Grounding - an area of great misunderstanding

Many supposed means of grounding are used or recommended by healers, including holding a supposedly grounding mineral such as pyrite or tourmaline (or wearing it), imagining you have roots growing out of your feet into the ground, directing the person's auric energy more into the lower parts of the aura (supposedly to rebalance it), hugging trees, and wearing a pendant made of wood.

These methods have one overriding factor in common: THEY DO NOT WORK (well, not to any worthwhile extent)!

Okay, before some indignant healer writes to me to tell me that in her experience they do work, I have to say that that healer and indeed the vast majority of healers (of all traditions, certainly including Reiki) are chronically and seriously poorly grounded and have no idea of what a true, fully grounded state is like. Further, I would say the following:

We are all interfered with to some extent by astral entities (aka dark entities or astral beings). They are consummate masters of deceit. One of the many means by which they help gain or increase their hold on us is through getting us more ungrounded - which makes us more vulnerable to them. One of their regular tricks with healers is to covertly direct them into useless measures for grounding, in order that they believe they are regrounding themselves when they're doing nothing of the kind and remaining ungrounded, so that they do not go on to use actually effective measures to get themselves grounded.

The entities control and manipulate healers and others into believing that they are regrounding themselves by the various measures which I say are useless, by actually giving people sensations of light-headedness or other sensations which people believe indicate ungroundedness, and then reducing or stopping those sensations when the people use those measures, so that they are convinced that those methods work and then take no action to get themselves really grounded.

This is not just belief of mine - I have on various occasions experienced astral entities trying to put such deceptions upon me, with all the relevant sensations as well as little 'pseudo-thoughts' in my mind to convince me that the sensations were genuine (indeed I've had that with regard to supposedly getting ungrounded to such an extreme that I was allegedly actually in the process of dying - a ploy used to get me to hospitalize myself in December 2004). My awareness was certainly seriously poorly grounded at that time, but I was actually nowhere close to dying, but what was happening was that with my awareness so ungrounded I was open and spectacularly gullible to the astral entities' convoluted fictions and deceptions, and similarly spectacularly open to their attacks.

This is not my experience
Starkid of Brightness