{"id":1046,"date":"2025-07-01T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellnessfamilycare.com\/wellnessdev2\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2025-07-01T11:57:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:57:45","slug":"grounding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellnessfamilycare.com\/wellnessdev2\/grounding\/","title":{"rendered":"Grounding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month I had the opportunity to visit Halifax for our daughter&#8217;s graduation and then later in the month I was on the west coast visiting family.&nbsp; On both coasts, I took the opportunity to stand in the ocean and pose&nbsp;for a pic.&nbsp; These are taken&nbsp;2 weeks and 6,000 kilometers apart on either side or our great country.&nbsp; (Happy Canada Day!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was fortunate to go to the beach directly from the airport in Halifax&nbsp;so I was able to walk on the beach barefoot and do some &#8220;grounding&#8221;.&nbsp; Grounding is something I have done for years.&nbsp; I do this in spring, summer and fall.&nbsp; I will walk on the grass in my bare feet for 10 minutes first thing in the morning.&nbsp; It is an opportunity to pray, think about my coming day and connect to the earth.&nbsp; I know, that may sound&nbsp;kind of hokey&#8230;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I actually wrote about Grounding in our <em>In Good Health<\/em> article in June 2021.\u00a0 (click <a href=\"https:\/\/wellnessfamilycare.com\/wellnessdev2\/getting-in-the-garden-this-summer\/\">here<\/a> to read the article in our blog).\u00a0 There are numerous health benefits associated with grounding including improved sleep, increased heart rate variability and a shift in the nervous system from the sympathetic to the parasympathetic system.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is this really important?&nbsp; What&#8217;s the big deal?&nbsp; I was speaking with someone whose former job was assembling computers.&nbsp; He said that his training included an essential step in handling the equipment.&nbsp; He was instructed to grasp a bar that was grounded in to the earth before touching any of the computer components.&nbsp; He explained that the residual charge carried in the body was enough to FRY the mother board and ruin it if the worker did not ground themself before handling it.&nbsp; He said his company lost a number of mother boards from this step being omitted.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the electric charge of our bodies can be <em>that<\/em> harmful to a computer part, imagine how this may impact our internal organs.&nbsp; Many of us wear rubber soled shoes which are comfortable and will protect us if we are ever struck by lightning, but they don&#8217;t allow us to dissipate the charge that builds up in our bodies!&nbsp; That&#8217;s why you may feel an electric &#8220;shock&#8221; when it is dry and you touch some surfaces.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This summer, I hope you can take some time to get barefoot in nature and see the positive effects of grounding for yourself.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I had the opportunity to visit Halifax for our daughter&#8217;s graduation and then later in the month I was on the west coast visiting family.&nbsp; On both coasts, I took the opportunity to stand in the ocean and pose&nbsp;for a pic.&nbsp; These are taken&nbsp;2 weeks and 6,000 kilometers apart on either side or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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