938: Finding Stability and Serenity: The Role of Grounding in Managing Anxiety
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Gina discusses the useful heath and wellness practice of grounding. The essentially free and generally easy practice of putting your body in contact with the earth (such as by walking barefoot on the grass) can have surprising heath benefits. Listen in today and discover how grounding may help alleviate your anxiety symptoms!
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Change what you can, manage what you can’t.
—Raymond McCauley
Chapters0:00:24 Introduction to the topic of grounding and anxiety management
0:01:12 Explanation of grounding and its benefits for the nervous system
0:04:10 Specific benefits of grounding: reducing inflammation, improving sleep, reducing stress and anxiety, and enhancing energy and vitality.
0:13:30 Introduction to Grounding Techniques and Anxiety
0:14:17 Grounding Techniques for Anxiety Reduction
0:16:13 Grounding Enhances Acceptance and Interrupts Negative Thoughts
Long SummaryWelcome to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, and today we're discussing grounding and its role in managing anxiety. Grounding is a technique that aims to heal an overactive nervous system and reduce inflammation, a contributing factor to anxiety, by connecting the body to the Earth's electrical energy. Research on grounding is still limited, but many experts recommend grounding for an array of benefits, which we will explore further today.
Grounding can provide us with improved sleep, better energy and vitality, and a reduction in stress and inflammation, which are all aspects that can either reduce or exacerbate anxiety. It can also provide us with a sense of stability, present-moment awareness, and calmness. We can achieve grounding through simple exercises such as barefoot walking on natural surfaces, engaging in gardening activities, outdoor exercises, and spending more time in nature.
Apart from this, we can also take the help of specially designed grounding mats, sheets, and shoes that can connect us with the earth's energy. Although this is still an emerging field of study, there is no harm in trying these practices to see if they work for you, especially if you are someone who frequently experiences anxiety.
Managing anxiety boils down to making changes that we can, and accepting those that we cannot. Therefore, it is essential to take care of ourselves by engaging in activities that reduce stress and anxiety levels. In conclusion, getting outside and putting our feet on the ground while being close to nature can provide us with a range of benefits and improved mental health.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore |
| 0:12.9 | anxiety, panic, and PTSD, sharing how you can overcome them for life. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello, how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. |
| 0:27.7 | I'm your host and coach Gina Ryan, and I am so happy to be with you again today as |
| 0:34.6 | together we can consider the many ways to bring your mind and body back to its natural |
| 0:41.5 | peace and calm. |
| 0:43.7 | In today's episode, I'm talking about finding stability and serenity, the role of grounding |
| 0:50.3 | in managing anxiety. |
| 0:52.7 | Now grounding is also called earthing, you've probably heard it called both things, but |
| 0:57.1 | we definitely need the earth if we're going to be doing our grounding. |
| 1:02.0 | And summertime can give us even more opportunities to give some of these health and healing grounding |
| 1:09.6 | ideas a try. |
| 1:12.4 | And what grounding can do is really help to heal the over-excited nervous system. |
| 1:20.1 | And today I want to talk about grounding and why it's good for your anxious nervous system. |
| 1:26.4 | The concept of grounding also known as earthing, as I said, is based on the idea that connecting |
| 1:33.1 | with the earth's electrical energy can positively affect our health and our well-being. |
| 1:41.3 | So it involves physically connecting our bodies to the earth's surface, typically by |
| 1:48.2 | walking barefoot on the ground or using conductive materials. |
| 1:53.8 | Now back in the day we used to say when we were trying to get people to calm down or just |
| 2:00.4 | to take a breather, it was always like the typical thing was get your hands in the dirt, |
| 2:06.8 | you know, meaning garden or do something, work in the yard, pull weeds, do whatever. |
| 2:13.8 | But it's kind of funny because I wasn't thinking about it in the terms of grounding |
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