402: Healing Through Grounding with Clint Ober
The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
Michelle Chalfant
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🗓️ 18 January 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
What if the secret to better sleep, less inflammation and reduced pain was as simple as walking barefoot in the grass?
Both the earth and our bodies have an electrical charge, and "grounding" (or "earthing") refers to the practice of connecting our bodies to the earth – keeping the body's charge at an optimal balance and unlocking tremendous health benefits.
If you think this sounds like something made up by a crunchy tree hugger, think again: the father of grounding, Clint Ober, is actually a cable guy.
Clint had a strong connection with nature from growing up on a ranch out West and great knowledge about how electrical currents work from his career in the cable industry.
One day, he saw a group of tourists all wearing thick rubber-soled shoes (a non-conductive material), and it hit him:
Could our modern lifestyle be keeping us from grounding into the earth?
This has led to a new frontier of health research, with very promising findings about the impact of grounding on inflammation, stress, autoimmune disease and more. It's the real deal!
I had the chance to talk to the man himself, Clint Ober, about how grounding works in the body, why our society is so ungrounded, the many, many health benefits of grounding and how anyone can start grounding – for FREE and today.
Listen to discover:
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What earthing and grounding is
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Why our bodies need to be connected to the earth's electrical charge
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How grounding works in our immune system
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The positive effect grounding can have on pain and chronic disease
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How you can start grounding today
Grounding is so simple – it literally just requires going outside with bare feet (or conductive shoes).
And unlike so many health hacks or miracle cures on the market, this isn't something to be added to your health…instead, it's a return.
A return to nature, our design and the natural harmony that occurs when we're connected to our bodies and the earth.
"The earth is basically electrical." - Clint Ober
"We can heal these illnesses we're walking around with by grounding." - Michelle Chalfant
"We've totally insulated ourselves from the earth when we're wearing shoes." - Clint Ober
"You can't have inflammation in a grounded object." - Clint Ober
"As soon as you get grounded, then you have the earth's energy all around your body, and it pushes away all of this environmental stuff." - Clint Ober
"If you want to take 10 years off your [age], just go outdoors and stick your bare feet on the grass." - Clint Ober
"The body is always striving to heal itself. Always. We are in the way." - Michelle Chalfant
LINKS & RESOURCES
Clint Ober Earthing and Grounding Products
Earthing Studies
https://earthinginstitute.net/
Earthing Movie
https://www.earthingmovie.com/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Michelle Shelfont, Psychotherapist, Holistic Life Coach, and Human, just like you, learning to navigate life challenges. |
| 0:11.0 | With over 25 years experience, I teach people how to get |
| 0:14.8 | healthy using the adult chair model. The adult chair model is where simple |
| 0:19.2 | psychology meets grounded spirituality and it teaches us how to become healthy adults. |
| 0:26.2 | From anxiety and depression to codependency and relationship issues, you can use the adult |
| 0:30.7 | share for just about anything. |
| 0:33.6 | Each week I share practical tips, tools, and advice |
| 0:37.6 | from myself and a wide range of experts |
| 0:40.1 | on how to get unstuck, how to live authentically, and how to truly love yourself, all |
| 0:45.6 | while sitting in your adult chair. |
| 0:48.6 | Welcome to the adult chair podcast. |
| 0:56.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to the adult chair podcast. I am Michelle Shelfont. |
| 0:58.0 | Happy to be here with you today |
| 1:01.0 | and talking about grounding. Yeah, I'm sure you've heard me talk about this over the |
| 1:07.8 | years, but this is the guy. I'm really excited. This is someone I've I've known about and followed for many years. His name is Clint Ober. He's the CEO of Earth |
| 1:16.9 | FX. It's a research and development company in California. Anyway, Clint knows grounding. He has done studies on how it affects the |
| 1:27.8 | body. He started out in the early 1960s in cable TV. Yeah, that's where he learned all about grounding and then this |
| 1:35.9 | developed over the years when he himself became ill and he wondered if the human being could actually be grounded much like he learned |
| 1:47.4 | when he was in the cable TV business and lo and behold guess? He found that not only when you ground a human being properly, it reduces chronic pain and also improves sleep and so much more. We got into a big conversation today all about grounding. I know you're going to love this and let me just tell you something. |
| 2:12.1 | He has all these products now. |
| 2:13.8 | So even if you're living where there's a ton of snow |
| 2:16.1 | and you cannot go sign up at your feet on the ground, |
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