Mundanely Magical Monday: The Season of Grounding

Grounding has become one of those wellness words we toss around constantly — as if touching the earth or stepping barefoot into the grass is a magic pill to settle our nervous system.

Yes: the earth does have a resonance.
And yes: standing barefoot on the earth does do something.
It brings us into presence, into a quieter version of ourselves where we can actually feel what’s happening in our internal world.

But here’s the truth we don’t talk about enough:

Grounding isn’t location-dependent.
It’s presence-dependent.

how to practice

simple exercises to weave into your daily life

You don’t need to be barefoot on a mountain at golden hour to access your calm.
You can be grounded in a grocery store checkout line.
You can be grounded while comforting a crying child.
You can be grounded in the middle of a crowded airport or right inside your own swirling mind.

Because grounding is not about the tool.

It’s about the connection.
The way you come back to yourself.
The way you interrupt the spiral of chaos and return to what’s factually, concretely real in this moment.

That’s where your power is.

Grounding Practice: Neutral Thinking

When you feel unsteady, scattered, anxious, or “up in the clouds,” try this:

1. Pause.

Don’t try to fix anything.
Just stop for one breath.

2. Shift into neutral thinking.

Ask yourself:
“What is actually happening right now? What is factually true in this moment?”

Not:

  • What you fear might happen

  • What you think you should be doing

  • What someone else expects of you

  • What your brain is spiraling about

But simply:

  • What your body is doing

  • What is physically around you

  • What your senses are taking in

  • What is real and present right now

Examples:

“I’m sitting in a chair.”
“My feet are touching the ground.”
“My breath is moving in and out.”
“I’m in my kitchen.”
“There’s sunlight coming through the window.”

Neutral.
Factual.
Reality-based.

3. Let the mind return to now.

Ungroundedness is almost always a symptom of the mind being in ten different timelines at once.
Neutral thinking pulls the mind back into one place — this moment — the only place grounding can actually happen.

why this works

Because grounding is really about:

  • presence

  • clarity

  • being in your body

  • reducing mental static

  • surfacing what’s actually going on

Nature helps us do that. But remember, we are nature. So we can literally access grounding anywhere.

Welcome to the Season of Grounding

This month we’ll be exploring how to ground in your body, in your breath, in travel and in your community — no matter what life is doing around you.
You don’t have to escape your life to feel steady.
You just have to come back to what’s true.

Breanne Kiefner