What is Grounding?

The feeling of contact between the feet and the ground is known as grounding.

This denotes a flow of excitation through the legs into the feet and ground.

One is then connected to the ground, not “up in the air”’ or “hung-up”.

To be grounded is another way of saying that a person has his feet on the ground. It can also be extended to mean that a person knows where he stands and therefore that he knows who he is.

Being grounded, a person has “standing,” that is, he is “somebody.”

In a broader sense grounding represents an individual’s contact with the basic realities of his existence.

He (or she) is rooted in the earth, identified with his body, aware of his sexuality, and oriented toward pleasure.

These qualities are lacking in the person who is “up in the air” or in his head instead of in his feet.

Grounding work involves getting a person to “let down,” to lower his center of gravity, to feel closer to the earth.

The immediate result is to increase his sense of security. He feels the ground under him and his feet resting on it.

My work with people always start with the basic, with grounding, with a deep "hello" of person to his or her body and to the reality of being here, on earth, on the ground, as a soul that chose to become alive in a body.