Interacting with people to improve function using somatic movement I have noticed that there is a lack of being in nature with bare feet. This normal activity growing up in previous generations is now called earthing. It is trending as a wellness activity for grounding and improving mental, emotional and physical health. This is a strategy where shoes are taken off to put bare feet on the ground for twenty or more minutes a day. It is suggested that this strategy will reduce chronic pain, increase sleep and energy, lower stress, balance circadian rhythms and slow down aging.Ā Ā Ā
This activity may not be available for students who have mobility restrictions and for those working long hours at a desk. I have learned that a grounding mat can support these people who cannot be outdoors. Reading about its potential I have read that while using the grounding mat one can reset their biological rhythms using the negative charge of electrons of the earth. There is a suggestion that these electrons increase antioxidants and neutralize free radicals.Ā Ā
From a Feng Shui perspective this grounding mat would be useful to balance out the electrical exposure from from all the devices and Wi-Fi waves.
Two popular grounding products are a grounding mat and a grounding sheet. The mat can be used under ones desk to rest feet on or on the desk to rest hands on. The sheet can b used on ones bed to rest on.
I decided to test a mat as I would like to have this type of tool to recommend for those who are not getting out into nature often. I found it easy to set up. It was a plug that goes into the electrical ground outlet that snaped to sheet or pad that has silver through it to conduct the negative charge. This same post can be pushed directly into the ground which is a nice alternative. The person who came up with this concept created their own with wire and a metal infused tape. He pushed the wire into the ground and attached it to the silver infused tape. The tape went across his bed. He came up with the idea after becoming ill with a serious condition. It made a difference in his condition that led him to follow it up with scientific studies.
Even though it suggested not to lay on it all night when first getting it, I didn’t listen. The suggestion was to use it during the day for shorter periods. So by not listening I was up all night. lol. My system is a-typical. I can’t take any sleep formulas. If I do I am wakeful all night, while others are put to sleep. It’s an energy thing. However, following their suggestions and only using it during the day for shorter periods it has improved the quality of my sleep.
Pictured above is a grounding sheet. I put my crystals on it during the full moon transition. I am not able to put them outside on the earth. Before and after I used dowsing rods to measure the field of the sheet and crystals. The field tripled outwards and upwards. If this interests you follow Feng Shui articles on our Awareness through Feng Shui news pages. Feng Shui is a pillar of Inside Awareness foundational teachings. It rests under the Higher Knowledge Life Area.
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One of the first introductions into energy work, with a focus on how to direct the energies as a healer, was understanding the chakra energy centers. Before the focused study of somatic empathy, there was no structure. Without knowledge, there is a huge opportunity to be taken advantage of which is a common experience in our society. Unfortunately, it includes those closest to us as well as being further out in the community circles. The Chakras are a nice introduction to the influences of manipulation.
When first delving into this skill development it was unfamiliar and shared in a way that I was led to believe it was energetic manipulation by some negative energy purposely out to harm. It was a different interpretation of right and wrong thinking like in the differentiation of god and the devil reflects right and wrong. Everyone’s dialogue had a focus on some outside influence that was evasive and not centered. I share this as this is an example of gaslighting to a somatic empath. A somatic empath’s perception is of the reality of the experience at the moment, not some elusive concept. They can feel the blocked chakras in themselves and others. They can energetically feel the addictions others have and their own. It is not some outside force. It is an inside response to an outside stimulus. An adult has free will and choice. No one forces them to enter into an experience that leads them into their addictions. Adults may not be equipped with all the information they need to make fully informed decisions but they do have intuition and a value system of some kind has been modelled for them at some point in their lives. The value system may not have been formal, however, someone knows the second they enter into an activity that seems edgy knowing it is unethical or immoral. Most of these activities are such that they become serious addictions. That’s the point. To get you addicted as under that influence you are easy to control. Especially if you have low self-esteem, low willpower and lack courage.
To understand these experiences I began my journey as a healer through hands-on healing. First through attunements and Reiki which shifted after connection with Trangu Rinpoche whose contact with me opened my hand chakras to such a degree that attunement and Reiki energies seemed weaker for me. Also, I had long dropped the authority components as influences over me in positions of perceived power that need to be held in high regard to operate within a system of entrapment. Being in a position of authority is something you have inside yourself in my opinion, or have the ability to develop. It’s not someone outside you follow as they believe they are an authority which I call elitism.
This perspective for me extends to false philosophies of the obscure. Luckily this perspective led to actionable lifestyle educational programs that dropped the outside energy attachments and developed patterns for physical, mental and emotional function in alignment that strengthens willpower through clean and more precise actions. By clean I am not comparing to addictions, but rather in the moment through the pattern of how information comes in through a person’s filter of senses and travels through the brain before thinking begins. The physical body responds long before the mental thinking can grasp and understand the stimulus. This is the gold at the core of origins that this somatic empath has found through the integration of her studies and practice. This is the focus of her perception and opportunities. It creates autonomy and independence in those situations that influence others somatically and lead them into a lifestyle they never anticipated finding themselves in, however, lusted after once introduced. The lust is somatic. Somatic is the first point of communication. If you’re not tapped into what it means you end up, where? Usually a complete loss of everything you have and stood for and in the most unethical and immoral patterns of behaviour. The mental concepts of it are projections and as bad an influence when not soundly connected at the core of a value system. This is my perspective based on over three decades of focus, study and practice. I created these images to visually observe the differences in these energy centers that reflect sensations. The purpose was for education and as a tool to notice patterns somatically with no stories. We do not hold stories in our body parts, however, stories will influence how we contract and hold our body parts. The stories replace the events that actually happened and come back to abuse you over and over each time you tell it to yourself. It becomes a postural pattern. A postural pattern is not from one story. It is not caused by one story. It is a reaction to events, many of them over a lifetime. They become the justification of what we do and why. It’s the blame and shame justification behaviour we have been taught in early childhood education.
This early childhood education is cultural conditioning that predisposes us to act unethically. By adulthood with no training in personal behaviour, leads to what is being modelled in the United States today with the current Court Case against Sean Diddy Combs. In his example, there is evidence coming into the mainstream media of how he obtained power over others through coercion, drugs and promises of wealth. It’s a powerful lesson for all societies currently not preoccupied with war and devasting natural events and have a mask of peace and unity. The patterns emerging from Diddy’s reign of power also happen in smaller communities like ours. It is not an isolated incident. It’s just a different community group with addictions.
The great news is that the stronghold of elitism can be shifted with skill development and retraining of the responses to stimulus. Some call it retaining the brain yet that’s an elusive statement, yet it is precisely what can happen as long as analysis and moral judgements stay out of it. Those are best left for the press conference but not great for the learning environment. That’s the unlearning that needs to take place from my experience. It’s the component that leads to the sex addictions, the drug addictions, the eating addictions, gambling addictions and more…..
Note* This is for learning purposes only and through study and practical experience.
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