How Earthing And Grounding Can Improve Your Health

31 Oct How Earthing And Grounding Can Improve Your Health

Earthing or grounding is putting the body in direct and uninterrupted contact with the earth. This means that skin needs to touch soil, sand, water, or a conductive surface that is in contact with the earth. This involves doing activities that ground or electrically reconnect you to the earth. Over time, especially in modern life, our bodies build up a positive charge. Direct contact with the earth can even out this positive charge and return the body to a neutral state.

Many people don’t have this contact with the earth anymore, and some experts wonder if this is a contributor to the many rising health problems we face today. As a population, we wear rubber shoes and live indoors. In theory, many of us could go years without directly touching the earth at all, even if we’re outside. Over time, the theory is that this positive charge builds and can lead to health problems.

There are many types of grounding. All of them focus on reconnecting yourself to the earth. This can be done through either direct or indirect contact with the earth.

• Walking barefoot
• Lying on the ground
• Submersing in water

How to Try Grounding/Earthing
Obviously, walking outside barefoot is the easiest and cheapest way to ground yourself or practice earthing. If you are close to an ocean or swimmable natural body of water, this is another great way. To work, the skin must be in direct contact with rock, dirt or water. The beach/ocean is possibly the best place as not only are sand and salt water extremely conductive, but salt water is also very high in magnesium. Perhaps this is why many people seem to sleep better on vacation at the beach. Those who can’t or don’t want to spend time outdoors can accomplish some of the same results indoors. An earthing mat can be used under your arms or feet while on a computer to reduce the amount of EMFs you are exposed to. It is also easy to bring when traveling.

Grounding As a Therapy
Ground Therapy is an important self-healing application with special benefits for the disability community. Grounding connects you to the natural electric charge of the planet. It stabilizes your physiology at the deepest level, draining inflammation, stress, and pain from your body, and promoting better health. You can ground yourself by using grounding mats and patches while sitting or sleeping, and, if possible, by being barefoot outdoors on natural conductive surfaces, like grass, soil, gravel, stone, and sand. Ground Therapy improves the body’s functioning in multiple ways. Here are some typical benefits:

• Elimination or reduction of chronic inflammation, a cause or aggravating factor of chronic and aging-related diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer

• More calmness and decreased stress in the body through a normalizing effect on the autonomic nervous system.

• Anxiety and depression. In one small study, it was shown that even 1 hour of grounding therapy can significantly improve mood.