A Grounding Imagery Practice to Reconnect With Your Inner Wisdom

There is one practice I’ve returned to again and again for more than fifteen years.

When I feel untethered. When I’m overwhelmed. When I’ve lost contact with my own center.

This tool brings me back to me every time.

At their core, all therapeutic and coaching tools do the same essential thing: they help us access our own inner strength, wisdom, and capacity to heal.

This practice does exactly that.

Once you learn it, it’s always available to you.

Why Imagery Works

Your nervous system responds to felt experience.

Imagery allows your body to access states of safety, calm, and connection without forcing or effort. It bypasses overthinking and brings you back into relationship with yourself.

This isn’t about pretending everything is fine. It’s about giving your system a place to land.

Preparing the Space

Begin by choosing a quiet space where you feel safe and unlikely to be interrupted.

You can close your eyes if imagery feels accessible. If it doesn’t, you can write instead. Both approaches work.

Follow what feels more natural to you.

Step One: Create a Felt Sense of Safety

Picture—or write in vivid detail—a scene that evokes calm, peace, and ease.

There is no right image.

Notice:

Colors

Objects or surroundings

Temperature

Smells or sounds

Let yourself linger here long enough for your body to register the sense of safety.

Step Two: Invite a Wise, Loving Presence

From this place, invite in a soothing, unconditionally loving, wise presence.

This presence may appear as:

A human figure

An animal

A spiritual or symbolic form

Trust what arises.

There is no need to analyze it.

Step Three: Stay With the Experience

Allow yourself to come as close to this presence as feels comfortable.

Notice details:

Facial expression or energy

Clothing or colors (if applicable)

The quality of their attention toward you

Now simply be together.

No questions. No problem-solving. No effort to change anything.

Sense into your body and notice how you feel in their presence.

You can stay here as long as you’d like.

Step Four: Encode the Image and the Feeling

Before ending the exercise, take a mental snapshot of the image in detail and how your body feels right now.

Let your nervous system remember this state.

This is important.

You’re teaching your body how to return here.

Bringing This Into Daily Life

You can revisit this practice whenever you need it:

When you feel unsettled or distressed

When something feels emotionally difficult

When you need grounding or direction

You can recall the image. You can recall the presence. You can recall the felt sense.

Even brief contact can help your system settle.

A Final Thought

This practice isn’t about imagination for imagination’s sake.

It’s a way of accessing safety, support, and inner knowing—on demand.

The capacity for this kind of connection already lives inside you.

This practice doesn’t create it. It simply helps you find the door.

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