The earth provides such a beautiful platform for us to have a human experience on.
Every connection we made, every friend or lover we’ve ever met, every second we’ve ever spent in pursuit of our life’s purpose, every breath we’ve ever taken and every heartbeat we’ve ever had has happened here, on this planet — with it silently beneath our feet — supporting life.
The earth makes the atmosphere for those beautiful deep breaths of fresh air you can take each day.
The earth flows the water that can deeply hydrate your body each day.
The earth grows the food that you juice and the herbs that you take and the nutritional building blocks your body depends on daily.
Those are all powerful and wonderful indirect ways to support your well being…. but the most powerful way of all to enhance your health is to touch the earth directly, grounding your body.
When we are grounded, the earth supports our health electrically, through the natural DC energy that powers the universe. That DC energy is what allows your body to function. It’s what enables your muscles to move and your heart to beat and your brain to think.
And it’s not just your heart, mind and muscles… actually your entire body relies on DC energy impulses to function. Food can not be digested, air can not be breathed, you couldn’t swallow or even blink without first an electrical impulse conducted through the electrical circuitry of our bodies.
So it doesn’t matter what food we eat unless our GI tract is first innervated and activated properly!
It doesn’t matter about air quality if we can’t first innervate and activate our breathing mechanism!
Even that pure beautiful air or crystal clear water can not be taken into the body if first an electrical impulse does not conductively activate the body to breathe in or swallow down.
Our whole body is electrical and relies on good conductivity to work.
As a physician I have seen patients in the ICU hooked up to breathing tubes and feeding tubes and if the body is dying, it doesn’t matter if the air is the purist in the world and the water is the finest in the world and the food is the most alive, active, freshly pressed juice in the world.
If the electrical body is not working, none of these parameters matter.
We have to electrically activate the body, which is what defibrillator paddles are trying to do in resuscitating the heart of the body that is dying, and what a ventilator is taking over for when it tries to breathe for a body that is not breathing on it’s own.
Above all, we have to establish and maintain the healthy conductivity of our body.
Our body has to maintain a healthy electrical circuitry in order to remain conscious and have all of our body organs function effectively.
So to protect our body for a lifetime, we need to nurture the healthy conductivity of our body first and foremost, before turning our eye to the air and water and food quality that enhance our well being.
Touching the earth immediately impacts and supports the conductivity of the entire body — supporting the healthy function of our heart, our circulatory system, our brain, our bone metabolism, our thyroid function, our adrenal function, our skin conductance — our entire body from head to toe.
And now that we wear rubber shoes, drive cars with rubber tires, live on insulated flooring in our home, have asphalt coating our roadways, etc… we need to be intentional about touching the earth, as most of us are totally ungrounded even when we are outside. And life is so stressful, more fast paced and competitive and technologically advanced than ever before. We are surrounded by more financial stress, artificial EMFs and artificial foods than previously imaginable.
Stress, higher cortisol, joint pain, dementia, cancer, age related changes — these are all a fall out from a life long inflammatory condition of a lifetime of living ungrounded… disconnected to the earth. So we better find a way to be absolutely certain we intentionally seek this connection, routinely, and we can reverse this. In fact, there are so many anti-aging benefits to getting connected to the earth that I published a medical review article to cover them all… you can read that here.
And if you prefer to watch a video on those anti-aging benefits, I made one for you here.
There is no better day to spend 15 minutes grounding than on Earth Day… which is tomorrow, April 22nd.
Taking action, trying it for yourself, taking a few minutes to put a bare foot onto the earth outside, or keeping your shoes on and reaching up to hold onto a leaf on a tree, even taking the time to ground indoors as much as possible with indoor grounding tools, can do more to inform you about the healing potential of grounding your body than any amount of words I can write.
Luckily, grounding is the easiest, most readily available healing modality possible. It’s also one of the most medically studied and verified holistic healing modalities of all time. I keep a running list of the published medical literature on grounding for you right here. Book mark this page!
If you are not going to get grounded on Earth Day, are you ever going to get grounded?
You need to.
Do it today, do it tomorrow — do it every day this week if you can — and feel the difference. The earth is out there, waiting for you.
So let’s make a plan for tomorrow.
