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Feeling Overwhelmed? 7 Science-Backed Activities That Allow Grounding To Reset Your Mood in Minutes
If you feel run down, tired, sad, anxious, or any other mood that you just want to shake, getting grounded outside for a few minutes — even a few seconds — is the quickest way I know how to do it. Exercise can help, a really good night of sleep can help, even medications (when appropriate) can help, but if need support right this very minute, grounding can shift your mood by supporting brain function — literally in just seconds — as this study published in 2011, this study published in 2015, and this important study, published in 2018, ...
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What Matters More: How Much Time You Spend In Nature Or What You Do When You Are There? I’ll Tell You Right Now
As the leading medical authority in the healing field of grounding, you’ve come to the right place to understand more than even your own physician does about the healing practice of grounding!!! If someone has forwarded you this free healing article and you want to get a weekly, holistic healing article directly into your own inbox, sign up for my uplifting, healing newsletter right here: So today… let’s answer the question of which is a bigger benefit to your physical and mental well being: spending a long time outside or doing a simple activity outside? A recent study ...
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The 12 Crucial Steps That Ensure Good Sleep: Are You Missing Any?
Today, I have pulled together a list of 12 things you can do today to improve the quality of your sleep tonight. All based on the most current medical literature on sleep quality. Something I am very interested in because I’ve always been a poor sleeper all of my life. On nights when I am struggling to sleep, I remind myself: You are only ever one night away from a good night of sleep. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve struggled with insomnia or how big your sleep deficit is. Every single night is an opportunity to completely ...
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Chronic Pain Affects You Or Someone You Love. 5 Ways To Help Alleviate It, Naturally
I received a recent email from a reader who is dealing with the most common reason that folks seek medical care, and that is to help with chronic pain. He writes: “I had a failed lumbar fusion 1989 with pain since. No more lumbar surgeries to be done; already had shots, nerve blocks, now I take pain meds and a pain patch. I do take anti-inflammatory supplements; and my wife & I go walking 1 mile, 4x/week near our home. I’m interested and hope you can inform me of some kind of pain-relieving grounding tools.” I thought I would ...
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Unusual Signs of Dehydration, Do You Have Any Of These Right Now? Plus A Dozen Ways To Fix It
It’s starting to get hot where I live, and I’ve noticed feeling drier and more dehydrated the past few days. That reminded me to remind you: drink your water. All year long, but especially as it heats up outside. Known as the Elixir of Life for good reason, water is absolutely critical to our well being in every way. In fact, a recent study published in eBioMedicine found that dehydration is actually a risk factor for premature death. Almost just as bad? It also accelerated biological aging. Meaning if you run chronically dehydrated, your body is aging faster ...
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Welcome In Summer By Doing This 5 Minute Grounding Meditation With Me
We are officially into summer now, as the summer solstice was just this past weekend! I hope you considered throwing the Summer Solstice Grounding Party I recommended for you in my June newsletter! And if you don’t get those newsletters, you can sign up for it right here: The Healing Power Of Meditation I’ve long been a fan of the health benefits of meditation, so I was really excited when a new medical study confirmed that not only does meditation significantly reduce pain, it does so in a totally unique neuropathway, completely separate from any pain ...
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Your Grounding Goal This Summer? A Weekly Picnic. Here’s Why This Transforms Your Health
Why does food always taste better at a picnic? Why does your morning coffee seem so much more satisfying when you take it outside to your front doorstep? Why do you never seem to feel the same heartburn or bloating or indigestion when you eat lunch outside on your lunch break instead of inside at your desk? Why is cooking dinner over an outdoor campfire or grill so much more fulfilling than cooking the same meal indoors? That’s because eating while connected to the earth outside has a profound impact on your digestion — supporting the function of ...
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Getting Hot Outside? Grounding Tips That Keep You Comfortable, Even In The Summer
When the heat index starts gaining momentum and you find yourself wilting just stepping out the front door, it’s time to add something cool and refreshing to your outdoor grounding sessions, or it’s time to bring your grounding practice indoors—where the air conditioning is cool, the water is refreshing, and your healing connection to the Earth doesn’t have to skip a beat. Although we typically think about grounding indoors in the winter when it’s too cold to go barefoot outside, you can use the same principles to get grounded indoors to escape the summer heat too. Here are a ...
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What’s the Bare Minimum You Can Do to Live Longer? The Latest Study Shows It’s Less Than You Think
I often say, in almost every interview I give and with almost every patient I work with — anything is better than nothing. I am happy about you making one small change. No need to get overwhelmed or discouraged when improving your health. One minute of grounding. One glass of water. One short walk after dinner. One high quality multivitamin. Doing these things every single day is so much more joyful and inspiring then starting and stopping another diet, starting and stopping another workout plan, starting and stopping another trendy supplement. In health, literally anything is better than nothing. ...
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Outside Plans For Memorial Day? What To Do If You Get A Tick Bite (& How To Avoid Them Altogether)
Because Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer, I hope part of your plans today involve going outside and enjoying the warmer weather! I thought it was the perfect time to remind you what to do if you find a tick on you, and how to prevent getting a tick on you in the first place, which is your best protection agains Lyme Disease. Unfortunately, ticks carrying the Lyme disease bacteria (Borrelia Burgdorferi) have been found in all 50 states, so don’t be fooled into thinking it’s only something that folks in the northeast have to be concerned ...
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