Need some help integrating grounding in with your specific healing goals? What if your goal is to fix insomnia, or reduce back pain, or boost your ability to focus, or treat fibromyalgia, or reduce jet lag, or protect against osteoporosis, etc… Does the specific technique of grounding matter?
I’ve got you. I’ve compiled my top recommendations to get the specific healing result you are looking for… faster. Run through this list for some great ideas to optimize your healing results from grounding.
19 Therapeutic Grounding Ideas:
1. Stress/burn out: plan a grounded vacation
Feeling psychologically stressed truly impacts your body’s health over time. As part of a larger plan to boost your resiliency that includes routine exercising, sleeping well and eating lots of fresh, unprocessed foods, taking a grounding vacation can reset your body. Whether it is laying on a beach, swimming in a lake, napping poolside, yoga in a meadow or hiking in the mountains, taking a vacation (or a long weekend) centered around grounding daily might be one of the best ways to hit a reset button in your life.
Almost every vacation destination has evolved to be a vacation spot because of how good it feels to be grounded, even though most people don’t realize grounding is why: beaches, lakeside resorts, camp grounds, in ground pools in hotels … it’s all grounded and it all feels amazing. While you relax connected to the global electrical circuit of the earth, grounding is at work decreasing cortisol, decreasing whole body inflammation, and significantly boosting mood — all perfect to decrease stress levels and restore your naturally energetic, creative and optimistic inner child.
Taking a road trip to get to your destination? Start your healing on the drive there by stopping frequently at rest areas to have a picnic lunch, touch a metal signpost, or hold a leaf on a tree to get grounded as you break up your drive. Or, keep a grounded hiking stick in your car and go on a little walk to get grounded through your hands — I recommend at least a 5 minute grounded walk for every 60 minutes of driving, to reduce stress and boost circulation while you travel! Find your grounded hiking stick here.
2. Insomnia: ground in first morning light
If you find you have trouble sleeping at night, one of the best things you can do is to make a daily habit out of grounding in the morning light. Grounding to the earth directly helps re-sync your circadian rhythm to the planet via the global electrical circuit. And as we know from the medical literature, this helps calm brain waves, deepen sleep, boosts sleep quality, normalize cortisol and makes the sleep you do get (even if it is not as long as you would hope) more restorative.
Get up with the sunrise and go outside for 20 min of grounding during the AM hours where you live. Do this daily and you will notice your sleep naturally improving at night. The best part about grounding in the morning as an adjunctive treatment for insomnia is that it works in concert with any conventional medical treatment your physician might suggest, and can complement everything from a sleep study work up, to correcting sleep apnea with a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine, to sleep-inducing supplements and medications.
And if you get to the end of the day and realize you have gone an entire day without grounding, one of my favorite back-up ways to ensure I get at least a few minutes of grounding in a day is to go outside on my way up to bed and look at the moon and stars. It’s so easy to stargaze grounded, because all it takes is to stand on a sidewalk, or stay bundled up and hold onto a leaf on a tree (even a pine needle in the winter will ground you!) as I look up and remember how magnificent it all is, and how all of my “big” problems are actually really small. Spinning on a rock that is spiraling through space and remembering the vastness of it all puts everything back into perspective, while grounding allows my muscles to relax, my mind to shift out of stress mode and into rest mode, and preps my body for a good night of sleep ahead. Watch this TikTok to learn more about grounding in the moonlight and give it a try before you go to bed tonight.
3. Anxiety: ground during panic attacks
Because grounding goes immediately to work directly stabilizing your autonomic nervous system by boosting your vagal tone, it has the power to regulate your racing heart and deepen your breathing. Grounding immediately begins to improve heart rate variability and boost oxygenation, all while it is switching your brain waves from stress mode into relaxed alpha brainwave patterns, so it’s literally the perfect adjunctive support during panic attacks and heightened anxiety states.
