As you're probably aware, every movement in your body happens thanks to electrical currents. You eat food, which gets metabolised into energy through chemical reactions, that power your body..
The surface of our dear Earth mother is electrically charged, when we stand barefoot on her we are like phones with their chargers plugged in: she provides us with an unlimited constant supply of electrons.
When we spend time in nature we often refer to it as charging our batteries and this is indeed exactly what happens. As they often do, the word reveal more of reality than we consciously perceive.
Grounding (also known as earthing) refers to contact with the Earth's surface by walking barefoot outside or sitting, working, or sleeping indoors connected to electrically conductive systems, that transfer the energy from the ground into the body.
In other words, when you are 'connected' to nature, quite literally.
Unfortunately, this has become a rarity in modern life. Almost all shoes have rubber soles, and we insist on isolating ourselves using asphalt and cement.
I haven't been able to find any research on how long time the average person is grounded today, but I would expect an average urban person to be grounded less than an hour per day.
When we lived in nature, before we isolated ourselves from it, I would image the reverse being true: we were perhaps ungrounded an hour per day..
I think everyone knows how good it feels to walk barefoot on a beach, or on a path through the forest, and consider that it's actually pretty simple to make your life a little more like that every day.
When you're grounded, you become an extension of the Earth's own electromagnetic field, which prevents any current from building up on the outside of your skin: Static electricity, as we call it.
That doesn't mean that you're protected against all kinds of EMF, but it should help a whole lot.
The research suggests that the ungroundedness is a major contributor to disease and poor health. It also shows that grounding yourself brings strong, immediate benefits.
Below you can see commonly reported benefits of grounding, some of which are scientifically proven, while others are only ancedotally reported at this point.
The charts below show people's circadian rhythms before and after they started sleeping on a mattress that connected them to the ground..
Below are survey results from study participants who slept on a grounding sheet that was either connected to ground or not. These numbers reinforce what I stated at the start, if you had slept on a grounding sheet then you would know the feeling already.
In the exact moment that you ground yourself, a rapid activation of the parasympathetic nervous system and a metabolic healing response occurs, needing more oxygen consumption - you take a deep breath, can you feel how good that would be right now?
In the study above, two groups of young men completed an exercise program while on a controlled diet, sleeping schedule in a hotel.
As you can see, the grounded men experienced a *lowered* white blood cell count despite the strenous exercise program. The post-exercise muscle soreness was decreased by more than half, which is quite incredible considering that this is the first intervention that has ever been able to decrease DOMS.
Below we see significantly reduced muscle damage after an intense treadmill exercise in a triple-blinded study!
We have also seen significant measurements of:
» Lowered Inflammation
» Improved Heart Rate Variability
» Higher Blood Sugar Stability
» Improved Bone Health
» Better Mineral Blood Parameters
» Increased Metabolism
» Normalized Circadian Rhythm
» Better Sleep
» Improved Blood Pressure
» Decreased Cardiovascular Arrhytmia
» Improved Autoimmune Diseases
» Increased Blood Fluidity
As previously stated, when you are grounded you become a part of Earth's magnetic field: You become 'electrically immortal', if you have a reactant toxin in your body, mother Earth has the electron you need, because electrons act as natural antioxidants.
You can see the body inflammation through heat imaging.
Here's what just 20 minutes of grounding looks like:
It is not a stretch to imagine that you literally become smarter while you are grounded. It would actually be quite surprising if that wasn't the case, if you ask me.
I could go on, but I think we've covered that being grounded is a critical component to staying healthy.
You must be wondering, how can we ground ourselves more? Walking barefoot in nature sounds lovely, but it's easier said than done. However, when the opportunity arises, throw away your shoes and walk barefoot!
Have a look at these three Jasmine flowers, they are all cut from the same bush, but only two of them are grounded. All three are in metal pots, but the one to the left is on an isolating plastic lid. The one to the right is on a grounding sandal.
The doctors that are aware of the benefits of grounding typically recommend to their patients that they ground themselves for 20-30 minutes daily, because asking for more would be unreasonable.
We have a simple suggestion that allows you to ground for 400+ minutes daily, every single day without fail, at no extra effort.. Doesn't that sound great?
All it takes is a one-time investment in a grounding sheet!
There are a lot of cheap, poor grounding sheets out there, that will cease to be electrically conductive after you wash them a few times! The solution is to have a grounding sheet of very high quality, because then you can have it underneath your regular bedsheet, so you rarely need to wash it.
Many say that you can ground yourself using the grounding pin of your electrical outlet, and while that may be true, and many of the studies referred to above have been performed in that way, it is not what we recommend, it is far better to connect your grounding sheet to a waterline instead, such as a water-radiatior, water pipe or faucet.
Connecting to a waterline works great if you have metal pipes. In modern buildings plastic pipes is somewhat common, in this case you would want a grounding rod! This is simply a piece of conductive metal driven into the ground.
When you use a grounding rod you want it as deep as possible into the ground, and you want the ground to be as wet as possible, since this increases electrical conductivity a lot.
Food for thought:
You would get the strongest ground connection from the ocean.
Above you see a grounding strap - the electrician's best friend, used by people handling electronics, as grounding provides protection from static electricity; something that can sometimes destroy sensitive electronics. An easy way to ground yourself in many different situations!
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