Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Miscara, and in today's episode, I'm going to share a simple grounding technique to release tension and other people's energies.

More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

Okay. to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. Okay, so this is a simple strategy you can utilize when you feel like you are holding a lot.

When there's a lot being stored in your nervous system, when you feel there's a certain kind of heaviness in your body,

or if you're an empath or a highly sensitive person, you might feel like you're accumulating a lot of other people's energy

and need to clear it and let it go.

This strategy really helps with that.

What it involves is standing barefoot, preferably barefoot, on the floor, or if you can, going outside in nature,

in the grass, making direct contact with the earth. And then imagine that your feet have

zippers along the bottom of them. So you're using some visualization here as you're doing this. So you're standing,

the eyes can be open, closed, and there's just this visualization of the bottom of the feet having

zippers. And then you're going to imagine yourself opening those zippers and everything you're holding in your body in your energetic field is just

rushing down through the body and into the earth or the surface beneath you so it's as if these

zippers are you're keeping zipped shut everything that you're holding onto.

And as soon as you open, gravity is just pulling it down,

and there's finally an opportunity for it to release and rush through.

And once you do that, just feel as though you're being held and supported by the ground beneath you.

I like to feel as though the earth, the entirety of the earth, is supporting me

because the earth can hold it all.

So we're just sending it back down, letting it disperse,

and then feeling that overall support as we replenish and reconnect to our truer selves rather than all of this extra

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