The Healing Power of Grounding, Uplifting, and Opening

The Healing Power of Grounding, Uplifting, and Opening

Healing arises when we awaken our embodied living, grounding ourselves on the earth, uplifting into space, and opening to our sensory and felt experience. Then we can move, act, and respond  as a reflection of our inner experience, our ability to care for ourselves, transform stress, and be present. We can tune into the experiential reality of grounding, uplifting, and opening ourselves, through awakening and exploring our sensory-movement dynamics, which are expressed in our living anatomy. 


 The Natural Elegance of Joining Heaven and Earth

 Visualize a tall flower or a stalk of grass in a breezy field. Their elegance comes from rooting, grounding in the earth and moving, uplifting in response to space. We can awaken these same abilities in ourselves, connecting with the earth - touching it through our feet, releasing our weight to the pull of gravity and receiving its support. Thereby we can uplift into the spacious, vast environment, and open to all the energy that passes all around and through.  Attending via stabilizing, mobilizing, supporting, balancing, energizing, perceiving, engaging, giving and receiving, moment by moment, awakens naturally elegant embodied presence. 


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  1. AliciaDecember 3, 2023 at 11:05 AM

    Thank you for these thoughts.

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  2. JoanDecember 13, 2023 at 5:05 PM

    You are so welcome, dear one! I appreciate you commenting!! May it be supportive to and for you.

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