How to Stay Grounded in Any Situation, part 1 of 2

In this episode, learn to Ground yourself so you can reduce anxiety, disentangle yourself from others, experience coherence, and connect better with others. See part 2 companion video on how to stay centered - and grounded;    • How to Stay Centered in Any Situation...  

This presentation teaches the Realization Process exercise: Foundational Grounding. Because anxiety is an upward movement in the body (“my heart was in my throat”), we can alleviate anxiety by settling into seven foundations in the body: the feet, pelvic floor, respiratory diaphragm, collar bone area, base of skull and jaw, eye sockets and top of head. These foundations allow our emotional life and our mental life to settle and rest.

We do this exercise sitting and then remaining settled in the foundations while walking.

This is the first episode of a two-part series on our USABP Youtube Channel. The second part focuses on getting centered in your body-mind.

Additional benefits of the two exercises shown include helping people (such as therapists, co-workers, family members, etc.) to have a more present-day response in working with others, deeper connections, and the ability to stay open to more intense states of others.

This post is a part of our "Insider Look" and "Somatic Self Care” Series. This episode has been brought to you in part by Judith Blackstone and the Realization Process.

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Judith Blackstone is an innovative, experienced teacher in the contemporary fields of nondual realization and spiritual, relational and somatic psychotherapy. She developed the Realization Process, a direct path for realizing fundamental (nondual) consciousness, as well as the application of nondual realization for psychological, relational and physical healing. She currently has six books in publication and has taught the Realization Process for over thirty-five years throughout the United States and Europe. Her newest book is Trauma and the Unbound Body: the Healing Power of Fundamental Consciousness.

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