Why Gentle Grounding? The Essential Choice During Guided Meditations

Heey guys and welcome back to another week of Meditation focused blogging and wellness. For my Crushes, I've decided to provide a bit extra in the blog this week, just to show that we are listening here at Jax Energetic. HEEY!!!! For our newbies welcome we are grateful to have you hear willing and eager to learn more about your well-being and the tool that helps us get to that place, meditation. Let's get started!

Whether performing any of the meditations of this program/offering or any other- be sure to consult your physician if you have known adverse reactions to any of the concepts written or included with our recording or copy.

This week's Meditation

Checking In

If you've already tuned into this week's meditation, then you already know that this meditation was created with a different listener in mind than last week's Reclaiming Your Potential 15minute Guided Meditation

This week's focus is yet again still on grounding with the exception that Gentle Grounding with Choice and Agency; a T-I practice is geared towards those of us that have trauma in our past and require a bit more freedom in how we move our body and activate our senses. The meditation is written to be concise- meaning valuable and compact to take up as little or as much of the day is needed for the subscriber's palette.

The gentle approach focuses on the comfort of the subscriber, softer guidance without the need for constant extrasensory perception and most importantly, safety of the listener as they walk through a self-directed journey through their current phase.

This blog, and the meditations themselves, are part of a Four-week Course that guide the listener through 4 distinct stages of meditation. Briefly, here are those stages:

Stage: One

Focus: Stabilization and gentle grounding

Stage: Two

Focus: Self-Compassion and Non-judgmental approaches

Stage: Three

Focus: Gentle Interpersonal Awareness

Stage: Four

Integration and Moving Foward with Agency

✨4-week Goal: BUILD EFFECTIVE MEDITATION PRACTICE ✨

Each meditation is intended to be used for the full duration of a week (7days) before moving on to the next step to ensure that the concepts are understood and feel natural and more importantly, consistent with the desired result. As with any plan the goal outcome is an identified checkpoint and therefore important to remember and work towards!

Okay, now that we have the basics covered, let's talk Gentle Grounding

What is Grounding anyway?

Grounding basically means finding your anchor point, like your breath or body's connection to the seat you're sitting in to make sure you keep contact with the awareness of the now moment. This is super important for Trauma-Informed dialog, and we make sure to stress that with the inclusion of a disclaimer at the beginning of each T-I, or trauma Informed guided meditation. Whether performing any of the meditations of this program/offering or any other- be sure to consult your physician if you have known adverse reactions to any of the concepts written or included with our recording or copy (our writings like this blog!)

Grounding: A List of what it is

• Techniques that make you feel physically and emotionally stable.

• Encouraging mindful awareness of the present moment without pressure.

• Method(s) of connection for the body and surroundings, promoting calmness.

• Step one of any meditation or self-discovery based program

The remainder of the program steps are outlined HERE to keep this article short and sweet. let's keep going with grounding!

Before we are able to achieve deep, satisfactory work, grounding, for us here in the T-I program gentle grounding, must be introduced. The ability for you to self-regulate (feel safe) and choose the practice that keeps you feeling safe is vital and foundational!

If you feel any discomfort with the following techniques- it is likely due to an activation within you that triggers uncomfortable thoughts.

These thoughts cannot hurt you, but they can be unsettling so feel free to stop the practice for the day, readjust or speak to a professional.

Closing the eyes

Deep focusing on the breath

Body scans/Internal Focus

Silence/Extended Pauses

These potential stressors you will notice are prefaced in the meditation with options that allow for Choice.

🚀Listener Comprehension🤯

If you have already participated in the meditation, were you able to identify some of the gentle grounding techniques we used?

Which technique did you gravitate toward naturally?

How trauma-Informed meditation supports your healing journey

Yay, you've made it this far, this is great! If no one has ever told you, you're important and worth the effort it takes to live your life fully. Here's how Meditation supports the daily effort to show up!

• Reduces overwhelm and re-traumatization risk often present in other meditation styles 🤕

• Builds trust within yourself and your meditation practice

• Fosters resilience and emotional regulation through intentional grounding

Must Haves for Engaging with Trauma-Informed Guided Meditations

1. Find a safe, quiet space where you feel comfortable

2. Approach meditation with kindness and without expectation

3. Use slow, gentle breathing and allow pauses as needed

4. Honor your boundaries and adjust practice according to your comfort level

   
   

Okay Crushes and Kinder folk that's all I have for this week's article. If you have any questions direct them to our link tree portal 'Contact us' tab and we'll get you together. That's our fastest, easiest point of contact.

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Also, here's the link to this week's T-I Guided Meditation, if I talked you into having a listen again, please do! I hope I did😁

see you in 7!

Be well 🩷💚💜