Do you sometimes feel like a soap bubble??
Ah, anchoring… Now there’s a concept that’s hard to understand (and that has a way of making people defensive).
But it’s just a hint, not a reproach, not a judgement, not to be taken personally, give yourself time….
Even if you think it’s common knowledge, or even that it’s your job, take the time to read,
- whether it’s to understand those who don’t know what you’re talking about
- because you can always learn in other ways
- but also because to be anchored is to be anchored 100% of the time, naturally. If you need your garden, your yoga… to feel better, it’s precisely because you’ve realised how important it is to have a foothold, but that it still needs to be maintained or perfected.
“The more we need nature, the less we have of it within…“
What anchoring is in 3 pictures:
- Let’s start with some electricity: What is the purpose of an earth connection?
No electrical circuit without an earth connection! The purpose of an earth connection is to provide an escape route for any excess electricity, to prevent short-circuits and circuit-breakers…
And what about us?How many nerve impulses are there in the human body, this gigantic electrical network? Don’t you think we also need a way out, a connection to the ground?
2. A second image, the anchor
The anchor allows the boat to stay in the same place through wind and tide. Water always symbolises emotions… And our emotions are our waves – we even have a wave nerve!
Secondly, being anchored is great, but being anchored 100% of the time stabilises your whole life! A boat that’s anchored 70% of the time (that’s you during walks, sleep and yoga, for example), isn’t in the same place the next morning…
3. Compare this with the effect our connection to nature has on us…
I’m sure you’ll understand: RECONNECTION and STABILITY, among other things.
Being anchored means being electrically connected to the ground, so that your energy is constantly rebalanced!
But why shouldn’t we be anchored?
It’s either a physical shock or a psychological shock that makes us disconnect. It can also be a lack of sleep, conflict, etc. It can also be all kinds of interference (biological, electromagnetic, endocrine disruptors, etc.).
In Chinese medicine, there is a meridian known as the “Governor Vessel” meridian, because as a good governor, it determines our ability to find our way through life. And this meridian can be unbalanced in various ways, particularly in the case of intestinal hyperpermeability (Leaky Gut).
Finally, it’s easy to understand that intuition, to be accurate, needs to be nourished by reliable elements… Hence grounded!
How can you tell?
The opposite of anchoring is the SOAP BUBBLE MODE
Most of the time, you don’t even know why right away, but you feel like a soap bubble! Things don’t fall into place, don’t run smoothly, the coincidences aren’t happy, you feel like you can’t manage anything, or can’t count on anything.
Or maybe… it’s illness or an accident that throws us for a loop, all the more reason to try and understand before anything happens, and definitely not wait for that option!
You feel… Like a soap bubble floating around without knowing where to land.
No one can control it, nothing can touch it, nothing can hold it, and above all, nothing can be built on it. And when you’re a soap bubble, you can shine a lot and seem to be in great shape, but it’s as if you were on credit, as if you were on holiday… At some point, you have to fall back.
Do you feel… Like a satellite leaving Earth’s gravity… Like a telephone without a signal… Like a radio without an aerial… Sound familiar?
Why get grounded, Why anchor yourself?
Everyone feels closer to nature. Everyone knows that.
The idea is to achieve the same connection, the same stability BUT without moving from your desk, your bed, or even in a traffic jam or on a plane.
Unbeatable for putting a sick child to sleep or calming a tantrum (in this case, the adult does the breathing exercises with the child in his arms, or with one hand on him). Some patients say, “It’s as good as an anti-anxiety pill“. Anchoring yourself is the best way to :
- be more intuitive and make your life path easier! The vision you can have when you’re a soap bubble with no anchors is frankly not the same as a global, stable, anchored vision…
- increase concentration and manage stress, by no longer feeling alone in the world but protected by a common set of rules, which helps you to let go.
- Do the right thing. Not just for ourselves or for someone else, but a real win-win situation.
- to communicate together, when we speak a common language
- so that not only homeopathy but all other healthcare interventions can develop their full potential.
How to?
