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 bunch of great options to pick from as the weather gets hotter, look them over to see which appeals most to you and have it in place ready to go before the weather gets too uncomfortable:
6 Ways To Ground Comfortably In Summer Heat:
1. Take Something Cold Out With You
Just because it’s hot doesn’t mean outdoor grounding is off the table. Here are a few creative ways to beat the heat and stay connected to the Earth:
- Take a frozen juice bar or electrolyte ice pop outside — stay grounded as long as it takes to finish it and that will give you at least a 10 minute grounding boost to improve your health while keeping your focus on cooling down.
- Use reusable ice packs — rest cold packs over your eyes, on your forehead, across the back of your neck, or on your chest while you rest outside to get in some extra grounding time without raising your core body temperature. Grounding ice packs get you grounded and help you stay cool, so you can use them outside with a grounding stake or use them inside for a refreshing indoor way to get connected to the earth.
- Lay in the shade with a fan or water mister and a good book. I love recommending you have a special “grounding book” that you only let yourself read while you are grounded — make it a spicy romance, a suspenseful mystery, or an addictive thriller that you can’t wait to read another chapter of and you will automatically prioritize getting grounded more often. Keep a special grounding book in your pool or beach bag and you’re all set!
2. Add Water Outside
Add water to the equation and you can easily stay two and three times longer than you could without it, and as a bonus, water makes you even more conductive, and you get grounded even easier and more powerfully!
- Turn on a sprinkler in your yard — to stay cool and get grounded in your yard, turn a sprinkler on so it hits your feet while you are reading your grounding book (suggested above!) or even better, get up and splash through it, and don’t forget to invite you kids to do it with you!
- Use water toys — if you have your kids with you (or as a fun grounding date with a partner!) play water tag with water soakers, play water balloon toss, or any other water toys you love, and have fun staying cool, getting grounded through bare feet, and getting some extra activity in while you are at it! As I talked about on the blog last week, even a few extra minutes of active play can add length to your lifespan.
- Or, move your grounding spot to a favorite natural body of water — walk through a river, wade in a lake, or splash in the ocean — any natural body of water will cool you down and ground you all at the same time.
- And never miss an opportunity to head outside in the rain to get a few refreshing minutes of grounding in sprinkles (as long as there is no lightning nearby of course!) and treasure those last few spring showers and any upcoming summer sprinkles that come your way.
- While you are at it, always drink a big glass of water with added mineral drops in it before and after every grounding session, to boost your hydration from the inside out. Here is an article where I talk more about the importance of staying well hydrated in the summer: Do You Have Any Of These 10 Symptoms Of Silent Dehydration Right Now? What To Do If The Answer Is Yes
3. Indoor Water = Free Indoor Grounding
All indoor water operating systems, including water tanks, water pumps, water heaters, and even tankless water systems are required to be grounded by law. So even if your pipes are plastic… the stream of water itself is fully grounded and will ground you every second that you are washing your hands, drinking from the faucet, washing dishes, taking a bath, or even swimming in indoor swimming pools. Here is an old video I made for you where I show you with my grounding test meter that all indoor water is grounded.
To easily ground indoors any time, do any of these things:
Washing dishes becomes an act of self-care (really!) when your hands are under that stream of water. Have you ever noticed this? You dread doing the dishes but find yourself oddly calmer and more centered afterwards, almost like you were meditating? That’s because you were grounded and your brain got a break from stress, instantly.
Taking a bath is one of the most luxurious ways to get grounded in the summer — relaxing, restorative, and an instant relief to your tight muscles. Light a candle, take a book into the bath, listen to music, and soak away all your cares, knowing you are grounded the entire time. Keep the water lukewarm or take a nice big glass of ice water into the bathtub with you to keep you comfortable while you are having you grounding session.
The filtration system on all pools that have a pump that filters water actually grounds the entire body of water just like it was outside on the earth itself. So swimming in an indoor pool or even an elevated plastic pool outside (as long as it has a running filtration system!) grounds you the entire time. One of my favorite trips for resetting your circadian rhythm while traveling is to go to your hotel swimming pool as soon as possible after check-in — even if it is a rooftop swimming pool nowhere near the ground, or even if it is an indoor pool, you will get a natural whole body reset. This is as true in the summer when you are seeking the relief of water as it is in the winter when you are wanting to swim indoors in a heated pool or hot tub. Another great reason to join your local YMCA — swimming grounded and even doing water aerobics whenever you want a quick grounding session, year round!
