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Flying and Grounding |
As humans and intrinsically spatial entities, we all respond to energies around us, feeding and being feed on others around us. We all long for that excitement that an emotional high gives us, but just like a drug if it is not balanced then we become top heavy and fall over, there are no foundations for us to rely on. For some peculiar reason we usually get the high fall over, get a bloody nose and then wonder why we did it only to repeat the process all over again because we want that high. Often replicating situations to manufacture the intense feeling of love or empathy just to get that feel good factor. In the same way that a drug gives you a downer, emotional highs do too. We are left floating around having the time of our lives when it suddenly dawns on us that there is nothing underneath us. We plummet to the ground feeling hurt, disenchanted and insecure blaming anything and everybody. People then start talking to us about balance. This really gets on our pips; we do not want balance we want to feel wonderful all the time tripping on the light fantastic. It all seems a bit of a drag our fun is being taken away from us to be replaced by a muted, mediocre boring energy.
Grounding is the next energy we get off on. We have decided that flying is a bad thing so logically grounding is a good thing. Everything or anybody we flew with or about goes out of the window. We make excuses about how silly we were and how blinded we must have been not to see the futility of it all. Flying makes us do and think irrational things we are not in control. Above all, we remember the intense pain that it caused to others and ourselves. We are embarrassed we have been caught with our pants down so to speak "Me? I wouldnt fly for all the tea in China." Given the chance and the excuse we will fly all right so do not be fooled.
The grounding energy allows us to check in on reality, test physical situations. It pinches us to make sure we are not dreaming. Logical, methodical thought returns and clarity pushes its way to the surface. We know it is a reality because the feelings and thoughts return to us repeatedly. They are what we hold onto, like a drunk holding onto the floor. Without the highs, life is stable once more. Twaddle, we still want to feel drunk on the energies and anyway what are highs without the lows? We begin to think in terms of highs being positive and lows being negative. They are both energy and can exist simultaneously.
From my own experience it took me ages to be able to face and use both energies eventually noticing that they complimented each other. As my psychic abilities increased, while attending circle, very often I prepared to fly again. Each time this happened to me someone would bring me down to earth with a sobering viewpoint on the situation I was about to spread my wings over.
As an example, one evening in circle a lady had visualized me on a flying carpet. Brilliant I thought get my wings fly high as a kite this is what I have been waiting for. She continued that this carpet was a hearthrug and in reality, I was in the front room imagining I was flying. As usual I accepted the situation and brought myself back to the ground. "Why oh why cant I have the grounding and the flying?" The answer was quite simple. In my mind, the highs and lows were two separate issues. I thought I could only have one or the other. Looking back it is easy to spot your own mistakes. To balance the energies it is not a matter of suppressing one and elevating the other, it is allowing them both to flow with free reign and balancing each other naturally. Being true to yourself is being true to all of you. There is no merit in discriminating against areas in isolation.
The fear I felt of flying prevented me from tapping into certain energies that a body needs to have that natural high. The dread I had of grounding stopped me from having something to have a base from which to fly. Many people seem to be able to do this without any real problem. I was not one of these people.
I may have learnt about bringing all energies to play in any situation when the need arose, but to earn it was to put it into practice. This meant reconstructing, consciously but most often sub-consciously, the situations that had forced me into so much trouble before. Sure enough, they arrived. I wanted to run but at the same time stay and soak up the atmosphere. I could not do both. I had to exist one with the other, not being blinded, seduced or shutting my feelings away. The energies flowed and I got carried away until a little voice inside me said "Youve been here before, observe what you are doing and why." Immediately the awareness of the different energies became clear. Flying was wonderful to feel again, however it was different, rational thought stopped me from getting drunk. The feeling of having my feet on the ground returned and I felt the benefit of being uplifted. What I had done was built up the lower energies, so being able to experience the higher ones and benefit from both.
Another subtle but very important change had taken place. No longer did I perceive that the energy was only passing between others and me causing the feed eat feed eating syndrome. The energy was passing through us from a higher source. The need to hang on to the other persons energy for fear of not getting my fix was no longer there. My own connection to that infinite cosmic source had been made. No pain, no heartache and at last an appreciation of the true reality of the situation.
You cannot unlearn television was the phrase used by my guide to illustrate the reason we go through such emotional ups and downs until there comes a point when we have to balance things out for our own sanity and development. When I had flown once I could not unlearn it, but it was no good for me. Grounding became my watchword and now I could not unlearn that either. So, I had to find a way to use both. Thankfully, I would not be able to unlearn that experience. These lessons seem so simple and have a physical counterpart but it is not so easy to see the similarities. Even when recognized they have to be applied.
Effect before cause? The effect was that I was ridiculously high sometimes and mind bogglingly grounded at others, both of these effects generating ripples elsewhere in my life. The cause was my imbalance. It could be argued that I was unbalanced first, but I did not know that at the time. It was not until the realization of the cause that the whole picture unfolded. The backwards realization is a good tool for looking at life in a different way, very often pointing you in the right direction.
This took around a year to recognize and start to take effect but well over eight years had passed from my first introduction to it. During which time more effects and their causes had been recognized. The sudden dawnings are a culmination of work that may have been going on in the background for decades, each waiting for an appropriate time to jump up and bight you on the nose when most benefit will be made of them. If all the answers came in one flood, we would be totally confused not having being able to absorb them or work them out.
All these concepts had been talked of with guides at one time or another in the past, amazing how I had to keep being reminded of them. Now and then, it would all make sense only to be replaced by confusion when a new situation was faced. Then I would have to apply the same learning processes to bring my vision into focus. This process did work and I tested it on every situation that I was faced with. Guides and especially Aiddrienne seemed so far away, but the things that I had learned stayed with me. Whether or not I believed in their reality now did not matter, it could all have been one big dream, but the effects had helped me to heal my life and I was feeling spiritual again.
© Phil Ironside