Here are 8 Earth Day Ideas for you:
Idea #1: Take a fun Grounding Quiz:
How Much Do You Really Know About Grounding (Quiz)
Find out how much you really know about grounding. Grounding newbie? Grounding expert? Let’s find out, right here! I created this fun and informative quiz for you and it only takes a few minutes.
Share it with others and see which one of you knew the most about this phenomenal healing modality of grounding.
Idea #2: Make Earth Day into a Personal Healing Retreat
This is me, taking a few moments to release a tension headache. However you are feeling right now, whether it is anxious, sad, frustrated, annoyed, tense, overwhelmed, bored, tired… the earth is waiting to give you a boost.
You can use the healing power of connecting directly to the Earth today and actually finish the day feeling better than you did when the day started.
Some days within 1 second of touching the earth I can feel the relief washing over me. My headache soaks down into the grass or my shoulder tension melts away while I sit on a rock or my nausea vanishes while stand on a sidewalk or whatever stress I am holding onto that day subsides as I lean against a tree.
When you are out of contact with the earth your body feels the build up of inflammation and free radical damage and feels stressed out and out of sorts. When you come back in contact with the earth your body feels intense relief — and there is no better day to gift that to yourself than on Earth Day.
- Start the day with a cup of tea or coffee standing outside watching the sunrise.
- Take a midday break and do some stretches outside — a few neck rolls would feel amazing.
- Stand on a sidewalk, or brick, or cement — it will all ground you.
- Or simply find a leaf on a tree to touch and take three deep breaths. It will ground you too.
- Eat one of your meals outside grounded and see how much better it feels to be grounded while you eat.
- Commit to drinking every single glass of water you drink today outside, grounded.
- End the day looking up at the moon and stars for a minute before heading up to bed.
Idea #3 : Sign Up To Heal On Retreat With Me!
If you really want to commit to a daily grounding practice that will totally transform your health in 2025, the best way is to come spend a few days in person with me on retreat, where I will guide you through it. You will literally leave feeling markedly better than before you came, already noticing and enjoying the benefits of grounding. It doesn’t take long. Together, we can make a healing plan for you to reach your unique, specific health care goals.
Click here to save your spot in my May retreat and let’s meet!
I’m hosting this retreat at my very favorite retreat center, where you will find incredible healing from the land, the nature, the wholesome food, the private accommodations, the peace, the quiet, and the community of others who will be on retreat with you.
It’s where I personally go when I need a time of renewal — and is where I wrote every word of my book (The Earth Prescription.) I have come here on a monthly basis for many many years for my own soul journey and strength. This May retreat is the last retreat of the year I will host here, so if you can possibly make it, you absolutely should!
We will start the day with grounded stretching in the mornings and end the day with grounded meditations in the evenings… with plenty of fun grounding activities and Q&A sessions (even a grounded massage, which is included!) and tons of downtime in between to soak in the quiet, nap, explore, eat, rest, etc… During your downtime you may wish to walk the outdoor labyrinth, meditate indoors or outside, enjoy healing touch, massage or spiritual direction sessions, visit the library and read, walk the trails through the wooded areas along the river, create art in the art room, read a book in the library, journal, write, bird watch, visit the outdoor fireplace, nap in your private bedroom, or simply sit outside to listen to the sounds of nature.
Find out if there are any spots left here.
Idea #4: Host An Earth Day Movie Night
Pop some popcorn and click play… and share these film recommendations with the people that you love!
A list of free grounding movies you can watch:
What Is Grounding? What this free 11 minute video I created to introduce folks to grounding — it’s a great starting point.
The Grounded: Watch the first feature film on grounding for free on YouTube right here, or order the DVD right here.
Heal For Free: Watch the sequel film on grounding for free on YouTube right here.
The Earthing Movie: Watch the third movie on grounding for free on YouTube right here.
Grounding Keynote Presentation: Want something a little shorter? Watch my 30 minute lecture where I review the medical literature on grounding… and tell you why I went into medicine in the first place!
Idea #5: Go Heart Spotting Tomorrow
I love hearts, as you can tell by the fact that I choose a heart to be my business logo!
All of my life I’ve delighted in finding hearts in nature while I’ve been out and about… nature is sending us love notes every single day, the trick is to notice them.
