Grounding To Recalibrate (And Disrupt Overwhelm)

In this 7-minute audio, we slow down and connect with the actual facts. We use our senses to connect with the present moment, and in doing so we are able to connect in simple ways with the elements of which we are comprised: earth, fire, water, and air. This allows us to be established in Being.

Transcript

Candles and if you don't have a candle that's fine no worries maybe candles and cats is how we're going to start today typical and yeah if you don't have a candle that's fine you can use mine on the screen or you can imagine we have these amazing imaginations you can imagine a candle or you can just bring your attention to something of this moment so again we use candles to help us be here but there's lots of things that can help us be here including holding rocks and holding hands or just yeah feeling our butts so with where our eyes open we just take a moment to look around our space the space that we have chosen to be in and we say that purposely because our reptilian brain likes to know that we are in choice and 99% of our life we are in some choice we just kind of forget but we can be in choice so we let our cognition slowly take a look around to see that we are in safe places of our choice of our choosing we're on we're sitting on safe objects including stable floors stable beds stable chairs etc and we really look to see if that's true we don't just take it casually we can map it we can map it the the actual factual experience that my body our bodies are sitting upon stable stability so we're letting our brains know this our brains and therefore our nervous systems and our beings know that we are sitting on safe ground so to speak in a room that it has no danger in it we can again verify that looking around taking our time this is a practice of self-love to regulate our brains and nervous systems and to take the time to let our brains and our cognitions map the actual factual that we are not in danger in this moment and we can afford to take a longer slower exhalation as we continue to arrive here in this moment the eyes may stay open they may close you may still be holding your handle candle you may be putting it down and we continue to bring ourselves into simple presence by honoring and acknowledging what comprises our being in four simple ways we honor the breath that's moving through our bodies air we can do this experientially this is an experiential welcoming into our moment the air that we subsist upon breathing our bodies the element of fire I can feel warmth somewhere from head to toes we know intellectually that fire is jump-starting our hearts with every beat we may not feel the heart beating but we can feel warmth somewhere head to toes maybe it's in one of my favorite locations of armpits maybe it's in the knee pits maybe it's somewhere else for you in this moment so heat is here thank goodness coolness may also be here so right we exist in a dynamic realm in this moment we're just honoring this element of heat comes from the Sun and other elements that make up our composition we also welcome in water we know intellectually we are about two-thirds water but beyond intellect we can connect into the actual factualness of our water composition and however you do that experientially is up to you you might feel a sense of fluidity moving through your body through the substance called blood but you might just feel water in your mouth so however you most simply and actually factually connect to the element of water just taking a moment to do that experientially and then we come back around to the element of earth which is where we started we can feel our bones sitting in this field of gravity very simple in this moment we connect to the element of earth through our flesh through our bones that allow our being to be here in this moment and as you're doing this at home again maybe later you listen to this or you practice this throughout your day just taking a few minutes to re-establish yourself in being and we are comprised of these four elements this is not fantasy this is not conceptual this is actual factual in the moment and so we can use this practice throughout our day to regulate to get our brain and nervous system back online and our hearts back online to this moment so giving thanks for these elements that comprise us and comprise all existence in this present moment we'll then take a take our time and letting the eyes softly open and coming back to screen