What do you do that is grounding for you?
Sports? Sex? Eating? Painting?
Walking, drumming, playing guitar, astronomy, going out for meals with friends, going to see bands, playing in a band, every day tasks like shopping, cleaning, reading, listening to music, gentle stretching excersises. Paid work/career. I often walk barefoot in the garden or around the house. Anything that disperse energy and is everyday life outside of practices and spiritual study.
I’ve excluded sex, not because it isn’t grounding, but it can become an obsession in itself for some people.
Is “irituallity” irritating spirituality? Yeah, i’ve met those guys; not grounding at all. 
Touching the earth and plants, working with worms (little worm farm). Any exercise that makes me out of breath.
Don’t you start, M is already on my case.
iRituallity …it’s an iPad app
My iPad has decided to get very mean since its update. I mean how is that even a word? It automatically corrects it. Maybe it’s advertising Zazzle t shirts, or maybe it’s Steve Jobs final joke an anyone involved in the S word.
Maybe your ipad does it’s own practices - “i-ritual”
I know what you’re going thru - I could search for something extremely normal, and Google asks me "Are you sure you don’t mean “(something extremely abnormal and spelled wrong too)?”
Like maybe i will search for “Walmart”, and it will say “Are you sure you don’t mean Sr. Wally Martinez in San Antonio, Tx?”
Hiking where you are really isolated from human vibes can be very grounding. It’s amazing how chaotic city energy can be. Pure clarity, pure clarity. I’m not exaggerated that.
I would not call everyday life a grounding activity in a spiritual sense as it is distracting and dispersing energies.
Only a grounding activity keeping and enforcing the results of the meditation is really grounding.
The usual grounding activity is collecting the energy at the navel or deeper the see of energy as lower dantien. This is done by the buddhist meditation mudra or hands left over right (men, women the controverse)resting there for some time.
This draws excess energy in the head and heart downwards.
Generally speaking a meditation should be grounded and not head centered as in normal intellectual, unconscious and unconcentrated life. Many parts of the body are simply outside consciousness so that your picture of your body has many unconscious zones. 4 years asanas prepare for higher meditations for solving this problem mostly by much sitting upright and relaxed sitting postures.
Meditations including also the legs and whole body meditations are also contraventions against lack of grounding kundalini easily produces.
Axel
Interesting
I find solar centering enhancement of mantra in meditation is grounding: http://www.aypsite.org/368.html
Then running. Playing computer games like Call of Duty, lol. Eating meat and heavy, earthy foods. Lifting weights, and boot camp style exercise regime.
There are a few other topics that have some good suggestion on grounding techniques that I would like to add links to here :
http://www.aypsite.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7122
http://www.aypsite.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5624
http://www.aypsite.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9244
http://www.aypsite.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2395
Just discovered a few days back knitting can be very grounding.
My favorite though is walking with music on.
Hey Shanti,
So you are one of those folks with ear phones plugged in while walking,hmmmm:P
For me, taiji right after meditation twice daily work very well. Long and relaxed hiking works. social activities where you give positive energy to ppl work well, too. I used to ground by watching movies, but then all mental form of grounding can potentially bring the energy up into the head.
Gardening, shoveling horse manure, digging a ditch or other outdoors activities involving the earth. Doing asana barefoot on the beach. Tantric sex. Eating “comfort foods” like mac & cheese or cinnamon toast.
YES! Ditto on the horse manure! In fact it’s one of my favorite “practices”. So calming.
yes, today I shoveled some into pots and planted vegetables in it. such a lovely feeling!
It’s usually too strong; you have to age it and mix a little with a lot of dirt or compost.
Daily activity (work) can very specifically be amazingly grounding–my guru called such activities “simple awareness activities.” Since I retired, what I find most grounding are cooking and eating (meat included–VERY grounding!), yard-work, walking and cycling outdoors and sex. I’ve got somewhat of a balance which works most of the time…
Michael
I have not found this to be the case. Horse manure is one of the few fertilizers that will not “burn” even when it is “fresh.” I use it fairly straight up. However, here in FL it “ages” and composts on its own pretty fast.
Yeah meat is very grounding. So grounding that for me I turn into a slug if I eat meat.
It is said that because Ramakrishna would go into spontaneous ecstacies so easily that he would smoke a cigarette to keep himself grounded. (Several of the old photos of him show him doing spontaneous yoga or kriyas.)
I have not found this to be the case. Horse manure is one of the few fertilizers that will not “burn” even when it is “fresh.” I use it fairly straight up. However, here in FL it “ages” and composts on its own pretty fast.
Cool; yours is prob better than mine. i get "aged steer manure" from Home Depot but it's probably from confined animals or all kinds of non-organic chemicals in it. I used much less this year and am using worms and castings and the plants are very happy.
Well I’ve literally got tons of free composted horse manure for anyone who cares to come get it.