Hello and welcome to the meditation called settling down. It's also called grounding, because when you use it sometimes you feel like a big old tree grounding down into the earth. In the last meditation, we increased energy. This meditation is the exact opposite. So use it when you feel like you have too much energy, or you feel like you're bouncing off the walls. This one will help you settle down and grounded to Earth.

So you can either stand up or sit down for this one, it doesn't really matter. But just get yourself in a nice, relaxed, comfortable position. Take a deep breath. Close your eyes if you'd like. And we'll start to relax. So go ahead and just take another real deep breath and let it out.

If you're feeling frazzled or scattered, just start to play your energy into your body. So just allow your awareness to call yourself back in to yourself. And then what I'd like you to do is I'd like you to take that energy that's in your body and focus it or just allow your attention to rest on it gently at the very base of your spine. Take another deep breath. And as you breathe, what I'd like you to do now is just to imagine that energy in the base of your spine, going down into the center of the earth, you can imagine it as a beam of light, like the root of a tree, or like a cord, or rope or a strong chain, whatever it is, just allow yourself to feel that connection beginning from their base of your spine. And a You're setting just haven't go straight down into the earth.

If you're standing, just have it go from your spine, through your feet, and down into the center of the air. And just breathe, because that connection starts to create itself and allow that energy to go all the way down and to connect into the center here and Take another deep breath and let it out. Now what I'd like you to do is just to imagine that in that connection that is in the center of the earth, that the earth energy, whatever that is for you, starts to move up that connection. Just feel the earth energy moving up that connection from the center of the earth. Maybe it's light, or color or a cord or rope or Whatever it is you feel, feel the earth energy moving up that connection until it connects with the the root or chakra or the base of your spine. So feel that energy of the earth connecting into your root chakra or the base of your spine.

Take another deep breath. And just allow your energy to focus there and allow that earth energy to combine with your own physical energy. So it's now your energy. So may feel a tingling sensation, you may feel warmth or peace. You might see color or light or whatever it is. Take another deep breath, and then allow that energy once again to travel back down through that chord or through that energy connection toward the earth.

And as it's going toward the earth, realize that earth energy is again coming up that same chord as your energy goes down. And about halfway between the two, those two energies Connect. So just allow those two energies to fuse and then become strongly connected as you continue to breathe as you continue to relax, so the connection between the base of your spine and the earth is unbreakable. It feels incredibly solid. very secure. As if the two energies are one, you and the earth are one and just allow that energy from the earth To again, come up to the base of your spine and connect.

And then allow it to go back down into the center of the earth and just allow that energy to move back and forth in its own time in its own way as you continue to relax, just breathe and feel that connection is becoming stronger, becoming more solid. As you are becoming one with the energy of the earth, you're very grounded to allow your energy to finish by connecting into the center of the earth. Take another very deep breath and enjoy this feeling of being grounded. And you can take this feeling with you throughout the rest of your day. So Take another deep breath Just released the meditation