Along with conventional evaluation and treatment that might include therapy, medication, exercise and mind-body work, grounding is an instantly accessible healing tool that can provide immediate support during increased periods of anxiety no matter where you are or what you are doing. When you feel anxiety bumping your heart rate, tightening your chest, giving you a knot in your stomach, or causing rumination and insomnia, head outside and touch the earth — better yet, lay right down on it. In some of my most overwhelming moments of panic, I’ve found deep comfort and release simply by laying on the ground and looking up at the sky while I let the earth boost my body’s parasympathetic nervous system to help calm me.
Over time, grounding is so good at lowering your body’s response to stress that it can even normalize cortisol levels. So if you feel a panic attack approaching, stop everything and touch the earth. Pull over if you are driving, go outside if you are home or at work or in a crowded shop or restaurant and let the stability of the earth ease your panic and calm your anxiety with its power.
4. Depression: daily grounding is crucial
Grounding is a wonderfully uplifting way to balance mood, support the central nervous system, and release chronic inflammation that puts wear and tear on the body and mind. Ongoing research is revealing the full extent that inflammation plays in depression, as higher levels of blood markers of inflammation have been found to be directly correlated with a variety of depressive symptoms, including sleep difficulty, decreased energy levels, decreased motivation and increased or decreased appetite.
Another study found that anti-inflammatory drugs helped to lessen depressive symptoms and resolve depressive episodes better than anti-depressants alone when added to anti-depressant therapy.
Grounding is not only anti-inflammatory and stabilizing, it boosts mood and energy levels as well, and can work in conjunction with any therapy, medication or treatment for depression that your physician may suggest. The best approach to adding grounding to a treatment for depression is to get into a daily routine so that benefits are cumulative over time, instead of sporadic support.
So, choose hobbies that get you outside routinely: gardening is perfect, whether it is flowers or herbs or vegetables that will get you outside daily, nurturing something growing on this earth will have you grounding daily by default. Other ideas include walking, yoga, stretching or journaling outside, or simply listening to a podcast or music — headphones on and bare feet in the grass — or best of all… bird watching. One 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! Watch this TikTok where I tell you about that medical study. While you are out and about identifying birds, it’s so easy to get grounded. Rest a fingertip on a leaf of a tree, bush, flower, blade of grass, even on a weed and your entire body will be grounded from head to toe. Let the earth naturally boost your mood and decrease depression intensity.
5. Digestive issues: eat meals grounded outside
As a physician, it’s becoming incredibly obvious that digestive issues of all kinds, from inflammatory bowel diseases to food sensitivities and food intolerances, are on the rise. Steeply. In addition to the food allergy testing, blood tests and bowel imaging studies that your physician may want to do as part of your work up, and in complement to the dietary changes, medications and lifestyle interventions your physician may suggest as a treatment plan, I encourage you to eat at least one meal every day grounded outside.
Grounding decreases inflammation throughout your entire body, and your gut lining is no exception. Decreasing the inflammatory response of the gut by grounding while you are eating is a great way to allow your food to digest more easily and with less discomfort, and secondarily because grounding increases blood flow as well, your gut absorption will be enhanced too. In addition, vagal tone gets a boost when the body is grounded, and this in turn is a direct avenue for grounding to impact digestion, as our entire digestive tract is driven by the vagus nerve, everything from our salivary glands to our swallowing mechanism to gut peristalsis and even digestive enzyme secretion is guided by vagus nerve function.
So the next time you are choosing a restaurant or looking over a menu, consider if there is an outdoor eating area you could be seated at. If so, that’s the best choice for sure! Slipping off a shoe to place a toe onto the dining surface — if it is cement, concrete, pavers, brick, slate or stone — will ground your entire body while you are enjoying your food. So if you can eat it outside grounded, you just added a therapeutic, anti-inflammatory benefit to time spent enjoying your food.
