THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING GROUNDED FOR THE SPIRITUAL SEEKER (PART I)

Article by Kelsey O’Toole

When all the money is drained from your account unexpectedly, what do you have left? You've got your body, your breath, and the ground beneath your feet. Is this enough?

This is everything! You want more money? You want a deeply satisfying sexual reality? You want to radiate a sense of security that is a service to the community around you? Please oh please tap into the simple pleasure and fear-free safety net of the Mother, of the Earth. (I’m begging myself right now too.)

Is this easier said than done, or easier done than said?

Perhaps we have gotten away from our innate intuitive ability to be tethered in the healing, heart-opening, magnetism-heightening energy of our planet because of our culture’s turn towards words and logical left-brained analysis and rational understanding. The powers of security we are looking to channel here are better communicated in poetics as they operate in the realm of subtleties. In our culture, we want obvious, and we even dissect the abstract driven by our craving for security… security that might maybe come from knowing everything? No.

Take a moment here and sit up straight. Drop the energy streaming from your tailbone through the layers of materials between you and the Earth, penetrate the ground and keep going deeper deeper, your grounding cord is deep within the core of the planet and has a golden brick on the end that swings in a balanced rhythm back and forth, back and forth. Leave this brick here, swinging, and travel back up the cord and into your body.

Okay, hi again. There exists in our current day reality the propensity of people to intellectually relate to concepts and not necessarily embody them. Grounding is becoming more and more of a mainstream word (hooray!). However, if we do not have a visceral muscle memory of how this feels in our body, then it may be awfully hard to find even when you’re trying, let alone in the pinch of a high sensation moment when you really really need it.

Extraordinary Folk Unite

All of us definitely have one thing in common - we started life in a womb and that womb was lodged inside the abdomen of a body representative of the feminine power of creation - the Mother archetype. While we were floating and growing exponentially, the umbilical cord nourished us, it fed us, and our whole world was warm and we felt continuously held. This sounds like security to me:

● suspended in a dream-like state,

● living in a highly expansive environment able to hold us as we transform,

● we have everything we need,

● tethered to something bigger than ourselves,

● and constantly embraced just because we exist.

So, I’m going to say the security we all seek as adults is defined to be:

● non judgment,

● basic needs met including connection,

● room to grow,

● and a dream come true.

Practicing Womb Alchemy

The word Mother comes from the word Matrix, meaning “container”. Container is one of three things required for an alchemical transformation to occur. Alchemy is to change one substance to another through a seemingly magical process.

In this conversation about security (that is undoubtedly synonymous with any conversation about money and or sex /// aka POWER) let’s say that we would greatly want to transform any amount of fear-based feeling that arises as quickly and totally as possible into love-based feelings. Naturally.

So, in our alchemical equation of magically creating security (aka magnetism of money and fulfilling relationships in general)

● item one, we have our substance to be transformed: fear.

● Item two, we need energy: an active practice, and

● item three, we need our container: the womb, or the equivalent unconditional love, acceptance, support, and nourishment.

The energy is built through an active practice, an investment of our willingness to return again and again to consciously accessing the container in order to transform the substance. The container we are accessing with our focused attention is that unconditional love feeling of life in the womb, of the archetypal Mother, of the Mother Earth, of the I’m-absofuckinglutely-held-feeling of laying on the ground and just breathing until all your worries disintegrate.

Opening Up

For security’s sake we want to consciously connect with the visceral physical-mental-emotional experience of being one with everything.This is the jist of actually living in unconditional love or non judgment. We must root ourselves in the collective so that we can soar as an individual and be of greatest service. We ground ourselves for both material wellness and spiritual expansion. We ground ourselves into this Earth that holds us all, that is the womb we all share. This creates equality.

Security comes from equality, it is equally available to every person on the planet, but we get confused about that thinking money and love are available to some and not others and this defines our beliefs about security and we continue to compete.   FRIG.

(continued in The Importance of Being Grounded for the Spiritual Seeker - Part II)