Hi, I'm just sharing and surrendering in this space...
Grounding has been my mission statement since starting this course (and for a while before that). Interestingly, I've found that learning surrender has been the key for me to unlock the mysteries of grounding!
Prior to enrolling in FST, I had just completed a phase of my life of experimenting with being a spiritual practitioner. I was engaging in many hours (4+) of practices and meditation each day, and it was all getting so tiring and frustrating. Enrolment in this course was perfect timing, because I simultaneously had this clear insight that all my efforts and practices were self centred, strengthening the ego, adding momentum to it and taking me in the opposite direction. I also realized that I needed to drop all the practices I was doing and even stopped meditating, which was a big thing for me. For a while I struggled with it, part of me wanted to go back and practice for a little while longer!
I'm really grateful for this course because it provided me with the right framework and a supportive environment that enabled me to establish a surrendered mindset. What's interesting is that during my time spent engaging in spiritual practices, it was like playing cat and mouse with my spirituality, K was shy and sleepy and didn't want to play. Shortly after I gave up (and really felt it), stopped trying and caring, goddess responded. The serpents emerged from the heart centre and opened up these channels through my ears (ida/pingala?) that went through my head and connected down into the sides of my body and down into my grounding channels. This was strange to me as I didn't think that channels through the ears were supposed to do that, but anyway (surrendiring my ideas)... Its like I was given some extra grounding channels, feet burning most of the time since then, energy feels more evenly distributed, less in the head and more peace than what I was experiencing before. Thankyou Goddess for the boost in my grounding!!
I started out with some reservations around the grounding practice, because I has just dropped the concept of practicing and really didn't feel like doing another practice. However, something inside me insisted that I stop thinking about it and just do it! I don't think of it much like a practice anymore, as Mystress pointed out, its the natural way the energy is supposed to flow or like the natural way to breath...
My experience with the grounding exercise started out with lots of burning which has mostly died down, apart from my feet (mainly) and ass (surrendered the burning). Feeling sky energy more now, it doesn’t feel like regular chi or sky energy to me that is unintelligent or devoid of emotional content. It feels very moving (in a peaceful way), like descending love and peace, its beautiful! It’s defiantly assisting me to ground deeper. Anyway, I'm just beginning to feel my way into this and it will be interesting to see how things evolve.
I'm also getting these Kriyas in my lower Jaw, like muscles tighten and clenching of teeth during my sleep, sometimes jaw aches. Surrendering blockages in throat centre. Also, surrenderring my flu!! Thanks for listening :).
Need to surrender this and share it as well since something unblocked only one day after my post. Coincidence? More like Magical Goddess blessings...
I was lying in bed this morning resting (in flu recovery mode) when I felt that K was welling up in my chest and pushing up into my throat again. This is not unusual, but I've had a constriction in my throat for a while and its never been able to fully get through.
However, this time was different. I drifted into an altered state and noticed that K was somehow being disturbed by my breathing, so I held my breath for a while...
That did the trick and the serpents gently made their way up through my throat centre (don't know where the blockage went?), continued up to the crown then down to the third eye and connected into the grounding channels from there. Felt the energy of three channels flowing up and funnelling in at the third eye.
Then I just lay there for a while (still in altered state) observing the new circuit, serpents doing laps, like a pulse going round and round, its was fascinating....Birthing of a new K puppy!
Seems that everything is flowing more freely now so the stream can tend to all the plants. I'm very grateful for this, its such a great blessing to share this space. Thankyou for this magical temple of Shakti charged healings...