[MythiCalia] on workshops and energy work

[Shiari Ryu]

*chuckles* grounding is the easy part. And it seems to hold true here, as 
elsewhere, that centering is often generally overlooked.

Centering *is* my meditation routine, personally. I find it incredibly 
important, far more than grounding. Grounding gives you a place to stand, 
centering gives you the legs to stand upon, and the balance to keep yourself 
upright.

Centering, at least they way I know it as, causes actual physiological 
changes, most notably a relaxation of every skeletal muscle and a sharp 
decrease in blood pressure. Of the not so easily witnessed by others, I can 
feel chemical changes going on in my brain as I first completely blank my 
emotional slate, and then blank my conscious knowledge of the majority of my 
body. It is the best way that I have found to handle large stressers in my 
life. And because I do this regularly, the small everyday stresses of life 
pass me by without alighting. Not that they don't happen, but because of 
centering, I know my Self very well and can bring my personal song back into 
tune with ease. At the height of the routine, my car could be on fire, but I 
would not care.

so yeah, the slight idea I had was not on energy work... not on grounding... 
but on the centering that is so slighted and ignored in modern magic / 
energy dealings.

/passionate rambling

-Shi


>From: Eshari <eshari at eristic.net>
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>Subject: Re: [MythiCalia] on workshops and energy work
>Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:20:55 -0700
>
>From: Shiari Ryu <shiariryu at hotmail.com>
>
> > How many of you regularly meditate or do energy work?
>
>Not in any disciplined, regular fashion (e.g. every morning, although I
>do go through bursts of a few weeks to a few months where I do that),
>but I've been doing both of these things for at least ten, maybe up to
>fifteen years? (depends where you peg me on "getting serious" when I was
>a teenager)
>
> > how much do you know about grounding and centering?
>
>Enough that I would personally be somewhat bored by Yet Another Workshop
>on these. ;) (not to insult, I know it's a topic some people need help 
>with)
>
>  > What are your techniques?
>
>I usually do the "visualize a cord going into the Earth" style, although
>sometimes that is "not Right" and I find myself wanting to ground to
>stars or something else. I don't think I actually do much centering,
>actually, although I know what it is and how one is supposed to do it.
>Just not something I personally tend to include in my repertoire.
>
>  > How important do you rate it?
>
>Hrm. That depends on the individual situation. I seem to be a fairly
>good natural ground, nay even power-sink sometimes, so I am rarely in a
>flighty, over-energetic, useless state where grounding is a needed
>"antidote". That said, cycling energy up from the land (or down from the
>sky) and round again is a good "cleansing, opening" practice.
>
>--
>redwood raindrops,
>
>Eshari
>
>
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