Grounding basics (and free documentary)
We should be grounding wherever and whenever possible.
We have access to one of the greatest factors in healing – which just so happens to be grossly overlooked. To ground, simply place your bare feet on the natural ground. This could be any natural conductive surface: like grass, soil, gravel, sand, etc. It really is that simple.
In case you're unfamiliar with this phenomenon, here's a summary picked out from "Practical applications of grounding to support health" in the Biomed J:
“The earth's DC energy flows continuously across the earth's crust, and anything conductive that touches the earth becomes part of this natural circuit. Our human bodies, which are highly conductive, join this global electrical circuit whenever we make direct contact with the earth, a practice known as grounding. Medical studies are revealing that by becoming a part of the global electrical circuit, through grounding, the human body enters a profound healing state.”
Grounding has profound benefits, including:
Whole body: Grounding helps to resolves the cascade of inflammation and autoimmune signaling in hormonal pathways that may ultimately lead to thyroid hormone imbalances, cortisol or sex hormone imbalances, all which can lead to issues such as adrenal fatigue, hypothyroidism, insomnia and more.
Stress: While you relax connected to the global electrical circuit of the earth, grounding is at work decreasing cortisol, decreasing whole body inflammation, and significantly boosting mood — all perfect to decrease stress levels and restore your naturally energetic, creative and optimistic inner child.
Digestive issues: Vagal tone gets a boost when the body is grounded, and this in turn is a direct avenue for grounding to impact digestion, as our entire digestive tract is driven by the vagus nerve, everything from our salivary glands to our swallowing mechanism to gut peristalsis and even digestive enzyme secretion is guided by vagus nerve function.
Insomnia: Grounding to the earth directly helps re-sync your circadian rhythm to the planet via the global electrical circuit. And as we know from the medical literature, this helps calm brain waves, deepen sleep, boosts sleep quality, normalize cortisol and makes the sleep you do get (even if it is not as long as you would hope) more restorative.
Anxiety: Grounding goes immediately to work directly stabilizing your autonomic nervous system by boosting your vagal tone, it has the power to regulate your racing heart and deepen your breathing.
Heart health: Grounding outside on the earth can work synergistically to help naturally increase circulation and blood flow, decrease blood viscosity, increase heart rate variability, and reduce soreness after exercise.
Grounding can also be done in special shoes with copper plugs. Two of my favorites are Rhizals and Earth Runners. For both brands, I have a coupon code for you to save: MIAKAPRO
As promised, here is a phenomenal documentary on the benefits of grounding: Earthing documentary
Appreciatively, Mia
