Meditation Mondays: Setting Up Your Grounding Practice

In my new IG Live Meditation Mondays series led by my colleague Erica Rodas and myself, where we dive into the building blocks that will help create a foundation for your meditation practice. This week on February 8th at 6 PM we will be exploring Setting Up Your Grounding Practice.

Your grounding practice is how you set yourself up and create an optimal environment for your meditation practice.

Things to consider: Where, When and How?

You may choose to sit on a chair, couch, bed or if you are like me, lay down on a yoga mat.

Most meditation experts recommend sitting with your feet on the floor and your body upright. But- I say go with what makes you most comfortable, but not too comfortable that you may fall asleep. I find laying on my yoga mat works best for me and that is paramount to “doing it right”. 

Setting up your grounding practice also includes picking a spot where you come to meditate, a time of day and the amount of time you want to devote to it.

Tip: schedule your meditation as you would a workout. Use your phone to set a timer and/or put it in your calendar as an event or reminder so you know when you are scheduled to go for it! 

We set up our grounding practice to settle in and find safety before and during our meditation practice. Again, the details are in your hands- do what feels good to you and you are doing it “right”.

Setting up your grounding practice is important to create space between our everyday lives and your meditation practice.

In our everyday lives we are constantly stimulated and pushed and pulled in multiple directions. This can lead to an overactive or overly stimulated mind and body. Through setting up a grounding practice we recognize this is not our natural state of being and that our environments often create our overactive minds and bodies. 

We may feel a sense of resistance when setting ourselves up in our practice which can be attributed to how our systems are so accustomed to being overly stimulated and the habits we have created to navigate these challenges. 

Rolling with any resistance allows us to develop trust with our minds and bodies and engage in a meaningful meditation practice.