Manda Scott

And I hope by now it's obvious that the being fully present in the here and now is exactly what we need to be doing.

So, however you ground, we open up the eyes and the soles of our feet, send roots down from those, send roots down from our first sun, which is also called our first chakra, whatever, so that we've got a triangle, a tripod of roots, and we send those down very consciously into the heart of the earth.

And we send a cord up to the heights of the sky so that we have heart to heart to heart connection.

The heart of the earth through our heart to the heart mind of the universe and the heart mind of the universe through our heart to the heart of the earth.

This has the advantage you can do it anywhere.

You can do it in your office.

You can do it while you're sitting at traffic lights.

You can do it while you're sitting on a plane 3,000 feet up.

It doesn't matter where you do it.

It matters that it becomes so instinctive that all of your life you are sending roots down into the earth.

If you have a different way of doing it, knock yourself out, do what works for you.

And obviously there are things like walking barefoot in the earth, standing or sitting with your back to a tree, standing in a river barefoot.

All of these things really, really help with grounding.

Anything.

that helps to bring your attention back to the physicality of the flesh and the bones and the teeth of your being in full connection with the flesh and the bones and the teeth and the practical physicality of the earth will help you to ground.

So whatever it takes, please include grounding as you slow and deepen your breathing, as you expand and soften your vision and you ground.

And as an adjunct to that, if it's humanly possible for you to go out and stand with your back or your heart space connected to a tree, or lie on the ground, or go and touch a rock, or stand or sit or lie in a river or body of water, that would be good too.

Moving on, if you're part of Accidental Gods and the Three Pillars of the Heart Mind, the seventh module, are absolutely there to help you form the resilience that gratitude, compassion and joyful curiosity can evoke.

I am not going to go into that here.

And on a similar basis, if you've worked your way through the other modules, then any of the elemental modules is there explicitly to help you to relax and connect with who you are in the moment.