I love grounding. It’s a simple, easy, fun, and free method everyone can use literally right now to improve their health.
What is it?
Grounding, also known as earthing, is literally reconnecting to the earth: i.e. walking on the earth. It requires direct skin contact with the surface of the Earth, such as with bare feet or hands, or with various grounding systems. In this connection, we are reconnecting the conductive human body to the Earth's natural and subtle surface electric charge. Some research has referred to this as electric nutrition.
This electric connection to the earth has been lost with our modern lifestyle, which causes what has been dubbed by researchers “electron deficiency syndrome”, which is supposed to be a significant cause of multiple health disorders. The lost contact with the Earth may contribute to electrical imbalances, a build-up of disruptive static electricity (positive charges), and an unrecognized electron deficiency in the body, and with it, vulnerability to dysfunction, disorder, and disease.
The earths’ surface is affected electrically by lightning strikes, solar radiation, atmospheric dynamics, all of which endow earths’ surface (as well as bodies of water) with a continuous renewed supply of free electrons, which give earth a natural negative electric charge. When we sleep, walk, touch the earth it is hypothesized that we transfer these free electrons into the body, which results in physiological changes.
Sounds simple enough, right?
It is!
So what are the effects of said grounding?
Reconnection with the Earth's electrons has been found to promote intriguing physiological changes and subjective reports of well-being. Grounding helps stabilize the physiology of the body, reducing inflammation, pain and stress improving blood flow, lymphatic return to the heart, improved sleep and improved wellbeing.
The research on grounding spans from improving autonomic nervous system functions in premature infants, to improved inflammation following injury, improved sleep, normalized cortisol rhythm (and shifting the nervous system from sympathetic to parasympathetic activation), reduced blood viscosity and so much more!
So really, there’s very little downside to applying this technique. Walk outside on the grass, sand or stone barefoot. Do your gardening while barefoot. Play with your kids outside on the grass barefoot. Lay down on the beach. Have fun!
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