Want to go further? Walking boosts gut motility, so consider taking 10 min to walk grounded after a meal to help boost gut peristalsis naturally, which will encourage healthy bowel movements and decrease bloating, indigestion and constipation. An organic grounded picnic blanket makes it easy to eat a meal outside, and putting a grounding shoe sticker on your favorite walking shoes will make grounded walking easy.
6. Metabolic Syndrome/Weight Loss: longer grounding sessions
Grounding has been shown in the medical literature to stabilize fasting glucose levels, boost basal metabolic rate, and even boost thyroid function. All of these benefits from grounding will help guard against the development of metabolic syndrome, or help you treat it alongside the lifestyle changes and medications your physician may recommend. Because 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, grounding for at least 15 minutes right after you eat is the most natural way to bring nutrition into alignment with your body’s health. And because grounding actually boosts your body’s basal metabolic rate, you burn more calories (even at rest!) and it helps you naturally lose weight.
Grounding routinely and for longer periods of time is the key to getting your metabolism boosted — I found in my own experience that losing weight with grounding requires at least 15 minutes of contact with the earth daily. Watch this TikTok to hear me tell you about my own Grounding & Weight Loss study I conducted on my own patients.
If you can go outside to ground directly to the earth for a minimum of 15 minutes daily, I highly recommend it. But if it is too hot, too cold, inconvenient or unsafe to get grounded outside where you live, consider having a routine of grounding indoors using an indoor grounding tool. Any time you are sitting for more than a half hour, it doesn’t makes sense for that sedentary time to not be a time of healing, a time spent grounded.
Ideally we are moving our bodies often, frequently, and throughout the day. But when we are not, the advantage to that is we can have prolonged time making contact with a grounded surface. Having an organic grounding throw on your sofa turns the time you spend watching a movie, reading, or taking a nap into time spent in a grounded, healing state. Find your organic grounding throw here.
7. Back Mobility: the earth is your physical therapist
Back pain is one of the most common reasons people see a doctor. And the good news is, no matter what treatment plan your physician recommends, from imaging studies to physical therapy to surgery to medications, grounding can expedite your recovery and decrease pain from injury and inflammation in your spine. Consider the earth your very own physical therapist, as you lay grounding directly on the earth outside or on an organic grounding yoga mat, indoors or outside (find those here).
We know that routine grounding decreases pain and decreases whole body inflammation, and that includes inflammation and pain in your ligaments and tendons. Your entire spine is conductive, the discs and ligaments and vertebral bones that make up your spine are conductive, and all of your joints and the fluid in your joints are conductive. Grounding spinal care can be as simple as laying on the earth outside with an ice pack or a hot water bottle held to tight areas, or you can add some gentle twists, stretches and release exercises or any physical therapy and rehabilitative exercises you’ve been instructed to do.
Make this time exponentially more powerful then stretching or doing rehab exercises indoors by adding grounding to the therapy session. Even if all you do is go stretch on the earth outside while you wait for your pain medication to take effect, you will be supporting repair to your body’s skeletal system on a much deeper level than just treating pain with a pill. Grounding decreases inflammation in the body over the long term, so don’t wait for pain to begin to support your body’s longevity. And if you already have musculoskeletal pain issues, grounding is one healing therapy you will want to add to your already established medical treatment plan.
8. Chronic Pain: grounding meditation
If you suffer from chronic pain conditions, I highly recommend starting a meditation practice, and doing so grounded. Meditation has been shown in the medical literature to reduce pain by modulating brain regions involved in pain processing, independent of endogenous opioid pathways and independent of placebo modulatory pathways of the brain, suggesting it’s own independent avenue of addressing pain above and beyond what pharmacological medications can provide. All of these benefits have been found to significantly reduce chronic pain intensity, and meditating for even just 20 minutes has been found to decrease perception of pain in pain induction studies.
