What Is Grounding Energy?
Every once in a while we need to stop and just get connected to “mother earth” with grounding energy. Try hugging a big old well-rooted tree or taking a long walk on the dry sand or just chill as your bare feet relax on the cool grass. You can actually feel the stress release as you soak it up, your anxiety calm down and your energy gradually connect to mother earth. This is “grounding energy”.
Our children are especially in need of feeling centered and grounded because they are particularly sensitive to different energies and frequencies bombarding them all day long.
If life is constantly stressful, with lots of anxiety and nervous frenetic energy, then children have energies that will be fragmented, causing them to have much more difficulty trying to focus, concentrate, sleep, and be calm, happy and centered.
Benefits of Grounding Energy
Grounding energy can help your child have:
- Better clarity of mind
- Improved physical coordination
- Increased confidence and control
- Better awareness of their body and self
- More peacefulness
- Lowered inflammation
How to Ground Your Energy
Here are a few types of exercises and techniques that can help your child begin to experience calming and grounding energy:
- Putting bare feet into wet grass, dirt or sand (which can also help mitigate EMFs)
- Abdominal breathing
- Deep breathing
- Guided imagery
- Visualization
- Progressive muscle relaxation
- Body scanning
- Accessing root chakras (energy centers in the body)
Other additional ideas for children to help with grounding energy are:
- Eating root vegetables
- Drumming for an earth grounding connection (shamanic drumming)
- Wearing red socks or shoes (red is a grounding color)
- Running barefoot through the grass, on the beach and in the ocean
- Taking an Epsom salt bath or dead sea salt bath
- Using healing gemstones such as hematite, which is very grounding
Teach your children to always listen to their bodies because having that conscious sense will help them know if they are out of harmony with the universe and need grounding energy to feel connected to the earth.
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Sources & References
Chevalier, G., et al. Earthing (grounding) the human body reduces blood viscosity-a major factor in cardiovascular disease. J Altern Complement Med. 2013 Feb;19(2):102-10.
Chevalier, G., et al. Earthing: health implications of reconnecting the human body to the Earth's surface electrons. J Environ Public Health. 2012;2012:291541.
Koniver L. Practical applications of grounding to support health. Biomed J. 2023;46(1):41–47.
Martel, J. Is a return to nature a piece of the health puzzle? Biomed J. 2023 Feb;46(1):8-10.
Oschman, J.L., et al. The effects of grounding (earthing) on inflammation, the immune response, wound healing, and prevention and treatment of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. J Inflamm Res. 2015 Mar 24;8:83-96.
Oschman, J.L. Illnesses in technologically advanced societies due to lack of grounding (earthing). Biomed J. 2023 Feb;46(1):17-29.
Sinatra, S.T., et al. Electric Nutrition: The Surprising Health and Healing Benefits of Biological Grounding (Earthing). Altern Ther Health Med. 2017 Sep;23(5):8-16.
Resources
Books
Ober, Clint. Earthing (2nd Edition): The Most Important Health Discovery Ever! Basic Health Publications, Inc., 2014.
