Grounding anyone?

Tbh I have never heard of this.

But if it is working for you —- brilliant!

I have read a lot about grounding, it’s a kind of magic!

I know Deborah Meaden (Dragons Den) is a huge advocate.

Glad it’s working for you.

I have never heard of this but I send you my best wishes and sucess in your attempt to make life better.

I have seen lots of adverts about grounding mats and was thinking of asking for information on here too.I hope you get some info but it is good news to hear about your improved sleep.

I've just had a "Google" as I've never heard of this.

Just walking barefoot on grass, earth, leaves etc is a form of grounding. You can also buy sheets and pillowcases

Every day is a school day on GN!

I've never heard of grounding but I shall find out more! I'm glad it's working for you.

I was honestly very sceptical at first - it all seemed like "hippy-dippy" stuff to me and had visions of skipping through corn fields with flowers in my hair.
That reminded me of the front cover of the Ladybird Book of Mindfulness 😁🌸🌼🏵🌺

Radio 4 Sliced Bread did a programme on these. I think they were sceptical, but I'm so glad to hear it's working for you ferry23

Grounding was just feeling the earth under your feet in my hippy dippy days, I still like to be barefoot were possible.

I too haven’t heard of them and I m very very sceptical of these sort of things but if it’s working for you great

After reading this, I’ve checked online to buy a grounding mat but the electric socket you plug it into is different to mine. The grounding socket has a round hole.

I too had never heard of these so just did some quick googling. I have a question ferry23: it appears there are mats for standing on as well as sleeping on, which are you using and how long or often each day? Thank you!

Hadn't heard of this, and am unfortunately, very sceptical, but rather excited, as like you, long term sleep problems. Where do we learn more (and thank you for raising topic)!

I bought a sheet after my marriage broke up and found it helped emotionally. That was several years ago and the sheets only have limited lives. Recently I bought a new one and I’m sleeping much better. I listened to the Sliced Bread program but it was only opinions, to my way of thinking. If it helps, it works!

Where can you buy grounding mats?

Grounding isn’t ’hippy dippy ‘ stuff. If you study it you can see that it’s ‘grounded’ (sorry for the pun’) in science. It’s natural that the Earth holds energy and so do our bodies. There are lots of ways to ground and they’re all beneficial to us. Having spent a number of decades involved in natural medicine, it saddens me that stuff like this isn’t given more attention.
I hope it continues to help, ferry23.

It was 13 years ago when my grandson was diagnosed ( privately) with sensory processing problems.
He had one then.

This is the man who invented it

www.earthingrevolution.co.uk/blogs/new-blog/about-clint-ober?srsltid=AfmBOoq7qapT4JidkGcfMPVItPAonaAvWmXQj2w-mrr6edKzwsE5ugCe

Never heard of this so going to Google. If it improves your life, go for it.

Never heard of it

I sleep well on my Shakti mat so I'm going to look into this as my skin is quite thin and sensitive these days and my Shakti mat leaves it a bit sore.

I have such a sheet. I have rheumatoid arthritis. It doesn’t make any difference to me and I regret the amount of money my daughter in law spent on it

I tried one a few years ago and it actually made my problems worse, and had adverse effects for my daughter too. However, that does seem to show it does something, and the ill effects went when we stopped using it.

I m sorry to say these things come in and out of fashion and while the original idea might well have positive usage they are then commercialised and cost a lot of money to make someone a millionaire

sukie

I too had never heard of these so just did some quick googling. I have a question ferry23: it appears there are mats for standing on as well as sleeping on, which are you using and how long or often each day? Thank you!

sukie I'm using a grounding mat. I started last week at 20 minutes but today I'm doing 2 x 20 minutes. I just use it whilst I'm on my laptop or watching tv.

There really appears to be little difference in all the mats on sale. They don't have a lot of components so there's nothing that can be vastly different between them.

Just be aware that some of the images are shown with a US type plug - but if they're sold to the UK market they either come with a 3 pin plug or an adapter - mine had the usual UK plug.

I must have spent a small fortune on supplements, creams and lotions and potions over the years that have had no effect whatsoever so for £35 even if the only thing it does is improve my sleep a bit then I'm happy. Anything else will be a bonus.

I’ve been debating about buying a mat or sheet recently after someone on a menopause group at work said it helped her. Have been getting out in the garden as much as possible bare foot recently as the weather slightly better and find I do sleep more soundly after doing a bit of grounding. Might wait until the winter now to get one when I don’t want to go out in the rain barefoot!! Good luck with yours. Good to know how much your sleep has improved, that’s brilliant.