● From Jill Hall Bowman (April 2022): ” I started last Thursday walking in my grass as I was watering my fruit trees & plants in my am chores. I had watched an interview with someone who was grounding & had positive results. I thought well why not try I mean I have to do my chores anyways! I started noticing last night in bed all of the sudden I realized my pain wasn’t as extreme. Then Saturday A.M. even better walking better , can’t explain it Im shocked, my husband is shocked. I’ve been in serious pain since 2007.”
● From Jennifer Watanabe, 64, Pearl City, Hawaii: “After a week of barefoot walking on my lawn, I received my two Earthing mats. I use them daily…sleeping, sitting, etc. I have no pain, no high blood pressure drugs, no smelly me, no anxiety, and I sleep better. What a blessing.”
Multiple pains
● From Janhavi Patankar (2022): “The Earthing products from earthing.com have elevated and expedited my healing process of giving me instant relief from all the aches and pains all over my body .My first night sleep on the mat was blissful!! The patch gave me instant relief from the pain due to the osteoporosis. A good night pain free sleep, a better and peaceful meditation and lastly a knowing that now and in years to come along with Earthing outdoors in Nature is and will give me a joyful and fulfilling life. Sharing the benefits of Earthing is my ‘ Purpose’ of Life!!”
● From a medical doctor in Australia: “I am quite astonished at the effectiveness of sleeping grounded. I have had a chronic neck and back pain issue with often severe stress states associated with it. The improvement in my sleep and in my pain and stiffness in only 3 nights has been dramatic. It is clear that the grounding sheet will soon pay for itself in terms of reduced requirement for massage and chiropractic treatment, not to mention analgesic medication. As a medical practitioner I am surprised that this seems to be the best kept health secret in town.”
● From the 2012 blog of a medical doctor in England: “On 3rd January, I vaulted over a high gate and landed on some steps the other side, twisting my right ankle as I did this. I’ve had pain in this ankle ever since. Not enough to stop me walking, but running has been out of the question. Rushing down the stairs (as I like to do) has also been quite uncomfortable. I’ve also had a pain in the top of my left foot. Not sure when this started, but I first noticed it at least several weeks ago.
“My earthing experiment started with me sitting with my bare feet on damp grass on 14th April. I lasted 20 minutes. Later in the day I noticed that the pain in my left foot and ankle had disappeared completely (and they have not returned since).
“Another odd thing is that for the preceding few days I had been brewing an ingrowing toenail on my right big toe. I used to get these a lot when I younger, but they’ve been rarer since I’ve gotten older. The normal course for these is to get steadily worse over several days and then I’d perform a bit of DIY surgery (don’t ask) to relieve the issue. The morning after my first earthing escapade, I noticed that my ingrowing toenail had utterly resolved on its own. That day I put my bare feet on the grass again, this time for 30 minutes. And then an earthing mat arrived and I’ve been using it ever since which I put my feet on when I work).
“OK, so the near miraculous resolution of my foot and ankle troubles could have been due to a lovely placebo response. I’m comfortable with this, if that’s the case (though I’ll never know). But one of my experiences I think points away from the improvement being purely placebo: For several months now I’d also had a niggly pain in my left elbow which is most noticeable when I wake up. While my ankle and foot pain (and ingrowing toenail) resolved, my elbow pain did not. This does not in any way disprove my foot/ankle improvement was not a placebo response, but the likelihood of it being placebo is diminished by the experience with my elbow I think.
From the same medical blogger, May 2013: “About a year ago…it seemed as though earthing might have quickly resolved a persistent pain in my left ankle and foot. I’ve been earthing regularly ever since and my pain has not returned. A pain in my left elbow had not resolved (at the time) but has resolved now. I was prone to pain coming from somewhere around my left hip that had bothered me for several months, too. That pain has also resolved. The resolution of my pains may have had nothing to do with grounding (I will never know). However, my hunch (and it is just that) is that earthing has brought me real benefits.
“I ground in my home and find this convenient, but this is not essential to derive whatever benefits earthing may offer. Yesterday, for example, I spent an hour in the park with my bare feet planted on the ground. At the end of the hour I felt truly invigorated and refreshed. Was it the break from my desk, the fresh air, the sun, the grounding effect or something else that had this effect? I just don’t know. What I do know is that the end result felt good and it did not cost me a dime.”
