Everything is electricity. Everything is energy
The reason some of us like rocks and crystals so much is that they have a “grounding” effect. I tend to feel more calm and centered around pretty looking authentic rocks. I like looking at them just as much as I like holding them in my hand - I can feel how the different colors and textures affect my mood and emotions, even when I don’t physically have them with me. But this article isn’t about how awesome crystals are – it’s about how they are not always necessary, and that other healing modalities follow the same logic that crystals do.
It’s easy to get swept away by the novelty of rocks once you find that they resonate with you.
A lot of rocks originated deep within the Earth and took a significant amount of time and energy to be created. The contrast between a human like me who has spent the majority of my life in “fight-or-flight” mode - feeling the energy of a rock that has spent innumerable years steadily growing and evolving is enough to think “Wow, this crystal is doing something good for me”. Hence the “grounding” effect.
I realized recently that grounding doesn’t require a certain tool or process. It just requires attention, intent, and consistency. I went for a walk on the beach barefoot for the first time in a long time, and had an unexpectedly intense and productive “grounding” experience. I had a lot of energy around my head that was orbiting and causing me unpleasant thought loops.
As soon as I spent a few minutes barefoot on natural sand, listening to the waves break, I felt the rogue energy around my head moving into a downward pull into my lower body.
While spiritual work is marketed as relaxing and pleasant, I have found that the best “grounding” sessions are where I am able to clearly feel uncomfortable energy that isn’t completely under my control – the energy I want to “ground” and get rid of. As I was walking on the beach, I really started to feel and hear the unpleasant thought loops going through my head. I was genuinely uncomfortable.
But when I put my shoes back on at the end of my walk, I felt this huge sense of relief. I knew that something significant had happened – that some sort of energetic release had occurred during my walk on the beach. It was that little bit of extra awareness that got me into the habit of periodically returning to the beach by myself to walk barefoot and quietly listen to my thoughts.
Over time I began realizing that these grounding sessions would cause a short but noticeable “contraction” period in my emotional body. I would feel unpleasant emotions and hear unpleasant thoughts as I walked on the beach – A magnified sensation compared to what I usually think and feel. But I realized that that particular experience on the beach was a manifestation of my emotional body purging rogue programs (thought loops) that I didn’t need. I always felt “lighter” toward the end.
If you are reading this article you are probably in a stage of spiritual development where the more “traumatic” growth and expansion experiences in your life are coming to a close or being ironed out. Now your development has more to do with digging deep within and releasing things that you might have missed the first time around. And these releases are important because they clear leftover energetic debris, give you more agency over your consciousness, and allow you to channel more energy, and feel more in control as it manifests.
I have found that this basic grounding exercise has made me more willing to feel and release uncomfortable emotions that I have been carrying around with me. It has also allowed me to more consistently experience dramatic increases in my vibration. Properly grounding yourself can be the difference between feeling ecstatic when an expansive energetic shift happens, versus feeling nauseous or feeling like you are going crazy if you have all this new energy, but haven’t ironed out the energy you have that still needs to be grounded.
It’s very easy to lose track of how grounded you are if you are not consistently making a conscious effort to ground yourself. You start getting used to thinking the same repetitive negative thoughts and feeling the same negative emotions – and they can quietly become your new “baseline” if you are not paying attention and being mindful of your energetic state.