First, if you need to, imagine a bright, wonderful place where you can send all the negative energy that clings to you, so that it can be recycled into beauty, harmony, strength, flow, joy, …
Then there are a huge number of anchoring techniques, and everyone needs to find their own. I suggest you start with the first technique. Either this exercise suits you, and you adopt it twice a day at first, or you move on to something else. Be creative!
- Breathing techniques (20-30 cycles, 3/day for 2 weeks then as needed)
Take root like a strong tree, or maybe just a shrub to start with, see what comes to mind.
- close your eyes and concentrate on the soles of your feet
- As you breathe out, imagine yourself growing roots as deeply as possible.
- As you breathe in, imagine drawing all the nourishing energy from the earth, as a tree would, until it develops branches, beautiful leaves and flowers that shine in the sun.
- As you do so, try to imagine the roots getting bigger and bigger, and to visualise them in ever greater detail.
But you can’t ask a hyperactive child (for example) to make the tree! How about an animal then? Here’s something even more fun! Animals are well-anchored, well-connected, even though they don’t have roots. They know where to eat, where to go, when to sleep… without a book or a coach!
The best thing is to take the ones you don’t like or don’t understand, and imitate them, read books about them, talk to them about them… The butterfly to learn about transformation, the night butterfly to find light in the dark, the hedgehog to protect oneself, the jaguar to learn focus, the elephant to get over obstacles, etc. Book on the way for more.
lying on the floor, review all the support points (not just the parts) of the body, imagining their weight and their contact with the floor
one after the other, imagine breathing in the colour corresponding to the 7 chakras, which enters and leaves as air would, via their respective chakras.
2. Lifestyle
Any activity WITHIN nature
- gardening
- hiking
- Forest walk Shinrin-yoku style, which means “forest bathing” : use all your senses to encompass the connexion…
- Not just jogging through the woods in fluorescent outfit and loud earphones, even if that’s a good start.
Walk barefoot in the garden, even (especially!) in cold, wet weather.
The horse is always right, and it’s sometimes easier to reconnect with the ground via the horse…
Swimming, thanks to the obvious cutaneous sensory stimulation, and massages too, when they’re done with this in mind.
Yoga. Yoga helps you to be more present to yourself and your connection to the ground, and in return, grounding helps you to benefit fully from the exercises (and discipline) of yoga.
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- Prithivi Mudra, the gesture of the Earth (Prithivi in Sankrit) and rooting, performed by lightly pressing the thumb and ring finger together, the others outstretched, index and middle fingers together; hands on the thighs or knees. It amplifies breathing in the pelvic region and helps to anchor the body.
- Bhumi Mudra to take the Earth as witness, index fingers pointing vigorously towards the ground, other fingers folded.
- With the 2 hands together: Muladhara Chakra Mudra, the basic gesture: middle fingers folded at the second joint, the others extended and touching. It directs the breath towards the pelvis (where the 1st chakra sits), anchors, stabilises and rebalances.
Qi Gong, Tai-chi, Danse, Chant, Hoponopono (which means ‘to recreate the universal order’ in Hawaiian), …
Read Peter Wohlleben, Jane Goodall, J-M Pelt, …
3. And finally… Because it always seems easier to take something:
- 12 Schuessler salts, better known as “mineral salts” (often, when you need vitamins, this is what’s missing)
- Gemmotherapy (take the bud to understand the roots and the connection, feel the tree and its wisdom from the inside, do not exceed one drop per day per year of age)
- Essential oils (on sound advice only AND as a vapour AND IF you love the smell: Mandravasotra or Helichryse first and foremost, Vetiver as in perfumes, …)
- the art of perfumes…
- and finally our discovery, Aelia®, to close the door on parasites and therefore heal the abdominal barrier, stabilise the Governing Vessel, and anchor us much more easily, once and for all, so that all the exercises mentioned above are a pleasure and not a necessity.
Above all, remember that soap bubble mode is contagious, even epidemic…
And that the best exercise is always the one you do, and the one you enjoy doing!
PS: Step 1 is Grounding, Step 2 is Alignement …