Deepening Your Meditation

On your journey to heightening your psychic awareness, you will learn to be more in tune with your own energy and the energy of those around you. Through daily meditation, you will soon find you are able to quiet the mind chatter surrounding you and focus on sensing energy vibrations from a person or place.

Rule number one is if you wish to be more sensitive to psychic energy, you need to set yourself up to be aware of energy, it is that simple. Everyone has his or her own distinct vibrational pattern and tones.  Some people are tense and static with a high-pitched tone, while others are slow and thick with a tone that is low and dull.  You are already picking up on this and may not even realize it. Imagine for a moment you have your back to the open doorway.  Someone walks in the room and before you turn to see who it is you will already have a feeling about who it is, the temperament they are in and whether this brings a pleasant or fearful emotion to you. Through practice you will be able to distinguish the different vibrations more accurately and quickly.  Just as everyone’s vibration is different, you may find there are certain aspects of a person’s energy you pick up on more easily than others.

Energy patterns are a moving force, which intermixes with your own swirling energy. Have you ever come home really tired from the mall or other areas where there were large gatherings of people? Besides being tired from the activity there, you are also weary as a result of being in contact with other people’s energy. Sometimes this creates a very pleasant feeling while other times it is almost smothering. After time, both will become cumbersome and draining, clogging your own energy flow and forming holes and dark spots in your aura. That is why it is important to learn to read other’s energy patterns mentally without absorbing them emotionally. Should you find you are emotionally tired after being around or in conversation with someone, you have no doubt had your energy drained. Be careful that you are not a psychic vampire yourself.  Have you ever been down in the dumps then found yourself around someone very energetic?  Within a short time you have absorbed some of that energy and feel so much better. That is good for you but how did you leave them feeling?

The purpose of grounding is to calmly drain yourself of excess energy, thus keeping your perceptions clear, creating balance physically, mentally and spiritually.  By becoming relaxed you ease physical discomfort and help to avoid emotional explosions.

There are many methods of grounding:

• Touch the ground and if weather permits, do so in your bare feet so you can feel the earth beneath your feet.
• put your hands into the earth and feel the pulsing of the energy of the earth itself.
• Focus on putting your excess energy into the earth where it will be transformed into positive energy.
• Working with clay is also another way of grounding yourself.  Molding the clay for at least an hour will help to relieve stress and again send energy to the clay.
• Any activity that uses your hands in a creative way is very grounding.  Painting, baking, cooking, sewing are all ways to creatively ground yourself.
• Putting your hands and mind to work by de-cluttering your drawers, closets, painting a room, refurnishing woodwork or organizing your books are all ways of draining yourself o f excess energy and bringing balance back into your life.
• Remember as a child how you liked to lay on the grass and look at the sky?  You were recharging your body by getting in physical contact with the earth’s energy.
• Literally hug a tree, take a walk in silence just observing all of nature around you.

Crystals are excellent grounding tools.

Some common ones for this purpose are hematite – also helps people with addiction problems because it stabilizes emotions, obsidian (volcanic rock) – blocks energy and is good for hypersensitive types, people who pick up too much energy and are too concerned about other people, fluorite – good for grounding and balance and is calming to the nervous system.  There are others and you may already have one you are drawn too and feel calmed when you carry it with you.  By simply holding a crystal and imaging the unwanted energy going into it you will find yourself feeling more peaceful. Remember to clear your crystals from time to time to release excess energy they are now holding.

• Deep breathing is a fast and effective grounding technique. It is our built in stress buster.  Take in a long, slow, deep breath through your nose and slowly exhale through your mouth.  Do this a few time until you feel the muscles in your body relax.
• Visualization, especially when added to the above deep breathing exercise, will deepen the state of relaxation and grounding even further.

Try this grounding exercise which combines the deep breathing and visualization. This is a good way to begin your meditations as well.

• Close your eyes and take five really deep, long, slow breaths in through your nose and exhale slowly through your mouth.
• Now breath at a pace that is comfortable for you, just be aware of your breath’s gentle going in and out.
• Imagine your feet are on the ground and you can see roots growing out of the soles of your feet.
• These roots go deeply into the earth until they reach the centre of the earth itself.
• Imagine a large black onyx there and the roots of your feet wrap themselves around this beautiful stone.
• Now you breathe in deeply and you draw up the energy of this stone into your body, filling you with the calming energy of the earth.
• Allow this feeling to fill every part of your body.
• Continue to repeat breathing up the earth’s energy until you have a feeling calmness about you.
• Open your eyes feeling more focuses and relaxed.