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On Spiritual Grounding

16 Saturday May 2020

Posted by AjmaniK in energy, meditation, nature, practice

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electricity, grounding, potential, resistance, witnessing

The the longer I sit here, cross-legged on the floor, the deeper and deeper the fog gets. It feels like it is now at the window, knocking on it, asking to be let in. It is as if I have come awake at one of those hill stations in India on a Saturday where the morning cup of tea on the porch, watching the fog do its magic, is a rite of passage of every summer vacation.

And yet, amid the fog, I feel grounded. Grounding. Yes. Connection with the earth that reminds us that gravity is what keeps us attached to this planet. Without gravitational force, we would all be like the fog, floating, simply existing in suspended animation. Actually, gravity is what keeps the fog hugging the earth too. It is perhaps evidence that suspended animation needs gravity and grounding too. In that way, fog is a bit like electric charge.

I think of electric current as the flow of potential across resistance. Potential, in order to do its best, useful work, seeks closure. It seeks to return to its source, the power plant from whence it originated, by the shortest distance possible. It can only achieve that ‘return to source’ by finding ‘ground’ or being grounded.

Did you ever wonder why every structure or device which flows electricity also includes a path to ground it? It’s a safety mechanism. In the absence of such a path for (excess) current, electricity and its surges would fry our electronically devices, our toasters and refrigerators, and even our homes. Electricity behaves badly when it isn’t grounded. It resorts to short-circuiting.

Humans are electrical beings too. This means that grounding is essential for us to make best use of our potential. Most of the external inputs fed to our senses raise the energy of our electrons. Their internal potential rises, and if their energy doesn’t find a path to ground by the discharge of that energy, they change state. In a sense, our electrons, and we, get short-circuited, suffer burnout or permanent (negative) change without regular grounding. The result is emotional, mental, physical, spiritual ‘crackling’ within us. We become ‘noisy’.

The solution? Give the electrical surge a path to ground. Develop a practice of inner grounding. Where may we begin? During the weekly Zoom chat this week, Sharon shared her deep ‘grounding experience’ when simply sitting by a campfire. Yes. The simple act of putting down our armors, our pros and cons, our devices, can quickly bring us to the grounding that we intrinsically need.

What is the result? Osho describes the experience of inner grounding as ‘becoming the witness’. Grounding will help us simply listen — to birdsongs and waterfalls and partners — without interpreting. Grounding will let gravity do its work on us, as we let it hold us and hug us. Grounding can allow for our inner current to find its way to the heart’s playground, and uncover the path for the heart’s current to flow into us in return.

Over time, with regular spiritual grounding, a lightness of flow will emerge within us. The humming of the divine song will become our constant companion. The song divine will lighten us so, that we will float our way home, listening to its melody.

Ready to try experience grounding? Consider it as a four step process.

We gather our best energies to build up our potential. We ground the inner electrical circuit to source. We recalibrate our resistance by regulating our inputs. We then watch, be witness to the flow of the inner current.

We can do this. Let’s begin. Let’s meditate.

Kumud

P.S. Join the #SpiritChat community in our weekly twitter gathering, Sunday May 17 at 9amET. Some say that it is quite a unique, even a grounding experience. I will play host with some questions – but I mostly show up because it is an excuse for me to drink tea and eat cookies! Namaste – Kumud

P.P.S. In the time that it took me to write this post, the Sun emerged, the fog cleared. It’s a brilliant day. And all I had to do was to sit and watch, be witness.

Yellow Flower above ground

The Joy of Relaxation

28 Saturday Feb 2015

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In physics class, we were taught the basic principle of electricity – for a given “potential” (voltage), the amount of current that flows through a “circuit” is inversely proportional to the amount of “resistance” in the circuit. The practical application of this principle can be felt in many areas of lives, if we view our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies, each as interdependent “circuits”. An increase in the amount of “resistance” in any one of our “bodies” will add to the overall resistance of our holistic electrical system, and hence reduce the amount of “current” that is available to us…

So, why is this analogy of “life-current” important? We can view our “life-current” as that energy which comes available to us on our life-journey. Yes, some of us may have more or less of latent, unrealized potential. However, regardless of the amount of potential we may have, that potential can only be manifest when a certain amount of “resistance” is encountered by us in our daily lives.

Too much “resistance”, and our potential manifests as lowered life-current ~ this can decrease our dynamic ability to work, to live, to love, and to experience Joy. Too little resistance, and we tend towards very high life-current ~ this can eventually overload of our life systems, where we develop the typical “Type A” personality, and eventually “blow our fuses” or “burn out our circuits”. The good news is that we have the ability, through our daily practices, to monitor our “internal resistance”, and modulate it to produce the amount of current that we need in a given moment for the task at hand!

How do we monitor our “internal resistance”? A first step is to become observers of our thoughts and emotional patterns. The triggers that increase our “inner resistance” are often the well-known culprits – too much attachment, greed, jealousy, anger, lust, stress and so on. We feel our life-force slipping away, our attitude tends towards negativity, and we start seeing all that is wrong with our world. The good news is that we can counteract these resistance-raising culprits by cultivating our Joy-giving friends – compassion, friendliness, empathy, empowering action, simplicity, equanimity and inner peace.

When we carry our inner-peace with us in an unruffled, steady, relaxed physical, mental, emotional and spiritual state, it manifests a balanced, optimal life-current for us. Relaxation restores balance in our lives, when we learn to enjoy it, make time for it, take Joy in it. With so many tools at our disposal, including the ever-present availability of nature, we perhaps need to make the “Joy of Relaxation” a priority in our lives. What do you think? Do you make time to balance your “inner resistance” create Joy in your life by making time and space for relaxation? Do you do this on a regular basis, like brushing your teeth in the morning? Or do you do it on a “time available” basis? When you do relax, how do you know when you are truly, deeply relaxed?

If you have read this far, I invite you to come share with is in our “relaxed” weekly chat on twitter in #SpiritChat on Sunday, March 1st 2015 at 9am ET. Share your favorite relaxation tools and practices, so that all of us in the community can learn from you and create more Joy in our lives.

In closing, I hope that we find Joy in the knowing that there is an opportunity to relax in every breath 🙂

Namaste,

Kumud

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