You are spirit and you can command unlimited energy. Your reality, your experience of life, is your creation. It is possible to consciously control all the energy in your reality to create the life experience that you want. To harness and control your abundant energy, you must focus it. You have the most control when your energy is focused in and around your body. Have you ever used a magnifying glass to focus sunlight to start a flame? The principle is the same with your spiritual energy. When you are focused in your body, you will ignite your spiritual power. You can focus and control your energy through visualization.

The first technique is called “grounding.” Grounding is an ancient technique used in meditation traditions around the world. Grounding will focus you. Grounding is a technique that helps you to consciously be present in your body, to consciously bring your spiritual, energetic self into your body so you can focus on your reality here. Grounding is the most important technique in manifesting yourself as spirit in your body. Grounding incorporates your spiritual nature into your body. It is the foundation technique for all other techniques. Grounding is how you turn on your spiritual energy, like plugging in an appliance. It’s simple.

RELAX IN YOUR MEDITATION CHAIR. STRAIGHTEN YOUR SPINE AS MUCH AS IS COMFORTABLE. CLOSE YOUR EYES. TAKE SOME SLOW, DEEP BREATHS.

BE AWARE OF THE ENERGY CENTER NEAR THE BASE OF YOUR SPINE.

This energy center is called your “first chakra.” It contains your information about the physical world. You are a spiritual being who is not limited to the physical world. However, since your body exists in the physical world, it is necessary to use this energy center in order to function and create in the physical reality.

VISUALIZE AN ENERGY CORD THAT ORIGINATES AT YOUR FIRST CHAKRA AND EXTENDS ALL THE WAY TO THE CENTER OF THE PLANET.

Create a shaft of energy that starts at the base of your spine and beams to the Earth’s core. Allow this beam of energy to pass through everything material (the chair, the floor, the soil) and attach the shaft to the point at the center of the planet.

Do not use effort as you create your grounding. Just get the idea that the cord of energy is there. The instant you visualize a grounding cord, it exists. It is effortless. You have just shaped some spiritual energy to form your personal grounding cord.

SECURE YOUR GROUNDING CORD AT BOTH ENDS.

Play with your idea of grounding. Imagine that the cord is firmly attached at each end. By creating the idea of a secure cord, you strengthen and enhance your picture of being grounded.

That’s all there is to it! You are now grounded. You create your reality through your beliefs and concepts. You have created the concept of the grounding cord, so now you may continue creating your reality through your belief in being grounded. When you ground, you consciously create a link between your energy, your body, and the planet.

One of the functions of grounding is to anchor you as spirit into your body. When you are grounded, you improve your ability to pay attention to your body. In other words, your are more present, more alert. When you are anchored, you are less likely to drift in your thoughts. You are better able to stay focused on your present situation and circumstance.

Now let’s take some time to validate what you have experienced with your grounding connection.

TAKE A MOMENT TO NOTICE HOW YOU FEEL NOW THAT YOU HAVE ESTABLISHED THIS GROUNDING CONNECTION.

Be still and be aware of any nuance. Do you feel different in any way? Do you feel a physical sensation when you ground? Does the idea of grounding alter your awareness in any way?

Think of at least one new thing you experience, now that you are grounded. Is your body more comfortable with you there? Is it emotional or afraid? Allow your body to feel the grounding. Verbalize, as best you can, your body’s feeling.

Grounding makes body and spirit real for eachother: your spiritual nature becomes real for your body, and your body becomes real for you, the spirit. Rather than feel disconnected, body and spirit will begin to experience eachother when you ground.

Generally, grounding makes your body feel safe because your body knows you’re there, it knows that you are connected to it, alert, and in control. Because grounding focuses your energy into your body more strongly than you have been aware in the past, you become more aware of yourself and of the energies you are using.

You may find that your body is excited to have you home. Or you may find that your body is angry at you for having neglected it. Or perhaps you feel nothing and are operating purely by concept rather than feeling. Whatever the response, acknowledge your body exactly the way it is. With practice you will certainly develop a physical awareness of being grounded.

TELL YOUR BODY OUT LOUD THAT YOU ARE TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE.

By reassuring your body about your conscious presence, you inform it and make it feel safe and comfortable.

Your body is the instrument you use to create in the physical world. It takes time to master the instrument. The instrument is of little use if it plays its own song (like a skip in the record, or maybe an out-of-control bagpipe!) Your body will not function properly if you allow it to be the one in command. For your spiritual purpose, you must harness and be senior with your body. You must give your body direction or else it will wander though life aimlessly or with struggle.

Grounding puts you in control of your body and your reality. Now that you are grounded and in charge, you are able to work in harmony with your body. You are also able to adjust your instrument’s “strings” to play in harmony with each other. In other words, you can make improvements and alterations to your body and personality. When the instrument is tuned, the music can flow through it.

In order to bring your desires into physical creation, you must dwell here on Earth, not in your fantasies. Bring your fantasies right to your body and into this earth to let them grow here. You might compare your desires to seeds. Your seeds are loaded with potential, but they do not develop unless thay are planted. Grounding helps you plant your seeds firmly into the physical world. Your grounded presence adds light and nourishment to your seeds so they may grow to completed expression.

Just as plants root into material soil, people can take root in the “spiritual soil” of planet Earth. Remember that the energy center near the base of your spine determines how you relate to physical reality. In fact, sometimes the first chakra is called the “root chakra.” When you ground your energy through this center, you organize your energy to work and succeed in the physical world.

NOTICE HOW THE PLANET RESPONDS TO HAVING YOU CONNECTED TO IT.

Be aware of the influence you have in the world when you ground to the center of the Earth.

NOW DISCONNECT YOUR GROUNDING CORD. ALLOW IT TO FALL AWAY OR DISSOLVE. HOW DO YOU FEEL NOW?

Are you as focused when you are un-grounded? Are you as much in charge? Verbalize the difference in your experience when you are un-grounded compared to when you are grounded.

CREATE A NEW GROUNDING CORD.

Practice creating new cords and letting go of old ones. Practice the experience of both groundedness and un-groundedness. This way you improve your awareness of the grounding connection, each time bringing your body more of a physical sensation. You can let the whole grounding picture drain away and create a new one. That way you know it’s there, strong and clear.

DISCONNECT YOUR GROUNDING ONCE AGAIN. GET UP AND WALK ACROSS THE ROOM UN-GROUNDED.

RETURN TO YOUR CHAIR AND CREATE A NEW GROUNDING CORD.

NOW GET UP AND EXPERIENCE WALKING AROUND GROUNDED. BE AWARE OF THE DIFFERENCE IN YOUR EXPERIENCES.

FEEL HOW THIS EFFORTLESS GROUNDING CORD STRENGTHENS YOUR ENERGY AND POWER.

RETURN TO YOUR CHAIR.