Try it: take that evening soak. Enjoy washing your hands under cool fresh water. Swim that extra lap on vacation. You’re not just cooling off—you’re supporting your nervous system, lowering inflammation, and giving your cells the electrical input they crave.
4. Ground Through Indoor Plants
Did you know that your indoor plants can become little grounding portals? They can! They are not naturally grounded as the moment the plant is potted and brought indoors, it is disconnected from the earth just like you are. BUT — you can actually ground your plant to improve your plants health and your health… win win!
Not only is it better for the plant to be grounded to the earth (watch The Grounded and Heal For Free films to see tons of evidence of the benefits of grounding to plants!) but it also give you an easy, instant, indoor way to get grounded. You can watch a TikTok on this I made for you here, where I show you how I touch a leaf on this plant every time I go up or down my steps, for an instant grounding boost.
You can do it too. Simply pushing a plant grounding stake into the potting soil and connecting it to a grounded outlet and poof! that plant becomes a beautiful, leafy, easy way to ground indoors through a plant. Every time you touch a leaf, you’re connecting to the Earth’s healing energy.
Try it: set your favorite potted plant somewhere central —your kitchen counter, by your bed, near your desk, by your front door or steps—and make it a habit to give it a little love (and receive a fabulous grounding boost) throughout your day.
5. Concrete = Instant Grounding Retreat
Here’s a lesser-known secret: any cement slab resting directly on the Earth is grounded…whether it’s inside or outside.
So while you might already know that sidewalks will ground you outside, did you know the same is true for cement and concrete poured on the earth — even inside your home? It’s true, your entire home foundation is grounded if it is a slab foundation.
So check your home! Do you have a cement basement floor? A cement floor in your utility room? A cement garage slab? If so, lucky you! You have a built in, sheltered grounding spot in your home. These spaces are gold mines for indoor grounding.
I’ve had patients realize if they just stand barefoot on the cement floor in their laundry room while they fold laundry, they get an easy grounding session in several times a week. In my own garage, I’ve set up a comfy chair and some fans — I read books and medical journals, work on my computer, stretch, meditate, and do yoga there all summer long with feet or fingertips resting on the cement floor so that I’m grounded the entire time.
Find areas of your home’s slab that have unpainted cement and no carpet or other floor coverings that shut you off from the earth’s healing energy — putting a floor covering (even dry wood flooring) on top of the cement is like putting a shoe on your foot — it breaks the conductive contact and will block grounding.
Today see if you can find a cement slab in your basement, garage, utility room or other area that you can ground through, because it doesn’t just help keep you cool in the summer… come winter, that same space transforms into a cozy grounding nook with the addition of warm blankets and a small space heater. Year-round grounding success!
6. Indoor Grounding Tools Keep You Cool
If you’re not using indoor grounding tools yet, summer is the perfect time to start. Here are a few cooling ideas:
Organic grounding mats under your feet while you work or sit.
Organic grounding mattress toppers so your body expedites healing for hours and hours while you sleep.
Grounding water bottle cozies with fillable water bottles that you can fill with cool ice water in the summer, and cozy hot water in the winter, for comfortable year round temperature regulation in just one product.
This is such a sweet spot—staying cool and getting grounded at the same time. Yes please!
And just like the water, plant and concrete options above, the solution you find to grounding indoors where you are comfortable works perfectly to provide a comfortable safe space to get grounded even in the dead of winter, when the world turns icy cold. So it’s worth finding an indoor grounding solution that you can use year round, no matter what season you are in.
Looking for eco-friendly, handcrafted grounding tools? Than you know how hard it is to find something that is not mass manufactured using the cheapest synthetic materials… from plastic, polyester and vinyl “leatherette”, these all sit in a landfill for centuries (while also introducing microplastics into your body — yuck and yuck.)
So I started making my own, using organic and eco-friendly materials, hand crafted locally here in the USA, so that you know it’s healthy for you and healthy for the planet.
Finally grounding can be win-win. My boutique offers organic grounding mats, organic grounding bed toppers, grounding hiking sticks, grounding ice packs, grounding wristbands and so much more — custom hand made right here in the USA. Explore the Grounding Boutique »
You Don’t Have to Choose Between Cool Comfort and Healing
The beauty of grounding is that it’s so flexible—it meets you wherever you are. Indoors or out, winter or summer, no matter the season or where on earth you are… your body always benefits.
So this summer, when the heat feels like too much, bring your grounding practice in. Get creative. Touch that plant, fill that tub, stretch on that cement floor, plug in your grounding mat.
You’re still grounding. You’re still healing. And you’re doing it in cool, comfortable style.
xoxox,
Laura Koniver, MD
