During the month of March, our days will become longer than our nights… woot! Spring weather usually means folks are more likely to get outside, get active, go on walks, resume hiking and biking and jogging, plant springtime gardens, catch up on yard work, taking food outside to eat on picnics… you name it.
Getting outside in that fresh air is so very good for you. And you know what is even better for you than that? If you can be grounded while doing all of your favorite springtime activities. And you can be, even without going barefoot.
Grounding has to be the absolutely easiest way to add therapeutic healing to your daily routine. And not only can you literally go outside and ge grounded for free any time, but you can also multitask while you do it, so you are simply adding healing to your day, not another thing to your To-Do list. Activities like physical therapy, yoga, meditation, exercise, eating, reading, and even just spending time with loved ones, all can be exponentially boosted by doing them outside, grounded. And even activities that you do daily that are not directly for your health but still must be done, like returning phone calls, working on your lap top, weeding through emails, filling out your weekly planner, scheduling work tasks, even your next zoom meeting can be done outside grounded so that even non-healing activities can actually become healing, therapeutic ones.
So today I wanted to review some ideas of indoor activities that you you are probably already doing that you can take outside — read through them and pick just one or two of these activities every single day over this coming week to take outside, grounded, and I am absolutely certain you will notice the health benefits by this weekend.
Let’s get started!
17 Indoor Activities You Should Take Outside Today:
1. Eat Your Next Meal Outside:
We all need to eat to put the nutrients our earth offers us into our body to boost our health… but if you can take your next meal outside and eat it grounded, you just added a therapeutic, anti-inflammatory benefit to time spent enjoying your food.
Grounding helps boost vagal tone and digestive function, decreases inflammation in the gut, increases digestion, peristalsis, absorption and even boosts the circulation of those nutrients all throughout your entire body, so eating grounded is the most natural way to bring nutrition into alignment with your body’s health. Any diet plan can be taken outside to eat in a natural way, grounded.
Here is a free article I wrote for you on the benefit of eating grounded outside:
2. Drink Your Next Glass of Water Outside:
If your massage therapist or nutritionist or physician or personal trainer suggests hydrating more, take every single glass of water you drink outside to drink it grounded.
Grounding boosts circulation and will get that beautiful fresh clean water into your body and into your organ systems more quickly, allowing you to rehydrate your beautiful body immediately. As a bonus, hydrating while being grounded outside actually boosts your conductivity too, so it’s win-win!
Here is a video I made for you on how to use the conductive power of water to get grounded:
3. Take Your Journal Or Planner Outside:
If your therapist wants you to do journal writing daily, do it outside. If you like to write in a diary, do it outside. If you like to set intentions, or are working on a manuscript, or filling out a dream journal — do all of your writing outside.
In fact, anything creative or expressive can be taken up to new levels of releasing and healing when they are done grounded — that’s why plein air painting is so cool! Drawing, sketching, photography, journaling, writing, even boring tasks like filling out your daily, weekly or monthly planner or grocery list can all be done outside, grounded.
Here is are some blog posts I wrote for you that goes into detail on why grounding allows your soul creativity to soar and any soul wounds to release:
- The Hidden Benefits Of Grounding: Why It Helps More Than Just Your Body
- How Grounding Releases Trauma From Your Body To Protect Your Long Term Health
4. Do Physical Therapy Or Yoga Outside:
If your physical therapist has a set of stretches for you to do daily at home, do them outside. Moving your muscles and bones and ligaments and joints while grounded to the earth outside will increase restorative blood flow, bring a boosted oxygen levels to your tissues, and reduce soreness after exertion.
You don’t have to be barefoot — if any stretches require you to place hands or back or knees on the ground, you’ll be grounded through any bare skin — or you can simply hold onto a tree with your hands if your stretch requires standing and you’ll be grounded from head to toe right through your hands.
And if it’s yoga you enjoy, you can take my Organic Grounding Yoga Mat directly outside to ground to the earth, or you can clip a ground cord to it indoors and get grounded year round — even in the winter — while stretching your body, increasing your flexibility, decreasing muscle soreness, and feeling exponentially calmer and more centered than when you do yoga (or physical therapy stretches) ungrounded. Find my all natural, chemical and plastic free grounding yoga mat here:
Organic Grounding Yoga Mat
You can read more about why grounding is so supportive of your muscles and joints in this blog post I wrote for you:
5. Take Your Meditation Outside
This meditation is so simple, and it’s perfect to do while you are grounding because it relaxes you into the healing state of connecting to the earth. Especially during times when you feel uncentered, anxious, stressed or in a health struggle with your body… drop the resistance and find your grounded center in just a few breaths. I know in it I am barefoot, but if you kept shoes on and just allowed your calf or knee to touch the earth in any way (or placed a fingertip on the ground beside you) you would be every bit as grounded as if you were barefoot.
