How to ground yourself for Meditation, Often during meditation, you have presumably experienced one or a significant number of these normal encounters: a drifting mind, weariness, or what’s referred to as the ‘monkey mind’. In these encounters, your contemplations are not, at this point coordinated toward the meditation of the mind but centered somewhere else.
This is being ungrounded and it can make you angry with yourself and lose focus on your meditation exercise.
What is grounding and why is important?
In meditation, ‘grounding’ alludes to the capacity to get into the current state with constant attention and focus. For instance, during meditation, your mind focuses on your breathing for roughly 10–20 minutes.
Grounding is an allegorical term for quieting your brain and getting conscious of the current state. Grounding is divided into 2 general classifications;
• Being fully present and create a connection with your body; takes you away from past or future thoughts giving a soothing sensation to your nervous system.
• Having a full connection with the earth; makes you conscious of the force of gravity that keeps you on your current resting surface
In general, grounding prepares you for meditation. It helps you focus, relieves anxiety and stress during the meditation session hence a successful practice.
Grounding techniques
These techniques will help to connect to both your mind and earth.
• Monitoring the mind drift away
Monitor and be conscious of what is going on in your mind. Without the knowledge of your straying thoughts, you won’t be able to fully prepare for meditation with the grounding techniques.
At the point when you lose focus and your thoughts drift, do these:
i. Note and acknowledge the drifting.
ii. Your loss of focus and thoughts drift is normal. Appreciate this and don’t judge yourself but rather stay positive.
• Focus on an object of core interest
For constant grounding, identify an object to purposefully coordinate your attention and focus toward. The object can be something in your mind and not necessarily a physical object.
This can be your breathing, your body, or an outside inducement. The inducement you choose relies upon the surroundings and the sort of action you are engaged in.
• Scan your body
When scanning the body, you deliberately direct your attention to all your body. For instance, if seated, you may zero in on the areas of your body that connect with the ground or the seat. Then direct your focus on the other parts of the body. This should be possible in a methodical manner like checking your body from your toes to head or by following your sensations.
• Listen in on and follow your breath
Keep your attention and focus on your controlled inward and outward breath. Count each breath you take. The technique simple, however, it is shockingly tricky!
Start by moving your concentration to your breath, breathe in for three seconds, and afterward breathe out for three seconds.
Following these techniques keenly will ground you to the meditation session and hence, a successful practice.