Deborah Lipp

In our Sunday meditations, we almost always mention grounding and centering, and emphasize its importance as the beginning of all meditation.

Today, though, we’re going to use the contrast of grounding into the earth with reaching to the sky to meditate on polarity.

Take a deep breath and let it out.

Again, a deep, deep, lung-expanding breath. Let it out.

Now, feel your breath go all the way down to your hips. Let it out.

Now feel it go all the way to your toes, and let it out.

Visualize the glowing energy of your center, and move that glow down through the lower half of your body, from your middle to the soles of your feet.

Breathing into the glow, feel the energy extend out of your body, down into the earth. If you are standing, you can see the glow coming from the soles of your feet, if you are sitting or lying down, see it coming from the base of your spine. See tendrils of energy reaching out of your body and mingling with the earth.

The rich, moist, cool soil of the earth embraces your tendril of energy.

You are touched by the earth. Mother Earth holds you, and you feel Her love. Allow yourself to know that you are deeply rooted in the earth. Feel Earth energy coming up into your body. Feel rooted and solid and sure.

Now allow the glowing energy of your center to fill the upper part of your body. Breath it out into your arms and hands. Breath it up into your neck and face and head.

Extend the glowing energy that fills you up and out through your crown. Reach past the ceiling and roof if you are indoors, up into the sky. Extend your tendrils past the atmosphere, until you are in the starry blackness of infinite space.

The infinite expanse of the Sky Father embraces you. You are filled with possibility. As you touch the infinite, you know yourself as infinite. You can reach into any adventure, any dream, any choice.

Now notice that the energy from the sky is being fed back into you, coming into your body through your crown, and mingling with your own energy.

Now notice that the energy from the Earth Mother and the Sky Father meet within you. You are Their child and Their meeting place. You are a mixing of possibility and certainty, of solidity and adventure, of infinity and time.

Blessed be.