The Getting Grounded Manual
50+ Exercises for Your Psychological and Physical Well-Being
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The personal cost of being ungrounded
Do you have anxiety or panic attacks? Do you feel scattered, spacey, too much in the head... or out of touch with your self and life? Most likely you're ungrounded! When we are not grounded, we live in the mind and intellect, out of touch with our bodies, feelings, and the world. It's as if we're living through a film of thought that separates us from others and life. We refuse life's invitation to become immersed in a world of sensory aliveness, immediacy, and aliveness..
When we are ungrounded, our energy is concentrated more in our heads. Sometimes we experience this as being spaced out, floaty, living as if in a dream, absent-minded, klutzy- unaware of our bodies.
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Sometimes feelings of stress, anxiety, or panic will lead to being ungrounded. And vice versa... being unground exacerbates panic, anxiety, and stress. We feel harried, scattered, 'running around like a chicken with its head cut off.' We can't slow down our thoughts. Our bodies are always on the move. We suffer from insomnia, our thoughts being ceaselessly on the move too.
An ungrounded life is a life whose mind and heart and body are not integrated. This lack of integration results in an imbalance of energy causing the bulk of the energy to be centered in the head. This can result in a seeminly endless mental chatter. We can't think straight. Or, we experience life as if we only were a (dissociated) head, having no or limited awareness of feelings and bodily sensations. Our awareness is centered in the head, rather than distributed throughout our body.
How can getting grounded can me?
To become fully alive, we need to step down from the head, and dip our whole selves into the body, its senses, its feelings, the world, and the waters of life. We need to be grounded.
Being grounded is fundamental to well-being and a balanced life. Grounding alleviates anxiety and panic. Grounding is recognized as an important component of any effort to remedy stress, anxiety, or panic attacks, because grounding directs the energy and awareness back into the body thereby helping to manage stress, catastrophic thinking, and panic. Being grounded calms the scattered daytime living and calms the scattered nightime mind. Grounding clears the mind's film of thought, releasing us to engage a more vital and fulfilling life in relation to our bodies, feelings, and others.
If you are unhappy with being ungrounded, you can do something about it! Getting grounded is a skill which you can develop, and make a way of life. To become grounded, you need to apply yourself to exercises that develop grounding such as are found in...
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“I discovered your book on the Internet while preparing our yearly two days spiritual retreat.... I attribute the success of the retreat in part to the grounding exercises from your book, with which we started each session of reading, sharing, praying and meditating. You have translated a lot of theoretical knowledge into a very useful practical manual. As I said, it is more than I expected. Thanks again.” Rafael T, Counselor |
The Getting Grounded Manual
Until now there has not been a manual devoted exclusively to teaching grounding exercises, despite how important grounding is for everyone.
Getting Grounded: A Manual of Grounding Exercises is unique not only in that it is devoted to teaching readers how to ground themselves, but also the manual gathers into one source grounding execises found in a variety of different discplines from the West and the East including somatic psychology, yoga, and contemplative practices.
Getting Grounded describes more than 50 exercises for grounding yourself. Each exercise is accompanied not only by easy-to-understand instructions, but also one or more photographs illustrating the exercise. Exercises are provided for grounding alone or with a grounding partner. While most of the exercises can be done at home, some are specifically desgined for the workplace such as when attending a meeting in a conference room. A special set of exercises is included for when we feel in an emergency, such as when we're feeling panicked or anxious.
The manual contains everything you need to understand the role of grounding in your life and to develop your own grounding practice for developing mind/body integration, alleviating stress, anxiety, panic, and insomnia.
The Table of Contents
The spiral-bound 66-page manual describes 50+ grounding exercises which are acompanied by 68 illustrative photographs and diagrams. The table of contents includes these topics:
About Grounding
About the Author
Michael Nagel MA is a counselor serving clients in his private practice in Portland, Oregon. Michael has authored numerous articles published in books, magazines, and scholarly as well as peer-reviewed journals of psychology. He has more than 40 years or experience in personal growth disciplines. More about Michael's private practice may be found at http://www.whole-person-counseling.com
Michael originally conceived of the Getting Grounded Manual in response to his clients' needs for grounding. At home, clients might forget the instruction in grounding exercises which they were taught while in their private sessions with Michael. Take-home instructions were needed. From this there evolved the comprehensive Getting Grounded Manual which today is valued both by individual seeking to improve their lives and helping professionals seeking to aid their clients.
Available in Print or Ebook Versions
Getting Grounded: A Manual of Grounding Exercises is 66-pages. The print version is a spiral-bound manual. The Manual also is available as an ebook that is ready for immediate downloading or downloading within 24 hours at your convenience. To purchase by credit card, debit card, or PayPal, simply press the "buy now" button below. For overseas payment of the print version, be sure to select the "Non-USA Print" button. For bulk order discount information, please inquire.
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