You can easily be grounded for every second that you meditate and not only will this add boosting conductive health to your daily routine, it will actually make meditation easier. That’s because grounding reduces markers of brain stress, boosts calm and centered alpha brain waves, and puts the brain into a healing state. Doing grounding and meditation together is synergistic — you get more benefits doing them together than you do with either alone. I talk more about overlapping grounding and meditation in this TikTok here. Combining meditation with grounding improves pain relief by addressing both the neurological pathway of pain as well as the physiological mechanisms that contribute to pain. While meditation down regulates the brain’s perception of pain, grounding directly reduces inflammation, reduces brain stress, and balances the autonomic nervous system. Together, these modalities provide a powerful integrative approach—calming the mind while restoring the body.
Practicing meditation outdoors while grounded may synergistically enhance relaxation, reduce stress-induced flare-ups, and offer deeper, longer-lasting relief for both acute and chronic pain. You can simply ground outside with a fingertip or foot touching the earth while you meditate, or if you prefer meditating indoors, you can sit on an organic grounding mat. Let me walk you through a 3 breath, super easy mantra mediation that you can do on your grounding mat or outside on the earth, any time, any where, to help reduce pain by watching this TikTok here.
9. Sexual Health: grounding in bed
If you’ve never combined grounding with intimacy before, you are in for a treat. Thanks to boosted blood flow, boosted mental focus, more deeply relaxed muscles and boosted nerve function, kissing and connected while grounded adds a deeper level of intimacy to your partnership. Grounding also helps balance hormones, thanks to it’s ability to lower cortisol and leave more precursors to naturally boost sex hormone levels.
You can try it right now — head outside for a kiss grounded to the earth — or embrace your loved one with a hug. You will immediately feel how grounding heightens your connection, and you might want to take this grounding support into the bedroom. Especially if you are struggling with infertility, if you are struggling with getting in the mood, if you are struggling with pain during intimacy, if you are struggling with genital responsiveness, blood flow, or hormone balance, you might want to consider grounding in bed to help address these issue all at once — to reap all the benefits of grounding right when you desire the sexual benefits most.
You can ground the full surface of your bed with an organic grounding topper made from organic cotton and stainless steel fibers (do not use plastic “leatherette” or synthetic polyester grounding sheets in bed, those are not recommend for long term skin contact as rubbing against plastic introduces microplastics into the body, these products are non-breathing, hot and sticky, they degrade with skin oils and lubricants and stop working, and are they not eco friendly for the earth either!). Find eco-ethically hand made organic Grounding Bed Toppers tools right here.
10. Fibromyalgia: grounding in the bathtub
If you live with fibromyalgia, you already know how frustrating it can be… the muscle aches, the fatigue, the sensitivity to pressure—sometimes even the softest touch can feel painful. Because fibromyalgia is a chronic, low-grade inflammatory condition combined with a heightened nervous system sensitivity and increased muscle inflammation, grounding can significantly help.
Grounding studies looking at participants with various chronic pain conditions—including fibromyalgia— reported significantly less pain, better sleep, and improved overall well-being by sleeping grounded. In another study, grounded individuals had lower levels of inflammatory markers like white blood cells and creatine kinase, and reported less muscle pain and soreness. And perhaps most importantly, grounding has been shown to balance the autonomic nervous system—the same system that’s often in overdrive in people with fibromyalgia. This balance could mean less overstimulation, fewer pain flares, improved muscle relaxation, less muscle damage and a greater feeling of calm throughout the body.
One powerful (and soothing) way to ground your body is through a nightly warm bath. Immersing your body in a bathtub full of water grounds you the entire time you’re soaking, because water is a natural ground conductor and all indoor plumbing systems are required to be grounded by law. So the water tank and motor system that delivers a stream of water to your taps will also ground you whenever you touch that water stream. I highly recommend relaxing in the tub for at least 15 minutes each night to relieve muscle pain, reduce soreness, and help melt away tension through grounding.
To enhance these therapeutic effects, add magnesium-rich Epsom salts to the bath water. Magnesium supports muscle relaxation, reduces cramping, and helps ease nervous system overactivity—all of which can be incredibly helpful for fibromyalgia. Grounding and magnesium together in a nightly bath create a powerful one-two punch for relaxation and pain relief. You can use this gentle grounding evening ritual to help set the stage for deeper sleep and less muscular pain the next day.
