The One Tip for Better Health: Earthing
Often people want to know a single ‘top tip’ for better health, the ‘one thing’ they could implement right away. My advice: earthing.
What Is Earthing?
Earthing, or grounding as it is commonly known, relates to the practice of making direct contact with the Earth’s surface, such as going barefoot in the grass or strolling along the shoreline at the beach.
Why Modern Life Disconnects Us from the Earth
It is no secret that today’s lifestyle is not completely conducive to optimal health, with most of us living sedentary lives, socially isolated, frequently exposed to artificial light, and layered with chronic unresolving stressors from our personal or professional lives.
Balancing Modern Life with Ancient Wisdom
But it’s not all bad. The modern world has allowed us many comforts, luxuries, and securities. Earthing is the key to balancing the modern world with ancient wisdom.
How Earthing Works
Earthing restores an essential electric connection to the Earth. The Earth possesses a slightly negative electric charge, which represents a major natural resource of health and healing potential. Humans are bioelectrical beings, with hearts, brains, immune, and endocrine systems regulated by internal bioelectrical signals. Making direct contact with the Earth’s surface is understood to transfer the Earth’s free or mobile electrons from the ground into the body.
Scientific Perspective
“Research on biological grounding is now suggesting that this very same electric charge on the planet’s surface plays a governing and nurturing role for both the animal and plant kingdoms—a form of electric nutrition, so to speak. It appears to have the potential to restore, normalize, and stabilize the internal environment of the human body’s countless bioelectrical systems that govern the functions of organs, tissues, cells, and biological rhythms.” (Sinatra et al., 2018)
Benefits of Earthing
Some proposed benefits of earthing include reduced inflammation, reduced pain, improved sleep, improved blood flow, reduced stress, reduced muscle tension, accelerated healing from injuries, and increased vitality.
Why We’ve Lost Daily Contact with the Earth
It is only in recent decades that a ‘barrier’ has been created between humans and daily contact with the Earth’s surface, including houses and apartment living, synthetic flooring, raised beds, and rubber- or plastic-soled shoes.
Bridging the Gap
It’s time to bridge the gap. Earthing is a simple, natural, and accessible clinical strategy against the global epidemic of noncommunicable, degenerative, inflammatory-related diseases, with a growing body of research demonstrating its powerful potential.
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