I wish someone had told me this 5 years ago...
I created Grounded & Spiritual because I wish someone had told me this 5 years ago...
Back when I was squeezing personal development podcasts while cooking, cleaning, and in the 2 minutes of brushing my teeth.
I just wanted to know the first step.
What do you do when you’re losing yourself in the chaos of your mind, and you can’t wait for next week’s therapy session? When you don’t have access to psychedelics, and you don’t want to wait for anyone to bring you anything, for that matter, but need something to work NOW!
So many times I didn’t know which voice to listen to (whether that was about which country to live in, whether my marriage was really worth it, or whether sitting in meditation today was really going to change anything…)
Meditation gave me that in 2016. I had, what people must mean when they talk about “awakening”. And after that… I spent years trying to recreate that mental clarity and overwhelming gratitude, a kind of presence that heals everything.
Until I found the practice I taught inside Grounded & Spiritual.
Since teaching the class last Tuesday, I’ve had more breakdowns and breakthroughs than I can count . Because a week from today I’ll be off-grid in the Nevada desert, experiencing (or should I say, surviving) Burning Man for the first time.
Unlike what you see in the photos, the process is 99% worrying, stressing, rushing, and over-spending and 1% enjoyment. But more on that on my next email…
This morning, I woke up with a knot of anxiety in my chest, then did my meditation and shifted it completely.
Not because the anxiety isn’t real. It is. And it has an excellent reason to exist as I’m about to embark on an experience that will stretch the sh*t out of me and triggers anxiety about life itself… Apparently there are many ways to die out there (apart from OD). It’s just that anxiety is not the bottom of the well. Anxiety is rumination and rumination keeps me stuck.
The practice of returning to the present moment, and dare I say, entertaining the idea that those thoughts are not all there is, and they may not even be true… allowed me to access something deeper. Clarity.
Which is what will actually help me move forward and prepare well enough to ensure I don’t die.
They’re both thoughts. But one keeps us stuck. The other brings insight, direction, and energy to do something about it. (Remember, action is the cure-all). And these kind of “downloads” only come from a clear state of being, when you return to alignment with your true Self, knock your little self out of the way (for lack of a better term ) by not feeding the stories with your precious attention and return to the present moment, again, and again, and again, where healing and liberation live.
Doing this, whenever you need it, at all times, is what Grounded & Spiritual is all about.
Here’s what some of the live attendes shared 👇
Remember: If you’re not excited, if something feels off, it probably is. That doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with you. It means you’re not at the end of your journey yet.
This class might be exactly what you need to shift your energy, reconnect with your clarity about what to do and how, and finally move past the excuses (which, btw, tend to be everyone’s excuses, so you’re not that special there ).
Underneath the fear, the doubt, the “reasons” why you can’t, lies your presence. A knowing. That’s just waiting for you to remember. And to be whole again. Healing is reconnection to Self.
Let this be the moment you remember.
With heart, soul, and gratitude,
Alexandra
