Grounding for HSPs. A Powerful Tool for Reducing Stress and Anxiety

Are You Grounded or Ungrounded?

Grounded

• Feel "at home" in your body

• Experience stillness and calm

• Capacity to be both responsive and receptive based on what is happening in the moment

• Feel spaciousness within yourself even if there is also an experience of stress or monkey mind

• Are able to find humor in the moment

• Feel a sense of autonomy from "group think"

• The space to feel a friendship with yourself

Ungrounded

• The tendency to overthink; looping thoughts

• Anxiety and worry running the show

• A focus on material desires

• Easily distracted

• Difficulty experiencing calm in the body

• Poor sleep; symptoms of fatigue

• A disconnection for your own felt sense of personal power and vital life force

• Unworthiness; Difficulty forgiving or experiencing self-empathy

What a powerful visualization Leah shared in the video below with us! I loved the thought of imagining grounding like a tree with roots spread far and deep and how that can help us in so many areas of our life. We can connect deeply to ourselves, and access powerful self-love and self-compassion, our root core values, safety and a great source of strength within us! If you are rooted in the ground you can give more to the world, help others, and let go of anxiety, fear, or anything holding you back. 

In this video, we talked about our own grounding practices, and Leah walked us through a beautiful one too! I shared lots of my own stories as well and I hope you enjoy it! Included, below, is a beautiful and helpful PDF about grounding too.

In case you want to jump to specific parts of this video, here’s a timestamp for when the meditation starts/stops, in case you want to drop directly into that without the conversation ahead of time. If this feels good, here are a few timestamps:

21:00 - Different Frameworks for Grounding

24:00 - Grounding in the Physical-Energetic Body

28:15 - The Benefits of Grounding as a Solo Business Owner

36:38 -  Trees as Teachers of Grounding & Long-lived Trees Roots-to-Canopy Ratio

42:30 - Grounding's Role in Visibility, Relationships, Self Promo, and Sales

51:45 - Grounding Meditation

102:15 - Final Q&A, Closing Remarks

What a powerful visualization Leah shared with us! I loved the thought of imagining grounding like a tree with roots spread far and deep and how that can help us in so many areas of our life. We can connect deeply to ourselves, and access powerful self-love and self-compassion, our root core values, safety and a great source of strength within us! If you are rooted in the ground you can give more to the world, help others, and let go of anxiety, fear, or anything holding you back. We talked about how to clearly understand the difference between earthing and grounding. Leah: -gave a simple definition of grounding within the physical-energetic human body -helped us have experience practicing this with our own bodies (in a 5-8 min active meditation) -named reasons why this is important (in business, in a relationship, having a sensitive body) -helped us name 2 different ways to tell if we are ungrounded (body cues) -helped us name 1 next step/takeaway to work with this learning in our own life -offered a free gift!

This was our 22nd event from my online Sensitive Empowerment Community! If you are interested in joining me to watch all of our events and participate in upcoming ones, I would love to have you!

If you or someone you know would love to be a speaker, contact me.

Leah:
-gave a simple definition of grounding within the physical-energetic human body
-helped us have experience practicing this with our own bodies (in a 5-8 min active meditation)
-named reasons why this is important (in business, in a relationship, having a sensitive body)
-helped us name 2 different ways to tell if we are ungrounded (body cues)
-helped us name 1 next step/takeaway to work with this learning in our own life
-offered a free gift! Get it HERE

More From Leah: I know you! You’re a culture shifter. You’re sensitive. You have your own brand of greatness in you.

But, it can be too easy for your brilliant ideas and most genuine contributions to stay on the sidelines as low-self esteem and lived trauma make taking up space difficult. This diminishes your life force and keeps you limited in your experience of success and joyful belonging. 

Thankfully, there is another way.

This event will teach you a powerful grounding framework (offered by our standing tree relatives) that can help you to sustain new levels of contribution and success, take new risks, be seen and heard in ways that you’ve always desired, and all by honoring the beautiful nature of your sensitivity.

Trees are one of our oldest and wisest teachers. They model so clearly that if we want to be an impactful presence in the world, we must build the roots to sustain the vision and generous gifts that will come from our reaching branches. Join me!

Leah Walsh (she/her) is motivated by one desire: to support conscious and creative people to uncover their unique potential and bring that light into the world. Leah loves to see every human as a beautiful and unique flower in life’s garden, but being your own flower can be hard work! It means cultivating a strong mind, deep roots and clear heart to allow your flower to grow, adapt, & bloom. Leah’s work as a Life Coach supports people do just this. Her signature coaching program, Positively Sensitive, specifically supports other highly sensitive and introverted leaders to ground their confidence, cultivate deep-rooted belonging and awaken their unique bloom. To learn more about Leah’s work, visit leahkwalsh.com

We have had so many amazing guest speakers in my Sensitive Empowerment Community and have learned a lot about how to balance an oversensitive nervous system. Check out some of what we offer in our HSP resource library!

Our next event is The coming evolution from “Highly Sensitive” into High Sensory Intelligence and what is really possible for us as HSPs with Willow McIntosh founder of Inluminance. Come join us live!