Comments on: The experience of being grounded

By: Ralph Strauch

Ralph Strauch — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:08:54 +0000

Very true, Dieter. Being grounded is the most basic form of support, the one on which all other forms of support — emotional support, financial support, etc. — rest. So we respond to the sense of being unsafe or unsupported in any way by tightening and lifting ourselves away from the ground, disrupting our sense of being grounded. I’ll have more to say on this later on.

By: Dieter Didier Stoecklin

Dieter Didier Stoecklin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:08:21 +0000

Being grounded or not is closely linked to issues of fear of falling or feeling safe. In the last resort the ground we are standing on is what stands between us and abyssmal depths under us. Were it not for the ground, we could fall into a black hole towards the center of the earth that we dimly know to be hot as hell.
No wonder earthquakes are such dramatically traumatic experiences.