Getting grounded
How the practice of earthing, and getting grounded back in nature, can even out our whole being when the stress is all too much.
By Andrea Marcum
Blame it on the full moon, your astrology, the vata (dry, crackly, flightiness) in your Ayurvedic constitution, aggravating forgotten passwords or impossible traffic…there are just those times when you’re desperate to exhale and get grounded but it seems impossible to catch your breath.
Know what I mean?
Scrambling in the stratosphere of scheduling, hexed by the helium of hustle, we gasp for air, searching for a drop line that will lead us back down to earth…to our centre…to Source. How do we get our feet back on the ground and stand in our true nature? How do we breathe our way back into balance?
In yogic philosophy, prakriti means ‘nature’ and it addresses the basic nature of the universe’s intelligence and function. Prakriti is all the stuff your soul bumps up against while you’re here on earth. It’s what Indian yoga master and author Sri Swami Satchidananda calls your ‘universe-ity’.