It’s natural for our bodies to go through times of trauma and stress and then rebound to full health. There are lots of things you can do to mitigate stress and trauma and prevent them from leaving lasting imprints on your body might otherwise deteriorate your health.
Which is important, because if we don’t release the traumas and stressors that we experience, our cells, organs, tissues and physical body as a whole literally changes.
This is the study of epigenetics — and I’ve seen it play out in clinical medicine over and over again: trauma governs what genes are turned on and turned off, how genes are expressed and used, and literally changes the way the human body functions.
Grounding helps reverse the epigenetic changes in multiple ways, through reducing inflammation as well as by fixing your circadian rhythm, which we talked about last week.
You probably already know that if you are part of my newsletter list, as I’ve recently published medical articles on grounding to protect your long term health including:
- Grounding To Protect Stem Cell Reserve During Aging
- Grounding To Treat Anxiety
- Grounding and The Gut-Brain Axis
- Grounding And Cognition
- Grounding, An Anti-Aging Breakthrough
- Grounding And Skin Repair: The Power Of DC Energy
- Cerebrospinal Fluid and Brain Health: Optimized By Grounding
- Neurological Pathways Supported By Grounding
- Practical Applications Of Grounding To Support Health
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Today, I made a video for you on how grounding helps quickly pull you out of the fight and flight trauma response as well as helps reverse, and protect against, the damage that trauma brings.
Watch this quick 8 min video below to see exactly why grounding is in a unique position to erase stress from your physical tissues, and why I feel that grounding is an absolutely mandatory part of a trauma healing plan:
Grounding To Heal From Trauma
Here is an overview of what I say in the video above:
Trauma causes a physical reaction:
- your muscles become tense
- your heart rate is elevated and circulation is constricted
- your digestion shuts down and mouth gets dry
- your adrenaline & cortisol surge
- your brain disassociates
- your sleep is disrupted
Long term this leads to:
- pain from muscle tension in the form of chronic tension headaches, tooth grinding & TMJ, restless leg syndrome, fibromyalgia and other pain syndromes
- heart disease, increased risk of heart attack and stroke
- inflammatory disorders of the gut, malabsorption, heartburn, reflux, irritable bowel
- an increased risk of autoimmune disorders
- adrenal fatigue, circadian rhythm disturbance, sex hormone imbalance, even early menopause or menstrual irregularities
- insomnia, memory problems, flashbacks, hyper vigilance and rumination
Grounding directly addresses these issues, providing you with:
- a near instantaneous decrease in muscle tension
- improved heart rate variability (HRV) and enhanced circulation
- boosted digestion and vagal tone
- decreased inflammation
- normalized cortisol levels
- reorientation into the current moment
- and deeper, more restorative sleep
If you have ever felt the relief of grounding, then you already know how supportive it can be and how resilient it helps your body feel. Literally helping to center you no matter what is going on in your life, no matter how stressed out you feel, even in the midst of a panic attack, the earth is waiting out there to support you and provide relief.
What are some easy ways to get grounded when PTSD symptoms arise?
Here are some ideas to help:
- lay directly on the earth outside the minute you feel your heart rate increasing or panic arriving
- hold onto a leaf of a tree, breathe deeply and look up at the sky if you feel claustrophobic or disoriented
- go on a walk using a grounding walking stick or grounding shoe stickers if you feel muscle tension creeping in
- find the closest bathroom and run your hands under a stream of water if you are indoors and can’t get outside
- hold a grounding hot water bottle to your abdomen if you feel digestive upset or a knot in your stomach
- take a bath to get a 20 minute grounding session in before bed if you have insomnia
- take a nap under a grounding throw blanket if you need rest
There are several other key things — beyond grounding — that you can do to release stress and trauma before it triggers PTSD and other traumatic sequela in the body. I go into each one in depth in my Trauma Resiliency & Recovery online class.
You want to release trauma from your body, because those who move through trauma can actually be healthier than those who never went through any trauma at all — it’s true. I talk about this and give you the medical studies that back this up right in class.
In my Trauma Resilency & Recovery Class I go over the medical literature that reveals that trauma can actually be adaptive and empowering, and I show you all the tools to use trauma to boost your own health in ways you never could have imagined possible.
I developed this class based on my extensive research into the best of what the medical literature tells us about how to release trauma once and for all and become healthier for it.
No matter what you have gone through, you absolutely do have the ability to rebound from from it and create a new normal and a new health set point.
Your body naturally wants to bounce back to full and complete wellness… mind, body and spirit. I’ll give you the tools to get there and walk with you through it.
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