A spiritual awakening is a powerful experience of expanded awareness and insight into the nature of reality. While incredibly meaningful, the process can also feel disorienting as your worldview dramatically shifts. Staying grounded during this transformation is essential for integrating the awakening in a healthy sustainable way.
The intense energy and perception shifts of an awakening can make you feel ungrounded, spacey, or disconnected from everyday reality. This is totally normal, but it’s important not to get carried away into spiritual bypassing or living in a fantasy state detached from the physical world.
Here are some science-backed tips for staying grounded as you awaken:
Be in Nature
A curious fact: Studies show that grounding/earthing by walking barefoot on the earth can reduce inflammation and synchronize your biofields with the planet’s natural electromagnetic frequencies.
Make time to be outside, feel the grass under your feet, and let nature’s rhythms realign you. Or if you are like me and you don’t like walking barefoot on the ground, some gardening or planting flowers might help.
Enjoying a mindful walk in a forest, park or even a good hike, always helps us to feel more grounded and balanced.
Practice Embodiment
Do body-based practices like yoga, qi gong, or breathwork to stay anchored in your physical form during energetic shifts. Consciously feeling your body’s sensations keeps you presently embodied.
To be able to consciously feel the body’s sensations you need to learn to slow down and pay attention. This is especially important if you are used to being constantly on the go and always doing something. Slowing down and observing our thoughts and the accompanying body sensations, allows us to start implementing beneficial changes into our lives.
Maintain a Routine
Having a structured routine centred around basic self-care like sleeping, eating well, and exercising creates a stable container for your spiritual unfolding to take place within. Discipline provides grounding. When you’re in the habit of taking care of your fundamental human needs, you establish an unshakable foundation that allows higher states of consciousness to flourish in a sustainable way.
Maintaining a consistent sleep schedule, for example, ensures your body and mind are well-rested, making you more susceptible to the changes, insights and energy shifts that accompany awakening. Nourishing yourself with balanced, whole foods increases your body’s life force and it is easier to go through the intensity of the awakening process. And exercising, whether it’s hiking, running, weightlifting, or yoga, moves stagnant energy through your system so you don’t become ungrounded.
This self-disciplined lifestyle anchors you in the timeless rhythms of nature’s cycles. You’re less likely to become unbalanced by the spiritual bumps when you’re diligently caring for your most basic human needs day in and day out. That reliable structure provides a stable container for awakening to unfold in the embodied truth of being a human.
Be of Service
Nothing de-mythologizes awakening like being of practical service to others. Staying grounded means seeing the humanity in all people and showing up for them. Sharing your gifts impacts the real world. Spiritual awakenings can make you feel powerfully transcendent at times, but true awakening manifests as compassionate action.
Serving others keeps you anchored in the reality of human suffering and human potential. When you use your talents to meet someone’s basic needs like hunger, poverty, or loneliness, you cut through the fantasy of enlightenment and connect with the gritty truth of embodied existence. This humbles you and prevents spiritual bypassing. You recognize your own humanity reflected in the face of those you serve. Awakening then becomes not about inflating your ego, but about working in sacred service of the whole.
Serving others sometimes looks to me like giving a sincere compliment, a simple smile or saying “Hello” to a stranger. Serving others is not necessarily self-sacrifice but rather doing something that makes us feel good and the other person feels good.
Embrace the Mystery
Recognize that no matter how profound your realizations, you’ll never have all the answers. Surrender and stay open to the ever-unfolding mystery of life. True awakening breeds humble curiosity.
Realise that it is impossible to have all the answers and rest assured that this is OK. Also knowing that whatever you need to know, you will find out exactly when you need to know it, brings so much peace to the mind and we feel much calmer.
This is one of the benefits of staying curious and following your bliss. I love when I learn something new and it is the exact piece of the puzzle, I have been missing for a while. There is no regret that I haven’t learned it earlier but gratitude that I have learned it.
I have realised that, regardless of how much I want to know, there is so much more to learn and I feel excited about each and every new piece of information I receive.
Stay grounded as you awaken and you’ll flow through this transition with grace, emerging into a new way of being that’s vibrantly alive and anchored in what’s real.
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