hey it's dr laura koniver and today i want
to answer the question how long should you ground for each day my goal in this video is
to show you that there is no time too short and also no time too long to be grounded i'm
going to tell you about the instantaneous health benefits that you get from touching the earth that
quickly and then how the benefits accrue over time over minutes over hours and over days and what
the medical literature has to tell us about that now on my website i have a page
called medical studies where i have all of the medical studies over the past three
decades now that have been published in the medical literature that show these health benefits
so if you want to read the literature for yourself go over to my website at intuition-physician.com
and find the medical studies button and it's all waiting for you i link you over to
the original medical study so you can read directly from the journal and also i have lots of
articles where i've described in detail how the studies were performed and what the results mean
so if you want to dive deeper i suggest going over to my website but today's video is just going to
be a quick review so that you really realize there is no time too short if you can touch the earth
just for a minute i would do it and here's why within just seconds your muscle tension throughout
your body decreases we can measure that on an emg so if you have fibromyalgia or you're starting to
get that tension headache it is very worth going outside and touching the earth and you will notice
instantly your muscles relax on top of that your brain patterned your brain waves actually shift
pretty instantaneously as well that is seen on an eeg so your brain goes into a relaxed healing
state alpha brainwave patterns so you might find pretty quickly that your mood actually lifts
on top of that your body voltage and your skin conductance immediately changes so skin muscles
and brain are all very instantaneously affected by getting grounded by plugging into the earth
if you're able to stay there for minutes and by minutes i mean at least 15 but 30 anything under
an hour let's say about a half hour this is what the medical literature has to say about what the
earth can do in that period of time what happens over time is that your circulation improves your
blood viscosity goes down so your blood is able to move more freely and the capillaries open up
so now blood is being distributed throughout your body more effectively and this was shown in
medical studies looking at grounding through your foot and looking at the capillaries in the face so
your vagal tone improves in just minutes to hours and that affects your basal metabolic function it
affects your oxygenation oxygenation is increased it affects your heart your heart rate variability
is boosted so your heart is actually functioning better it supports your digestion your entire
digestive tract is supported by that vagal nerve so when you first touch the earth it's relief
your brain starts to calm and your muscles start to relax and then when you sustain that for
minutes to hours your organ system is optimized because your vagal tone is supported and your
circulation is improved and your metabolism is improved what happens if you sustain that for days
and weeks and months now you're not just seeing body benefits but you're actually seeing the
resiliency of the body so it went from relief instantaneously to recovery over minutes to hours
to resiliency when you become grounded daily and this is part of your healing routines every single
day that muscle damage is actually decreased and what that translates into is that you're less sore
on a daily basis from your exertion during the day your bones are protected because the indicators
for osteoporosis actually go down as your minerals stabilize so now your bones are being more
protected your metabolism has been boosted as we talked about from the digestive tract the
vagal tone being boosted and also a boost to your thyroid but what might that translate into over
days weeks and months that might be weight loss you might find that your metabolism is improved to
the point where you're losing weight and i was so intrigued by that i personally studied that with
some of my own patients it was a very informal study and i ran it for 10 weeks so two and a half
months of grounding every day no change to diet no extra exercising nothing different just grounding
every day and after two and a half months most patients lost about a pound a week over the
10 weeks it was anywhere from a four pound to a 15 pound weight loss which is fantastic medical
studies looking at brain function while you sleep grounded show that the brain stays in healing
patterns of sleep deeper more restorative sleep and so when you do this day after day after
day and also your cortisol starts going down your insomnia is relieved you sleep better so
your time sleep is restored and in the day your energy is restored you're actually becoming
more resilient your muscles are less sore your metabolism has gotten a boost you might
have experienced some weight loss at this point you probably have felt pain reduced and your
inflammation in your body is just coming down so now you're more resilient to whatever
you face every single day if your goal is to just get instantaneous relief and you want to go
outside and i highly recommend grounding outdoors through all the seasons and because i wanted
to give suggestions and ideas for what to do when it's cold out or when you live in a city
or if you have a particular healing goal what activities can you do outside that match with
your specific healing goals i wrote a book called the earth prescription it's all about getting
outside to ground and all the health benefits from doing it to the earth naturally the earth
