Self-Care Before Screen-Time: Grounding Ritual For Creators

Long hours at a computer can leave us feeling disconnected from our bodies and the natural world. As a filmmaker, I’ve developed a morning ritual of stepping outside before looking at my phone, placing my bare feet on the Earth, and consciously connecting with the morning around me.
In this practice, we’ll visualize the energy body extending into the Earth and toward the Sun, creating the image of ourselves as a bead held securely upon a cosmic thread. It’s a simple invitation to begin a demanding day from a place of connection rather than distraction.

Transcript

Being a filmmaker, There are occasional days when I have to spend in same hours on the computer. And yesterday was one of those days. It was at least 12 hours. And I've been doing this for. . . 10 years full time. So I want to tell you how I take care of myself while I have so much time invested on the screen. Lately, I have been grounding every morning, First thing. I try to do it before I even look at my phone. I put my bare feet on the ground and now I can feel the dew. And there's something magical about the dew. More than magical, It's sacred. It feels like a replenishment. From the earth. Doing this grounding exercise, I can really feel the gifts of the earth like that. I can tell that the Earth. . . Loves me and wants me to live. I can feel the earth holding me. Embracing me exactly as I am. And I feel held like that. I feel held by. Something bigger than me. Something greater than me. I can. Take that grounding exercise to another step and feel my energy body. Stretch. Remove. Downward. Until I'm anchored all the way in. And now I really feel held, Now I feel secured by this loving embrace from below. And I can also. . . Reach my energy body up. Through the sun. Even though the sun is physically over there. Me personally, I stretch my energy body straight up, All the way up, And I anchor myself there in the sun. There is a sun coming over the horizon over there, And I can see it. Literally stretch my physical and energetic body in that direction. The eastward direction. It doesn't have to be that way though, Because I'm imagining now, And I'm having a spiritual experience through that first necessary step of imagining, And I'm anchoring my energy body into the sun. I can even take that a step further. I can anchor into the great sun. I can anchor into the Great Central Sun. And I can feel how. Each of these and I'm like a bead. Stretched on a string and I feel Secure.