In healing, what is "grounding"?

Question

I've grounded to plants in the past.

Blessings

Peace and Love

Answer 1

Grounding means retaining charge during healing. Some people attempt to do healing, but get carried away, or get absorbed into the energies of the person to be healed. Healing is a flow of energy. Basically, you are trying to displace negative energies and replace them with positive ones. Grounding means that you are well capable of discarding any negative energies (usually through your feet into the ground, hence "grounding"), and that you can maintain a good flow of the positive energies into yourself and/or the recipient.

In the broader sense being grounded also means that you are a level headed person, not easily knocked off your feet by emotional pressures, or unexpected events. Being well grounded is also conected with sound physical health.

You should keep your head in the sky, but your feet firmly on the ground, to be an effective healer. Yes, plants and in particular trees, can have a very good grounding effect on people who love them.

Answer 2

Grounding is a way to center yourself and focus yourself before you do any thing else. It is also a way to disperse energies that don't belong to you, and to keep you anchored and connected to Mother Earth. When you feel "flakey" or "scattered" would be examples of when is a good time to do a grounding. Grounding is also protective, by being anchored to the earth, and dispersing energies that don't belong to you. A protective exercise that I like is to go to a tree, and sit at the base of it. Become one with the tree, feel your spine aligning with the trunk. Visualize that you are sending "roots" of energy out from the base of your spine, into the ground, and feel your roots mingling with the roots of the tree. Visualize sunlight entering the leaves of the tree, coming down the trunk of the tree, and entering your spine at the top of your head. Feel the sunlight move through your entire body, feel it lighting every cell, and if you sense any areas of darkness or dis-ease in your body, mind or spirit, focus some of the sunlight there, and feel the sunlight driving any areas of darkness, and any energies that are not yours to the roots at the base of your spine.
Ask the earth to take care of these excess energies, to cleanse them, and make them into healing energies, and send them wherever healing is most needed in the world. Feel the sunlight concentrate at your heart. Feel it emanating from your heart, and surrounding your aura in a bubble of light. Around this bubble visualize a bubble the color of smokey quartz, that seals in the sunlight for your use and healing, and seals out and protects you from energies that don't belong to you. Get up, face the tree. Hug it, and thank it for helping you in this healing ritual. It is good also, to offer the tree a gift for it's help, such as a bit of water, or fertilizer. It is done.

Answer 3

Um, yeah, OK, sure, what ever.
Grounding is putting conducting ointment under the patient and sticking him or her down onto the terminals before cranking up the electroshock generator for their treatment. You have gone through that, I am guessing but just don't remember it. (a minor side effect)

Answer 4

grounding is making sure that you are aware you are you
so that you do not take on the ailments of others
being aware of your own body and where it is , so that any pain you may experience can be recognised and dismissed
grounding can be done with simple visualisation excersizes
i personally dont feel the need to though ... but each to their own