For Highly-Sensitive People: Grounding

Here are some ways to help highly-sensitive people from absorbing other people's "negative energy."

Get Grounded

You can do this first thing in the morning -- and it's a great start to your day. Highly-sensitive people often have trouble staying grounded because they feel everything so intensely and live in their heads. Grounding is a good first step to take so that we don’t carry around other people’s emotions and energy as if they were your own. You can practise the following:

Have a shower in the morning and imagine the water washing away all of your negative energy down the drain, and the water filing you with white light and love. Drinking at least one large glass of water upon waking up will help a lot, too. Water is naturally grounding.

Visualize roots growing out of the bottom of your feet. The roots reach deep into the ground. Picture this until your feet feel weighted down.

Spend five minutes each morning meditating, and focusing on your breath. Breathe in for seven seconds, hold for four seconds, then exhale for seven seconds, and hold for another four seconds before repeating. This is a great way to get in touch with your breath and inner-self.

Sit on or touch the earth/ground. Walk on the ground in bare feet. Going into nature is one of the most grounding experiences a person can have. It is powerfully cleansing and helps us focus on a world outside of ourselves.

Visualization and Clearing 

Visualization is a great way for keeping other people’s energy separate from your own. You can visualize yourself protected by a huge rainbow bubble when interacting with “energy-suckers”, or you can visualize yourself in a box. The box allows positive energy to enter, but repels any energy you don’t want. You can still sense what others are feeling and thinking, but once you have recognized their energy, it stays with them. You don’t become entangled in their energy at the end of a conversation.