● “I am a non-professional athlete who has been running since childhood. I had shoulder pain from a fall on a local running trail in August 2009, left hip pain for years, a tweaked neck, and was recovering from a sprained ankle a month before (that was not my year!). After one hour of Earthing, the pain in all areas nearly vanished. I went through the change three years ago and could not sleep a full night without waking up multiple times from pain of past injuries and a noisy living environment. Since sleeping on my Earthing sheet, all has changed. For the first time in three years I have been sleeping a full night sleep with dreams. I feel more balanced, my friends say I look younger now, and I have a renewed zest for life!”
● From a man in Pennsylvania: “My wife (age 57) has been grounding for more than seven months. She has had various health issues – fibromyalgia, interstitial cystitis (bladder inflammation), arthritis in her fingers – and she is significantly better on all fronts. She never
used to dream & have trouble sleeping but she sleeps much better, and falls asleep nearly immediately now while earthing.”
● From a Kentucky senior: “Most of my long life I have enjoyed playing the piano. I learned Boogie Woogie by rote listening to Pete Johnson, Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis on 78 rpm records back in the early nineteen forties in Chicago, and took a few lessons to learn chords so I could play by ear. I could walk tenths up the scale without rolling and had no problem with riffs. And I could play a good boogie base for an hour without forearm fatigue. But over the years my fingers got s tiff and my walking base slowed down to a painful stroll.
“But that’s in the past now that I have an Earthing mat under my bare feet when I sit down to bang on my old spinet. My fingers have become more limber and quick so I can play Pinetop’s Boogie almost as well as I did in the old days. Now I keep one Earthing mat plugged in under my piano as well as one under my computer table. Thanks to my Earthing mats my day is like a barefoot walk in the park and my eighty-four year old fingers are playing boogie and typing better than ever! I instinctively shed my shoes and socks every chance I got since I was five years old because it made me feel good…but stepping on glass, rusty wire, sticks, thorns, and sitting on a doctor’s table to get a tetanus shot, was no fun! So for years the only connection I had with the earth was an every-now-and-then walk on a vacation beach. But thanks to my Earthing mat I can now walk on a beach anytime I choose on my Earthing mat! I’m completely energized! I can actually feel the warm energy from earth flowing up through my feet and out my fingers. And my knee joints and back have a lot less of the painful reminders of college football and heavy lifting.”
● “For eight years I suffered 24/7 from considerable leg pain due to neuropathy. After some 18 to 20 months of sleeping grounded on an Earthing sheet, my legs are completely healed of the neuropathy. For two and half years now I’ve had no problem with neuropathy. What worked for me may not work for everyone, but this is my result. I have a left shoulder that has been seriously injured three times in my life, and I attach three or four grounding patches to it each night as I sleep and by the next morning 90-95% of the pain is gone. I’ve also used the patches to relieve the pain of a bum knee, back pain, headaches, sore throats, pain in my hands, and to prevent leg cramps. When I feel cramping coming on, I quickly attach an Earthing patch to the muscle in question and the tendency to cramping immediately stops.” (U.S.)
● “Since using the grounding mat while at the computer I no longer suffer pain in my neck and arms. Also the pain I was experiencing in my hips at night in bed has greatly reduced and my sleep apnea disappeared from the first night of using the grounding half sheet.” (Australia)
● From a reader of the Earthing book in the U.K.: “Before I got to the end of the book I had taken delivery of a sheet and a mat for grounding. This seemed to make so much sense to me though my family think I am a little crazy. I took a 2 hour nap today on my newly delivered sheet and woke with much less pain in my arthritic hip and toe and had a burst of energy. I can’t wait to go to bed tonight!”
● From Lorraine Lopez, 47, Lancaster CA, wrote us in January 2020 with the following report: “I’m a busy mother of five, with five pets as well. I have all the Earthing products, including bands, patches, and the bed mat. I first started Earthing in mid-September by going barefoot outside on the grass during the week and on weekends at the beach while we stayed on our boat. In December, I started sleeping grounded. My husband also sleeps grounded with me and he hasn’t complained of his usual hip, back, leg, or foot pain anymore. We sleep so good every night and feel super rested every time we get up. Sometimes we don’t get that much sleep but it feels like we slept for hours. We wake up energized.”
● From Jennifer Finlay. Feb 2022: “I exercise three times a week and would normally suffer with aches and pains afterwards. Since grounding I no longer have recovery issues and zero aches and pains.”
