| In the first part of this article series, I suggested | | | | nauseous or hot after an argument? If so, you were |
| energy healing techniques as the best way to heal | | | | probably not grounded. When we are ungrounded, |
| emotional wounds because it works at the cellular | | | | we become nervous, easily irritable, or even |
| level and helps with the emotional clearing of | | | | nauseous." -Sarah Wood Vallely, Sensational |
| unresolved memories, painful feelings and limiting | | | | Meditation for Children |
| beliefs. In that article, I gave you several essential oils | | | | One easy way to get started with meditation is with |
| you can use for healing emotional wounds. | | | | simple grounding meditations. |
| This article will offer healing meditation as a technique | | | | When you focus on centering or grounding yourself, |
| for emotional clearing. | | | | you then can let go of stressful or painful feelings like |
| Benefits of Meditation | | | | anxiety or irritability or tension. In meditation, when |
| 1) Meditation helps you relax and deepen your | | | | you experience letting go, you actually release the |
| breathing. It strengthens the mind-body connection | | | | energy from your body. |
| and can help you deepen spiritual awareness and | | | | Creating Your Own Meditation |
| connection, as well. | | | | With any meditation, you want to engage all of your |
| 2) Meditation helps you know yourself more | | | | senses, focusing on what you see, what you hear, |
| intimately, becoming more aware of who you are at | | | | what you feel, what you smell and maybe even |
| a deep level. It also can help you identify what needs | | | | what you can taste. |
| healing or change in your life. | | | | For a grounding meditation, you need at least two |
| 3) It also can increase self-esteem, and help you | | | | things: rootedness and release, but I also would add |
| think more clearly and improve your ability to focus. | | | | the element of healing. |
| 4) Meditation can help you heal. According to Belleruth | | | | First, include earth-centered imagery that suggests |
| Naparstek, psychotherapist, "trauma lives in the right | | | | rootedness, like having roots grow from the bottom |
| side of the brain" and thus is best healed by | | | | of your feet into the ground. Next, you might |
| right-brain activity. This makes meditation and guided | | | | breathe in and out deeply and imagine having healing |
| imagery ideal for healing trauma. | | | | energy fill you. |
| Because our feelings also are stored in the right side | | | | And then imagine some form of release, like having |
| of the brain, meditation is ideal for emotional healing, | | | | your stress flow out of your feet and into the |
| in general. | | | | ground. When I create a healing meditation, I also |
| Grounding Meditation | | | | usually imagine that whatever has been healed |
| "Have you ever been nervous before a speaking | | | | becomes absorbed into love. |
| engagement, irritable after a sleepless night, or felt | | | | |