Grounding, also known as Earthing, is a profound experience of immediate healing. When one feels overwhelmed, blocked, restless, fatigued, or tired, taking a walk in a natural setting like a forest, woodland, or beach with roaring sea or ocean can work wonders. Within minutes, one can feel calm, centred, and rested. Many people have attested to the benefits of mindfulness and techniques like walking in nature for improving mental and physical health and Mainstream professionals and non-spiritual individuals are increasingly embracing these tools and techniques, which begs the question, why?

The simple answer is that they work! Grounding is a powerful method of accessing some of the most cathartic and healing energies available to us when we need them. Even the most wound-up people can experience a significant shift from being highly emotive or triggered to feeling relatively calm in less than 30 minutes. This is undoubtedly a more effective form of management than medication. Why, then, is something so straightforward, so pure, and so widely available so beneficial for many forms of physical or mental wellness?

To comprehend this phenomenon, we must first understand the origins of the ground we walk upon, our deep connection to it, and why we feel peace in and harmony with nature. Understanding this involves acknowledging the Oneness of all things as through this understanding, we can begin to grasp the relationship between our physical and metaphysical existence, the natural flow of Masculine and Feminine energies throughout the Earth's atmosphere, our connection to Space and Earth, and why cosmology is of vast significance to us.

The birth of Earth itself was an extraordinary and complex process. As alive and multidimensional as we are, she is designed to evolve through levels of Conscious Awareness, just as we are. Her existence is complex and varied, yet the very fabric of her being stems from the exact same place as ours. From the coming together of two energies in a process that we may never fully comprehend in human form. 

However, for the sake of this article, and in the most linear way, Earth was created from the cosmological process of expansion happening within the core of the seemingly empty Universal space in which our Galaxy now exists. This process is known as the ‘big bang’ and really means that from empty space came form.  When the vastness of Awareness (masculine) brought forth an explosion that allowed the form like nature of Creation (feminine) to burst through the fibre of molecular structure we call space, Earth was born and so too was the womb of all existence on the planet we call our physical home.

Before life existed on Earth, the planet was as dense in energy as Venus or Mars are today, with its surface marked by craters and hollows. It was devoid of air and gravity, a lifeless entity in the vast expanse of the universe.

Buried deep in the Earth’s core was the recipe of life. A combination of the varied and expansive energies of Awareness and Creation, or Consciousness and Life Force if that's the terminology you use. Earth was teeming with the essential vitamins and minerals necessary for life to flourish yet with no way for them to fertilise they lay unused awaiting an astrological process that culminated in the volcanic eruptions necessary to catalyse the fertilisation process taking the life-forming molecules that were dormant in its core and throwing them up to the planet’s surface. The tectonic upheavals created the perfect environment for vitamins and minerals to mix with the vital proteins required to bring about life. First with gravity. With gravity came breathable air, which led to the emergence of the rich ocean vegetation that then led to land vegetation that then led to single celled organisms (which is where you, I and all life on Earth derive from. The earliest ancestor we all have is the amoeba (or what I’ll refer to as amoeba for the sake of lumping yet another highly intelligent complex non-linear evolutionary track of varied species together).

As a result, we are the product of the same natural forces that created life on Earth. We are intrinsically linked to the planet and share a genetic predisposition with the vastness of life that exists upon it and through it. Feminine and Masculine run through our veins as much as they run through Earth’s atmosphere. They are in every living creation, every proton, neurone and molecule. Every vitamin and mineral.

It really is awe-inspiring to contemplate the intelligence and the forces of nature that came together to create life on Earth. Without a body or rationale mind, the energy that shaped the planet was able to put together the pieces of an intricately crafted puzzle that gave rise to a myriad of life-forms that have evolved over billions of years. We are merely a small part of this incredible journey, a product not only of the same energy that shaped the planet yet of the planet itself too.

This is why Grounding feels wonderful to the touch. Rich and nourishing, purifying and uplifting. Short of dipping our toes in molten lava or sitting atop a volcano awaiting eruption to get closer to our true roots, Grounding gives us the vital boost of vitamin and minerals needed to enliven and rejuvenate our physical cells, not to mention our spiritual ones too. 

From a health perspective the benefits derived from Grounding are too vast and varied to write here, yet the main ones would be the effect on white blood cells, with even the most deplete growing and replicating with just a few Grounding experiences. Red blood cells too, inflammation reduces, blood clotting, thick claggy blood thins, thin blood thickens. Even blood disorders like platelet disorders will see improvement through a sustained Grounding practise. Fatigue, physical pain or weakness, exhaustion, chronic fatigue or other chronic conditions will all see improvement as will overall physical nutrition due to the very nature of vitamin and mineral supplementation being brought up through the skin barrier right into the exact places they are needed. Worry or anxiety type conditions alleviate, blood pressure improves, vascular diseases will see improvement and much more. We are of Earth and a return to her brings benefits too many to list.

To Ground is as simple as to breathe. Take sock and shoes off and place your feet on the floor of Earth and simply stand there for 30 minutes or more twice to three times per week to really feel the benefit. For those who are more physically deplete, lying as naked on Earth’s surface as you can, in rich environments meditating or practising a gentle breathwork will bring great strides to your health programme or recovery process, and for those brave enough doing this come rain or shine in all weather conditions even more. Skinny dipping is a firm favourite of mine to recommend to clients, as is swimming in lakes or lochs or even just dipping your feet in while you lay back in your bathers, bare back on the soil soaking up the weather and breathing gently with the natural rhythm of Earth, or life, itself.

The roots of our humanity lie in understanding both our physical and our metaphysical evolution, for we are neither physical nor non-physical. Form nor formless. Life nor death. We are all encompassing energies of a mass spectrum nature where ions flow freely and acutely through the very fabric of all existence. Understand this and health, wellness as well as life's joys and happiness’s flow more fully and readily through you.