H ha ha Shredder, yeah I liked ninja turtles

but my nickname actually comes from a style of guitar playing

AlthoughI do feel quite an affinity to the all wise shredder rat. Music was Something I had to take up instead of art ( which I hope to get back to )because
I kinda have like a "radio" playing 24/7 in my head the most incredible music - actually a song called "midway creatures" by Steve Vai now has new meaning to me
and seems very fitting whilst writing in this forum - in my head that I pretty much can't turn off so now I spend a lot of time trying to play it.
I used to teach guitar and music theory but stopped for 15 years to look after my now passed partner full time.
I am 100% certain it (the music)comes from
"place of of all knowledge" I bought a guitar years ago with a pyramid inlay, on close inspection when I got it home on each coner of the pyramid was a tiny 7

But its not just the music, I seem to know a lot of things I ( or anybody ) otherwise would have no way of knowing,
like who's about to call on the phone or what someone is going to do or happen to them,
"predicting" and dreaming things that will happen (and often do ) and making connections between things that seem totally unrelated but are
later found out by the mainstream are totally reliant upon one another. Animals and kids seem to be
fascinated by me which is kinda unnerving when a young child hellbent on getting his/her mum to buy him chocolates just
stops and stares at me like in a trance of some sort - i sometimes think " what on earth have I got stuck to my face" lol I have to remind myself
that the young are more open to other realms and possibly see that Im connected to them in some way.Babies are the worst, oops that sounded bad,
babies are beautiful but I meant when they might be screaming and they set eyes on me the just stop and stare transfixed ( as you could imagine my late partner loved this with our kids

Peoples pets that are protective of their owners just always come straight to me for affection.
people also have a habbit of passing on or either side of my birthday - also a nerve racking time, as well as Good Friday where I have suffered a significant injury on many many a yearoccaisions. The list goes on and on just like me now, I guess I'm still rather on a high at finding this site and finally making the
time connections with my celestial friends that Ive had for so many years now

I think I overlooked this connection because to me once we evolve
to that state I figured well travel is at the speed of thought and being that the speed of light itself has a limit but thought doesn't, time to the celestials would have no meaning - but now its becomming clear.
Enough of my waffling and to James Praagh. I would gladly relate my grounding exercise from him as it was a seminar and obviously given orally
( actually he got the whole audience to participate and talked us through it - just wonderful ) so I feel that I wouldn't be breaching any copywrite
and would go as far as to say that he would approve wholehearted in sharing "safer" medition practises. OK James suggested that as we begin to relax
we should visualize on making a connection with just what we are sitting/lying on etc at first. then as we relax more ( I use the shakra colours whilst I'm doing this )
"feel" and reach out through the chair ( almost like it is part of you ) or whatever to the ground then the earth and then as deep as you can go to the core. We don't have to get to the core first go just into earth is a good start. The visualization of the connections you make can
be anything you are comfortable with ie chain, rope, as long as its something that you can identify strength with ( I like to use a beam of pure energy directly from my soul. But yes as you said the idea is to balance your energy to that of this earth

I try feeling for the magnetic energy of the planet and try to align with that and find it gives a meditation sitting a powerful kick in the rear but is also a direct relation to the energy in the space directly around our little corner of the universe

The most important message that James had about grounding was that if we don't ground ourselves first we can leave ourselve open to malevolent beings ( thankfully well outnumbered ) Well yeah there really wasn't much more to it, yet a simple but extremely effective preparation and then its off to surf the universe/s safely.
Oh the realm of all knowledge ... I wish I had word but I can highly recommend any "book" from there, hard to read but the best thing is there's no late fees
I would like to eleborate further and tell of many other cool experiences but I feel that I've gone on way too long and it is time to sit back and enjoy the happiness at finding this wonderful site.
I went on so much that I forgot to mention that I loved the cakewalk analogy.
From another child of the universe
Love to you all