Earthing mats,
Grounding sheets,
Earthing blankets,
Are they worth your money and do they work?
Well I had the same questions which is why I bought an earthing mat to see what was going to happen when I used it and today I'm going to tell you what happened in the first seven days of using my mat as well as what happened a few months later.
You don't want to stick around,
It's pretty cool.
Firstly let's talk about why I initially bought my earthing mat.
It wasn't because I wanted to earth more,
Although now that I've used it for a while,
For maybe about four months,
I realized I probably did need to earth more.
But what happened is our neighbor bought an electric car and we didn't think we'd be affected by this.
But when I say we,
Me and my husband,
We noticed that when the neighbor charged the car,
We felt a difference in our home.
We felt an energy,
A current coming in.
It would feel a bit uncomfortable but particularly for my husband who is very energetically sensitive,
He would have to move out of his office when the car was charging because he's like whoa this is too much for me.
And by the way we live in a townhouse so it's directly connected to the house next door so we do feel things from our neighbors quite easily.
So then we started to go oh okay this is a bit weird what's going on with the energy in our house and with how it's affecting our body right now.
And then at the same time we started to think oh we spend a lot of time at our desks very close to the modem and the router,
Closer than we really should be in retrospect now that I think about it.
So we really started to become aware of our exposures to EMFs and to become a little bit concerned about it.
Now we started thinking oh maybe we can buy EMF blocking products and we went through all of these things but because we rent we decided that a lot of them just weren't suitable.
And my husband isn't one who would go out of his way to really buy anything to help block the EMF or to help him feel better.
He's very strong in his mind he's like no I will just change my mindset and I will feel better.
Whereas I'm very much within my physical body and I thought no I need to do something at this point to at least help me feel better as a knowing that I am next to this router and this modem and it's very difficult to move it where we are.
And knowing that my husband is getting quite distressed when the neighbor turns the car on but that's a whole lot to charge it that's a whole another conversation.
So I did research about ways to just increase antioxidant status naturally really to decrease free radicals because I thought well that's at least supporting my body that's beneficial so hey let's look at that.
So I came across earthing and grounding and did a bit of research I'm like oh this sounds interesting and then I had a conversation about it with my husband and he's like oh I was this is already on my radar I was going to get you an earthing or a grounding mat for your birthday and I'm like oh okay that's weird there's something in that because we both have come across it.
Then on the same day my husband went to a chiropractic appointment and I went along in the car with him and what did the chiropractor talk about earthing and he specifically showed his earthing mat that he used when he's on the computer in his office and I'm like whoa this is like three times in one day so I need to listen to this and follow it through.
Now as a naturopath I probably should have mentioned that earlier I've been in the health industry for a good 20 years I'm a naturopath and a human design analyst so I'm very aware of how energy affects us and I'm of course very in favor of using natural things to support our well-being as much as possible.
So I thought given all of this information I'm gonna get an earthing mat regardless of what my husband says because I need to try it.
Now just a side step for a second earthing isn't really sold as something to help with EMF exposure so I don't want to focus on that too much even though that's how I got to that path.
It's really something that you want to consider if you struggle to get outside and place your feet on the grass to get those natural I think it's electrons that come up from the grass and into our feet they help to stabilize our body.
Now what all of that does as well as the earthing mat which mimics significantly us being out in nature on the grass getting those good vibes into our feet is that earthing mats and grounding mats by delivering those electrons into our body they help to stabilize free radicals in our body free radical damage therefore they help to increase antioxidant status they help to decrease inflammation they can help with pain and I'll tell you my story about that in in a moment.
They can also help improve mood stabilize mood and a big one is they can be amazing for helping to improve sleep as well so there are many reasons may why you may want to get an earthing product like an earthing mat and if you've been thinking about it please consider this your sign to follow through.
Now what I want to tell you is what happened firstly in the first seven days because that was pretty significant when I started to use my mat.
