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Your Deepest Ground offers readers a powerful guide for reconnecting with a profound and stable foundation within themselves—an inner grounding that facilitates genuine psychological healing and embodied spiritual awakening.

With decades of experience as both a psychotherapist and spiritual teacher, John J. Prendergast has noticed that the most challenging place in the body for many people to access is their physical and energetic “ground” because our experiences of fear, trauma, and survival concerns have caused us to retreat or disconnect from this area. Located at the base of the spine and lower belly, this region is recognized cross-culturally as the root chakra in Indian subtle energy traditions, the lower dan tien within Taoist philosophy, and the hara within Japanese martial arts.

Though many traditions and spiritual practices emphasize opening the mind and heart, they often overlook the importance of opening and connecting deeply to this foundational inner “ground.” According to Prendergast, this area remains largely unconscious and heavily protected, limiting genuine personal growth and spiritual progress.

Your Deepest Ground invites readers to journey into their personal, archetypal, and universal foundations, guiding them past the “false ground” created by early life conditioning and limited self-concepts. In this insightful and accessible guide, Prendergast provides meaningful teachings to strengthen the connection to this essential area, introduces practical exercises in sensing and inquiry to help readers explore their own bodies and lives, and sensitively acknowledges the trauma often carried and stored there. Throughout the book, authentic stories and inspiring dialogues from Prendergast’s own teachings clearly illuminate how transformative and powerful such grounding work can be in practice.

By consciously opening to this inner ground, readers can cultivate an inner sense of stability and safety—ultimately nurturing the development of peace, freedom, and loving awareness as part of a truly embodied spirituality.

“This beautiful and deeply insightful work invites us to reconnect with our true ground—a place of inner stability and peace that lies beyond fear.” —Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance