Spiritual Grounding Techniques 101- Staying present and balanced

Guide to 6 spiritual grounding techniques

1) Spiritual positioning

This is the posture that one takes when engaging in spiritual activities. Positioning can also mean the place you choose to engage in your activity in, preferably a sacred/committed space that allows for maximum concentration. Position can also mean timing and seasons. Various times hold significant values in the spiritual realm. Matching rituals and prayer with such special times and seasons gives it an additional charge.

Various prayer postures include:

• Kneeling or standing with hands clasped together at the front or back; Raised to the sky; resting on furniture; naturally falling on the sides; across your chest next to the heart with one hand over the other.

• Sitting upright with your hands clasped or naturally relaxing on a furniture

• Head in a bow to show humility

• Maintain a composed posture, and do not be relaxed, as this is not a relaxation technique but is used for alignment.

2) Sacred Naming

Sacred naming can be used in two different ways: calling out the divine and for yourself. When used during a spiritual practice as a communication booster, a person often invokes the deity using a special and somewhat glorified name. This evokes a deeper connection with the set deity.

When used for oneself, sacred naming is a way of renaming yourself in the spiritual realm. The technique is used as a way of protection. In the spiritual realm, he who knows your name has some power over you or might use your name in a bad ritual. It is also done to align to a set standard and purpose.

It is achieved by renaming yourself in a way that attracts power or association to certain deities that you may need help from.

3) Devotion

Devotion simply means using actions to serve the divine purposefully, either through oneself or by servitude to others. These activities include:

• Giving tithe and offerings in religious settings

• Conducting a praise and worship session

• Conducting prayer sessions either personally or in a group

• Acts of service and kindness to others, e.g., adopting children and doing volunteer community projects

• Practicing gratitude daily

4) Using the elements

The elements of the nature- air, water, earth, fire, and spirit are concepts that have been used since time immemorial. They symbolize natural forces and order. When someone uses the elements, it is often a nudge towards tapping into the qualities that the elements stand for.

• Air stands for freedom, thoughts, consciousness, and breathing (the breath of life). Ingrained as utterances or process that involve cognition, i.e., words of affirmations and spiritual journaling

• Fire stands for fast and energetic action often facilitated by use of candles with selected colors.

• Water represents flexibility and agility that is used in spiritual works that require change. Often incorporated as moon water, baths, and teas. 

• Earth represents sturdiness and stability. It involves working with products from nature like dirt and herbs.

• Spirit represents the essence of life that is often unseen and can be tied to any living or mystic creatures. For example, one can call upon powers of a certain deity or spirit animal for guidance and protection.

5) Symbolism

Symbols are a graphical representation of spiritual tools. They can be drawings like sigils or hieroglyphics and objects like precious stones. The body can be used as a vessel of expressing signs. For instance, drawing the sign of the cross before prayer is a common practice in the Catholic Church. 

Other body motions, like touching the floor with the face, raising hands up to the sky, performing a sacred symbolic dance, and adorning specific attires during rituals, all serve as a form of physical symbolism. Sigils can also be drawn strategically on the body and activated with motion or energy bursts.

Objects like crystals, animals and animal parts (e.g., a rabbit’s foot), beads, rings, the cross, and clothes of different colors can be used as symbolism.  White can represent peace; specific crystals have their purpose (red ruby signifies the heart chakra and is used in presenting passion, purity, and vitality). A butterfly's wings represent transformation, and rings represent set intentions like purity or commitment.

Drawings on tarot cards and sigils also play a role in spirituality. They can be used in manifestation and anticipation of the future.

6) Sacred rhythms

Rhythms are vibrations that exist all around us. Everything in this universe vibrates at its own frequency. Thereby, alignment to the divine also follows frequency and rhythms. In spirituality, they can be used in the form of repetitive mantras, spiritual harmonics and melodies, poetry, and orientation statements like gratitude and words of affirmation.

Sacred rhythms are a form of spiritual action and tools that can serve various purposes like grounding, protection, and inviting in good entities or casting out negative energies.