Here are some of my favorites I’ve found over the years:
On Earth Day, take your phone or camera and walk around your neighborhood, grabbing pics of any hearts you find. Try to do it barefoot or walking with grounding shoe stickers on your shoes or even using a grounding walking stick to ground through your hands and don’t stop until you find at least one heart out there waiting for you… in a leaf, in a rock, in the shape of a cloud, a puddle on the sidewalk… keep going until you find one and you will come home from your journey feeling noticeably better!
Post it to your family and friends to inspire them to head outside and get grounded too!!!
Idea #6: Read A Book Outside
If you are not sure how to get grounded when the weather gets extreme, when the seasons change, how long you should ground for, or how to use grounding for specific health results, I wrote this book for you.
If you are curious about grounding but not sure what to do once you get outside, if you live in a city and don’t have any access to a safe greenspace, if you are not sure what earth surfaces will actually ground you, then oh my goodness I wrote this book for you.
If you want to know how the practice of grounding, one person at a time, on minute at a time, can help save our planet and put it on a different trajectory than the destructive path we’ve put it on, than I wrote this book for you.
It’s called: The Earth Prescription and I have signed copies waiting for you here, or you can:
- Order On Amazon (available on kindle and as an audio book too!)
- Order On Barnes & Noble
- Order On Indiebound
- Order Signed Copies On My Website Here
Don’t want to lay on the earth directly while you are reading? That’s why I created this organic mini picnic blanket — keep it in your car or by your front door right along with your book and you are all set for a spring and summer full of impromptu grounding!
My recommendation is to keep this book — or any book that you want to read! — in your car or by your front door and read one chapter grounded outside as often as you can. Even one chapter a week is a great way to start and stay committed to a grounding practice.
You will fly through whatever book you choose and feel amazing too!
Idea #7: Take An Online Grounding Class With Me!
Let’s go deeper than a book by taking a two month grounding course, live with me. We will meet weekly and each class comes with a Q&A session so I can answer every single question you could possibly come up with, and we can together ensure that you are getting maximum benefits for your unique health goals.
Bioelectrical Healing Course, with Laura Koniver, MD
Two months is more than enough time to truly see the health benefits for yourself — not only will we start with a baseline assessment so that we can see your immediate and long term progress, but we will have so much fun going organ system by organ system through the entire human body to address longer standing health concerns and boost your wellness and longevity for years and years to come!
With AI, automation, technology, artificial EMF fields increasing exponentially, and other unnatural changes to our environment that we have little control over, the only true antidote to this is grounding to support how our body naturally functions. Grounding is the one healing technique everyone on this planet should know and teach their children and their children’s children. Come take this course and have a hands on healing modality you can use — freely and naturally — in your own life immediately and for generations to come.
Snag your spot right here: Bioelectrical Healing… with Laura Koniver, MD
Idea #8: Commit To Sleeping Grounded
The absolutely easiest way to optimize the amount of time you are grounded in a 24 hour period is to start by sleeping grounded all night long. And for those who have mobility limitations, indoor ways to connect directly to the earth may be the easiest.
Just make sure you are choosing an eco-friendly, ethically made grounding tool. It doesn’t make sense to use a plastic based “leatherette” (read: vinyl plastic) grounding tool that will sit in a landfill for centuries, or purchase a product that was made in a factory and transported overseas, polluting the planet.
To me, if we are turning to the earth for healing support, it only makes sense not to trash it in return. Plus, sleeping on vinyl plastic leatherette actually introduces microplastics into your body all night long, as microplastics can actually be absorbed by the skin. Yuck, I wrote more about that here: Microplastics Are A Measurable Portion Of Your Body, Here’s How To Decrease That Amount!
Instead, select custom made, individually hand sewn, boutique quality grounding tools made locally right here in the USA using eco friendly, environmentally conscious materials like organic hemp and organic cotton, with superior quality conductive elements like medical grade stainless steel.
My Grounding Boutique offers the longest lasting, most eco-friendly and non-toxic grounding tools on the planet, which are shipped with non-toxic, biodegradable packaging. Each item is hand packed and shipped with love directly from Dr. Koniver’s hands to yours. Healthy for you, healthy for the earth!
Find the best selection of medical grade, high quality, eco-ethically hand crafted indoor grounding tools in my Grounding Boutique… discover the one that works best for you right over here.
Happy Earth Day my friends!!! Get out there and go feel better… doctor’s orders.
xoxoxo,
Laura Koniver MD
