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 this Wednesday, 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 5 Healing Earth Day Ideas for you:
Idea #1: 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.
- Take a warm bath this evening, it’s the perfect 15 minute evening grounding session to prep your body for sleep.
- End the day looking up at the moon and stars for a minute before heading up to bed.
Idea #2: 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 #3: Host An Earth Day Movie Night
Pop some popcorn and click play… and share these film recommendations with the people that you love! Here is a list of free grounding movies you can watch:
1. What is Grounding:
Watch this free 11 minute video I created to introduce folks to grounding — it’s the perfect starting point:
What Is Grounding?
2. The Earthing Movie:
Watch The Earthing Movie for free on You Tube right here:
3. Grounding Keynote Presentation:
Watch a 30 minute Keynote Presentation on Grounding for free right here, in which I give an overview of the medical literature on the power of grounding to improve our health:
Idea #4: Print Out This Summertime Grounding Bucket List:
This list has 25 different summertime grounding activities — print this free printable out, tape it by your front door, on your bathroom mirror, or keep it in your car and tick them all off one by one. See how many you can do by the time summer ends! If you do one a week, this will give you a new and fun 30+ minute healing session to look forward to that gets you through the end of October! And as I wrote in this article here, one session a week, or even one weekend a month, is enough to compound into noticeable healing results.
Print out your free one-page summertime grounding bucket list right here:
FREE Printable: Summertime Grounding Bucket List
Share this blog post with your friends and family so they can work through this list with you — many are fun as dates and activities to do with friends — and help keep you both accountable.
In fact, if someone forwarded you this blog post so you would print out this list too, be sure to sign up for my weekly uplifting healing newsletter where I share resources for free, every single week, to keep you motivated and enjoying healing… naturally.
Idea #5: Read A Book Outside
One of my favorite ideas to share on how to be movitated to get outside and ground every day is to choose a book to read outside grounded.
One chapter = one grounding session.
You will be shocked how quickly grounding will go by and how many hours you will spend grounded if you have a special book you keep in your pool bag, beach bag, in your car, or by your front door that you will only allow yourself to read if you are outside grounding. Like smut? Go for it! Like a suspense-filled mystery? Snag a new one and let’s get started.
Pick something that captures your interest and keeps you wanting to turn the page and you will instantly have a grounded healing plan for the summer.
Need a book recommendation? If your goal is to learn more about grounding, I wrote a book on that for you.
- 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
My goal is to be sure you do not limit your expectations in any way when you begin your grounding journey.
Allow your entire body, mind, heart and spirit to be transformed.
Allow the supportive energy of Mother Earth to fill you up, open you up, support you in becoming the optimized best version of you that is possible.
The future for grounding is limitless as connecting directly to the earth outside is the birthright of all living things. There are very very few circumstances where one would not be able to connect outside and receive that healing flow if only we would remember that it is natural for us to do so.
Even urban dwellers can get connected by standing barefoot in a park or on a concrete sidewalk. Even prisoners in most prisons have access to the outdoors, even if it is concrete, for at least a short period of time each day. I have patients who live several stories off of the ground who hold onto a tree branch that reaches into their balcony and this is how they ground each afternoon. I have patients who have a cement basement and stand barefoot on this cement while they fold laundry, and this is how they ground each night. And for those who have mobility limitations, even bed ridden, there are indoor ways to connect directly to the earth while sitting or lying comfortably indoors.
You can actually be grounded indoors while at work, while home watching TV or reading a book, while spending quality time with your loved ones. The absolutely easiest way to optimize the amount of time you are grounded in a 24 hour period is to simply start by sleeping grounding in your home.
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. 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.
Taking action, trying it for yourself, taking a few minutes to put a bare foot onto the earth outside, 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.
The only thing you need to do is give it a try, and allow the earth’s energy to uplift, transform and optimize your well being naturally.
Happy Earth Day my friends!!! Get out there and go feel better… doctor’s orders.
xoxoxo,
Laura Koniver MD
