Every year just before fall I always get more and more emails from patients and readers asking how to stay connected to the earth as the outdoors becomes less accessible: kids return to school, the weather gets colder, the days get shorter, and our exposures to the cold and flu start to peak.
The latest email I just got asked me:
“I’m, confused by all the grounding tools, can you go over them in more detail? I want to get my entire family into a grounding routine before the kids head back to school.”
Yes, absolutely. Today’s blog post is dedicated to you!
So 20 years ago, when I first started introducing the concept of grounding to my patients, I advised them to go outside and touch the earth directly. Free, accessible, direct healing.
To this day, I still advise you to do this, daily, whenever you possibly can!
However, because the medical literature is so very clear that grounding indoors with indoor grounding tools is extremely healing as well, I did not want my patient’s healing to be limited to times when they had the energy, good weather, mobility and spare time to head outside.
In general, the folks who need grounding the most are the ones who are least feeling up to being active outside.
I also found there were so many patients that lived in particularly unforgiving, harsh, or dangerous environments that made going outdoors barefoot inadvisable. From tick borne illnesses to city landscapes to blazing hot or freezing temperatures outside, there are many reasons why grounding outdoors is inaccessible at times.
Grounding should not be restricted from those who need it most!
So, in order to make grounding accessible both indoor and outdoors, I began to look for indoor grounding tools to recommend to patients who have mobility issues, those who were mostly indoors because they were rehabilitating or recovering, and those who felt particularly ill or isolated.
So I started scouring the medical community for grounding tools that my patients could use indoors. Tools made by hand, lovingly crafted out of eco-friendly materials, and medical grade grounding tools that would last and last and last, made from strong, resilient stainless steel fibers that would not degrade, even after many uses, and many washes.
I couldn’t find any.
Every listing, from Amazon to Earthing.com to smaller resellers, all had the same collection of plastic based polyester sheets and “leatherette” plastic vinyl mats that not only introduce microplastics into your body, but sit in a landfill for century after century after century, which is a terrible thing to do to the very same planet that we are getting so much healing support from.
So I started making my own.
Organic materials, medical grade stainless steel conductive fibers so the grounding tools last infinitely longer, and all eco-ethcialy hand sewn, designed, tested, inspected and shipped directly from me to you. So that you have an advocate for your health that is a physician, and cares not only about the well being of her patients and readers, but also for the planet.
I offer these to you in my Grounding Boutique right here.
Here are the top dozen tools I keep recommending over and over again to those who email me, so that you might benefit from knowing exactly which grounding items works the very best in each specific situation.
Dr. Laura Koniver’s Guide To Indoor Grounding:
1. Best for: RELAXING
Organic Grounding Throw Blanket
Made out of a whisper soft 100% organic cotton with a simple, pure, 100% all natural conductive lining, made from pure silver (65%) and 100% natural raw silk (35%), this fabulous grounding throw is super soft, nontoxic to the earth and to you, and lightweight enough for summertime use!
Other grounding throws have — at best — 10% silver fibers woven into plastic synthetic poly blends, and they stop working after a few uses. This throw is eco-ethically hand sewn by local artisans right here in the USA, and is made out of 65% silver, 35% raw natural silk on one side, and 100% organic cotton on the other — that’s it!
Keep on the sofa so you can be grounding whenever you are relaxing… while while curled up with your favorite book or watching TV, binging your favorite shows or talking on the phone to your loved ones. Large enough for two, leave this grounding throw always at the ready so that anyone in your household can enjoy grounding any time they like.
Find your organic grounding throw right here.
Also good for: Shielding
Because of its exceptionally high silver content, this blanket also shields you from EMF’s, even without the ground cord plugged in. Instant protection, as simple as draping it over your body.
So if you sit with your laptop on your lap on the sofa or in bed, lay in bed scrolling through your cell phone before going to sleep, travel often and have your laptop right on your lap at the airport or train station, or have kids that play gaming systems every day, you want this shielding throw to protect them and yourself. Plenty big enough to cover all of your major organ systems with room to spare.
