50+ Body Grounding Exercises for Your Well-Being
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The personal cost of being ungrounded
When we're ungrounded, we are walled off in the head, and separated from the full aliveness and sensory immediacy of life. We are deprived of the promise of a life of full aliveness.
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When we are not grounded, we live in the head, out of touch with our bodies, feelings, and the world. It's as if we're living through a film of ceaseless thoughts or a brain fog that separates us from others and life. The world can be too much with us as in anxiety and stress. Or, we can be too far removed, living in a fog, dissociated.
Do you feel spaced out, zoned out? Or out of touch or removed from life? Perhaps you feel like you're living in a dream. Maybe you're unaware of your body, and so you find yourself klutzy or accident prone. Do others consider you absentminided?
Michael Z., a "Getting Grounded Manual" customer
Or are you anxious? Do you suffer panic attacks? Feel stressed out? Stress, anxiety, and panic can cause your being ungrounded. And vice versa... being ungrounded increases panic, anxiety, and stress. When stressed, we may feel unable to settle down or feel scattered, 'running around like a chicken with its head cut off.' . Our minds and bodies race. We may suffer from insomnia, laying awake with thoughts our thoughts whirling.
Maybe you live in the ivory tower of the mind. You feel numb to life below the neckline. You would just as soon spend your life in fantasy or other unbalanced intellectual pursuits,perhaps preferring to read a book about love, rather than to fall in love.
Whichever the symptom or cause of ungroundedness, the result is the same: our energy and awareness are centered in our heads, rather than distributed throughout our bodies.
Rafael T, Counselor
How Body Grounding Exercises Help
To become fully alive, we need to step down from the head, and dip our whole selves into the body, its senses, its feelings, and the world. We need to be grounded.
We can get grounded by using body grounding exercises developed by somatic (body-oriented) psychology, yoga, and contemplative traditions. The exercises redistribute into the whole of the body the energy which was stuck in the head.
If you are unhappy with being ungrounded, the good news is that you can do something about it! Getting grounded is a skill which you can develop. It can be a way of life.
To become grounded, you need to apply yourself to exercises that develop grounding such as are found in The Getting Grounded Manual. Do you want to see what's inside the manual? Click here..