Follow along with me here to reset your body, mind and spirit through this grounded meditation. It’s super simple, it’s just placing a hand on your heart, a hand on your abdomen, dropping your awareness down into your body by closing your eyes, and repeating: “I am at home in my body.”
Three breaths is enough to make a difference in your heart rate, muscle tension, blood pressure, mood and more.
If you want to do this meditation inside, grounded on the organic grounding mat I show you in the video, you can find that here: Organic Grounding Mat
6. Mull Over A Big Decision Outside:
It makes sense that the human brain just may work better when it is grounded… after all, the near seven million years that the human brain has been evolving and increasing in intellectual capacity have all been with the brain being bathed in the electrical field that the earth produces.
Have you ever been mulling over a big life decision, feeling overwhelmed or confused, and then spent time in nature and found a solution, a deeper insight, or a sudden idea that provided clarity. By connecting with the earth, we shift the brain from high strung beta waves to calming alpha wave patterns, decrease inflammation, decrease mental stress, improve mood, and even boost cognition, all naturally.
And the effects of grounding the human brain start right away, with measurable changes in brain wave activity in less than one second. So the next time you need a little boost in brain function, try heading outside to get grounded.
And for more help making a tough decision, you might find the free printable decision making worksheet I created for you here really helpful — print it out and take it outside to fill it out while you are grounded! You are very likely to come up with some solutions that will work best for you:
7. Exercise Outside:
If your 2025 goal is to get more movement and exercise into your life, you can bring almost every exercise outside and get double the benefits.
Not only is excerise great for protecting your lifespan, but doing your next yoga session, or HIIRT round, or next run, outside grounded will add all of the health benefits of grounding to your exercise routine. You can even swim outside grounded and feel amazingly rebooted from head to toe, inside and out, as most in ground pools (as well as the cement surrounding the pool) is grounded.
Here are some articles on why exercising grounded helps you get more bang for your buck:
- Grounding & Reduced Muscle Soreness Medical Study
- Grounding Immediately Supports Your Heart & Boosts Circulation
8. Meet Up With Your Friends Outside:
If your friend wants to spend time with you, take the initiative and suggest hanging out together outside. Having friends you can connect with is one of the best things you can do to boost happiness and protect your longevity, and connecting with them outside is the best combination of all.
Moving your time spent together outside allows you to get grounded while connecting on a deeper level with your loved ones, and really almost anything you can think of to do inside can be done outside.
From playing a card game, to having a cup of coffee, to sharing a potluck meal, to talking while watching clouds roll by or stars twinkle overhead, to going on a walk together, to sharing a picnic meal… anything you want to do with your friend is better grounded outside.
Medical studies like these show that your mood is boosted by time spent outdoors, so grounding outside while spending time with friends is sure to help that time be even more fun:
- The Effect of Grounding the Human Body on Mood
- A New Study Explains Why Grounding Boosts Your Mood
- Boost Your Connection To Others And It Will Boost Your Health, Here’s How
- Getting Outside Today… A New Idea I Tested Out For You (With A Friend) And We Loved It
9. Go On An Outdoor Date:
If your partner wants a date with you, make sure some component of that date is outside, grounded. Hold hands and feel the boosted sense of grounded connection, or even get grounded through a kiss! Thanks to boosted blood flow, boosted mental focus, and boosted nerve function, kissing and connected while grounded adds a deeper level of intimacy to your partnership. And being outside, especially in the daytime, can even boost libido!
Here is a recent article I’ve written for you about the power of grounding to enhance your relationship and why you definitely want to move any dates you can outside — from a romantic picnic to a walk holding hands to listening to a free concert in the park to going wine tasting at a vineyard… grounding + relationships = boosted connection:
10. Play Outside With Your Kids Today:
Carving out time to play with your child in activities that interest them is absolutely crucial to bonding with kids. Play time is important healing time, and you can dramatically boost the healing value of play by taking that activity outside to do it grounded.
From arts and crafts, to sports and activities, to simply having a snack and talking, or reading a bedtime book under the wonder of the nighttime sky. You’ll worry less about any messes you guys make, and you’ll be getting a health boost the entire time. And of course, this includes your fur babies as well, so spend time outdoors with your pets too!