11. ADHD: grounding beforehand to boost focus
It makes sense that the human brain works 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. You’ve probably already notices this — 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.
Many studies have shown that 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. In fact, the part of the brain that is most cohesive with the earth’s electrical output is the parahypocampagl gyrus, which is the part of the brain that provides meaning and orientation to our lives. Not only that, but another study found that participants who walked grounded had less brain stress and improved cognitive function (including boosted memory, recall, concentration and problem solving) even over non-grounded participants who studied before these cognitive tests. I wrote a medical review article on these studies that you can read right here: Grounding And Cognition.
Because the natural electrical output of the earth is the most cohesive with the part of our brain that provides meaning and context to our lives, time spent on the earth boost our mental clarity… hear me talk more about these studies in this TikTok here. In fact, this decrease in brain stress (along with grounding’s ability to decrease whole-body inflammation) likely boosts our brain’s overall neuroplasticity. 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, or the next time you want to sit down to write, or make a big life decision, or heading into a classroom or a meeting where you need to focus… try heading outside to get grounded.
12. Rehabilitation: grounding in a pool
Not only is swimming one of the most ideal ways to exercise — built in resistance training with excellent cardio, plus decreased strain on the joints — but almost every way of swimming you can possible think of will ground you the entire time as well! So you can take weight off of your area of injury to allow it to recover through using the natural buoyancy of water, so that healing can be more gentle while at the same time be more effective.
Water is perfectly suited to helping you heal not just because it buffers the force of gravity from your skeletal system but because almost all pools and certainly all natural bodies of water are grounded. Lakes, rivers, streams, the ocean, and even in ground pools that are made from concrete or cement are all naturally grounded. On top of that, even indoor pools or pools made from plastic are grounded through the water filtration system, so most pools in hotels and gyms and your neighborhood YMCA and even private back yard pools are all grounded. So in addition to water buffering the force of gravity on your joints, grounding provides therapeutic anti-inflammatory support to your body while you work on building strength, recovering mobility and increasing range of motion in the water.
We know that grounding not only decreases inflammation and pain, but during exertion it decreases damage done to muscles and mitigates how much soreness you experience later. Which means you can participate more fully in your water-based recovery plan, without worrying about being as sore or in pain later. This will allow you to be more invested in your healing sessions and see results faster, all while the grounded water is allowing supported movement and decreases the gravitational load on your joints. Remember, all pools, even indoor pools, even rooftop pools, plus all natural bodies of water you can swim in are all grounded.
Watch this TikTok on how pools and hot tubs will ground you! I get so many skeptics about this one that I even filmed a second TikTok where I took my grounding test meter out to my own hot tub and showed you with the tester that the water is indeed grounded, even in my plastic hot tub! Watch that here.
13. Exercise Recovery: grounding after exertion
Connecting to the Earth’s natural energy has been shown in medical studies to reduce muscle soreness and speed up healing after exercise. Study participants who grounded during exercise had lower levels of muscle damage markers like creatine kinase, and they reported feeling less sore in the days that followed. Other studies have explored grounding after exercise, and the results are just as impressive—reduced inflammation, less pain, and faster recovery of strength and flexibility. Grounding helps reduce inflammation and supports the body’s natural repair process. It helps calm the immune system’s response to muscle damage, improves circulation, and even reduces oxidative stress. So whether you ground during a workout or afterward, you’re giving your body a boost in recovery and comfort—naturally. So if you are working out in any capacity, I truly feel you should be grounding either during exercise, or immediately afterwards.
