Return to All VideosIn this practice, we use the soles of our feet as an object of attention, in order to literally ground ourselves in the present moment, and to stabilize ourselves. This is especially helpful if we’re experiencing difficult emotions.
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i did this out side on my lawn so i could feel the earth under my feet – grass between my toes….what a feeling …
Thank you so much. It was very effective. I am very grateful.
Great practice! I would love to know about the research you mentioned at the end of the practice! thank you so much!
I am enjoying every single practice and teaching. Thank you very much for this gift! I´m from El Salvador and work with abused women, all this is very useful.
Thank you for sharing this simple practice that I can easily access when feeling overwhelmed by a client’s story…or simply when I need a pick me up.
maravillosa práctica.
muchas gracias Kristin!
I so appreciate you Kristen Neff. 🙂 that was great and I will certainly use it and share it 🙂 Thank You!!
I love it!
It was very useful. I have practiced something like this. I have so many positive experiences. I highly recommend for everyone.
Very clear and useful instruction. Thank you 🌿
Thank you for this easy and practical tool to help with grounding! I will definitely use this 🙂
Do you wait until your weight is all on one foot before moving the other one, or do you balance through movement?
excelente, práctica .asi lo usaré .
Love her practicrs and the way she connect them to thetapy
This was incredibly helpful. Thank you Kristin for your light and genuine heart.
Simple and lovely, thank you.
Appreciation for the compassion for self, for the earth, for the present moment. I will incorporate this into my practice and for my self.
Thank you
Very nice!
i CAN’T SEEMS TO GET THE TIMES RIGHT FOR THE ACTUAL LIVE SESSIONS 🙁
good job
Simple and beautiful all at the same time. Thanks
🙏🔆🙏🏽🔆Thank You 🔆Kristin for Sharing “The Soles of Our Feet” Experience! I loved the feeling of Being Grounded!
My entire Life I have been 🌈Out 🌠 ✨🌌🎆🪐💫of my Body.
With all the violence, unkindness, the Ukrainian’s People’s horrors and deaths of Earths Species…
I will Practice:
“The Soles of my Feet!”
Thank you for this excellent practice, very usefull for us as practitioners and our patients! Science behind the tehnique is also for great value to have an answer for: Why will this work?
I LOVE this!! While doing this meditation, I thought of all of you, all over the world & how we’re all connecting to the earth together. It made me feel a true connection, not just to the earth, but with to all of you, all connecting to this same earth with me…all grounded together, feeling loving presence together.
My entire heart is at peace with all of you 💜
Yes I found that grounding technique very good, thanks
Thanks, I’ll use it when my spouse and I are bubbling over
I love the science that Kristin Neff shared behind this Soles of the Feet practice, thank you. I am a long time practitioner of the Himalayan Tradition, a classical tantra yoga and meditation lineage, and thought to share that in our scope of practice, mind is inherently connected to energy. There is a basic tenet that: “where mind goes, energy flows.” So on that note, the last point she shared (that on her own thinking, bringing attention far from the head, to the feet is also effective for grounding down regulation) our tradition would say yes! That wherever one’s focus goes, energy flows, so that bringing attention downwards- to the earth (a great support system) to the sensations of the feet, etc has also an energetic pull that draws the more chaotic, upward and outward movement of energy, down. Grounding. Releasing. Supporting. I so Love this thank you.
Gracias Cristine, Blessings for your Kindness
This gathering is such a wonderful experience. Thank you so much for all the offerings. This one is particularly interesting. Just this morning in sitting meditation, it came to me that a walking meditation would be really powerful at this beautiful time of year. And then I opened the email from day 4 of this summit and Kristin offered the perfect one.
Deepest gratitude to all.
Loved this practice! Thank you! ❤️🙏❤️
Gracias, me hizo como aterrizar , recibir ese agobio q no quería ver.
Great reminder of what I know to be so! Thank you. “ Earthing” has a similar effect💜
Thank you! Would love to have reference to the research supporting this great pratice
Hello!
Amazing thanks for sharing. I love to imagine I am surrounded by trees and I am walking on the grass 🌲It helps me to be grounded and relaxed.
I think this is awsome,cause it keeps you in the most powerful state,the present
I dont think that these words Thank you express the amplitude of my gratitude toward this seminar and specially this grounding practice. It is so helpfull , powefull and I can bring it with me anywhere, any time with anybody.
I love walking practice.Thank you so much for the sharing. I learn that this practice creates the space to calm between emotion and reaction.Inspiring.
Sooper ! I certainly shall use and share this practice, thank you Kristine
I love this practise. I was taught it a little different, more of a ‘stomping of the feet’, but I think I prefer this gentle, more mindful approach. Might just use both ways, come to think of it. Be a little greedy… 🙂
Thank you, again. I keep thanking all of you for this wonderful seminar, so grateful to be here.