Ground to claim your untethered wild mind.
Grounding is the mirror opposite of being untethered. As a woman who has finally allowed her "wild mind" to take part in daily life, grounding, at first, seems too slow, inactive, a silent dark place where imagination must go to die. I've spent the bulk of my adult life carefully tiptoeing around the corners of creative connection. Don't write that! I can't speak that! Good grief, I can't think that! I must be a good girl who only allows sanitized, picture-perfect sentences to grace the page.
To write with connection and authenticity, though, I've learned we must embrace a practice of grounding to claim the untethered wild mind. Establishing a regular practice of grounding, rooting our bodies into the center of the earth immerses us in a life-giving current of creativity and imagination we can't otherwise access.
My writer's tip for the day is a grounding visualization exercise. Find a quiet place to sit, preferably on the ground, either outside or on a pillow.
Close your eyes. Begin a long slow breathing practice of in through the nose, out through the mouth. As you engage with your breath, picture a grounding cord of thick, braided light that surrounds your hips and Sitz Bones at the base of your pelvis. Move this sacred light down through the earth's crust, all the way to the center of the earth, where your light sprouts glowing roots in the rich, fertile soil. Imagine this powerful connection anchoring you to the heart of nature, where you are now nurtured and protected by the earth mother.
Continue to breathe, bringing your mind and spirit back to this sacred connection. Settle into your stillness. Remove any doubts lingering in your body: I am not good enough, my voice is on mute, and I have nothing to say; my connection to the planet and my inner child is compromised. Take each of these thoughts and whatever other negative chatter arises and send them down through your grounding cord into the center of the planet, where they transform into light. Continue to breathe for two minutes, then start to write.