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 grounding has a profound impact on your digestion, boosting your vagal tone (which supports the function of your entire digestive tract, from your esophagus to your colon and everything in between!) while meanwhile directly impacting your ability to feel full and satiated, even enhancing absorption by decreasing inflammation, which also helps with recovery after a meal.
From every single angle, eating grounded helps: putting you more deeply in touch with your hunger and satiation, helping you digest and absorb your nutrients better, boosting your metabolism and keeping weight gain at bay, even decreasing discomfort after eating.
Even if you eat completely organic, fresh, raw, dairy-free, gluten-free, best-diet-in-the-world you can easily still have irritable bowel issues, or indigestion, or bloating, or pain.
That’s because you can’t fully resolve bowel inflammation without being grounded. Today I’d like to invite you to give it a try to see (and more importantly, feel) the difference in your digestion when you are eating grounded. If you are going to eat food for a few minutes anyway at some point today, you might as well make that a time of healing and support by doing it outside, grounded.
Grab a drink and a snack (or your next meal) and come get grounded with me:
10 Minute Grounded Mindful Eating Practice
Now that you feel the dramatic difference eating grounded makes, want some ideas on how to do it routinely?
I’d love to challenge you to try each meal to see what benefits you the most — one day this week eat breakfast outside in the morning, one day this week take your lunch outside, and one day this week move your dinner outdoors. To help, I’ve made a list of suggestions for you, idea to routinely incorporate grounding to support your digestion.
How many more can you add to this list?
And which one are you going to try out today?
10 Ideas To Use Grounding To Improve Digestion:
- Drink a cup of hot water (with a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar or lemon juice & honey) outside while grounding in the morning dew each AM to gift yourself a daily grounding detox for your gut.
- Take your morning coffee and yogurt (or oatmeal, or cereal, or toast, etc…) outside onto your front doorstep to eat a grounded breakfast before heading off to school/work… like I’m doing in the video above.
- At lunch, take your brown bag outside to the sidewalk in front of your building, or the picnic bench in the back of your office plaza, or anywhere you can touch the earth (maybe something as simple as the sidewalk that surrounds your parking area) and eat a grounded lunch outside for an instant pick-me-up to get you through your afternoon indoors.
- Once a week, turn your dinner into a picnic by grabbing your plates and taking them outside, eating al fresco… see if you notice a improvement not only in your digestion but your sleep that night too!
- If you are adventurous and want to cook your dinner outside (not just take it outside to eat…) there are countless amazing campfire meal recipes and grilling recipes waiting for you for free on the internet, or to motivate you even more, treat yourself to a beautifully illustrated campfire meal cookbook and enjoy picking out your next grounded dinner.
- Once a month, invite all of your friends and family to meet up at a park for a potluck meal enjoyed outdoors in a free park pavilion. As you know if you’ve seen this super old video I made for you here, just touching the concrete floor of the pavilion is instantly grounding! Bring your frisbee or football and get some grounded exercise in while you are at it!
- As evening draws, take your nightly hot cup of herbal tea (or hot chocolate!) outside to drink in the warmth while looking up at the stars overhead… the most peaceful and centering way to ground that I know of.
- Outdoors not your thing? You can still eat grounded by sitting on (or resting your feet on) an organic grounded mat at your chair, indoors.
- Still have some indigestion? Consider holding a soothing grounded hot water bottle over your abdomen during or after meals to help soothe gut peristalsis with powerful grounding support to your vagal nerve, while dissipating bloating and heartburn with relaxing heat, all at the same time.
- Want to add on some more digestive support? Take a big glass of water outside, along with these gut supportive digestive supplements, and support your digestion with:
- probiotics (not only good for boosting immunity, these also help balance your gut flora so that you can break down and absorb nutrients with less inflammation and bloating, resolving irritable bowel issues as well)
- betaine HCL and digestive enzymes (especially important for those with gastritis or gall bladder issues)
- l-glutamine and aloe vera to help repair the gut lining and resolve leaky gut issues
- and for a dramatic improvement in digestion, DAO to decrease the gut’s histamine response to triggering foods
Find my favorite brands of each of these supplements, the ones I’ve seen truly work time and time again, in this Gut Healing Protocol here:
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Want More Support? I’ve Got You
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I’ve based this course directly off of the medical literature and my 25 years of experience helping to support patients with their weight loss goals. You’d be surprised that your body naturally knows what weight is the perfect one for you, and it can sustain it at this perfect weight effortlessly once you naturally align your metabolism.
I’ll show you how in a very non-threatening, supportive, uplifting way.
It’s not about being rigid or militant or hard on yourself, in fact, it’s the exact opposite. The harder you are on yourself, the harder it is to align with your healthiest version of you. There are several other things that are even more important than what you eat that dictate what you weight… and without knowing what those things are, you just can’t lose weight.
Understand the things that sabotage weight loss and the weight releases, naturally. Let’s do it together right now:
To your innate, beautiful, powerful health!
xoxoxo, Laura Koniver MD
