7 Easy Ways To Get Grounded Through Your Feet This Winter

Most grounding advocates tell you — rather incessantly — to go outside and walk barefoot for your health.  That’s lovely when the weather is good, you have a safe pesticide-free green space to walk in, and you have time to remove shoes & put them back on.

Personally, I find that going barefoot is usually my least favorite option in the winter.

The truth is, every inch of your skin (not just your feet) is conductive and can ground your entire body from head to toe with one small point of contact, like a fingertip.  Hands are infinitely more accessible to touch safer earth surfaces, it’s so easy to wash hands after you are done grounding and much easier to keep warm as you can alternate which hand you are making contact with outside and keep the other one warm in a pocket!  More on grounding through hands in a new blog post soon — sign up to get these free healing articles into your own inbox right here:

Meanwhile, if you do truly love to ground through your feet, I totally get it — after all, using the natural moisture of the soles of our feet as well as the pressure of full body weight onto a grounded surface pretty much guarantees successful grounding contact — so those are good reasons to choose grounding through your feet.

How can you do that in the winter?  Easy.  Here are tons of options to comfortably and safely ground through your feet no matter what the weather is:

7 Ways To Ground Through Feet In Winter:

1.  Soak Your Feet In A Tub:

By far the easiest way to get grounded through your feet in the winter is to fill your bathtub with a few inches of nice warm water, add some epsom salts to it for added muscular relaxation, and sit with your feet soaking in the water.  This is easy to do for a few minutes before bed even when you don’t want to take an entire bath (and it’s more eco-friendly as well, wasting much less water and grounding your entire body just as fully as if you were submerged head to toe in the water!)  Give this a try for a nice relaxing 10 minute grounding session before bed tonight and see if your sleep is improved — just a few minutes is enough for grounding to to relax muscles, shift brain wave patterns out of stress/day mode, and get your body prepped for sleep.

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You are also grounded if you have even one fingertip or toe in a pool or a hot tub — it’s true, because their water filtration systems are grounded so the entire body of water is grounded, just waiting for you!   Watch this video I made for you a few years ago demonstrating you are grounded in a hot tub (and see tons more free grounding tips on my TikTok channel here!)

So if you are traveling this holiday season and want an easy indoor way to ground through your feet, see if your hotel has an indoor hot tub or pool, and slip your tootsies in for a few minutes.

2. Add Grounding Stickers To Your Shoes:

These grounding shoe stickers are so easy to use — stick them to shoes you already own and forget them! Get access to all of the benefits of grounding outdoors while being able to wear your favorite footwear.

I can’t think of much more eco-friendly than to continue to use shoes you already own.  And if you love them, and they support your foot function best, why not convert your favorite pair of sneakers, running shoes, hiking shoes, or even sports cleats into grounding shoes? A grounding shoe sticker is the way to go.

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 with your foot, you bypass the rubber sole entirely and are basically standing barefoot on the ground, conductively speaking.

I can’t even feel these stickers on my shoes. Find them here.

3. Rest Feet On An Indoor Grounding Mat:

To leverage the advantages of grounding through your feet (the enhanced moisture from your foot and the full body weight pressure that secures your grounding connection) you can very easily stand on an indoor grounding mat.  Place it underfoot at your desk, at your dining table, on any floor surface where you frequently stand or rest your feet.

And this is the best grounding mat there is: eco-friendly, ethically hand crafted, locally made in the USA, using all natural and organic materials, so it is gentle and safe enough for those with chemical sensitivities as well as those with electrical sensitivities (EHS.)

I wanted to create an eco-ethically crafted mat that was hand sewn using medical grade stainless steel (that means you can wash it over and over and it will last for years) + backed with eco-friendly soft organic cotton, unbleached & chemical free so it is sensitive enough for use by those who have multiple chemical or environmental sensitivities.

This double thick, conductive grounding mat is so soft, lays flat under foot, and is plenty large enough to use on a chair, a recliner, a sofa, as a floor mat, or even to sleep on.  And because it is washable, it’s great for using in the office, at mealtimes, on the sofa, or even for your pets.  I choose awesome stainless steel conductive fabric because stainless steel lasts infinitely longer than silver based grounding tools, and because biodegradable fabric is infinitely preferable to ‘leatherette’ plastic — better for both humans and for the earth.

A phenomenal way to experience grounding with a long lasting, eco-ethically hand crafted grounding tool that can be used in dozens of different ways around your home or work space. Watch this video below for an example of how I love to use this organic grounding mat during my morning meditation:

4. Wear Grounding Socks:

What if you like to wear socks in the winter?  Almost every sock manufactured on this planet will block the grounding flow from a grounded shoe sticker or a grounding mat, because almost all socks have synthetic, non-conductive fibers, elastic, polyester, etc… or are too thick to allow grounding contact.

