I was irritated. I had no reason to be, literally no reason. I just felt irritated. I wasn’t in contact with anyone so the only one who I was bothering was myself. Every email that I read made me feel annoyed. Even the small things, like the sound of trucks on the road, were like fingernails down a chalkboard. I wanted something to eat even though I wasn’t actually hungry. My necklace was making my neck itch. I had a headache. I wanted to move my body but wasn’t sure how or why I felt this drive. I couldn’t hold a thought pattern and execute on work which is usually never a problem for me. So let me call a spade a spade, I was being a bitch.
This went on for a better part of 30 minutes before I paused and asked myself. What the hell, Erin. You literally teach this. You are ungrounded right now. I had been doing a lot of energy work and while my psychic hygiene practice is rock solid, it clearly needed to be adjusted with the increase in energy work that I was doing.
I rolled on some grounding essential oils, took off my socks and shoes and went directly outside. I put my bare feet into the ground. It felt amazing. I felt an immediate calm come over my body. It wasn’t enough and I knew it. I took off my shift, laid face down on the ground and started to meditate. After about 15 minutes I felt like a new person. I went inside, drank water and did some light stretching. I was about to start work again when I realized that I wasn’t done yet. I went back outside, this time with a mason jar and clippers. I cut myself a bouquet of lilacs and carried them into my standing desk. As the day went on, it was a beautiful reminder to ground and also to be sweet to myself.
It was a beautiful reminder for me that as things in your life shift, change, grow and progress your psychic hygiene program will also need to grow and change. I felt wildly grateful that I became ungrounded that afternoon. It gifted me the insight that I needed to adjust. It also made me realize how well I knew myself and my baseline. I haven’t always known myself like this, but I sure am happy that I do now.
