Earthing & Your Mental Health
In this world we have to worry about racial unrest, COVID, gun control, and much more. Mental health is suffering for adults and children at astronomical rates. We need to change the trajectory we are on.
Anyone who struggles with mental health issues such as anxiety, stress, or depression knows how difficult it is to manage.
We must find the way back to whatever came before. The happy times are there but we have gotten stuck in all the Covid talks, political talks and racial unrest.
If we do not find the happy times then we get stuck in all the negativity. Finding simple ways to enjoy life will eventually add up to more and more happy times.
A simple way to bring more fun into your life is to turn to earthing.
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Defining Earthing
Earthing is simply a practice where you put a part of your body in contact with the earth’s surface.
The Basic Concept of Earthing
Earthing is the concept of touching your bare skin to Mother Earth. This can help ground you. Of course, this accounts for why earthing is also known as grounding.
There are many benefits to earthing, including helping to reduce anxiety and stress. Many also say that it can relieve ailments like chronic pain and inflammation in the body, and even provide energy from the earth itself.
Earthing requires always using your bare skin on earth, whether it is dirt, grass, sand, or even water like in the ocean. The concept comes from the fact that you get free electrons when you touch the earth. In turn, this can help to damage free radicals in your body.
You are getting healing energy directly from the earth’s surface. This is why it is important to touch actual earth like dirt or real grass, nothing man-made like gravel.
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How Earthing Grounds You
One of the main reasons people do earthing is to help ground themselves. This is really useful if you suffer from anxiety or depression. Sometimes, to get out of an anxiety or panic attack, you need to ground yourself to know where you are and get out of those panic thoughts.
Touching bare skin to the ground will help you to be more mindful of your surroundings, while you get all that beautiful natural energy to help your mind and body relax even further.
This can be any part of your body and any surface, but it is most often done with bare feet. This tends to be the easiest and most convenient method. However, gardening is a wonderful way to practice earthing. Dig your hands in the dirt. Plant flowers or herbs.
Gardening offers so many benefits. You can even grow your own food which, in turn, can afford brain protection too.
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Aim for at least 20-30 minutes of being being connected with Mother Earth to get the full effects. Doing this on a regular basis, at least once a day, will do wonders for you.
This might be something you do each morning while you tend to your garden or stand outside in your backyard. Perhaps when you take your kids to the park and kick off your shoes. It is also a great reason to go to the beach more often and stand in the sand or the ocean.
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26 thoughts on “How Earthing Can Improve Your Mental Health”
Ooh, this is my first time to learn the term (but not the practice) and i didn’t know that this can be therapeutic too… Now i can see why gardening can be very relaxing to most people. I would love to try this approach too especially when i badly need to unwind from stress brought by work and the current pandemic we are facing
Life has many stressors… Work, depend on that, and others that are off and you need to ourselves. You are already experienced or thing and did not even know it. Now you can experience more and continue to reap the benefits.
Ah yyyeessssss…grounding is so good for your material body as well as your spiritual one. For my case, I do it everyday and it helps with my anxiety.
The connection is so important. It is simple but yet makes a profound difference.
This is the first time I heard about Earthing. I hope I can try this. It does seems to improve mental health.
The great news is… I have to do is go outside takeoff your shoes and touch mother earth.
This is interesting and it’s cool that it’s help with mental health as well
It is truly wonderful. Thank you so much for reading.
I have realy never heard of it phrased this way but I can see how this would be so good for all of us!
Interestingly… No matter how you phrase it it is a benefit.
I learned a great deal from reading this blog post! Thanks so much for sharing all of this valuable information on earthing. 🙂
It is wonderful that you found value.
I’m trying to incorporate in my habits and routine to connect with mother earth at least 20-30 minutes a day. I love weekends because I usually have more time.
Ha… The weekend off and us create more freedom. At the moment I am connecting with others and sand. I would love to share this connection with you.
All we need sometimes is to escape and ditch our to-do-lists and connect with nature. have a solid connection with nature.
YES!!! We just need a simple break sometimes.
During Covid a lot of people have had suffered from mental health, this post is really informative and helpful. Thanks for sharing.
You are very welcome. This is a simple act that people can take to try and get to a better place.
As someone who has suffered from anxiety for years, I do think it’s important to connect with nature on a regular basis.
However one chooses to interact with nature it is always a benefit
I have never heard of Earthing before. It makes so much sense to me though. It’s the ultimate way of getting back in touch with the power of the land and the universe.
It is indeed the ultimate way of getting in touch with the power of the universe. First thing is something that many of us to do without even thinking about it.
Oh, I like the idea of this! It sounds very similar to when we do grounding poses in yoga, only outside. What an awesome way to connect with nature.
Yes, it is actually the same except for the fact that you would be directly connected to mother earth.
Love this. I always feel so grounded when my feet are making contact with the floor. I feel during Covid I have hardly experienced it but I plan to do a lot of it when I go on holiday later this month.
I will be so interested to hear how different you feel after you go on holiday.