are just as useful as if I was really great at it! People work with grounding — being connected to the earth— many ways:
walking barefoot on the earth
sitting on, standing on, or putting their computer on a "grounding mat," which plugs into the electrical outlet in the hole below the two matching slots for your plugs (which connects, through the wiring in the wall, all the way to the metal grounding post for the building, which is in the actual ground)
meditating and visualizing having roots
tapping on acupuncture meridian points of meridians that enter and exit the
feet
doing mudras (hand yoga positions)
deep breathing techniques
and more!
How are all these techniques related, and are they all doing the same thing?Great question.
I've definitely seen video of some earthing people holding little electrical grounding measurers while they were wearing shoes (showing that they were building up a charge in their bodies) and then barefoot (showing that the built-up charge went down to nearly zero); same for people showing the difference between being on and off a grounding mat.
(Side note on grounding mats: In Eden we learn to test if they are good for us. They usually are? But my guess is that some people's systems doesn't like being in touch with the wires in their house. Always notice how you feel, and be curious if you don't have the expected results!)
What I haven't seen is people with the same measuring widgets doing woo-woo kinds of grounding (visualization, mudras, tapping points) and making the widget reading change. If you are good with measuring grounding with a widget, you could try it out—just don't electrocute yourself. I am not a medical doctor, and I wasn't an especially awesome engineer! Be safe!
At any rate, learning about your own grounding is very easy to energy test... unless you are so ungrounded you can't get an accurate energy test... WTF energy medicine?!!
Relax. You can correct your grounding systems even if you can't test them accurately yet, and notice how you feel. And then, the more used to neutrally noticing how you feel that you become, the more natural energy testing (really, another kind of noticing) will eventually feel.
Previously, we've covered the following energy tests:
1. General Indicator Test
2. Triple Warmer Reactivity Test (shows if your pattern-holding meridian, Triple Warmer, is trapped in a hyper-arousal of Fight/Flight/Freeze)
3. Circulation Sex Reactivity test (shows if your Triple warmer has been dysregulated for so long that it's yin partner meridian has also become chronically distressed)
And of course we've also covered the corrective exercises for #2 and #3.
Now let's look at tests for your basic ability to energetically ground.
There are three aspects we will cover:
your polarity, because you are like a little AA battery with a “plus” on one side and a “minus” on the other, and when your plus and minus are reversed you can't ground or flow correctly
whether you are able to discharge old, excess energy into the ground through Stomach meridian
whether you are able to bring in new, fresh energy from the earth through Kidney meridian
The whole idea of energetically grounding is very neat, because it sees you as part of a greater energetic system. This relationship allows you to bring in power that you didn't have to create all by yourself, and to let go of what you are done with into a much larger presence than yourself.
Letting go of what you are done with into the earth is closely related to the shaman's way of giving heavy, dense, difficult energies to the earth as a gift, because these energies are actually a potent food for the earth to use.
So today, let’s test and correct our polarity! Keep those AA batteries right way up!
First, get your General Indicator Test going until you have a nice clear "yes" and "no," or until you realize it's not going to happen today!
General Indicator Test using “small intestine muscle test”:
— Sitting in a chair, raising one leg about 6 inches off the floor
— Say a true statement like “I like to eat chocolate”
— Press down (gently) with the flat of your hand on your quad muscle (the big one on top)
— Did your leg stay up? When it stays up, that “tests strong” for your true statement
— Now say a false statement like “I LOVE to eat liver!”
— Press down (gently) with the flat of your hand on your quad muscle
— Did your leg go down? When it goes down, that “tests weak” for your false statement
Once you have a “yes” and “no” to play with, or you get tired of messing with it, read on!
Polarity Test and Correction
Put your hand above top of your head, palm down toward your head.
Test with your General Indicator Test. Is the test "strong"?
Put your hand over the top of your head, palm toward the ceiling or sky.
Test. Is the test "weak"?
Your hand works as a magnet with a north and south, and you are testing to see if the rest of your body's north and south are pointing the right way. If your polarity is “reversed,” feels "meh," or is strong for both tests or weak for both tests, it's time to correct it.
I know two ways to correct polarity.
The classic Eden correction is to rub a regular, stainless steel, perfectly normal spoon on the bottom of your feet. (Take off your shoes!)
The spoon works as a weak magnet, saying to your body, Remember north and south? And that you have a north and south?
After you've rubbed a spoon on your feet, retest. Sometimes it will take a couple tries to get your polarity all the way to a strong "yes" for palm-down-over-the-head and a strong "no" for palm-up-over-the-head.
And for all of you awesome people who haven't quite got the hang of energy testing, I'm with you! I was terrible at energy testing for a really long time! Probably because I was trying so hard to do a good job—being historically an over-achiever, I definitely started out trying to "do it right" rather than being neutral and curious.
Fortunately, there are some easy "tells" that your polarity is off. Does your brain feel fuzzy? Might be polarity—rub a spoon on your foot and see if you feel better. Are you walking into the doorframe instead of through the door? Try a spoon. Did you spill coffee grounds all over your kitchen and hit yourself in the face with the carafe while you were filling the coffee machine? For Pete's sake, try a spoon. You're already in the kitchen!
A second way to correct polarity: “Scout’s Honor to Collarbone Tap”
Another way to correct polarity was shared to me by an Eden practitioner, but it's not part of official training and I don't know why it works. Try it for yourself:
Make the "Scout's honor" symbol with both hands
Cross your arms over each other and tap the "Collarbone" points from the EFT tapping chart (left hand to right collarbone point, right hand to left Collarbone point, tapping with the three extended fingers)
Repeat the tapping, but switch which hand is closer to the body
And then retest your polarity!
If there is any area of your life that is stuck: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual — and your polarity is off, you are not bringing the full power of the AA battery that is you to your situation. Please check your polarity often and correct it, if it seems to be an issue for you!
At minimum, it will give you fun stories to tell your friends who do regular things.
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