YOUR VOICE OF GROUNDING

Our lives are spent cultivating and listening to our voice. Other voices clamor for our attention, expecting that we will meet their needs. Knowing and trusting your own voice is part of grounded living.

Enrico had made the difficult and wrenching decision to get divorced. He had learned to trust his own voice about his marriage and his life, and the work he’d done to try to save his marriage. Family members responded with accusatory warnings of a dire lonely life if he didn’t reconsider. Enrico had cultivated trusting his own voice enough to know that these voices were not about his well-being or life.

Enrico had a choice to remain grounded, trusting his voice, or to try to please the needs of others.

Being grounded involves the inner work of knowing who we really are and the values and spirit which guide our lives. It invites attentiveness to the shifting realties of our lives and our deepest yearnings and fears. In the process your own voice becomes a trusted friend, alerting you intuitively to good and negative energy. You realize that the Holy or the Universe is discovered in your voice.

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When you are uncertain about trusting your voice or grounding:

Acknowledge and identify the fears, questions or threats you feel
Remind yourself of the three values which guide and shape you
Remember a time when negative energy worked to derail your voice and what happened when you trusted your own voice
Honor your voice and grounding by celebrating what they mean to you
Meditate on phrases like “Voice” and “Ground” letting the air flow through your body as you settle into the images of both that become present in meditation
Seek out those whose grounded voice you admire and tell them why
Pay attention to what happens when your voice and grounding are challenged. How do you react? What do you seek out? How do you take time for yourself in order to be attentive to the life that is within you? What truth about your life does this awaken in you?

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