Grounding in simple terms is getting rid of heightened or excess energy in the body and cleansing our energetic field, allowing clean, fresh energy to come through.

When we ground ourselves, we’re neutralising and soothing our emotions and feelings. 

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From an early age I have been able to read energy from objects (psychometry), people and most often places. This can be incredibly draining and it’s important if you’re the same to work on your – for want of a better term – spiritual/energetic hygiene. Whether that’s reserving a specific crystal for when you go to places that energetically affect you or cleansing rituals when you have been around certain people that drain or affect your energy.

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I’m a qualified mental health practitioner and you can image, or may know, it’s a terribly challenging job for an empath. At times, I still find it difficult to even be around the people who vibrate on a more elevated, trouble-free frequency just because of that complete sensory, vibrational energetic overload. I crave alone time where I’m free just to feel my own vibrations, not absorb everyone else’s energy, good or bad, and let my mind be still. 

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For this, I find if I can get outside alone in nature (or at least with my dog because she helps everything!), to the beach or the woods, this helps diffuse the fuzziness the other stimulation causes, our local churchyard has also often been my sensory saviour at times.  

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A good salt shower to clear the energy physically and watch it release down the plughole helps. 

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Keeping a good, soothing playlist (I always have one on standby on my phone). Put your headphones in and allow it to be just you and the sounds for ten minutes. Connect with your breaths and keep them still and steady.

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Burning garden sage and lavender is grounding and clears your energetic field. 

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Cleansing with sound, such as a singing bowl can help centre and clear your energy, as can breathing exercises.

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You can always have a nice hot drink and a biscuit, on your own and thinking of nothing except the task in hand.

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Meditation is a great tool to centre, especially if you're feeling overwhelmed, but you can often need to properly ground after as you can become so relaxed and often a part of you can still be in a blissful state somewhere in the universe, so I would always recommend a grounding technique after meditation.

Make sure you can have a toolkit of soothing, grounding actions which can help a sensory or vibrational overload. This will always help before performing any kind of ritual or spell work. I normally always start mine with burning herbs to cleanse, sound cleansing with a bell or singing bowl, and a salt shower.