markern

Springforest includes visualization does it not? That in itself can be somewhat ungrounding. I would just drop the spring forest practices until this issue is resolved and temporarily focus on getting the grounding sorted first. Consider if maybe you need some psychological work/therapy to help with this issue. My observation has been that for some people energetic solutions aren't always sufficient if the imbalances are caused by strong underlying psychological issues. Then it is often necessary to always work in a more psychological way. Talk therapy, bodywork or more self enquiry types of practices or nervous system regulation practices. Human connection is often needed to make things move. Say for example that the reason you got ungrounded initially was because childhood trauma made you dissociate from the body or have a fight response in your nervous system (which is also ungrounding). If you then start doing grounding techniques that may sometimes be sufficient and can even help resolve the trauma but it may also be insufficient because the wounded parts of you simply refuses to let go of its protective strategies just because you do exercises that bring energy down. Those parts of you may not feel safe enough to allow you to get back into the body unless they feel more safe. And that feeling of safety may require talking to another person. Or at least looking directly at the psychological knot causing the ungroundedness. Not saying this is the case but I think it is worth checking in with yourself about. If you want to get the grounding sorted you could do something like this: Do an internal martial art like Tai Chi. It is very grounding. It both gets you deeply in contact with your feet and your stability on the ground and with your dan tien. Do standing meditation. I find it to be supremely grounding. Do deep earth pulsing. A very simple and gentle grounding qigong you can find instructions for on YouTube. Do Damo Mitchells anchoring the breath practice. It is meant to really anchor your awareness and energy and breath in the dan tien. Which grounds you. He has two videos on YouTube with instructions. Maybe add some squats and walks in the forrest. Maybe do walking meditation. You could also maybe add some more general practices like the eight brocades and five animals. They are not especially grounding but more overall balancing (which also means somewhat grounding). Just so not everything you do is super earth focused but a bit more "even". You could also consider trying Primordial Qigong/Wuji Gong/Tai Chi for Enlightenment (different teachers have different names for it). I find Primordial to be both extremely grounding while also gradually awakening higher energy centers. It kinda awakens one to deep witnessing states and more "heavenly" aspects of practice while integrating that into the body and into life instantly.

I have suffered from Qi deviation issues for years because of being severely ungrounded. I had to stop all practice for several years. The last year or so I have been able to restart a bit by doing 15 min of qigong a day. Either the 8 brocades or the six healing sounds and a session of TRE in the evening. I want to investigate more grounding exercises to try to find something that can help me further along. In general a lot of qigong and energetic exercises make me worse. Even those that are supposedly grounding. Though some work in a balanced way in moderate dosages. If you know any, please suggest whatever grounding exercises you know. Both energetic ones, such as a qigong movement, or more pure physical ones that aren't really designed to work with energy but still l has the effect of grounding energy.