The is the exact shielding blanket that I use as I work often with my laptop on my lap. And this is the exact shielding blanket that my kids used as they did schoolwork on their computers as well. Find yours here.
2. Best For: MULTITASKING
Grounding Bed Roll
Ideal for those that want the easiest way to move their grounding surface around, from bed to bed or even to the sofa or floor. Also a great introductory way to sleep grounded before investing in a full sized grounding topper for the entire bed surface.
This grounding bed roll is the best of both worlds — securely grounding you all night long but rolls up for portability to take with you wherever you might travel. Fits across the foot area of all bed sizes, so it makes a great gift if you don’t know your recipients exact mattress size, as well as for yourself if you travel often and sleep in different places — just roll up, tie, and go!
Also good for: Grounding Your Entire Sofa
If you have a family (or a fur family like I do!) and want to be grounding everyone on the sofa at the same time, the bedroll is your perfect solution. At 7 ft in length (84″) it can run across the entire sofa and have everyone grounded with one simple product.
Perfect to ease you into the nighttime transition — you know the one. After dinner but before bedtime, snuggled up grounding for a bit before bed helps to release tension from your muscles, support digestion, release stress, normalize cortisol, relax brainwaves, and sync up your circadian rhythm to the natural rhythm of the earth.
Get one to ground your entire sofa, here.
3. Best for: COMFORT
The Grounding Hot Water Bottle
Now you can combine the power of water and the power of heat with the grounding force of Mother Nature to introduce three different, synergistic ways to exponentially heal! Heat increases circulation, ice decreases swelling, and grounding neutralizes inflammation, making this such an incredible versatile healing tool, helping: cramps, muscle tension, headaches, localized injury, back pain, arthritis and more.
Toss your EMF radiating electric blanket and reach for a tool that will keep your bed warm for hours as well as ground and heal you while you sleep all night long, or as you relax on your sofa each evening.
Hop over here to order your grounding hot water bottle.
Also good for: Cold & Flu Season
This is also the product I reach for every single time I don’t feel well.
From a workout that left my muscles sore, to menstrual cramps, to food poisoning, to a migraine, to feeling a cold or the flu coming on, I fill the water bottle up with either super hot water — or if I prefer, like when my sciatica is flaring, ice water — slip it onto the grounding cozy and hold it agains the area of my body that is feeling discomfort: my lower back, my abdomen, my neck, my thighs or calves, and ahhhh…. the grounding hot water bottle provides instant relief.
4. Best for: INSOMNIA
The Organic Grounding Bed Topper
The best grounding sleeping solution on the planet, hand made in the USA of the highest quality surgical stainless steel and organic cotton, eco friendly and supports local artisans, no hot sticky “leatherette” vinyl that doesn’t breathe all night long, and machine washable too. Instantly makes the entire surface of your bed grounded — perfect for those with multiple sleepers in one bed (great for making sure your partners, pets and/or children are grounding right along with you!) and installs as easy as slipping on a fitted sheet.
Because this product uses 100% surgical grade stainless steel fibers for conductivity, it lasts dramatically longer than inferior products made from silver fibers that break or erode easily in the wash. With other grounding products, one wash in non-distilled water is enough to make it stop working. Not so with this organic grounding bed topper.
If you are going to be laying in bed for hours each night sleeping, let’s make those hours as deeply restorative and healing as they can possibly be by sleeping grounded!
Find your organic topper right here.
Also good for: Stressful Lifestyles
This powerful healing flow speeds recovery to your body all night long, making it perfect for folks who have incredibly demanding jobs (to make the most of the healing nighttime hours,) athletes who push their body during the day (so they can recover faster at night) and people going through tough transitions and trauma who could use the extra resiliency from a few extra hours of grounding each night.
