Spiritual Awakening, Depersonalization, Staying Grounded, Energetic Chakra Balancing and Meditation

The number one issue that people approach me about is how to ground themselves after going through a significant spiritual awakening.

Today I’ll speak about what this all means and share a few of the ways I ground myself after going through my own intense awakenings that haven’t been talked about much elsewhere.

As we walk the spiritual path, we are likely to experience periods of being ungrounded.

What does being ungrounded mean?

It means not experiencing energetic balance across our entire system, within our entire body, across the whole chakra system.

As we go through different spiritual awakenings, we can have a lot of energy up in our Crown chakra, in our head. The symptoms of this can be things like:

Feeling loopy, extremely anxious, lightheaded, depersonalized, DP/DR, experiencing Zen sickness or emptiness sickness, detached from our body, from the world, without purpose, prone to spiritual bypassing, sharing incoherent ideas about spirituality, neglecting self-care and our worldly responsibilities, and insomnia.

We can mitigate these difficulties by grounding ourselves.

To understand these ideas more clearly, you only need to know about 3 chakras, or energy centers.

Root. Heart. Crown.

Most people’s energy is in their Root chakra. They are living in a very mundane, animalistic way, concerned mostly with survival. They have no real sense of spirituality, the Divine, awareness, consciousness, and so on. They are in fight or flight, very often.

They feel a strong sense of separation between themselves and the world, and therefore they feel constantly threatened. The solutions to these problems are to accumulate resources and play offence and defence.

When we begin the spiritual journey, we begin to move out of being predominantly in the Root, and we can experience some energy moving upward toward the Crown. This is when we begin to experience things like, expanded awareness, oneness, connection with the Divine, feeling spacious freedom from the body and the mind, enlightenment, and all those great things.

However, if we are only in the Crown chakra, neglecting the Root, we become ungrounded, and that’s when we experience all those challenges that I mentioned such as feeling detached, rambling about spiritual things, neglecting our worldly responsibilities, and so on.

So the aim of the spiritual journey is to find balance in the Heart center, in the middle. We want to have our Crown open and active, and experience the spacious awareness of Divine consciousness.

But we also want to embody and honour our humanness with a clear and properly functioning Root chakra too.

This is what it means to be spiritually awakened and grounded. It’s from this place that the journey is comfortable and we’re not either stuck in fight or flight or in a complete state of spaciousness like a spiritual airhead.

So how do we ground ourselves?

Well, it’s really easy. I’ve actually written a short, completely free ebook with an audiobook all about this. It’s called The No-Nonsense Grounding Guide: Principles and Practices for Staying Energetically Grounded. Completely free. Scroll to the bottom of this page to find it.

I wrote that book because like I said, it’s the most common issue that people approach me about and it’s something I’ve dealt with very directly on my own journey.

The book covers all of this in more detail. I highly recommend that you read it if you’re struggling with being ungrounded.

There are some things that I’ve been doing lately, to stay grounded, that I have not mentioned in the book, so let me share with you.

Firstly, I eat meat. I eat a steak practically every day. Cap on, nice and fatty. This keeps my body from floating off into the ethers. It gives my stomach something to digest, which keeps my energy within my body instead of going excessively up into my Crown.

High protein, high-fat diets help with staying grounded. I know there are spiritual ideas out there about not eating meat. I get it. I’ve experimented with all kinds of diets. They all have their benefits. But eating meat isn’t going to halt your spiritual development.

I’ve used my own system as a science lab. For 3-months, I consumed only red meat, salt, and water. I felt great. I was having spiritual experiences, and my meditation was very deep. God didn’t smite me. I introduced some carbs again, because I don’t think eating just meat is sustainable long-term, but it was an interesting experiment.

Animals are perfectly grounded, energetically. They don’t get caught up in all the wacky spiritual ideas that we do as human beings. When we eat meat, we benefit from their groundedness on an energetic level.

The next thing that I do is exercise 2-3x a week, I lift weights, heavy but not too heavy. I used to power lift a few years ago. I experienced great energetic benefits from it.

But lately, I lift less heavy and make sure that I push my body. Hitting my legs is especially important to bring awareness to the lower half of my body, honoring it as much as I would my Crown, for example.

Spirituality has made me neglect my body at times. I’ve had experiences where I realized deeply that I wasn’t this body, that it was just a meat suit. I found ineffable peace and bliss in meditation when I left my body. But I realized that it’s not just a meat suit. It is as Divine as anything else.

Being willing to struggle, sweat, and push the body a bit has been so beneficial for staying grounded.

I also spend time in the sauna and take cold showers. More ways to challenge my body and to feel something deeply.

In the warmer months, I spend time outside, in the sun, and in nature, too. All of this helps a lot.

Another thing that I do is keep track of my money. In Sanskrit, the Root Chakra is called the Muladhara. Moola. Money. Survival.

Sometimes on the spiritual journey we can get ideas of non-attachment and overcome greed, and suddenly money becomes an enemy, a sinful, dirty thing.

We can get ideas and fantasies of living off the grid in the forest, living in a utopia where all we do is barter, and so on. These ideas are nice to contemplate, but practicing them is very difficult.

And if we become too averse to money and too attached to spiritual hippie ideas, we can become ungrounded.

And I’ve been there. I spent a few years manifesting my way through life, circumnavigating money altogether. It was fun. But not fully sustainable. I wasn’t grounded.

So now, I make sure that I don’t neglect my finances. I monitor my saving, spending, and investing, not in a greedy way, but in a responsible way that honours the society in which I live, which functions on money.

I prefer to also use cash when making purchases. Holding the money in my hands is also grounding and a reminder that I am making a physical exchange when I spend it.

Today, everything is digital. We can spend and even earn money without even seeing any proof of it. This can make us feel less grounded, less aware of our resources for survival.

Remember that first, there was just exchanging physical goods, then it became valuable things from the earth, like gold and silver. Now it’s just made up of credit and debt that doesn’t really exist.

I also earn money by using my body, hands, and skills. Keep this in mind also. If your job is not very physical, that’s great. But that means that you should incorporate some recreational physical activities too.

Another way that I stay grounded is by keeping company with grounded people. I don’t talk about spiritual hippy stuff in my personal life. That’s pretty much limited to my role as Brent Spiri online.

In my personal life, I speak about worldly matters with worldly people. I don’t mean this in a condescending way. I mean that I make sure to relate with other people, as human beings in bodies, having worldly experiences.

I used to only talk about spiritual stuff. It was fun and useful for a time. But eventually, I just kept floating off, and nobody was around to ground me.

Now, I keep my spirituality to myself and live as a human being in a body, in my Heart center, balanced.

So those are a few things that I do to stay grounded that I haven’t discussed too much before.

Overall, the general idea is simple.

Get back in your body and recognize that the material world is just as Divine as spacious consciousness and awareness and all that ethereal mystical stuff.

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