Written by Hybride
Grounding is a form of energy manipulation where the transfer of energy comes from an outside source, through your body and down into the ground/earth. It is a way of relieving energy overload especially, but it can be used in recycling energy (ie: taking negative energy, removing the negativity and releasing positive energy), protection and healing.
For a psychic vampire especially (where the grounding base is based off of; take a look at the original at “The Psychic Vampire Codex” by Michelle Belanger) the point was to feed off of the energy, recycle/filter the negative (and “eat” that), and send the rest back to the ground/Tiamat/nature. However, you can use it when you’ve been under a psychic attack (especially an energy overload), around negative people (though this may be more psy-vampy than for the normal human), or just want to help Nature out (you’d be surprised how much it helps!) This has many a time spared me migraines (yes, real physical migraines) when my Third Eye or Crown chakra was overloaded.
This is an excellent way to start learning how to manipulate energy, filtering out negative/positive, and generally, if you get attacked, instead of dissipating the energy, you can “eat and hold” it and send the rest to the ground. General grounding is the base, and I’ve included the several ways you can mod this meditation for the specific event. Each time you do a separate event, make sure to start with Grounding and then go to the rest of the desired meditation.
Grounding (Base)
A side note: area does NOT matter; INTENT does. Where you are holds no restraints, where you tell the energy to go does.
Begin by choosing somewhere comfortable to stay in. This can be in your room, outside, on a plane, in a garden… there’s no limit, as long as you are comfortable.
Sit, stand, be a pretzel, lay down choose a position you are comfortable in. I generally choose standing up, but you can sit in a chair as well, as long as your feet are flat on the floor. If you are standing up, hands at your sides; if you are sitting down, hands flat on the arm rest, your lap or whatever, just be flat. (If you are laying down and your intent is to send the energy to nature, then make sure some part of you is touching something else, ie: the wall of the house. I find that this helps the energy travel faster.)
Close your eyes and breathe through your diaphragm, focusing on your breath (that means, your chest should expand, not go vertical).
After you feel comfortable and at peace, follow whichever meditation variation you would like to do.
Grounding (Filtering)
Filtering is a way of taking out negative energy specifically from the air, and feeding your body with the positive. You take the rest of the energy that you’ve manipulated into either positive or neutral, and send it to the earth. This is more apt for psy-vamps, but with practise, anyone can do it. You are like a sponge here, so be careful – don’t take in more than you can handle.
As your breathing fills you, imagine breathing in energy. Positive or negative, whatever you like, have it start move down each chakra slowly.
As it passes each chakra, imagine taking out the positive energy and feeding your chakras with it. Link each chakra together with this positive energy with a thread or a tube, and see the positive caress each chakra and each corresponding body part (ie: crown = top of the head, go down to the Third Eye = forehead, down to your throat chakra, etc). As each part the energy passes through, see your body turn white (or whatever colour makes you happy or chakra you are focusing on).
Slowly, until each chakra is filled and you feel your entire body uplifted, when you reach your Root chakra, move the energy down your legs and to your feet.
When you reach your feet and see/feel your entire body full, send the rest of the healthy/pure energy into the ground. If you are inside, will it to go to the earth, saying something like, “I will this energy to go to the earth”. Imagine the energy travelling out your body, down your feet, and into the ground. If you are outside, it is done. I generally feel/hear a response afterward, and you may, too!
Grounding (Filter Healing)
Use this with someone else or with yourself. Basically, you feed through your hands the energy and filter out the energy. This is a method of healing (and for a psy-vamp, feeding). As a symbiot, this works extremely well for both host/helper, since it helps heal/reinforce the chakras and feeds the vamp.
Become acquainted with filter grounding. When you are good with that, find someone who is willing to be used as a helper. (You can actually ask Nature if she may allow you to borrow a plant or some sort of seed, etc. Go to a tree if you want and ask permission if you may work on filter healing on it. It works just the same, and helps heal Nature, too!)
Humans
Have the helper sit or lay down comfortably (and tell assure them nothing bad is going to happen if they are worried.)
Much like filtering, except this time use your hands. Follow around the outline of the aura of the helper and see if you can find any negative energy around them.
When you find negativity, use your hands to transfer the negative energy and follow the filtering process. Again, you can send the energy back into the earth, however, what I like doing is returning the positive energy to reinforce the helper’s chakras. How I do this: when the energy goes to my feet, I send the healthy/good energy back to my hands and into the chakra little by little.
Nature/Tree
In the case of a Tree, sit or stand comfortably in an area close to it, where you can touch the bark if needed, though preferably the roots.
Like humans, each part of Tiamat/Nature has an aura to it, from the Tree to the seed to the animal. With your hand, feel the aura around the Tree. You can choose to find negative areas and work on that or directly place the energy into the roots, and the Tree will disperse it on its’ own.
Reassure the Tree that you’re there to help (yes, they can sense you/talk/hear you), and slowly “feed” the energy from the Tree through your hands. Filter the energy through you until you feel it is clean again and/or all negativity is removed.
After filtering, direct your attention to a negative area or the roots, and slowly release the energy through your hands and back into the tree. Release all that you removed, and a bit extra if you can. Thank the Tree for allowing you to be able to use its’ energy.
Grounding (Energy Overload)
Use this if you are feeling you have way too much energy within yourself or your chakras.
Focus on the specific area or chakra that has an energy overload. You can tell by the chakra overreacting, compression or pain in that area.
When you have found the area, much like filtration, imagine the energy from the area becoming released. What I do is see it exceptionally bright and releasing much more energy than the other chakras, like the sun versus stars. With this, I start rotating the chakra in a circular motion and move it faster and faster until the chakra stops spinning by itself. When it does, it releases the extra energy.
After this you can do two things. The first is you can move the extra energy into the earth (simply focus on it travelling down your body, down your legs and feet to the earth). The second is focusing that extra energy into and under active chakra to balance it. Whatever you feel is necessary!
Grounding (Psychic Attack)
During a psychic attack, you really don’t have much time to think what you’re going to do with the energy. The energy from the attack generally lingers around your system if your barrier is down or broken. You can actually use the attack’s energy to reinforce your own barrier or send it to the earth as it’s happening (with some practise!)
Practise the Grounding Filtration. The point of a PA is to send negative energy to you to break your barrier (or your chakras if your barrier is down). You can follow it through exactly or to enhance your barrier, follow the next step:
When the energy goes down to your feet, instead of sending it to the ground, fuse it with your barrier. See the energy moving from the bottom of your feet into your barrier and surrounding it, reinforcing it like steel. You can also see it moving from each of your chakras and into the barrier.
With enough practise, you can actually filter through your barrier to reinforce it. The barrier becomes an invisible exoskeleton for you, and when any negative energy comes toward you, you can “feed” through it. Normally this would be good to have your strongest chakra control the barrier, however, I find that if you focus a part of all of your chakras to create a barrier, then you have less to worry about if one fails. (And if you get attacked, you have less worrying about an overload since all of the energy will be fed semi-equally to every chakra.)
You may meditate now or go back to whatever it is you were doing. Be careful the first few times – your system may be a bit wobbly especially if you have never filtered before. Negative energy may still linger, and you may feel a little sick, but in practise, you will get through it.