Grounding has been repeatedly shown in medical studies to enhance muscle recovery, decrease delayed onset muscle soreness, protect and strengthen bones, decrease stress hormone output, increase the time the brain spends in healing alpha wave patterns during sleep and more. For a review on the medical literature and how sleeping grounded supports your health, watch this video here.
And when you are ready to feel the relief that grounding all night long, every single night brings, you’ll find this organic grounding bed topper waiting for you right here.
5. Best for: TARGETED PAIN RELIEF
Medical Grade Grounding Patches
If you have a specific area of pain you would like to apply grounding to, you can’t beat these grounding treatment patches. The same medical ground grounding ECG patches used in hospitals and surgical units nationwide, all you do is stick the patch where you want to apply grounding and clip on the grounding cord.
Could not be more simple or more straightforward, very hygienic as you simply discard the grounding patch when you are done (making this a great disposable grounding tool for use with multiple people or in professional healthcare settings such as during massage and chiropractic treatments) as well as a great economical introductory grounding tool to test out grounding for a few months before investing in other grounding tools.
Hop over here to grab your grounding patch kit.
Also good for: Chronic Pain
Modern medicine is woefully inadequately treating chronic pain issues. For more information on why grounding helps with chronic pain, plus several other things you can to to specifically help address long standing chronic pain, read this blog post and watch this video.
6. Best for: GROUNDING AT WORK
An Organic Grounding Mat
For those that sit or stand at work, you can place this right on under feet or discreetly under your desk with your feet resting directly on this pad for grounded healing during the day. Or, if you work from home, even easier — rest your feet on this grounding mat with it draped over your sofa, ottoman, on the floor, even under your kitchen table while you eat. Machine washable and you can even tumble it dry in the dryer and iron it without fear, so no worries about bringing in office germs home with you.
Grab your organic grounding mat here.
Also good for: Pets
Because this grounding mat is fully machine washable,, you can use it in situations where you are going to want to wash it multiple times, like with your pets. Read this article on how grounding helps pets feel less anxious, and how they gravitate towards grounding naturally:
Perfect for a homebound pet who never gets to go outside on the earth directly, or for older pets who need additional holistic health support.
7. Best for: PHYSICAL THERAPY
Organic Grounding Yoga Mat
Stretching the body is not only therapeutic to the muscles and joints and bones, but helps literally support the health of our body from recovering from trauma and treating PTSD to helping support deeper sleep at night. It is no wonder that yoga is one of my top recommendations for therapeutic physical therapy to my patients!
Ideally we would be grounded while doing yoga. It would be amazing to be outside, barefoot on a sandy beach while holding downward facing dog or kneeling into a relaxing child’s pose. And while hopefully we are lucky enough to catch times in our life where we can do yoga outside grounded, for the most part yoga is on a foam mat (which totally cuts you off from the healing flow of being grounded even if you are outside!!!) and typically we are indoors as well.
That’s why I created this organic grounding yoga mat. Because even if all the time you have to care for your body each day is to stretch for ten minutes before bed or upon waking, if you can do those ten minutes grounded, your body is on the fast track to healing and supported energetically, physically, spiritually. Grounding allows for deeper stretching as well as less soreness afterwards, as medical studies have shown that not only do muscles instantly relax and become more pliable, but they have less inflammation and less soreness afterwards.
In addition, your entire body — including the joints and ligaments and tendons you are creating space in when you stretch, even your bones — are all grounded and have decreased inflammation and damage. Grounding is whole body protective (even anti-aging!) so it’s the next step in elevating your body care and now you can do that while passively stretching or actively exercising while grounded on this mat.
Order your certified fair trade, organic, chemical free grounding yoga mat right here.
Also good for: Meditation
Grounding helps the mind quiet, the body grow centered and still, and allows for a much easier, much deeper meditative experience. If you’ve ever struggled with sticking with a meditation practice, do it grounded and you will be absolutely astounded at how much more centering it is, how much easier it is, and how adding the healing support of grounding to your sessions makes a noticeable improvement in your health as well, reducing pain, deepening sleep, and boosting mental health.