If you have a gym or weights set up in your basement or garage, which is where I have mine, then you are in luck — standing barefoot on a cement slab found in many basements or on a concrete garage floor means you are fully grounded from head to toe directly through your feet. If not, then I highly recommend that every time you stop during your workout to drink some water, you head outside and ground to the earth while you hydrate. Just go outside and hold onto a leaf on a tree while you re-hydrate… use thirst as an easy reminder to get a few minutes of grounding, which is enough to release muscle tension, reduce inflammation and boost your cardiac recovery.
If not throughout your exercise routine, than at least take 5 minutes on the way into the gym and 5 minutes on your way out of the gym to get grounded — drink a bottle of water and touch a metal signpost, hold onto a leaf on a tree, or sit on the curb and rest your hand on the sidewalk on your way in and out of your workout facility and know that you just added a solid 10 minutes of grounding into your day. Watch this TikTok to understand why even a few seconds of grounding makes a difference.
Another great way to combine grounding with your favorite exercise? Apply a grounding ice pack to soothe any injuries and decrease inflammation and swelling after you exercise. If you enjoy an ice bath to help recover after exertion, you will love combining grounding with ice as well… find your grounding ice pack here.
14. Heart disease: walking grounded
The link between exercise and heart health has long been studied, so most physicians will prescribe some sort of exercise plan for their patients with cardiovascular risk factors. If you are in this group, be sure to upgrade the effectiveness of your healing plan by adding grounding in — it can be as simple as going for a long grounded walk each day. Medical studies show that grounding is incredibly beneficial for your heart health and your body’s circulation. While grounded, your blood gets thinner and flows more easily through your capillaries, your heart rate variability improves, and over time your blood pressure lowers and inflammation goes down.
If you like to walk (or jog or run) daily as part of a heart healthy cardio protective healing plan, I’d highly recommend putting a shoe sticker on your favorite pair of running or walking shoes and add the health benefits of grounding to your body the entire time. Being grounded will actually make that walk or run easier too, as grounding boosts oxygenation in the blood, supports healthy cardiac function, and as we talked about above, protects your muscles and joints from wear and tear as well. To protect your feet, keep them in your favorite pair of walking or running shoes, and keep wearing your orthotic inserts, and simply add a grounding shoe sticker to turn any pair of shoes into a grounding shoe, I show you how to apply these grounding shoe stickers in this TikTok here. And you can find these shoe stickers right here.
In addition to any therapies, interventions and/or medications your cardiologist recommends, grounding outside on the earth can work synergistically to help naturally increase circulation and blood flow, decrease blood viscosity, increase heart rate variability, and reduce soreness after exercise. Not only will this benefit your entire cardiovascular system, all of your bodily organs will then benefit from the improved blood flow as well, in addition to your heart. If you are on blood thinners, be sure to tell your physician you are grounding and have your physician follow your lab tests closely. As your blood naturally moves more freely with daily time spent grounded, your personal physician may need to guide a medication adjustment and monitor your results.
15. Osteoporosis: grounded yoga
The opposite of exercising in water to remove the wear and tear of gravity on your joints, to build bone density you actually want to have resistance or weight training to keep your bones strong. Simply using gravity is a wonderful way to maintain healthy bones for a lifetime and combining this with the healing power of grounding may help reduce bone metabolism to help protect your bones in an additional way. Just one night of grounding was enough to decrease calcium and phosphorus loss, so I look forward to more long term studies translating what grounding over several years can do to protecting our bones.
Meanwhile, any poses that allow you to place weight on your hands such as tabletop, plank, chaturanga and downward facing dog, plus inversions such as forward fold, crow pose, head and hand and shoulder stands, all help keep your bones strong and are an invaluable daily habit to get into. Doing it grounded outside not only adds the additional element of conductive health to your bone support, but the daylight you get while outside boosts your vitamin D levels naturally, which is crucial for bone integrity.
Use gravity with yoga to stimulate strong bones, protect the metabolism of your bones with grounding, and boost vitamin D levels outdoors all in one 20 min yoga session. Or if you prefer to do your yoga practice indoors, I have an organic grounding yoga mat waiting for you right here.
