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Hello all,
Since I have got a positive response about these steps, I have decided to add all the exercises in one place here, so that it is accessible to all.  I have added a little more info to the existing ones, and grounding as well as clearing aura and protection... Enjoy reading and making use, feel free to make it your own and play around with the ideas...

In my opinion, there are three very important steps that we need to undertake when we do REiki or any other type of energy work. 

1) Clearing/cleansing/brushing the Aura
2) Protection
3) Grounding


Clearing and Brushing the Aura

Clearing the aura is important because the aura can become clogged up with negative energies of our own and those of others.
If we have others energy around us we can feel anxious,lost, worried and ungrounded for no reasons at all, that’s because not only we have our own negative energies around us, we have that of others too.  It is necessary that we clear the aura daily.  This makes sure that we remain with clean, crisp energy round our own self.
Exercise.
Imagine the hose of a vacuum cleaner is entering the top of our head, this hose vacuums all the negative energies around us. Imagine that it starts from the feet, going up and up until the energies around us feels white and clean.  Once we feel that the energy around us is clean, we surely have cleaned the energy around us, leaving only our own, white energy around us.  The process is complete, imagine the hose is coming out of the head and being absorbed by the universe. 
Now you are ready for grounding and protecting

Now about Protection...

I have already talked about clearing and brushing the Aura in another post, now I will talk about protection, its importance and place in energy work.

Since I have started doing Reiki, I have never worked or even thought about healing, attuning or doing any sort of energy work without having the three above steps.  This is a must in my opinion.  I have met and spoken to many Reiki masters and have also met a few who have all the burn-out symptoms and illnesses.  I was surprised as to how that was possible as a healer.  The truth is that, better safe than sorry, I take myself as an example.  I don't feel any of my clients, students symptoms after having sent healing energy or attunement to them. 

Thank god my masters have taught me to always clear, cleanse, protect and ground myself and so I continue to do it.  However, I have noticed that many people do not even know about these very important steps and they do energy work.  I have met people who always feel sick, ill, tired, drained, upset, emotional, ungrounded after having sent healing, after receiving or sending energy.  I always ask these people the same question... Are you clearing the aura, protecting and grounding yourself? the answer is always NO.

I am not surprised that this is happening to them, many of us when we work with energy we become highly sensitive and become like a sponge, we take other people's energies.  Over the years, if we carry on taking those energies and not clearing it, we'll end up having a manifestation of issues, illnesses or dis-eases.

Afterwards these people will tell me how amazing they feel after a session, they no more take other people's energies because they are so protected.  I have received much feedback from people who have started protecting, grounding and clearing their auras frequently, they told me that there has been a very noticeable change in their healing techniques and the result have been amazing to say the least.

As Lightworkers, we cannot afford to take on negative energies, we have a much bigger life purpose; to heal and to spread light, so if we get sick from stale, stagnant energies.  Sometimes even going out can be difficult if we are sensitive to our environments and crowded places.  It is always good to protect oneself before we even get out of the house.  The best time to do it is before we get out of bed in the morning.  It takes roughly 10 mins to clear the aura, protect and ground.

I for one never get out of the house or carry out any healing work, attunements, empowerements without clearing, protecting and grounding myself.  So I highly recommend this three stpes before doing any energy work and or going out into crowded places.


There are many ways of protecting oneself. I use two methods, sometimes I use both simultaneously, sometimes I use just one or the other, depending on how I feel. 

One way is to imagine white light surrounding the whole body, imagine the light as an egg shell that surrounds the whole of us.

The other way is to imagine a ball of mirror around the body.  The mirror reflects on the outside, so it's as if the person facing us can see themselves into the mirror.  The mirror has a very powerful effect, it pushes away anything away from us as if reflecting it back to the source.

Some people might not like using the mirror ball, if that is the case, use the white light shell protection, the only issue with this one is it lasts  lesser time than the mirror ball, whilst the mirror ball can last the whole day no matter how harsh the energies around us, the white light depletes very quickly.


I have used both and personally I prefer the mirror ball as I find it better,everyone is different!

Hope to hear some feedbacks if you use these exercises, i would love to hear from you.


Grounding...

Why Grounding?
•   Grounding helps us remain in the present
•   Makes healing more efficient
•   Brings life into matter
•   Help us understand our purpose in life, that we are here for a purpose, when we are grounded, we start to understand and find out what that purpose is
•   Connects us to the divine source and power
•   We can release negative energies through our grounded-ness
•   We can attain very high spiritual connection to the earth.



Exercise
Imagine that you are a strong tree, a tree of your own choice ( I like oak trees, because they are strong and powerful), choose a tree that you like, imagine that you are that tree.  Imagine that you are tall, strong, powerful, with strong branches, you see yourself as the tree, you are the tree, you feel heavier and heavier, because you are growing roots from the sole of your feet, the roots grow deeper and deeper into the earth, the roots are going deeper and deeper, it even goes through stones, it is so strong, powerful and fast, going even deeper into the earth’s crust, it is going to the core of the earth, the purifying, cleansing orange, deep crimson core of the earth.  It finally reaches the core of the earth, it touches the red hot, crimson core of the earth, this core purifies the roots, cleans and cleanses it.  We feel energised, full of life and connected to the earth.  We are now grounded strongly.


We have to do this exercise everyday, it helps us be in the here and now and also gets rid of all extra energies ( negative) that we do not need, by doing this exercise, we can be sure to feel really connected and one with the earth.
Other things that we can do to keep us grounded;
Drink plenty of water
Keep a smoky quartz crystal with us all the time
Surround ourselves with plants and be in nature as much as possible
Do yoga, tai-chi
Love animals

Thanks a lot for reading this.

