Are you spacey or grounded?
November 29th, 2007 by Rose Rosetree
Grounding means taking reality checks. If you’re metaphysically minded, you might want to put “reality” in quotation marks. Okay, by “reality,” I mean the shared reality that equates with being “sane” here at Earth
Grounding requires that each of us must be aware of what happens physically here: My body, my environment, plus any people who are near me.
Being grounded has practical advantages for everything from relationships to career success, as discussed in, Let Today Be a Holiday. (Okay, I wrote it. I’m that observant!) Spaciness comes more naturally to many of us; anyone can choose to become grounded, however. To evaluate your own need for extra grounding, answer the following questions.
For the rest of this quiz, cut-and-paste this link into your browser: http://www.gotoquiz.com/are_you_spacey_or_grounded
An observation I have made is that many empaths equate grounding with turning empathy off. Many message boards and places on the Internet where empaths congregate are full of “Keep yourself grounded and shielded” advice given to people seeking information on their empathic abilities. While grounding is an important aspect of being a skilled empath, simply being grounded is not enough to prevent picking up undesirable energies.
Thanks for this post and the quiz, Rose. I’ve been focussing a lot on being grounded since my last cord sessions. I know ‘the drill’ now with energy shifts and these were big! I gained 6 pounds and did some incredibly intense cardio workouts, sauna and jacuzzi. I go through a cluttery phase in my home during a big shift and then eventually go into major grounding mode and straighten everything up.
At my job, I work with a lot of freshmen art students and the vast majority of them - the Americans in particular - are amazingly ungrounded. Floating all over the place and anywhere but the present! Which doesn’t lend itself to developing very good drawing skills, which is the point of the classes I’m in with them. My foreign students often tend to be much more grounded and I’ve observed a huge difference in their drawing skills. Their language level is much lower, but energetically they are far more present and grounded more of the time, which is a huge advantage for them. Fascinating to observe, especially in the context of everything I’ve been learning here.
The quiz indicated that I can be pretty spacey still.
Years of being a nurse and having to be on time have made me more punctual. I do not wear a watch. No matter what kind of watch I wear, they are non functional inside of a month or less. I have a clock in my car and manage to make it to work/appointments on time.
I have had incredible anxiety driving in the dark in an unfamiliar place. I took one wrong turn getting here last Saturday night. Between the blaring headlights,12 hours passing etc. I experienced sensory overload, shut down, and my sense of what was where vanished.
A couple of angels guided me with their care to the hotel where I was to stay.
I stopped every two to three hours with my cat, but once the darkness hit, whoa! It is not because I’m older, either. It is the sensory overload, unfamiliar surroundings, and the dark. I have been this way for as long as I can remember. When I drove the same way in the daylight, I was able to find my way around.
I was “delicious but floaty” in the quiz, which makes sense. Sometimes I secretly feel like I shouldn’t be allowed to have a driver’s license because I often forget that yes, I am going 65 mph and there are other objects on and off the road. And I fear that one day I will get pulled over for drunk driving when I am in fact completely “sober.”
This quiz made me think about an aura transformation session I had with Rose. One of the things that came up was that I needed more subjective-objective balance.I had read about this in Rose’s empathy book, but ironically hadn’t thought that it really applied to me.
The person who picked me up after the session happened to be very grounded. He was respectful of my privacy, and after we had been driving for a few minutes, he casually asked, “So what was it like in there?” Well, I started in about all the wonderful things in the session: the light blessing, calling on Archangel Michael, the chakras we talked about, cutting the cord of attachment, what was in the cord, etc. I must have gone on for about half an hour.
Finally I finished, even more exhilarated from talking about it. “That’s great,” he said. “Thanks for sharing all of that with me, but you didn’t have to. I just wanted to know whether or not you sat on a couch.” Then it hit me: this was exactly the subjective-objective balance that Rose had been talking about. I actually had trouble remembering that yes, I sat on a couch, but my memory of any other furniture in the room was pretty fuzzy.
Also, I am wondering if families tend to be spacey or grounded as a group. I was at my parents’ house this morning and my mom had put some chicken on a saucer in her bedroom for the cats (!). My dad walked into the room, accidentally kicked the saucer, which somehow sent the chicken flying all over the room. Then my mom went into the living room with a large glass of tea, which she accidentally knocked over, and it made a lake on the coffee table.
I do have some more grounded siblings. Maybe families balance each other out?
Dana, your comment about families tending to be spacey or grounded is intriguing and got me to thinking about my experiences. My mother lives in her head, basically, and spends most of her time not very connected at all to her body. Consequently, her form of spaciness is often clumsiness, tripping over things and being oblivious to those around her in so many ways. If we go to a museum, she typically wanders off by herself, not even paying attention to where I am. I hadn’t thought of it in the realm of spacey vs. grounded, but now I see how that makes perfect sense.
I loved your story about the couch.
Wow, I thought it’s bad enough that I have a tendency to kick my bare feet on the bottoms of door frames as if I my feet have some kind of magnetic-like attraction to the wood.
I have to tell all of you how much I am enjoying this particular thread. Dana, you made me laugh really loudly three times with your comment, and everyone’s feedback has been delightful.
THANK YOU. Keep those tales coming!
I agree, Rose, the replies had me gigglin! Especially Ryan about the magnetic attraction to the wood of door frames. I think we can all relate to that, huh?
I tested out the same as Dana, “Delicious but floaty.” Whhhhhhhheeeeee!!!
The thing is, that sounds like fun so I wanna just get a t-shirt that has that pasted right on the front!!! HA HA HA HA