To attune to one’s relationship with the earth one needs to awaken to one’s subtle energetic body. In the same way that the physical body is continuously nourished by digesting and metabolizing the physical substance of the planet, on a subtle level our magnetic field is nourished by the magnetism of the planet.
It is useful to first locate the rhythm of your heart. Then see if you can find the echo of the heartbeat in your hands, feet and head. Scientists used to speak of the heart as the pump of the circulatory system,but now it is understood that the heart itself is pumped by the collective action of the entire circulatory system. So you can’t think of your heart as being limited to your chest. In fact, if you feel the pulsation of circulation in your hands, fingertips, feet and head, you may feel that there is no definite boundary.
When you eyes are closed, your hands don’t feel as if they are made up of five fingers, but rather you feel the vibration that pulses through the hands, expanding in all directions and forming a field that emanates into space.
Once you have attuned to your electromagnetic field, as you inhale you can become conscious of how your life field expands with the influx of energy from the earth through the soles of your feet, through the palms of your hands and through the base of your spine. Then as you exhale, feel yourself collapsing into the gravitational field of the earth, sinking down to be composted and recycled in the body of the earth. So you have to overcome the idea that you are separate from the earth. Remember that your cells are always dividing, new cells being born and old cells dying – in the space of five years, one’s entire body is recycled. So one thinks of oneself as a cell in the body of the earth, in which the earth has articulated itself in order to experience itself.

-- Pir Zia Inayat Khan from a piece entitled The Five Aspects of Prayer and the Five Elements from a downloaded document called The Music and Life of Inayat Khan