Lotsa love and light
Kiran x

Hi Jean,

Yes, It is easy to forget to do all these regularly, especially if we aren't used to it.  I usually do it first thing in the morning everyday, then that leaves me free to do attunements and healing all day long if I like.

I use the white light method of grounding too, but I use so many others depending on how I feel for the day, grounding at the end is grounding no matter what method you use.  I use the tree method as well, which is visualising myself as an oak tree going all the way to the core of the earth and the energy from the core coming back up to the top of the tree.  I also continue grounding myself to the universe, which makes it a complete grounding and protecting in my opinion.  There are so many ways of doing it, whichever you feel comfortable with is good for you and usually trying them can be a good way of knowing which one we prefer.  So that's what I do, I try and have my own favourites too.

Yes, I use the white light method too, sometimes use many light colours around me, including rainbow colours.
Try pink for emotional protection and wellbeing
Blue for communication
Yellow for power
or Rainbow for everything...
I do all these somedays or other times I just use one... Depends really on my feelings for the day.

The mirror ball in my opinion is the ultimate protection, for me it protects me even against strong feelings and energies. Try it and see.

Glad you like this article.
Lots of love
Kiran x

Thank Dear Kiran ..

U r 100% right .. i do all these steps daily .. even  before leaving home .. i protract everything like my car my purse .. and my hubby and my kid . my house etc ..

and i can see the difference ...
u have explained it very well ..

Thanks
Love & Blessings
Neelam

Hi Kiran,

Thanks for the info & reminder...especially for the clearing of Aura! i always miss that step!!! 

many blessings
xian

Hello Kiran,
I really understand now the feeling and need of grounding. I got the rainbow serbent attunement from Ian. I never felt like this before... but I still dont know WHY we have to ground... yes to be there and here, but what is the reason. I read something, funny enough, just before I got attuned to the rainbow serbent.. it speaks about trees to and I want to hear what other people say about this comparison and the meaning of balancing the earthly matter and airy matter (see later the terms)...

the reading comes from rudolf steiner, the agricultural course. He speaks about trees and plants and tries to show the difference and why it is important to apply a particular paste (tree paste called, with a preparation called BD500 that encourages route growing ( or grounding?  as you see later). he said, trees have no roots. the trunk and brunches are the roots. they are the means of grows and expansion as the roots are with herbeaous plants. bascially the fruits of an appletree or leaves of an oak tree grow directly on the "roots" of the tree.
So further, which I find is interesting if we compare it with us humans. Tree, as they have no roots (in the ground) are exposed to too much airy elements or astrality or light etc. There is no balance between the airy element and the earthy element. For this reason he advised to apply this paste (which encourages root grows to give the earthy element to the tree)...

I think we are very similar to a tree. We need this balance between earthy element and airy eelemt.  this balance makes us to be here???

And then, it makes more sense to me, why we should send our kids in the garden, work with their hands, digg in the sand, fall ont he floor etc. this is earthy activity, isnt it. as more a child is exposde to it, as more grounded it will be.
Can we perhaps say that most of the hyper active children are not grounded?

what are you thoughts on this???

Then.. indigos, star children, walkins etc.. they are airy matter, arent they? they would be also be in conflict with not being grounded??? I once heard an interesting thing about special people. I was told, "they have not landed yet- they are still up there". An open channel to the universe basically. The guy who told me this was running a camphill community and they successfully work with special people. Guess what, letting them working on land, baking, weaving, knitting, spinning - all hands on, all earthly matter. I think they ground them. These special people were so grounded, so present.

Can someone add some more infos to why we need to be grounded? What are your thoughts on my theory? (sorry for try to bring it all into logic..  this is me..  )...

love to hear from you...

Dearest Fairymeadow,
Sorry for the delay in replying to your post.   Rather busy these days with a lot of projects, courses and life itself.... But loving it really, no complaints at all .... Grateful for everything ....

Thanks very much for your post, to be very honest with you you have answered the questions yourself and I don't need to add anything to what you have written and also reading the post of Sunflower Healer, everything is so accurate and to the point and I have a big smile right now..... xxx

I agree wholeheartedly to everything that has been said so far.  My personal opinion is that we are all different in the level of grounding we need, some of us need more grounding as opposed to others of us need less or none at all, yes, depending on the elements we are mostly attuned with.  I need grounding because of the airy elements in me.  I have noticed other people are fine not grounding themselves, it's all a matter of feeling the need to or not.  Nothing is right or wrong trust me... I always say to people to feel what is right for you, if one feels the need to ground, do it, if one feels that there is no need, then there isn't. 

I feel focused and in the "present" when I ground myself, same with aura cleansing and protection, but others may feel that they do not need it or do not believe that it is important.  What works for me will not necessarily work for others, it is a gage to help others decide if it is something you or someone else need.  We are the best judges of what we really need to do and I am a great believer of using our own feelings and intuition in deciding.

As to the point of whether some children need it; I suppose it again relates to the elements present.  I also believe it is a matter of experimenting, watching whether they are more grounded after activities such as gardening etc... I suppose that is an area of research and there is a great need for one.  As far as I know, no research has been carried out on this issue, so it is really a moot point still, which will be based on personal opinions and experimentation.


To be honest with you, I feel I haven't landed yet .... lol ..... hence the need to constantly ground myself.  But yes I concur to everything you have said and thanks for your post.  I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, I hope I have answered your question, please feel free to ask my opinion on any matters.  Love to you and Sunflower xxx
In Light
Kiran xxx