All About Grounding: Techniques to Connect to Nature

BY ELEMENTAL

Happiness in Nature

To many people, the idea of grounding, or earthing, may sound unusual. This may leave you wondering how exactly to ground yourself. Grounding exercises include standing or walking barefoot or pressing your bare hands into the grass or dirt.

The goal of grounding is to restore an electrical connection with the earth. Ways to practice grounding outdoors include:

• Routinely walking barefoot outdoors on dirt, grass, or sand

• Standing in humid dirt or sand with bare feet

• Pressing your bare hands into the grass or earth

• Sitting on a chair, bench, or wheelchair with your bare feet set flat on the earth

• Lying flat on the dirt, grass, sand, or gravel with your back, legs, or arms bare

• Submerging yourself in a natural body of water, such as swimming in a pond, lake, or ocean

• Gardening with your bare hands in the soil

A growing body of research supports and explores the physiological effects and possible health benefits of grounding. Studies have shown that time in nature categorically improves:

• Cognitive Function

• Brain Activity

• Mental Health

• Physical Activity

• Blood Pressure

• Sleep

Not to mention, grounding (touching feet, hands, or body to the earth) can:

• Ease Pain

• Lessen the numbers of circulating neutrophils and lymphocytes

• Reduce Inflammation

For many people, grounding is a long-term practice that becomes a way to connect to Mother Earth or a greater force and to return internally to a simpler way of life that was lived in a more synchronous pattern with our planet.

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