How Your Grounding Supports Your Knowing

Posted on April 29, 2025

It’s easy to feel confused about which direction to take in your life or to struggle with the little decisions about how to use your time and energy. How would it support you to gain more clarity and feel more empowered in your choices?

Glennon Doyle the author of the book Untamed writes about getting clarity this way:

“I now take orders only from my own Knowing. Whether I’m presented with a work, personal, or family decision – a monumental or tiny decision – whenever uncertainty rises, I sink. I sink beneath the swirling surf of words, fear, expectations, conditioning and advice– and feel for the Knowing. I sink a hundred times a day. I have to, because the Knowing never reveals a five-year plan. It feels to me like a loving, playful guide, like the reason it will only reveal the next right thing is that it wants me to come back again and again, because it wants to do life together.”

Doyle’s Knowing is how I feel in my most grounded and present state; inhabiting my full body, and owning my energy field. I ground myself often throughout my day, understanding that through this grounded place my Knowing emerges.

When I teach the grounding skill, my clients often say: ‘I feel like I’ve come home to myself for the very first time.”

This is a gift they give themselves over and over again, every single day. They notice that it’s easier to make aligned decisions. They have no difficulty finding their clarity. They know their authentic yes, and their authentic no.

Clarity emerges from Grounding because your energy is here and now and not tied up with other times and places – there and then.

Using Glennon Doyle’s language, this is how you sink into your own Knowing. Grounding repeatedly, you’ll notice that clarity reveals itself to you.

Take a moment.

Think of a time when you’ve been scattered and unfocused, and that state of being led to decisions that didn’t support and nourish you.

What do you notice as you review that time? What shows up in your body?

How do you imagine the experience would have been different if you had been Grounded, able to access your Knowing?

Now recall a time you felt grounded and focused, clear and calm. Was it easy to make decisions and lead from your Knowing?

Grounding enables clarity, self-awareness and the ability to trust that you are able to access your Knowing and consciously choose what is right for you.

Sarah Bernauer

I am a certified Energy Healing Practitioner from the Energy Healing Institute. My certification practicum included more than 200 hours of supervised practice client activities, as well as ongoing didactic and experiential learning. I create active partnerships with my clients, supporting their inner work and facilitating healing through clearing sessions and sharing tools and practices for the client to use outside of our sessions. It is a privilege to work with my clients and to witness their embodiment, empowerment and conscious awareness evolve as they shift, grow and heal.

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