Even something as simple as playing a game of tic-tac-toe with chalk on the sidewalk will ground you and your children through your hands while you are doing it!
Here are some articles I’ve written for you on the power of grounding to enhance your children’s health:
- Electrical Grounding Improves Vagal Tone in Preterm Infants
- The Healing Role Of Play, Right Now It’s More Important Than Ever
- To Stay Young, Stay Curious (& Dozens Of Other Ways To Protect Your Brain)
I also have written and published three children books for you so far… you can find these on my website here (or of course on Amazon and anywhere books are sold):
- Together We Sleep (Co-sleeping Picture Book)
- Jake Finds Adventure (Healing Picture Book)
- From The Ground Up (Grounding Picture Book)
Lastly for more parenting support I have a totally free Parenting eBook for you right here. It has 17 chapters and 159 pages of ideas, concepts, games, suggestions, medical information, intuitive problem solving and uplifting parenting advice that help address health and life in a positive and re-affirming manner for children, including how I inspired my own children to reach for health, even during illness... filling them with the confidence that health is their natural state of being:
Enjoy the precious time you have while your kids are still little enough to want to play with you… soak it in!
11. Take Your Laptop Outside:
I challenge you to think of at least one activity you do for work that can actually be done outside.
First of all, anything you get done on your phone for work, from research, reading, posting on social media platforms, marketing, weeding through emails, returning phone calls, returning texts and even your next zoom meeting can all be done outside.
If any part of your work is done on a laptop, all of that can be moved outside as well. In addition, any reading or writing that you do, plus planning or scheduling that you do, can all be done outside.
I make it a point to attend any online medical conferences outside, so that I’m learning the latest medical advancements while allowing my body time to get grounded. If your boss has catch up work for you to do and you’ll be up late tonight on your laptop, take it outside and at least make this time your body gets to be grounded.
Here are some additional articles on the power of grounding to reduce work stress:
- Grounding To Prevent Stress And Oxidative Damage While At Work
- Grounding At Work Decreases Fatigue
- Is Going Outside Part Of Your Daily Health Routine? 8 Reasons Why It’s Essential
- When You Are Doing Something Meaningful, Your Brain Works Better
- A Free Printable Tool To Give You Inner Clarity When Making Difficult Decisions
- Is Your Job Driving You Crazy? You Are Not Alone. Here’s Help.
12. Go On A Grounded Walk:
Going on a long walk outside is a fabulous way to get grounded, if you have a safe greenspace that it’s okay to be barefoot in. But for most of us — including myself — I prefer to keep my shoes on and ground through my hands on long walks — instead I simply ground directly through my hands while using this gorgeous, solid wood, artisan hand crafted walking stick.
Touch copper button on top of handle or any part of the copper wrap at the top of the handle with even one fingertip and your body is instantly grounded from head to toe — every single part of you! Hand made by a Master Carpenter right here in the USA, using all natural materials, solid wood, even recycled copper — no two are the same and each are a work of art!
A great way to be able to wear protective walking or hiking shoes — even orthotics — and still be grounded, as well as those who are avid outdoor explores that like to carry a hiking stick. It’s also a great solution for those that want to be grounded on long car rides — pull over and walk or sit with the grounding stick every hour or two on your journey to release stress and boost circulation. Simply use stick to touch the earth near you and get grounded from head to toe right through your hands.
Grounding Hiking Stick
13. Or Walk Grounded Through A Grounding Cane
Those who have mobility issues and can’t go barefoot are often those of us are the ones that need to be grounded most of all. If you like the support of a cane and want to be grounded at the same time, you can keep your comfy shoes or orthotics on, even stay seated in a wheelchair and simply by holding onto the cane, your body is instantly grounded from head to toe — every single part of you!
Hand made by an artisan in Ireland, this grounding cane is perfect for anyone who likes to use a cane to walk, to stand, and even for those in a wheelchair or scooter (which keeps them up off the earth, ungrounded.) Simply stay seated and use the grounding cane to touch the ground when you are stable on an earth’s surface outside — effortlessly putting your body into a healing state through your hands instead of your feet.
Cane is extremely lightweight and easy to carry. Find yours right here:
Grounding Cane
14. Go On A Grounded Run:
If you still want to ground through your feet but you prefer shoes to being barefoot, why not convert your favorite pair of sneakers, running shoes, hiking shoes, or even sports cleats into grounding shoes? A grounding sticker is the way to go. I can’t think of much more eco-friendly option than to simply ground shoes you already own. Grounding shoe stickers even work on flip flops and sandals!!! Easy as putting on a sticker, because that is literally what it is, but made with a special adhesive to stay securely on your shoe (or flip flop) permanently.
