If you look back and see to compare how you feel before sitting down to meditate you may be able to perceive a difference in the state of restlessness of your mind. The vibrational frequency of such restless state of mind completely obscures and prevents the grounding connection. A few simple things will help.
- Have a shower or bath with cold saltwater. If it is winter you may use mildly lukewarm or tepid saltwater but please do not use too warm or hot water. Mix one cup of rock salt to about five litres of water and pour it slowly over your head all over your body. In case you have too much hair and do not want to wet your hair please use a shower cap. You are not washing your body but you are washing your energy body, After this you may wash off the salt residue with soap and normal water and then apply lotion all over your body.
- Place your feet on a steel tray or a steel plate while sitting to meditate. You may use either iron or steel, not any other metal. This helps with grounding.
- Deep crossing energy movements is a very effective and quick way to release restless energy. Selvans Deep crossing: https://youtu.be/qq6iKZquuVI
- Gentle yoga movements and stretches also help. Selvans 30 Yoga Training version https://youtu.be/g7rUsB_6sGY. Selvans 30 Yoga Shortest version https://youtu.be/m7dIBVswWtk
- A few minutes of walking on grassy lawn with a bare foot also helps.
Starting your meditation with a few minutes of eyes open meditation will also help the mind release the restless energies and settle down quietly with ease. The following article and the five minutes guided meditation thereafter would help you learn and experiment with this.
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What are some breathing exercises for beginners who struggle with focusing on their breath while meditating?
Do this for just three minutes and see if it helps. Sit on a straight back chair with feet flat on the floor, the entire soles of the feet from tips of the toes to the heels firmly contacting the floor. Keep your back erect, you may place a cushion behind your back for support if required but do not lean back on an inclined backrest of the chair. Let your head be held straight, neck straight, shoulders square and relaxed. You may tilt the head very slightly downward to gaze at a point on the floor in front of you a few feet away from you. Keep your eyes fixed on that spot for the three minutes without moving your eyeballs. Allow your eyes to be half open and half closed and hold that spot in a gentle gaze and not a stare. You are not looking there to see something but simply holding that spot in a gentle gaze. Exhale with a loud sigh from your mouth and use gentle effort to empty your lungs as far as possible without straining too much. Then relax your body and allow the inhale to happen effortlessly and soundlessly through your nostrils. When you sense that the inhale is over, do not put any further effort to breathe in but repeat the exhale from the mouth with the sound and gentle effort. I call this conscious breathing. Effort only for the out breaths and allowing in breaths to happen effortlessly. This entire process is called FGCB or fixed gazing with conscious breathing. You may set hourly reminder alerts on your smartphone and repeat this 3 minute FGCB every hour throughout the day today and see how it helps with calming your mind. This is a powerful grounding practice and you can do this even when you are driving and waiting for the red signal to turn green. Allow any such interruptions in your day to remind you to come back to the practice of FGCB repeatedly. For more information and plenty of free resources to aid with the practice of meditation and deep healing, please visit my website.
Selvans Guided Meditation – Witnessing the four simultaneous activities:
Selvans Short Meditation – Witnessing The 4 Simultaneous Activities
This is a five minutes short guided meditation for slowing down the racing thoughts in your mind and coming back into grounded presence within yourself with a quiet mind. You can do this at any time d
If you are interested, I would suggest you to please read some of my posts on my Quora profile to learn more about grounding and healing.