What Does It Really Mean to Be Grounded?

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Exploring energetic grounding, your personal power, and why it’s essential for healing and growth

For a long time, I thought being “grounded” meant being productive, responsible, and consistent. You show up, get the job done, and manage life like a checklist. If you were grounded, you were solid. Dependable. Reliable.

But what I’ve come to understand, through years of energetic healing, Biofield Tuning work, and deep personal exploration, is that being grounded isn’t about what you accomplish.

It’s about how you feel while you're living your life.

It’s about how you return to yourself when the world feels loud and your thoughts start to take on their familiar patterns. It’s the way your breath changes when you’re overwhelmed, and how your nervous system settles even when things aren’t perfect. Grounding is a whole-body experience of presence, safety, and awareness, an inner alignment that brings strength with softened edges and vitality to a personal foundation you can trust.

This deeper understanding of grounding is the energy behind my new Energy Tune-Up Toolkit, a collection of tools and support to help you shift your energy, reconnect with your body, and gently realign when life starts to pull you off center.

In this post, I want to share more about:

✧ What being grounded actually means to me

✧ My journey with grounding and what’s changed for me

✧ How Biofield Tuning helps support energetic grounding

✧ A first look at my Energy Tune-Up Toolkit

✧ Why I’m exploring grounding products from GroundingWell

✧ And how you can share your own grounding journey in the comments

→Let’s drop in.

The Truth About Grounding (It’s Not What You Think)

Most of us were taught that grounding means being calm, responsible, and unshakably solid. But that’s often a version of “holding it all together,” not a true experience of being energetically grounded.

Energetic grounding is when your awareness and energy drop into your body, fully. When you can feel your breath with complete inhales and exhales, your heartbeat steady, and your feet on the floor. It’s a reconnection to the moment you’re in, not from your head, but from your center.

When you’re grounded, your nervous system feels regulated. You’re not disconnected from your emotions, you’re just not consumed by them. You have the capacity to respond, rather than react. Your body becomes a safe place to be, instead of something you’re trying to escape.

This kind of grounding is a practice. It’s not about being perfect or zen all the time. It’s about noticing when you’re ungrounded, learning to recognize the tell-tale signs, and gently bringing yourself back with awareness and compassion, and patience, because sometimes it isn’t “effortless” but sometimes….it is.💛

How I Realigned My Understanding of Grounding

There was a time I could wake up, roll out of bed, and jump into the day without noticing how much noise was already in my head. The chatter was happening before I even opened my eyes, if I’m being completely honest. I’d go through the motions: reply to messages, make breakfast, and show up to what needed doing.

But there were mornings, maybe you’ve had them too, where it felt like the light inside me was dimmed. Everything was crinkled. Off. Eyebrows in a frown. A heaviness surrounded me, clung to my chest, stole my positive outlook and optimism, and told a story about how the day could go if I let it.

These mornings became my clue. My energy was out of alignment. I wasn’t grounded or centered.

It wasn’t about fixing anything. It was about noticing. Feeling. Choosing presence over autopilot. And then gently bringing in the tools I knew would support me:

⋆ Receiving a Biofield Tuning session to reset the tone

⋆ Turning on the playlist that struck my peace cords and had those lyrics that gave me gentle reminders

⋆ Using my ORA sound machine. *If you’ve joined my inner circle list, you know how this has been a lifesaver for me in the mornings after sleepless nights with my daughter. Highly recommend! 🌟

⋆ Stretching and breathing while the coffee was being made

⋆ Naming the emotions I felt, without shame

⋆ Letting the inner dialogue be heard, then softened

⋆ Returning to my body, pause, even if just for a moment

Over time, I’ve found that grounding isn’t just the first step. It’s the step I return to, again and again. The more I practice, the faster I notice the signs that I’ve drifted. The more grace I can offer myself when I do.

