Stand Outside Barefoot for Better Health? ‘I Feel Like an Oddball, But if It Wor
When Sara Jean Meyer got a text from her mom that said, “I have a surprise for you," she assumed it would be a free bubble tea. Instead, her mother showed up with a roll of foil tape, a long copper pipe, an electrical wire and a rod clamp. They were all supplies required to “ground" Meyer’s bed.
Grounding is what proponents call the process of connecting to the earth’s natural electric charge, often by physically touching it or connecting to the grounding system built into most U.S. homes. The wellness practice is gaining, well, ground, among alternative-health fans, who claim it cures headaches, helps them sleep and reduces inflammation.
Some go basic by simply standing barefoot in their yards. Others try more complicated, do-it-yourself approaches to maximize time spent grounding—even while indoors. Luis Rios, a pilot based in Los Angeles, says grounding, also known as earthing, helps ease joint pain in his knees after long flights.
He mostly does it outdoors, with his feet touching the ground, though it can be difficult to find places to hike or stand barefoot at travel destinations. During a recent trip to Savannah, Ga., he stood in a park across from a stretch of restaurants and businesses on a tree with an exposed root while two tour buses drove by. “I felt like I was kind of like the main attraction, they were looking at me like, ‘What is this guy doing?’" says Rios, 58.
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