Today I want to share with you a super informal video I made for you. It’s perfect for anyone who is sick of hearing: “just go barefoot!“ Well what if you don’t want to go barefoot? What if the ground outside your home is littered, hazardous, sprayed with chemicals and pesticides, full of fire… Read more »
For the last 4 weeks we’ve talked about how grounding helps with acute issues, like: decreasing your muscle tension and soreness deepening your sleep supporting your heart function boosting your metabolism and balancing your hormone function… sometimes overnight! So when we talk about grounding, it’s usually because there are instant perks: immediate… Read more »
Hormones are the signs in your body telling each organ system how to function together. Hormones are all about the interplay between organ systems and keeping the entire human body safe and functioning as one… that’s their role. So when grounding supports our hormone balance, it’s so exciting, because that means grounding is not… Read more »
Directly touching the earth impacts your metabolic functions, and as I found out, can even help you lose weight. The first study to look at the basal metabolic rate of grounding was published in 2010. In this study, half of the participants were grounded and half were sham-grounded in a double-blind placebo-controlled study. … Read more »
If the heartbeat of the earth resonates powerfully with your brain (as we talked about last week) …imagine what the heartbeat of the earth does for your own heart! Your cardiovascular system is entirely electrically based, driven by the electrical impulse of the heartbeat which in turn drives the circulation through your body. … Read more »
There is a beautiful relationship that our brain has with the energy of mother earth. This helps support everything our brain helps us to do — from enhancing our mood to maintaining a healthy weight to deepening our restorative sleep. Most people believe that our circadian (day/night) rhythm is dependant on sunlight to… Read more »
Our musculoskeletal system, the bones, muscles, ligaments and joints that hold us together and allow us to function all day long, is the perfect conduit for grounding. When you touch the earth outside, your entire body is instantaneously grounded and this is because your entire musculoskeletal system is conductive. The fact that… Read more »
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