One of my favorite grounding rituals is slipping off my sandals and getting my feet in the sand. I feel really lucky to live so close to the beach here in Tulum. Even with the background sounds of waves crashing, music from a nearby beach club, or the occasional chatter from passing travelers, there’s a kind of peace that settles in the moment my feet touch the earth. Just walking through the beautiful spaces here, like the hotels tucked quietly into the trees, feeling the cool sand underfoot in the shaded spots where palm trees stretch overhead, it’s like the land itself is reminding me to slow down and breathe. It’s not perfect silence, but it’s presence. And most days, that’s more than enough to bring me back to myself.

How Biofield Tuning Helps You Ground Your Energy

One of the most powerful ways I’ve found to support grounding is through Biofield Tuning. This sound-based healing modality helps regulate the nervous system and bring the energy body back into balance.

Our energy field, also called the biofield, extends beyond our physical body. When we’re stressed, overwhelmed, or stuck in old stories, the energy in our field becomes disorganized. It’s harder to feel present, safe, and embodied.

Tuning the biofield helps clear that static. It’s like brushing out the tangles in your energy so that flow can return. Many of my clients describe a deep sense of calm, clarity, and presence after a session, even if they began the session feeling frazzled or heavy.

When those tangled energetic patterns begin to release, it often becomes easier to shift long-standing emotional reactions or behavioral loops. What once felt automatic, like snapping when you're overwhelmed or shutting down when you're unsure, can begin to loosen, giving you more space to respond differently.

Grounding often happens naturally through this process. It’s not something you force. It’s something your body and energy know how to do once the noise quiets down.

A First Look at the Energy Tune-Up Toolkit

That’s why the first recorded session in my new Energy Tune-Up Toolkit focuses on grounding. It’s designed to meet you where you are and gently bring you back into your body, your breath, and your baseline of balance.

The Toolkit includes:

✔ Two recorded Biofield Tuning sessions, including a grounding and centering session

✔ An energy awareness journal to track your shifts

✔ A grounding intention card and ritual prompt

✔ Easy ways to reset your energy during the day

✔ A surprise bonus to support your alignment

It’s a self-guided way to return to yourself, perfect for mornings when you wake up feeling “off,” or any time life feels like a little too much.

If you haven’t yet signed up for my Aligned Energy Awareness Guide, that’s a beautiful place to begin. It helps you identify how your energy is showing up right now and what steps you can take to begin realigning in gentle, doable ways.

Exploring GroundingWell for Physical Grounding

In addition to tuning sessions, I’ve recently begun exploring a new kind of support for physical grounding through GroundingWell, a company offering grounding mats and products designed to reconnect you with the Earth’s natural frequency. I’m all about giving this a try!

I’m always curious about ways to blend energetic and physical wellness, and I’m excited to see how these tools may enhance the grounding work I already do through Biofield Tuning and energy alignment practices. And bring me the decrease in inflammation, please!

As I begin this journey as a GroundingWell affiliate, I’ll be sharing updates, reflections, and real talk about what I notice, and I’d love to invite you to try them with me if you feel called. You’ll get special discounts with the link, and don’t forget to add GWTULAMYZHEALING at checkout!

You can learn more and shop here: GroundingWell.com. If you do try something, let me know how it goes!

Releasing Expectations in the Healing Process

Before I close, I want to say something important:

There’s no one right way to experience grounding or a tuning session.

Some days, the shift will feel subtle. Other times, it might be emotional, physical, or surprising. You may feel relaxed or energized. You may feel nothing at all, and that’s okay too.

The process is unfolding whether you “feel it” or not. The invitation is to stay open and curious. Let go of expectation. Trust your body and energy to meet you in the moment, and give yourself full permission to receive whatever is present.

Let’s Ground Together

If grounding has been a theme in your life lately, I’d love to hear what it means to you. What practices help you reconnect with your body and presence? Have you noticed any shifts with energy work, tuning sessions, or grounding products?

Drop a comment below and share your thoughts. Let’s start a conversation about what grounding looks and feels like in real life, in real time.

We’re in this together. ⚡️