Elbow pain
● “My 26 years as a contractor have produced different physical problems and pains. I just started using the bands for my elbow and I have to admit it is working very good so far as it has reduced my pain about 80%. I started my journey back to health 12 years ago, but I could not help with my elbows. Now, with the use of the wrist band, I’m almost back to normal and I know I will recover completely.”
Hand and wrist pain
● From a 70-year-old retired teacher in California: “I am an amateur pianist and 3 years ago purchased a Steinway. I immediately started playing it about 4 hours a day. The stiffness of the pedals caused me to experience great pain in my right leg. My chiropractor worked on it off and on. I could only practice 10 minutes at a time due to the pain. A bummer for waiting 66 years to get a Steinway! A year ago I started playing music by Mompou, and the hand positions are horrid. My right hand also started to hurt and I practiced with bandages etc. Sometimes I resorted to left hand practice alone. Suddenly I got the idea to practice barefoot and put an electrode patch on the palm of my right hand. I also put a grounding band on a large hematoma I got on my right arm from a bad blood draw. I immediately could put in 3 hours on the piano. There are a number of world renowned pianists who have had to turn to conducting and teaching because of pain in their hands. It would be a service to the world of music if they started grounding themselves.”
● From a woman in Australia: “I have no more wrist pain that I have had for the last 3 years from 30 years of dog grooming. I can now sleep without pain and can groom without having pain while I am working.”
30 years of hip pain resolved
● From Teresa in Wisconsin (2020): “Almost 30 years ago I had a spinal problem that was misdiagnosed. I had been walking oddly to protect my back and my hip started to hurt. The doctors here told me it was all my back. By the time the surgeon in Minneapolis saw me he told me he could fix the back but the hip was “forever” and that I would have to have my hip replaced at some point but to hang in there as long as I could. It has hurt to a certain degree every day since then. In January 2020 it got so bad that I could not lift my foot even 6 inches, was doing the one step up and down stairs for fear of falling and it was waking me up multiple times at night. Was seriously considering looking into the replacement. A family member got me some earthing patches and cord. Even though my husband said it was woo woo, I decided to try. So I started doing it each evening for an hour or so. Never had any bad effects didn’t really feel anything but within two weeks I was so much improved that I bought a 1/2 sheet for my bed. Now 6 weeks from when I started I have minimal hip pain. I can be on my feet all day without it hurting.I no longer feel like the tin man when I get up in the morning with the aches and pains of being 65. I am starting to recommend it to my friends. It may not fix everything but it does work. P.S.: My cat and dog love to lay on it. Figure they know whats good for them.”
Pain from metal rod in leg
● From Alice M: “Grounding has been a ‘miracle’ for me. I have a rod in my leg which always hurts from a little bit to a lot. Since I started Earthing there is very little pain. I use the grounding sheet, body bands, and patches.”
Foot pain
● “I am 69 years old and have not been able to go without shoes for years because of tenderness and pain on the bottom of my feet. After I started Earthing every day, I was surprised to be able to walk barefoot free from pain, both inside of my home and outside.”
● “I believe I have had significant benefit from sleeping grounded. I had lots of ‘pins and needles’ and numbness through my hands, arms, legs feet and spreading through my body – which is disappearing. Also I had 2 Morton’s Neuromas in my feet (that I had taken cortisone for) and now they have almost disappeared. I believe it’s the sheet that’s doing the magic. Morton’s neuroma is a thickening of nerve tissue between the third and fourth toes, and it’s quite painful.”
● “I have suffered from Achilles tendonitis in my right foot for many months and was starting to get it in my left foot. The pain when I got out of bed was excruciating, a 9 on a pain level of 1-10. After 4 weeks of grounding (with a half-sheet and mat) the pain level is about 4-5 now and the pain in my left foot has gone. My husband suffers from pain in his shoulders, hips, and back which we believe is osteoarthritis. The shoulder and hip pain is mostly gone and the back pain has reduced by 30%.”
Ankle break pain
● “I have been sleeping grounded for two years, since after a severe ankle break. The surgical repair required a plate and nine screws. As a result, I was experiencing difficulty sleeping and had nerve pain in my left foot. With grounding, almost immediately I was sleeping better and the nerve pain subsided. Most significantly, I have a ‘quieter mind’ when sleeping grounded. I fall asleep much quicker if I have to get up during the night. These are subtle things, but very beneficial. I feel more rested when I wake up and love the results of being connected to the Earth. When I started grounding, I had a 17 year old dog with mental decline and arthritic issues. After sleeping for two weeks on a grounded pad his back was more relaxed, he slept better and seemed to move without the chronic pain. It added so much to the quality of his last year of life. He passed away at 18 years and I feel that the Earthing really gave him relief and less stress.”