16. Cancer recovery: walk a dog grounded
There have been several incredibly positive studies showing that walking is one of the best things you can do to recover from, and prevent remission in, cancer treatment. Walking was shown in a large medical study to significantly improves sleep in cancer patients (no matter which type or stage of cancer they had) and another study showed that walking improved outcome, decreased mortality rates, and predicted positive outcome in cancer recovery. Those results were so impressive that some physicians even started prescribing adopting and walking a dog daily as a crucial part of a cancer care plan. Walking helps reverse sleep impairment during cancer treatment, supports better sleep during recovery, and is so good at improving outcomes that it could be considered front line therapy alongside conventional medical treatment.
Add grounding on to this and compound these fantastic results with decreased pain, decreased inflammation, deeper and more restorative sleep at night, and improved energy and mood as well. Walk your dog and petting him or her often (which allows you to ground through your pet) or remove your shoes and walk barefoot with your pet daily. In fact, several medical studies have found that pets boost your lifespan. In addition, they can decrease allergies, asthma rates, decrease stress so much they lower your cortisol levels, and more.
So that said, next time you are tossing a ball or going on a walk or just snuggling with your fur baby, know that like all living things (plants, animals, and other humans included!) you can ground right through your pet, especially by petting or kissing an area with less dense fur, like their snout, ears or belly. Watch me ground through my favorite soul-dog, long since passed away but always in my heart, in this TikTok here.
You can also put a grounding shoe sticker on your shoes so you are grounded when you walk your dog on sidewalk or grass. 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. Find them here: Grounding Shoe Stickers
17. Jet Lag: ground as quickly as possible
Jet lag occurs when your body’s internal clock is out of sync with the new local time, often leading to fatigue, brain fog, digestive upset, and sleep disturbances. Fortunately, grounding can help reset your circadian rhythm quickly. Your brain’s cerebral cortex is cohesive with the earth’s electrical output, so contacting the earth in your new time zone will allow the Carnegie Curve to tell you brain what time of day it is. In fact, research has shown that direct contact with the Earth helps normalize cortisol levels and one landmark study found that test subjects who were grounded after international flights reported less fatigue, better sleep quality, and faster recovery from time zone changes. Grounding also calms the nervous system, lowers stress, and may reduce the inflammatory stress response that often accompanies travel. By syncing your body with the Earth’s natural electrical rhythms upon arrival, you can transition to a new time zone with greater ease.
As soon as possible after landing, get in direct contact with the earth. If you have landed in a city, just stepping outside and placing your hand on a metal street sign pole, sitting on a concrete sidewalk, or touching a leaf on a tree can all connect you to the grounding circuit. In more rural settings, standing barefoot on grass, dirt, or sand as soon as you are able to after settling in. And my favorite way to get grounded when I travel and stay in a hotel — heading to the pool or hot tub (even indoor or rooftop ones!) will ground your body immediately, helping to relax travel-weary muscles and reset your circadian rhythm. Whether you’ve just landed after a short hop or a long-haul flight, grounding within the first few hours can help realign your body’s clock and get you feeling quickly oriented to your new time zone.
18. Dementia prevention: sleeping grounded
On top of the boost in mood grounding provides, there are multiple other ways that grounding supports our central nervous system. Anything that uses conductivity and electrical impulse to function, such as our brain, is positively impacted when you are grounded. In fact, studies show that within milliseconds of being grounded our brain wave patterns improve. I published a great overview on what the medical studies have found on the impact of grounding the human brain, which you can read right here: Neurological Pathways Supported By Grounding. In fact, it’s so crucial for us to be bathed in the earth’s heartbeat that astronauts who go into space actually have to have Schumann frequency generators simulating the earth’s electrical output on board, so that they do not suffer from sleep disturbances or mental health issues when separated from it.