But it’s truly no problem to wear a sock with a grounding shoe sticker or when resting your foot on a grounding tool, you just have to make sure it is a conductive sock. Luckily there are tons of beautiful socks made with conductive materials that will ground you instantly. I’ve got three styles for you to consider:

• an athletic crew sock: thick, plush, absorbent, ankle length (shown above)
• a thinner dress sock: thinner, sleek, comfortable, crew length… great for work or dress!
• and a compressive knee high sock: stretchy, warm, with the added bonus that they carry grounding all the way up your calves!

Each sock utilizes silver fibers throughout the entire sock, every inch of it, so the entire sock is conductive from top to bottom. By wearing a conductive sock with your grounding footwear or grounding tool, even if you like sleeping with socks on and you have a grounded bed surface in your bed, your entire sock will instantly encase your foot and ankle immediately in grounding energy, which will then powerfully ground your entire body from head to toe.

5. Treat Your Feet With Toe Alignment Socks:

My feet instantly relax with these socks on, and as a bonus not only will they improve the health and alignment of your feet but they will also allow you to ground at the same time, thanks to the fact that your toes are still bare and ready to connect with the earth outside (or while you stand on an organic grounding mat while grounding indoors.)

At the end of a long day, these are almost as good as a nice foot massage from your partner. Almost. But infinitely more practical, because I can wear them while I’m standing in the kitchen making dinner and doing the dishes, and my feet feel stretched out and free by the time I’m done.

If you are looking for a little gift to give your hardest working loved ones, some toe alignment socks and a handwritten coupon for a free foot massage is the best thing I can imagine.  It’s like physical therapy for your feet!  Available in sizes small through XL.

Activity time! Grab a pen and paper to test your foot health:

• Want to know if you are getting enough barefoot time?
• If your feet properly aligned?
• If the alignment of your foot is giving you knee, hip and back pain?
• If the shoes you are wearing causing foot issues?
• And how can you reverse damage shoes have caused your feet?

With the two very simple tests that I demonstrate for you in this video, you can test your own feet right now and you’ll know the answer to all of these questions!

Here is the video on TikTok:

And here it is on YouTube:

A Quick Way To Know If You Are Going Barefoot Enough (YouTube)

This exercise is extremely eye opening, and you can do it in less than 2 minutes!  I highly encourage you to give it a try right now and share it with your friends by forwarding this article.

6.  Take A Walking Grounded Meditation:

Walking barefoot on the earth during walking meditation is the hands-down easiest way to calm your thoughts, and center your awareness down in your heart (or even better — down at your feet!)

And being grounded naturally boost vagal tone, so along with your breath work, you are exponentially calming your central nervous system, releasing stress and anxiety, calming your heartrate, lowering blood pressure, boosting your circulation and oxygenation, releasing muscle tension, brightening your mood, and giving your body a head-to-toe fresh start.  If you suffer from trauma, from insomnia, from anxiety, from depression, from anger, or from any other stressor (and who isn’t?) support your recovery and release by simply doing ten minutes of grounded walking.

Let me show you how I use it in this video here:

Grounding Labyrinth Rug

This is the best yoga mat available on earth — a 100% organic mat, generously oversized, hand crafted and certified fair trade, all natural and washable, with a stainless steel conductive grounding ribbon running the entire length of the mat down the center and two conductive grounding ribbons across the top and bottom of the mat, both which circle the mat fully around the front and back in a continuous loop.

This way, for indoor use you can simply clip on a grounding cord onto the center strip to have all three conductive ribbons fully grounded, and you can also take it outside for cord-free use directly on the earth — the blue conductive ribbons on the back of the mat will be in direct contact with the grounded surface of the earth and will fully ground all three ribbons, including the center stainless steel ribbon.

Touching any body part to any part of the conductive ribbons —  a fingertip, a toe, the heel of your foot, your knees, your forehead, your shoulder, etc.. — will instantly ground your entire body from head to toe while you are stretching, practicing yoga, meditating, doing physical therapy stretches, or simply taking a nap.

Why exercise, stretch, and nap grounded?

Grounding allows for deeper stretching as well as less soreness afterwards, as medical studies have shown that not only do muscles instantly relax and become more pliable, but they have less inflammation and less soreness afterwards. In addition, your entire body — including the joints and ligaments and tendons you are creating space in when you stretch, even your bones — are all grounded and have decreased inflammation and damage.  Grounding is whole body protective (even anti-aging!) so it’s the next step in elevating your body care and now you can do that while passively stretching or actively  exercising while grounded on this mat.

So if you are looking for an indoor way to be barefoot and grounded, make your next downward facing dog a grounded one with this fabulous all natural yoga mat.  Find more details or order yours right here:

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Grounding helps keep your immunity high, your inflammation low, reduces stress, deepens sleep, and boosts your mood, no matter what you are going through.

Sounds like the perfect winter healing plan.

But what outdoor and indoor surfaces ground you?  What is the shortest amount of time you can ground outside in the cold and still see health benefits?  How can you optimize grounding for different health goals?

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