Are you suffering from stress, tension or feeling sluggish? Take yourself outside and get yourself grounded again! You live more in the now, you are more relaxed and more present in your body when you are well grounded.

What is grounding

Grounding is a phenomenon that describes the connection between humans and nature. In today's society, we live constantly with technology, concrete walls, buildings, traffic and many stimuli that do not originate from nature. Grounding helps you return to your roots, both literally and figuratively.

By consciously applying more grounding in your life, you can strengthen your connection with nature and develop a deeper understanding of your place in the world and in the universe. It offers not only physical benefits such as better sleep and relief from inflammation, but also spiritual enrichment and a sense of connection to everything around us.

By grounding yourself in the earth more often, you learn to connect more deeply with yourself and nature.

How can you ground?

We'd like to give you some tips to ground yourself more in nature, to ground yourself more:

1. Visit the woods or beach this week: just being present in nature helps to ground. So as a first step, this is a very nice one!
2. Take a long walk, preferably without music or podcast. While doing so, pay attention to where your feet touch the ground and be in the moment and with nature with your attention. You can even visualize taking in energy from nature.
3. Go barefoot in the grass or sand. Make real contact with your bare feet standing in the grass or walking through the sand on the beach, for example.
4. Get into the water (with your feet). Swimming in the natural water or walking with your feet in the surf of the beach works very grounding!
5. Lying in the grass. Lie down in the grass (on a nice summer or spring day) again you can visualize yourself making contact with the earth or you can lie back and relax
6. Go gardening. With your hands in the earth and make contact and be engaged with nature
7. Outdoor sports or yoga. Get outside for your next sports activity, yoga is a very nice one to include the slowdown.

Set an intention Do you feel that you are a little stressed? Or that you're in your head a lot? Maybe you feel little desire to go outside? Take action! Put on your shoes, or not for extra connection, and take the first step outside. For extra grounding, it helps to set an intention such as "I connect with nature, it gives me energy" or "I let the wind blow all thoughts out of my head, I am present in the moment.

Also, enjoy being outside, have fun and tell yourself it's nice to go outside. You only have to go for 5 minutes and maybe when you are outside you can stay a little longer.