Combining sleep with grounding offers synergistic benefits that are beyond what you would get with either alone. Sleeping grounding helps your body shift more quickly into restorative phases of sleep, ensuring that sleep is more restorative, and that you rise feeling more energized. One study on sleeping grounded found that patients with Alzheimer’s Disease had a 62% improvement in sleep quality when they slept grounded.
Another idea is to get grounded and listen to music for instant brain benefits. Medical studies show that listening to music — especially familiar or meaningful songs — can help people with dementia reconnect to memories, reduce agitation, and even improve communication. Music has a beautiful way of reaching parts of the brain that other therapies can’t. Music taps into a deep emotional reserve, often sparking joy, recognition, or calm when words or other cues no longer do. Whether it’s through singing, listening, or moving to rhythm, music becomes a gentle, powerful tool for connection and healing. So enjoy your favorite tunes outside grounded to combine the benefits of Music therapy with Grounding. Laying down on a picnic blanket with one fingertip touching the earth, resting on a park bench with feet on the earth or on the cement below, or taking a stroll with a grounding hiking stick or grounding shoe sticker on your shoes will all allow you to combine your love of music with grounding.
19. Electrosensitivity: grounding outside
The natural EMFs from the earth heal our body and have the exact opposite effect that harmful artificial EMFs have on our body. If you want to read more about how natural EMFs help balance out the effects of manmade EMFs on the human body, you might enjoy this free article I wrote for you: How to Naturally Defuse The Effects Of EMFs on The Body
While part of creating this healing oasis for your body in between exposures and stressors is to decrease radiation in the home as much as possible, an equally important part is to ground the body to expedite healing and boost resiliency. When you remove or decrease or shield from man-made EMFs you are simply removing radiation sources — but does not actually nurture and strengthen your own health, it just removes a toxic irritant. The way to boost your conductive health and increase your conductive well being and resilience is through grounding.
When we shield our body from manmade EMFs, we are also reducing our access to healthy healing natural electrical fields, so we need to be especially good about intentionally seeking out a direct connection to the earth, to infuse our bodies with that healing energy that we need so much. Grounding daily to reset the conductive health of your body is ESSENTIAL — it is not enough simply to remove EMF insults, you must replace those toxic frequencies with the natural healing frequency from the earth. Medical studies have found that even simply enjoying a city park can boost health, including increasing longevity, and other studies have shown that time in a park (even an urban one) boosts immune function.
Other studies have shown that even one single weekend spent in nature has significant health benefits —reducing stress, reducing inflammation, and even boosting the body’s immune response, compared to staying in an urban environment for the weekend. Researchers found that subjects that had a two day immersion in nature had measurably boosted immunity markers in the blood, lowered blood inflammatory markers, lower cortisol levels, boosted natural killer cells, along with improvement of several other markers of immunity and inflammation. And here is the best part: not only was this health boost significant immediately, but it persisted for an entire month after just that one single weekend in nature! So one weekend in nature sustained an improvement in health for weeks, well after the subjects returned to their urban living.
Cumulative anti-aging, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer benefits from one weekend a month in nature? That’s a pretty good deal. If you can strive to take monthly breaks from your daily grind in order to support your long term health, you can reap the benefits for much longer than your weekend getaway lasted. Weeks of boosted health, even if you can’t live in nature…. turns out even just a venture outside every few weeks does a body good.
If you enjoy the great outdoors and want to get grounded while spending a few days in your own cabin, you can do it right along with me, in person! Join my Fall Grounding Retreat and lets do grounding breath work sessions, grounding meditations, grounding walks in nature, grounded stargazing, grounding around a fire pit, grounded stretching and more together — I’ll personally lead you through these activities along with other like-minded folks!
Look at how cute the cabins are right here — you have your own bed, own mini kitchen, own bathroom, own fire pit, own parking space and own picnic area all part of your own private cabin, but space is limited to 28 cabins and this is the last retreat I will run in all of 2025.
Sign up to reserve your spot here.
I can’t wait to heal and renew — grounded — with you.
xoxo,
Laura Koniver MD
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