Conflicts of Balance... Ways of Being

I have been reflecting on the year so far as we come into the last months. The year started out very powerful for me. It has only been a couple years for me since my "Spiritual Awakening" and the first year came with a lot of physical, mental and emotional purging. This year I was very much in Third Eye and Crown Chakra energies. I have found myself lately sort of burnt out and confused. A little lost...

I've always had a hard time staying grounded, between being an empath, psychic and probably about the most anxious person you will meet. I finally had discovered some tools to help me feel grounded and centered. For a long time I was trying all the traditional grounding meditations but meditations always make me drift to Spirit. That defeats the purpose. Sitting under trees helps but sometimes hard to make enough time for. Imagining Tree roots can work but I have to be in a state of stillness even before I picture this. What finally helped was when my Reiki Master/Teacher taught us "The Song of Rising and Falling Hands" which is mainly about breath work. It goes like:

Slightly squat with hands cupped under the belly, take a deep breath inward and as you do, pull your cupped hands to heart level. Flip the cupped hands over and breath out as you push them back down under the belly and repeat.

These two things in conjunction really work for me, along with some other tools and self care that I learned in Reiki. I also found that I am able to ground through crocheting!! So don't be afraid to find "Your Thing"... and the funny part about that is I only started after I inherited my grandmother's crochet needles when she passed. I wanted to honor her.. but I only know a couple stitches!!

Energy work is delicate balance. All things are. You have dips and rises and also have to be aware of the light and dark aspects of yourself and always working to achieve a state of balance. Everything is connected.

I have come to the awareness that you can bounce back and forth from connecting to spirit and grounding and you can bounce back and forth from the state of 3D life to a state of Higher consciousness... and also you can live in a modern, busy world or city life and occasionally bounce back into nature or country life but what about that middle grey area? That is where you need to find the true state of balance. We have to stop living in the one or the other and find ways to intermingle and integrate all those energies into our days.

I am yearning for a new way... but an Ancient way too. I want to open myself up to that old way of seeing the animals, trees, rocks, elements as my brothers and sisters and teachers. I want to recognize the subtleties in all of life's moments and connect it to the greater picture. What comes to my awareness is that perhaps I have not been "earthed" enough. There isn't enough "wild" in my day so in my practice of grounding my energy to earth and raising my vibration to spirit, I want to make sure that I feel fully immersed in the magick of everyday. I feel like I have come a long way with this but I still see myself as separate. I want to be grateful for the sacrifices of plants, animals, the earth and people and send that appreciation out into the world and be connected to everything.

It is easy to become separate in the world we live in today and take advantage of natural things for our survival. I think it is important to see all things as energy and remember the parts and pieces that are moving that get us the things we need. We need to Shift into a new way of seeing, hearing, feeling and Being.

Pretty soon I am going to take some Shamanism courses that my Reiki Master/Teacher also teaches and hopefully will get back into that Ancient way of really truly living and integrating soul and body.

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