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Conscious vs Grounding - What's the difference?

conscious | grounding |

As an adjective conscious

is alert, awake.

As a noun grounding is

the return to a fully conscious state after a psychedelic experience.

As a verb grounding is

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conscious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Alert, awake.
  • Aware.
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
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  • Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness.
  • Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
  • * 1999 , Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now , Hodder and Stoughton, pages 61–62:
  • The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come.  Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious' person more intensely ' conscious .

    Antonyms

    * asleep * unaware * unconscious

    Derived terms

    * consciously * consciousness * subconscious * unconscious * preconscious * price-conscious * self-conscious

    grounding

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The return to a fully conscious state after a psychedelic experience.
  • The collision of a ship with ground beneath the surface of the water.
  • The permanence of aircraft on land because of government action.
  • (electrical engineering) The interconnecting metal chassis/frame of a device, appliance, machine, or metal raceway via a designated conductor to earth at the Service Panel. The conductor may be bare or covered (with green plastic which may have a yellow stripe (US).) This conductor does NOT carry current in normal operation.
  • The absorption of energy through visualized "roots" descending from oneself into the ground, using Qi.
  • The act by which a child is grounded (forbidden from going out).
  • Verb

    (head)