Our bodies are encoded with wisdom of the source to align with the whole.
Sharing this grounding exercise for ‘Embodied presence’ from Your Sacred Anatomy: An Owner’s Guide to the Human Energy Structure- Desda Zuckerman.
“Returning Presence” Exercise
1. Stand up and locate the presence where it usually lives outside of your physical body wherever you feel it or imagine it to be. For many it is the space in front of the head up a foot (the 12th chakra). Direct your intention to locate your presence with your hands and touch it.
2. Gather it into a ball moving it to the top of your head. Become aware of what you are feeling. What does it feel like in your hands? At the top of your head?
3. Move your presence into your head. Take a deep breath. Keeping your hands on your presence notice how your head feels. Is it different? Does it change you in any way?
4. Take a deep breath and bring the presence down into your throat as you exhale. Take another breath. With your hands on the presence, notice how you feel and what is different about this location.
5. Take a deep breath and move your presence into your heart center. Allow yourself to feel the warmth in your heart, the expansion or contraction that occurs in relationship to your presence. Notice what it feels like to be present in your heart center. How is the heart different from the throat center?
6. Take a big deep breath and move your presence straight down into your gut. Your lower abdomen is the best place to anchor your presence. For women, the womb, and for men, the center of the gut.
7. Feel the presence returning home to this warm and welcoming place inside you. Feel yourself settle into a comfortable and expanded resting state.
8. Now anchor yourself, placing your hand on your gut, say out loud:
‘I am present in this moment’
‘I am anchored in my body’
‘I am embodying my presence’
9. Let the experience of holding your presence in your physical body sink in.
You can evoke the memory of this exercise by putting your hand on your gut and saying at least one of the empowering phrases in step 8.