Grounding

When the spell has been bound, give attention to grounding the energy. 

This is necessary because magic is not an exact science; you rarely use exactly the same amount of energy that you raised for a spell, although you get better at this with practice.

If the spell has “taken,” there is probably at least a little loose energy knocking around in you and in your work space which needs to be grounded before you are done.

When you neglect to ground after magical work you are likely to feel the results throughout the next 24 hours or so; depending on how much surplus is zapping around, these can include restlessness, insomnia, fatigue, headaches, absent-mindedness, irritability, and proneness to accidents. 

Fortunately, there are some very easy ways to ground:

Eating: protein and complex carbohydrates, not sugar.

Physical connection with others: hugging, massage, sex.

Talking, laughing and joking.

Visualizations that root you in the earth, or centers you in the middle of the four elements. 

You can say, visualizing the elements around you, 

EARTH AND FIRE, WIND AND SEA, 

I AM THE CENTER OF YOUR CROSS, 

LIVE EQUALLY IN ME. 

You can ground yourself by paying attention to the four elements in your body--your breathing, your heartbeat which is your inner fire, your fluids and the weigh of your body on the earth. 

You can also use a grounding-cord meditation for this, feeling how the life energy of your spine connects you to the Earth.

Ground energy with a staff, wand or broom: place the tool upside-down on the ground and grasp it firmly, letting excess energy run through your hands and into the stick, and then down into the earth.