The Benefits of Grounding for Health and Well-Being

From the area of Westbury, New York, Valerie Varnuska is a dance, art, and music enthusiast. Valerie Varnuska also enjoys spending time in the natural environment.

Spending time in nature while standing barefooted on the ground provides an array of health benefits. Called earthing or grounding, this practice involves making direct contact with the earth’s surface and being exposed to the electrons on the surface of the planet. Grounding can be accomplished indoors by using grounding systems during sleep or when sitting.

Exposure to the earth’s electrical rhythms and free electrons promotes physiological stabilization. To date, at least 20 studies have demonstrated that exposure to the earth’s electrons through a grounding strategy promotes better sleep, a reduction in pain and inflammation, improved energy, enhanced blood flow, and lower stress levels. Further, the earth’s free electrons are thought to function as natural antioxidants. According to anecdotal reports, these benefits are often experienced quickly and throughout the entire body as the body’s hormones shift towards a state of balance.

Theories on How the Asteroid Belt Formed

From Westbury, NY, Valerie Varnuska is an avid nature enthusiast who enjoys spending time going on walks outdoors. Valerie Varnuska also has an interest in viewing the sky at night and studying astronomy.

Located outside of Mars’ orbit, the asteroid belt is comprised of different sizes of space rocks of unknown origin. In the past, some scientists proposed that the rocks were remnants of a planet that exploded. However, that theory doesn’t support the fact that the rocks appear to have come from different parent bodies.

Scientists have also proposed that the rocks were originally part of small, developing planets that never completely formed. This theory is problematic since there are not enough rocks in the belt to create a planetary mass. However, it is possible that the belt is comprised of remnants of other existing planets. Some of the rocks in the belt may have come from other planets by breaking away from them during an early period of instability in the solar system.

Although scientists remain uncertain about how the asteroid belt was formed, it is believed that the rocks are likely to stay located within the belt, since the orbits of Mars and Jupiter are stabilized.