Centering or grounding yourself spiritually is what I consider one of the most important things for spiritual growth. This practice helps bring peace and harmonious forward movement. I’m stuck thinking about this so much today because my mother’s partner is ill, so ill that they’re being taken by helicopter to another hospital in another state.
While receiving this information, I felt myself disconnecting and becoming logical and eager to push things forward, to know what’s next, and know what steps I need to take if I have to prepare for the worst. I found myself not processing my emotional side, believing that I can feel it later, knowing being emotionally upset wouldn’t do any good. However, there isn’t much personal good to be had from disconnecting from myself and handling everything so clinically. It’s ideal to be in a central space that allows for care and love for myself and others.
This holds in not only the big and impossibly life-changing situations but even in the mundane day-to-day. Being spiritually centered helps carry me through everything, it helps me work on myself and to be open to my higher self.
Being spiritually centered helps carry me through the long drag-on kind of days, the ones filled with seemingly unstoppable bland anxiety. The kind of days when I’m not wanting to solve small tasks. The kind of days that I just can’t figure out how to tackle. All of these days are what spiritually centering myself helps me with, the big and the small struggles that life brings me.
Grounding myself spiritually helps me from making so many mistakes. I don’t knock as many things over, I don’t drop as many things, I don’t close myself in as many doors or any other gawky situations I can manage to create for myself. After spiritually centering myself I’m more coordinated and peaceful because I’m living in the moment. My attention is no longer wandering to other parts of my life. I don’t need to rush myself ahead because I have called myself back to the here and now by centering myself.
One of the beautiful parts about spiritually grounding myself is that it can take many forms. It could be meditation, yoga, journaling, using grounding stones, going for a hike and listening to the sounds of nature, drawing, or any combination of things that really bring me back to the moment. I ground through the things that allow me to see my body, my space, my mind.
Part of the spiritual journey is finding yourself through spiritual grounding. It’s finding out what does spiritually ground you and then meeting yourself through that grounding, through that spiritual centering. In this space, we find a balance between our self-love and the love and support we bring to others.
