Grounding and shielding yourself

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How often do you do it for? Every day? Every time before you go see people? Every time before talking to entities like guides and deities? How long do you even do it for? How long do shields last? Lots of people talk about grounding and shielding, but I don’t see a lot of specifics surrounding it. How do you personally do it?

Discussion

[NotTooDeep]

This is how I ground. The refresh cycle for this style of grounding is inherent in the practice. It’s easy and fun, so you’ll be more likely to practice it enough to make it second nature.

Shielding is no longer a practice I use because this grounding takes care more most of what comes my way. I do use a separation rose to help me be aware of the edge of my aura. This is important because we can get spread our to thin and that makes the body feel less safe.

Try this. Sit in a chair. Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Feet flat on the floor. Hands separated and resting palms up on each thigh.

Create a grounding cord. This is a line of energy that connects your first chakra to the center of the planet. Your first chakra is a ball of energy about the size of a quarter that sits just in front of the base of your spine. Your grounding cord attaches to the bottom of that ball of energy.

Grounding makes your body feel safe, so you release energy more easily. Gravity pulls whatever you release, even your own energy, down to the center of the planet. No effort on your part. The center of the planet neutralizes the energy and returns it to whoever owns it. No karma for anyone. A virtuous cycle.

Nearly everyone goes to connect to the center of the planet the first time but stops at the soil, often making roots like a tree. This is a method that is taught in some martial arts styles, but it is not the best option for your spiritual development and healing.

So, notice the seat of your chair. Take a deep breath. Notice the distance between the seat and the floor. Now notice the distance between the floor and the soil below. Breathe.

Now notice the distance between the soil and the water table underneath. Notice the distance between the water table and the rocky mantle. Notice the distance between the mantle and the molten core below that. Deep breath.

Notice the distance between the molten core and the center of the planet. That ball of light at the very center of the planet is where you connect your grounding cord. Deep breath.

Say hello to the center of the planet. Do you get a hello back?

Notice the color and texture of your grounding cord. It may look like a line of energy, or look like something physical; a rope, a wire, a pipe, a tree trunk. Adjust it as needed to be in affinity with your body.

Getting this far means you’ve already released some energy from your aura and body. Now it is time to fill in the space that was created.

Create a gold sun over your head. Have it call back all of your energy from wherever you left it throughout your day and week. Work. School. Online meetings. Video games. Your fantasies about your future. Your regrets about your past. Wherever you’ve placed your attention. Just watch the energy come back and see if you notice where it came from.

Have the sun burn up and neutralize your energy. Then bring the sun into the top of your head. It will automatically flow into the spaces you created. Create a gauge to measure when you’re full. Like a fuel gauge or oil gauge. You’ll run better if you aren’t a few quarts low on spiritual oil. If the gauge doesn’t read “Full”, bring in another gold sun.

Open your eyes, bend over and touch the floor, draining any tension from the back of your neck, then stand up, and stretch.

There is a progression with this technique. After grounding for ten minutes a day for a week or two, notice your grounding cord at the very end, while you’re standing with your eyes open. Continue to ground with your eyes open and standing, and bring in another gold sun. Each day, increase the amount of time that you ground standing up with your eyes open.

After a week or two practicing this, add walking while grounded. Just notice your grounding cord as you walk. Say hello to the center of the planet while you walk. Bring in a gold sun while you walk. If you lose your grounding cord, stop walking and recover it. If you have to, sit back down and close your eyes and create a new grounding cord.

After this, you’re ready to take your grounding cord with you into your daily life. Shopping. Getting coffee. Wherever you go, you can ground. This, combined with a little amusement about seeing new things on an energy level, will keep you safe and sound.

Now that you’re here, at the end of your grounding meditations, create a gold sun over your head. This time, fill it with your highest creative essence, your present time growth vibration, and your affinity for yourself. The first energy is a healing for you. The second is a healing for your body. The third is a healing for your affinity in your fourth chakra.

Bend over and touch the floor. Stand up and stretch. If you’re ready for more, sit back down and ground some more. Otherwise, have a nice day!

Note that every image you imagine, the gold sun, the grounding cord, the center of the planet, your first chakra, your body parts, is exercising your clairvoyance. You may be imagining what your tailbone looks like, but you’re also creating the image of your tailbone and reading its energy. This is practicing your clairvoyant ability.

[cndrow]

I ground-center-shield every morning before my feet touch the floor. I then can renew my shield through the day if I need to, but that’s only if I run into some truly nasty people

But I forget sometimes, so I have a list of conditions that I have to ground-center-shield before I do it

This includes but isn’t limited to: spirit work, any divination, any deity work, going out in public, having a panic/anxiety/PTSD attack, getting on social media

I am a medium, so it’s incredibly important for me personally to have protection 24/7. So I do this daily, I can’t afford many mistakes

[everydaycarrie]

I don’t actively shield myself unless I sense I am in danger. Rather, I set the parameters of my shielding such that I am always *automatically* shielded from harm.

Basically, I set and hold the intention that my shield raises on its own, with no required effort from me, the instant I am in danger. AND, that it is always, automatically stronger than any attack leveled at me.

The reason that I don’t actively shield, is that I am usually actively trying to cause things to happen in reality and the shield gets in the way.

The only time that I ever ground myself, is if I am trying to effect something within the earth’s own energy field.

[stuartduke1618]

I was taught how to ground in my first coven, golden cord, connect to Gaia, all that, but it never worked for me and it took me a long time to figure out why. Now I ground myself by leaving my body and going to the astral location of my home “planet”. From there the steps are basically the same, ending in immersion and partnership with the entity there. My “shielding” practice is to use an adaptation of the luminous egg concept that Don Juan discusses, filters things automatically like a firewall. Then I create a spatial/emotional anchor out of all that and create a mental sigil and set it to run as a lower level sort of daemon. It took me decades and lots of experimentation to figure out how it worked for me.

[Melodic-Beyond-1894]

Having knowledge of self, and then building & standing on a foundation of truth is the true way of grounding & shielding yourself. We live and experience life through our minds, therefore your mental temple must be fortified with knowledge & wisdom, to know what thoughts & ideas to entertain and which to discard. One who is centered within their temple will be hardly affected by external forces unless they “choose” to be. Your will is your greatest defense against all the nonsense & confusion that will be thrown at you in man’s world of ideas. Know thyself, and know what brings you peace & harmony. Use those findings to create your mental temple and use your will to demolish anything that comes against you that is untrue. This is the way

[tallone925]

I try to shield pretty frequently (at least once a day) whether I’m alone or in public since things are indeed crazy right now…