The sticker is fully conductive and runs the grounding energy from the earth beneath you up and around your shoe and into the sole of your shoe where your feet are. By touching the sticker, you bypass the rubber sole entirely and are basically standing barefoot on the ground, but with the benefit of your feet protected by shoes or your foot alignment supported by your orthotic inserts, no bare feet required.
I can’t even feel these stickers on my shoes. Find them here:
Grounding Shoe Stickers
15. Blow Bubbles Outside:
Even more crucial than eating, we all need to breathe the beautiful air that the earth provides. Many of us also find added benefit from intentional breathing practices like meditation. Taking intentional, deep breaths is a wonderful way to decrease stress and increase resiliency to the demands of your day.
Even if you don’t have the time to do the full mediation with me above (in tip #2) just take one or two deep breaths outside. Even if you don’t meditate, you can still reap the benefits of a few deep breaths taken while grounding outside.
Being grounded supports lung function and boosts oxygenation, so combining grounding with intentional breath work is another one of those win-win relationships that grounding brings to just about everything we do. (Bonus points if you blow bubbles as part of your breath work!)
For more on how breathing supports your health, hop over to read this article I wrote for you with several great ideas on developing an intentional breathing practice that you can do outside, grounded:
16. Start A Spring Garden:
Many folks who embrace grounding are passionate gardeners, and understandably so… because being grounded while working a garden bed outside boosts your health instantly and you can literally feel it. Gardening is the easiest way I know to ground through your hands and keep your shoes or goulashes safely on your feet, protected and clean!
And even beyond the healing boost of being grounded, it’s actually healing just to be around plants of any kind, even while ungrounded… for example, just seeing a plant through a window or adding a potted plant to a workspace gives documented health benefits!
Read through this article I wrote for you, listing the top 9 perks of gardening and see if it doesn’t inspire even those of us who are non-gardeners to dive into this wonderful activity. From a windowsill garden to a flower bed to a large plot of farmland, gardening is more than a way to grow flowers and food… it’s a lifestyle that can help ensure longevity and health:
17. Go Bird Watching:
More evidence that Mother Nature can boost your happiness like nothing else can… a new study suggests that bird diversity is as important to life satisfaction as an income is. This study found that not only is happiness correlated with local bird diversity, but a 10% boost in bird diversity actually increases happiness to a similar magnitude as a 10% boost in income does!
We’ve known for a while that animals improve our mood, health, and even boost longevity (I’ve blogged about how pets can do all of this and more for you right here) and that plants do much the same (see idea #16, above…) decreasing depression rates, anxiety rates, and dramatically reducing stress.
But even knowing all of that, I still think if you ask most people if they would rather see a couple extra birds today or earn a slightly higher paycheck, most would assume that money would provide more satisfaction.
But this actually isn’t true — click the link below to hop over to a free article I wrote for you telling you the details of this study and how to increase the amount of birds you see and hear:
You get the picture!
Add your own ideas to this list — include all your hobbies too!
Play an instrument? Take it outside.
Like to play chess? Do it outside.
Have a pet? Play with them outside.
Like embroidery? Take it outside.
Doing something boring like meal planning for the week? Do it outside.
Love to read? Do it outside.
Perfecting a handstand? Do it outside.
Love listening to music? Listen to it outside.
Run through your entire day from start to finish and decide what can be taken outside. Even if it is simply to start and end each day drinking a big glass of water outside — oh my goodness that’s PERFECT.
Almost anything you can think of to do — from fun and games, to connecting with friends and family, to eating and hydrating, to exercising and physical therapy, to yoga and meditation, to journaling and creating, to getting work done…
…you can do it all while in the healing state of grounding. Let’s do this!
xoxox,
Laura Koniver, MD
PS — Keep more ideas right at your fingertips:
For more awesome year round grounding tips, you’ll want to grab the ultimate guide to grounding outside, no matter where you live or what the temperature is.
I’ve filled this book with my very best ideas to get you inspired to head outside in the hottest and coldest seasons, no matter if you live in a city or have any green spaces around you or not… you can get grounded naturally to the earth and I’ll be right there with you, showing you how:
The Earth Prescription
I have signed copies waiting for you right here… or find it on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound, New Harbinger, and anywhere books are sold!