Now the first day I received it I was pretty excited because I had high hopes of I don't know what I had high hopes of to be honest because I wasn't really expecting to feel significantly different other than to calm my mind to feel a bit less stressed when I was sitting next to the modem all day okay so day one I got the mat and I placed it under my feet while I was on the computer and you plug it in but you don't turn it on and then straight away I'm like oh mild tingles this is interesting I guess that's a good thing so I did some research yep tingles are a good thing basically it's that you can feel the electrons coming into your body to help to stabilize your cells basically so your cells with inflammation they get clumpy I've done live blood analysis myself and you can see when the blood cells get clumpy and sticky and inflamed and free radicals do that as well so I knew a migraine was probably happening to me at the moment when I'm on the computer so with the earthing mat what happens is the energy that you receive from the mat helps to break those cells apart so that they flow more freely which means the blood flows more freely and the inflammation goes down and generally it's an overall well-being boost as well as an immune system boost as well that's one I didn't mention earlier okay back to day one so I had my feet on the mat upstairs mild tingles great awesome then at night time watching tv I'm like I'm really into this mat right now let's bring it downstairs because I live in a three-level townhouse like let's unplug it bring downstairs plug it downstairs while we watch tv and I'm like oh let's see what my husband thinks as well and we both had our feet on the mat and straight away we're like oh do you feel that do you feel that yes so this wasn't just mild tingles this was like electricity coming through our feet and I remember it was funny I think I was like oh can you take your feet off because I'm like oh this wasn't like this before like maybe it's just I don't know I don't know what's going on is it just me feeling it did it did it change when you take your feet off no it didn't and then swap over he put his feet on and I took my feet off and like did it get any stronger or weaker it's like no it's like wow so both watching tv getting these electrons into our body just going wow this is interesting we think it's actually doing something that night I remember we both slept pretty well and we'd been having some struggles before that so I remember it was pretty pretty significant when we both went yeah I slept pretty well last night yeah me too hmm hello the tingles I believe helped then we continued using it well I continued using it more so day two day three and day four I continued to use it a little bit when I was on the computer but mainly when I was watching tv at night and the tingles were nowhere that came into my feet were nowhere near as strong they were just mild and I believe that is very normal because it can create a bit of a detox and at first initially it can be more of a decumping of those cells so you might notice those tingles more in the early days so days two three four I continued to use it at night mainly slept pretty well not a significant difference but I'm like but but enough to go oh that was better than normal now then what happened by a day about day five because I'm noticing that my sleeping is starting to improve after some crazy sleeping months before and I thought oh I wonder what happens if I use this mat in bed while I sleep so I tried it now I am a princess in the p when I'm in bed so I know that a lot of people recommend putting the mat at your feet while you sleep so putting your feet putting your heels on it while you sleep because you need to have your bare skin touching the mat to receive the healing energy from it because if it was just coming through the material it doesn't really transfer as well so I tried it under my feet and I remember lying there for I don't know maybe half an hour trying to get my mind around it going oh I don't really like how this feels under my feet because it's you can see it's like it's a bit firm it doesn't feel like a sheet that's where you plug the cord in that goes into the wall and it was just distracting my brain I didn't like how it felt so I thought okay how can I move this so that I feel comfortable and I can actually fall asleep and not think about something being different in my brain so the plug that I needed to plug it into was on the left side of the wall so I'm like right I'm gonna move this I moved it underneath my arm and I managed to fall asleep that way and I remember waking up the next morning I slept so well but you know that sleep where you sleep so well and you wake up and you're like whoa I'm so relaxed right now like the only time I shouldn't say the only time but I remember thinking oh I remember feeling this relaxed when I had when I was coming out of anesthetic once bit weird I know but I'm like that's how relaxed I felt so I'm like whoa there is something in this so of course I did it the next night which is day six and again I slept really really well and I again I was like whoa I'm so relaxed right now I don't want to get up yet I just want to lay here I feel so good so of course then I did it again on day number seven again woke up after a great sleep and feeling really relaxed now what I realized on day seven three nights after I started sleeping with the mat in bed so basically a nerve pain that I had been suffering with for about a year was gone like totally gone so quick backstory is I injured my neck and my shoulder quite significantly