prescription is going to be a companion guide to get you outside and get grounding to be part
of daily wellness just like putting your seatbelt on every single day just like drinking water every
single day we should be outside touching the earth every single day and the earth prescription will
tell you how to do it if you want the benefits of hours of grounding sleeping grounded overnight
and grounding for weeks and grinding for months then you're probably talking about using indoor
grounding tools because most of us can't spend days and weeks and months directly outside on
the earth so we bring grounding indoors through the use of conductive grounding tools and that
allows you to sleep grounded overnight so there really weren't any eco-friendly grounding tools
which to me doesn't make sense because we're recognizing that the earth provides support to our
health directly through grounding and indirectly through food and through water and through air
so we really depend on the earth for our physical health and so creating products that are going
to sit in a landfill made out of plastic or leatherette or vinyl polyester sheets for 500
years sitting in a landfill long after we're gone that doesn't really make sense to me because
we really want to preserve and it should go hand in hand that as your health improves you also
care that the health of the earth is sustained so since there were not any eco-friendly tools
out there i started having them made myself hand sewn per order there's no waste they're not
bulk mass produced they're not shipped overseas they're made right here made using all
natural materials or organic materials that biodegrade and that are healthy for
your skin to be against as you're sleeping for hours and hours and hours all night long so
you can find these grounding tools that include a grounding bed roll that's easy to travel with or
a grounding mattress panel so you can get your bed grounded you can find these in other all natural
eco-ethically produced grounding tools on my website in my grounding boutique and that's at
intuition-physician.com and they're waiting for you there so when physicians look at an eeg
and they're looking at brainwave electrical patterns and they're having that printout
they're looking at the dc energy of the brain when physicians look at an ekg looking at the
heartbeat you know that classic little heartbeat line is actually a line measuring the dc energy of
your heart when we look at emgs which is measuring the conductance of your muscles we're looking at
the conductance of dc energy that allows you to move your body so dc energy is super important
to us and that's what is the natural energy of the earth outside it's not the fake artificial
man-made ac energy this is the natural predominant energy of the universe and so when we go outside
and we touch the earth we immediately our highly conductive bodies become part of this dc global
circuit and puts our body into a healing state and it feels like relief and that's because the
earth is constantly pulsing with this dc energy sometimes called the schumann resonance it's
the heartbeat of the earth and it is a constant it's constantly there it's constantly pulsing
out it takes one touch of one finger one toe any part of your conductive body touching any part
of the conductive earth outside including touching a tree including standing in a puddle including
any conductive element that's outside sidewalks are conductive metal is conductive touching your
dog if you're at a dog park and you just bend down and you're petting your dog for a minute you're
grounded through your dog so there's tons of ways to get just little pulses of that beautiful dc
energy that the earth is constantly giving us through grounding just for a few seconds to
minutes and we feel that and we feel that relief the benefit to grounding over days and weeks and
months and years is that then we become plugged into the second dc output of the earth and that's
called the carnegie curve so the carnegie curve is a daily 24-hour rhythm that's measured all over
the globe and not only is it a 24-hour rhythm that really orients your body to day and night but it's
also seasonal and it really helps orient us to what season we're in when we're standing on this
planet which is why grounding one of its first applications was to ameliorate jet lag because the
earth informs you where you are what time of day it is and what season we're in really orient us
and get our circadian rhythm corrected and also seasonally really orient us to maybe hibernating
and relaxing and restoring and nurturing and cocooning in the winter and then in the spring
waking back up feeling more energy moving getting inspired getting creative these are all the
benefits i believe of being not only synced in instantaneously to that schumann resonance but
being connected year round to that carnegie curve so that we really our bodies our natural bodies
become part of this natural universe that we live in so remember there's instantaneous benefits
there is nothing that's too short if you can just touch the earth for one split second i would do
it because that is going to connect you to that dc energy and instantaneously allow your body to go
into a healing state those brain waves start to go into a healing pattern and your muscles
start to really relax and over time when our body is oriented to that carnegie curve you
see that benefits really do accrue and you start feeling better so i hope that was really helpful
and if you have any questions please ask me and if you want more support and more
information about grounding go to my website there's organic ecoethical grounding tools
there as well as my book the earth prescription that'll really inspire you to get outside every
day and that's really what our bodies are craving