Grounding and meditation are so synergistic with each other that I even over tons of meditation recordings that are intended to be listened to while you are grounded.
Grab your organic grounding yoga mat and settle in to listen to one of these grounding meditations to experience it for yourself.
8. Best for: TRAVELERS
Grounding Travel Tote
Everything you need is all included in one little kit — the stainless steel pouch doubles as a carring case to carry the outlet checker and grounding cord in! It’s small enough to carry in a purse, backpack, carryon bag, suitcase, even slip into a pocket. When you want to ground, just take out the cord and outlet checker from the pouch, and use the pouch as a mini grounding pad, resting your hand or foot directly on it.
Then when you are headed back home, or to work, or a friend’s house, or on a trip… just throw the outlet checker and cord back into the bag, close it up and you are all set to take it with you… easily get grounded no matter where you might roam!
Find your grounding travel tote here.
Also good for: Introducing Someone To Grounding
This grounding item hits the sweet spot between high quality and accessible cost.
Made from the same medical grade stainless steel fabric that the larger grounding bed topper is made from, this is like a mini grounding pad intro kit!
A perfect introductory gift for introducing someone to the healing practice of grounding.
9. Best for: FIRST AID KITS
Grounding Hot & Cold Packs
Stays hot or cold for the perfect treatment length of 10 – 15 minutes… ideal to prevent over-treating the areas of injury. Simply slip a gel pack into the grounded cover and clip on the grounding cord. Gel packs can be cooled in the freezer or warmed in the microwave in just seconds.
Perfect for use as a beauty treatment — just rest grounded ice packs over eyes to reduce puffiness while grounding goes to work increasing skin circulation and radiance! Helps with falling to sleep more quickly when placed on forehead at night, relieves migraine pain, place over sinus area to relieve sinus pressure, apply to abdomen to sooth cramping and nausea, ideal as a first aid treatment for injuries… the applications are endless.
Here is your grounding first aid pack.
Also good for: Care Packages
Because of the small size and how versatile of a healing tool that a grounding hot and cold pack is, it’s the perfect healing tool to include in care packages. It’s the only grounded hot & cold pack in the world, and it’s waiting for you right here.
10. Best for: OLDER HOMES
Outdoor Grounding Stake
Bypass your home’s outdated electrical system and ground directly to Mother Earth, indoors!
These grounding stakes are compatible with every single grounding tool I offer, and can be used no matter where you live around the world by using the earth outside to ground your healing tool. Simply push the ground rod a few inches into the earth, clip the grounding cord directly on to your grounding item with the alligator clip at the end of the cord, and that item is powerfully grounded!
Ideal for older homes with improper grounding, for RVs, tents, when sleeping in a car, and for anyone who wants the peace of mind of direct contact with the earth, bypassing the wiring in your home altogether.
Grab your grounding stake here.
Also good for: Camping
You would think when you are camping you’d naturally be grounded, but the moment you step into a tent with a plastic tarp for the floor or into your RV, you are completely ungrounded!
But no worries, because all you need to do is bring along your favorite grounding item and clip it to this portable grounding stake that connects you to the earth right outside of your tent or RV. Super lightweight, easy to use, instant set up and easy to travel with — can fit into your suitcase, purse, computer case, back pack and more…
Spend time grounding with Mother Nature, instead of being disconnected, on your next camping trip!
I hope these ideas for indoor grounding help you support your always available conductive healing pathways.
Luckily we have lots and lots of indoor options so that we can remain connected while we work indoors or recover and heal indoors or sleep indoors at night.
So pick a way to get grounded inside and don’t forget to add on some outdoor time touching the earth directly when you can as well… and watch your health skyrocket!
xoxoxo,
Laura Koniver MD