Knee Pain
● From a review of the Earthing book on Amazon (2020): “So I thought this was a bunch of quackery. However, after watching Clint’s documentary, decided to try this earthing thing out. I’ve been earthing almost everyday by going barefoot on the grass and dirt. Miraculously, my painful and swollen knee has improved and swelling gone down? Also, I’ve lost some weight? I’m thinking because earthing reduces stress and in return reduces cortisol. I suffer from arthritis pain throughout and now i hardly have any? I am convinced this is the real deal. Have made earthing a Lifestyle.”
● “I have a sore knee nearly always from riding thousands of racehorses over the years with very short stirrups. I have been using a grounding band just above my knee at night…and whilst doing yoga. The pain is nearly gone altogether… amazing!” (Australia)
Bursitis
● From a woman in Australia: “For a few years I was experiencing bursitis pain in my right hip that moves down toward my leg and knee. I was not able to lie on my right side. I’ve been using a grounding sheet for four weeks and now my hip pain is gone. I noticed an improvement within a few days. I can now lie on my side quite comfortably without pain. I no longer need the painkillers at night. Nor do I wake up as before during the night with pain. I sleep better at night and wake up feeling more refreshed, with more energy during the day. I recently spent an entire day in my garden. Normally by night time by legs and arms would ache. However sleeping on the grounding sheet my body felt rested and refreshed and I felt little pain the next day. Normally after a day in the garden I would have quite sore muscles that would take 48 hours to recover. Not any more now. I have spent thousands of dollars on treatments for my hip but until now have never experienced total pain free. Now with grounding this is happening.”
Neck pain
● “I’ve had a very bad neck injury from a fall that damaged the discs in my neck. The one compressed disc leaves very little room for the radial nerves where they exit my neck. I have to be very careful when I turn my head in either direction, and I cannot tip my head back. To do either of these things puts a lot of painful pressure on the nerves. If I sit in a chair with the seat at the wrong angle for any length of time, or use my arms in the wrong way, the nerves in my arm(s) flair up. Once the flair was so bad I had to take NSAID drugs for 4 months and I wear ice packs that I change every two hours. After a while, the nerves settle down. The flair ups are of shorter duration usually and ice packs and Tylenol are enough. I have had ‘nerve conduction studies’ done twice. Electrodes are placed on the arm being tested (in my case the arms) along the pathway of the radial nerve. Very wet bracelets are wrapped around my wrists. Electric pulses are sent through the arm and a computer measures how long it takes for the electric current to move through the nerve. The doctors can tell from the test if the nerve(s) is being damaged by how the current sweeps through the arm. The test takes about 45 minutes. It is exhausting and painful. Near the end of the test the doctor inserts a fine needle right into the nerve and runs the current again (pretty sore for a long time afterwards). I’m worn out and strung out afterwards, and just want to get home. The earthing mat provides instant, and the most dramatic relief! It is so immediately notable. The relief felt is extraordinary. I can’t imagine how other people get through the nerve conduction study test without earthing afterwards.”
Back pain
● From a 59-year-old woman in Los Angeles: “I have had low back pain for about 4 years. I went through the usual path of chiropractor, acupuncture, and some herbs. Initially I found an herb, Boswellia extract, to take the pain away. However, my pain always gets worse in cold weather. It is now January and last October I got the grounding mat to sleep on. What a difference it has made. Now I don’t wake up stiff and hardly able to move. I can also cut back on the herbs.”
● From Mike, a California construction project manager: “I’ve been grounding while I sleep for about 1.5 weeks and my back pain is down to about 45%. I’m 6’5” and have been dealing with back issues most of my life. I have been researching grounding for about 2 years and I have only been practicing barefoot outside until about 2 weeks ago. Knowing when we sleep is extremely important for healing and recharging, I finally pulled the trigger on an Earthing throw as well as an Eathing mat for when I’m at my computer. I am experiencing several (positive) mind and body differences that I have never had or lost somewhere in my youth.”