to the point where I could really only lift the weight of a toothbrush comfortably like I even felt the weight of the toothbrush and went oh that's heavy like it impacted both sides but it was it was especially on this one side that I injured mostly and it was a very long arduous painful healing process you know throughout that throughout that I didn't have the earthing mat I didn't really know about the earthing mat it wasn't on my radar now by the time I got the earthing mat most of that had healed but I had some residual nerve pain and that was just triggered so simply it was sensitive from the injury but I remember just lifting something that was probably a little bit too heavy for me but probably not for anyone else while I was recovering like oh oh my gosh and I had this nerve pain that just wouldn't go away now what I didn't mention earlier is I used to wake up every morning with that nerve pain and just be like oh will I ever get rid of this pain so on day seven I noticed that I woke up relaxed after sleeping well and nerve pain through here completely gone now remember I didn't use or buy this earthing mat to treat the nerve pain to treat the discomfort and the inflammation that was there and I didn't even put it in this area consciously when I was sleeping to obviously treat it because I didn't know it was obviously serendipity and synchronicity which is amazing so what happened was obviously when I was sleeping all those beneficial elements from the earthing mat were going directly to the area of pain breaking down the inflammation while I slept bringing down the free radical damage that was there from the inflammation and the pain and just three nights totally gone now I'm going to fast forward to a few months later today today I have also bought an earthing sheet because I realized how much benefit I was getting from the earthing mat while I slept I thought great two things I don't want to be lugging the mat up and down three levels of stairs every day because I just can't be bothered to do that because downstairs is where the tv is second level is where my office is third level is where we sleep I don't want to be moving it around all the time simply just I'm not going to do it so that was one reason another reason was I wanted my husband to benefit or hopefully benefit from the earthing as well now he was uh using the earthing mat and he still does using it use earthing mat every morning he drinks his coffee looks outside enjoys nature and places his feet on the mat and he enjoys the little tingles but he sleeps obviously on the earthing sheets now with me now I'll be honest with you he thinks they do nothing for him I should also let you know though that he's one sensitive boy who is very adrenally exhausted and keeps pushing pushing pushing so he's not really giving his body um much ability to heal so it it will take a lot for him to notice that he feels better however what I have noticed and he will dispute this but he doesn't is that he sleeps way quieter so I said before I'm a princess in the p when I sleep that's just not two sensations but that's two noises as well so honestly I was getting quite annoyed for I'm going to say a number of years that he would sleep quiet um he would breathe very loudly okay I'm just sensitive I know I'm sorry I'm I just am and what I noticed is that since he's been sleeping on the sheets oh my gosh he's so much more quiet he breathes in a quieter way and he snores less so that is amazing so yes he thinks they don't work but I realize yeah they are doing something beneficial for him now the third thing that I want to mention about these earthing sheets uh sorry earthing sheets but specifically the earthing mat is that I recently broke my toe I broke my pinky toe the earthing mat was amazing basically I sat down or laid down um with my leg up of course off my heart as much as I could or at least off the floor and I had it on the mat pretty much all day because you can't really do too much when you have a broken toe you can't move too much um especially in the beginning because it's got to sit in the right place I didn't just break my toe I fractured I um I dislocated it and fractured it it was pretty bad but I'm telling you this because I used the earthing mat continuously and I believe it was significant for decreasing the inflammation and the pain that I experienced and I believed it helped to keep my inflammation to a minimal level and keep my pain down because the only time that I used painkillers were when I initially used uh initially broke my toe before I went to the hospital the emergency room like oh my god oh my god this is bad give me something now and then they also gave me something in hospital before they put my dislocated toe back in place because they needed to give me needles to put it back in place um so they gave me something then but since that time I did not need any pain relief and I do believe that my earthing mat was very significant and useful in that situation and in any injury that you're dealing with um I would highly recommend that as well so this has been my earthing mat and my grounding story if you have any questions about earthing or if you want to share your stories I would love to hear them in the comments below because I really am a huge advocate for all of the earthing stuff uh especially because it means we can feel better with taking without taking any more pills and any more potions if you've been considering getting earthing products please consider this as your sign to maybe go ahead take the plunge experiment for yourself and see how better you can feel
