Psychological grounding is a process with the intent to bring you back to the present moment. Grounding meditation and living in the moment involves an extensive array of techniques that use energy as healing and grounding meditation practice.
Psychological Grounding Techniques
Psychological grounding is a practical stress management technique that is used to keep people with PTSD or dissociative disorders dialed into the present when they are having flashbacks or dissociative incidents.
While this form of meditation does not prevent flashbacks or dissociative experiences, it can help keep the person rooted in reality and make it easier to come back or help the negative experience pass more quickly. Psychological grounding will aid your mind if you find that it often drifts into the past or future, and periodically closely grasps the irrational or if you are skilled at imagining an unreasonable outcome to a situation.
How to do a Grounding Meditation
Simple Grounding Meditation
- Find a quiet and safe time, free from distractions.
- Take time to notice your breath. Follow your breath and really listen to each time you inhale and exhale. This can happen while doing an activity, just don’t close your eyes!!
- Pay attention to your breath. Focus on the here and now. Be one with everything in touch with your body
Full Grounding Meditation with Guided Imagery
- Find a quiet and safe time, free from distractions
- Begin the meditation by focusing on your breath. Follow your breath, take your time to breathe in and out.
- Listen to your breath.
- Sit or stand so your feet touch the ground and take deep breaths, feeling the air movement throughout your body.
- Imagine being rooted down to the core of the earth, almost like the root of a giant Sequoia.
- Imagine all of the sounds, sights, and smells of the outdoors, while walking barefoot. Feel yourself sinking, taking each step into the soft, mossy grass.
- After the refreshing walk, grounded to the earth, feel refreshed.
- Pay attention to your breath. Focus on the here and now. Be one with everything in touch with your body
- When you slowly open your eyes, there will be a newfound stillness in your mind.
Grounding Meditation Helps with Irrational Thoughts
Grounding meditation is a technique to use when you find yourself getting into a pattern of overthinking. When you include a form of grounding meditation into your life, expect to keep your mind tethered to the present, rather than running away into an unreasonable, irrational place.
Alongside Grounding Meditation
As you include grounding meditation into your mood management routine, make certain to achieve balance utilizing the Wellthy Mood Journal and app. Visit moodwellth.com for more information.