● “I spent my childhood barefoot, healthy and happy. So I was very interested in the concept that something so natural could be so beneficial for the human body. I have been working as a dental hygienist for most of my adult life. For the past few years, I have had a great deal of pain in my back because of the unnatural position I have to be in while working. I tried chiropractic treatments and yoga, but nothing seemed to work until I began Earthing. The first day that I spent barefoot outside in my yard for a few hours, I slept very soundly that night and did not have my usual aches and pain. I have kept going barefoot as much as possible during the summer and as long as I got my Earthing in every day, I was pain free. I am so happy to have such simple and natural solution. I’m planning to start sleeping grounded soon as well.”
● From a woman in Australia: “My 2 month old scar wound from a caesarean was not healing and I had constant bad back pain. I had tried absolutely everything the Doctor prescribed without any success. I heard about Earthing and, even though I was skeptical, I decided to try the large body band around my torso at night. However, I thought ‘what have I got to lose?’ I slept with the band on and for the first time since the birth of my daughter had a better night’s sleep, and the pain in my back went, and I think because of this my mood was much better the next day. I have been using the band for around a month and my wound is now 90% healed and my sleep is definitely better, making me a nicer person to be around.”
● “I ground myself every night and use a grounding patch while I’m in the kitchen for several hours. I do the grounding because for five years I was in excruciating pain from a Bulging disc (L5,S1 ) that led to sciatic pain and nothing helped to relieve it. Grounding got me out of pain and saved my sanity.”
● From a delivery service worker: “Whenever I have a stress headache, tight neck and shoulder or back pain, I plug myself into the ground and attach the electrode patch near the site of pain. Within 30 minutes the pain has subsided, after 45 minutes the pain is totally gone.”
Chronic pain
● MP, 65, retired nurse, Indio, California (2020): “When I first began grounding I did not have the immediate results that I have read about others having. In fact I felt worse. I had more fatigue & pain. I have an autoimmune condition (Ankylosing Spondylitis), chronic pain, as well as migraines. You encouraged me to hang in there, that it would get better. I continued grounding night & during the day when I laid down. I have been grounding almost 3 months. The changes have been very gradual.
“When I started I was walking 20 minutes a day & struggling to do that due to overwhelming fatigue and pain. I have osteoporosis & my doctor has been pushing me to go on medication for it. I have resisted because of all the side effects associated with these drugs. I have been taking supplements to strengthen my bones, though my doctor said that it won’t make much difference. I was on supplements before my bone scan 2 years ago & my results showed my bones density was less.
“I had read that grounding may help with osteoporosis so that was my motivation. I kept putting off my bone scan to allow more time to ground. Then my doctor refused to treat me any longer if I didn’t get my repeat scan & go on meds. So I had my scan. I was shocked to learn that I no longer have osteoporosis!
“I then looked at other things that have changed since I started grounding. Instead of struggling to walk 20 minutes a day I have been able to work up to over 3 miles a day! My fatigue has improved & I’m able to be more active.
“I was averaging 5-10 migraines a month and I now average 2 migraines a month. My chronic pain has improved, instead of having to take something for pain & laying down, I lay down & ground with relief. My pain is relieved without drugs.
“I have sciatica pain in my right leg which I’ve had for many years. I use the grounding band on my right foot & it is very effective in relieving that nerve pain that little else has ever helped.
“I purchased the band set from Earthing and I like them very much. I have even used the large band for my head when I have a migraine. I don’t know if it’s the pressure from the band or grounding my head but it does give me relief.
“My husband has no health issues. He grounds at night on a mat with me. We both slept deeper when we first started grounding but he continued to snore like a freight train! I then got the grounding pillow covers which were a game changer for him. I no longer have sleepless nights from his snoring. Sometimes he’ll take a nap on his couch in the den (not grounded) & he can be heard snoring all over the house. If he is on his grounding pillow, no snoring!
“Needless to say I am a firm believer in the benefits of grounding after only 3 months. Can’t wait to see how much better I get as time goes on!”
● From Karen Blaine, 66, Yakima, WA (2020): “I spent 15 years in a literal nightmare locked up in my body, from chronic pain, chronic insomnia, terrible inflammation, PTSD, anxiety disorder. The list is long. I have had nine concussions over the course of my lifetime, just one too many injuries to my body, starting at a very early age. I started using the smaller Earthing mat sitting at the kitchen table with both bare feet on the mat twice a day an hour each time. In 5 days, I was out of pain, and the feeling in my head was that of total clarity. I was sleeping at least 4 hours a night, which is better than no sleep. I thought I had died and gone to heaven!”
