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Grounded.com was started by Dr. Stephen Sinatra and his entrepreneurial son Step Sinatra. They intended to create the premier platform for sharing research and knowledge about the amazing benefits of Grounding. Today, that intention has been solidified, and both Dr. Sinatra and Step have written volumes and educated people through books, articles, blogs, films, lectures and podcasts all about Earthing. Their latest book, Get Grounded Get Well, was released in 2023.
Dr. Sinatra met Clint Ober, the pioneer of Earthing, at an electro-medicine conference in 2001 and was intrigued by the concept of Grounding and the initial positive studies that had been performed. Click here to view the research. After using the products, hearing the testimonials, and personally participating in additional Earthing research studies, Dr. Sinatra found that Grounding has amazing potential not just for cardiology, but also for the wellness community at large. For Dr. Sinatra, the most natural anti-inflammatory and the ultimate antioxidant, is Earthing.
Step Sinatra soon joined the movement after it radically transformed his health. In his words, “There was no way I could not more than dip my feet into this, I had to run the company!” His miraculous healing story was featured in the documentary, Heal For Free. A near-death-experience followed by a 40-day hospital stay changed the course of his life forever. In the early 2000’s, he was a successful Wall Street trader that traded his health for money. Spending a million dollars and traveling the globe for answers led to one simple discovery…that the most powerful therapy is right beneath our feet - and is free!
In 2023, Marchann Sinatra Blake, who co-founded HeartMDInstitute.com with Dr. Sinatra, joined the family team to help spread the word about grounding. Our current Grounded.com team consists of a small group of passionate collaborators who enjoy sharing the health benefits about Grounding. For those that wish to practice more Earthing than Nature time allows, we offer simple and durable solutions or "barefoot substitutes". We present the information, studies and products here at Grounded.com and sell via earthing.com. We are experts at Grounding, not only because we stay on top of the research, but because we all Ground ourselves! From Earthing Patches on our wrists, backs, knees and feet, to Universal Mats under our feet and Grounding Shoes on them, we know the ins and outs of all the Earthing products - especially Grounded Sleep Systems, which are mainstays of our beds.
We know that reconnecting to the Earth's healing energy is a pillar of Optimum Health because we have experienced it ourselves. We understand that Grounding can seem outside the box at first so we always welcome any questions from you. It is our mission to help you understand how easy, natural and powerful Grounding is and to help you decide which barefoot substitutes will best fit your needs while connecting you to quality, original Earthing® brand products at www.earthing.com and various grounding shoe products we know, love and trust.
What We Do
We educate about the powerful phenomenon of Earthing, and help people find the grounding products that fit their lifestyle best.
What DOES IT MEAN TO BE GROUNDED?
Grounding, or Earthing, is a simple thing…so simple it can be confusing! Being grounded simply means being connected to the Earth - literally touching it. It doesn't cost anything; it's free! You have already grounded many times in your life. Any time you have walked barefoot in the grass or on the beach you were absorbing the Earth's healing energy through your feet. This energy is subtle so you probably didn't notice much when walking barefoot. But subtle is important!
Our bodies know this energy because we evolved touching the Earth. Man used to walk barefoot all the time and slept right on the ground. Being connected to the Earth's energy helps bring us back to our natural electrical state which is vital to our health as we are electrical beings! Connecting to this energy and regaining balance is one of the keys to fostering optimum health. The Earth is quite possibly the biggest "anti-oxidant"; and when we touch it, our bodies are flooded with electrons which our bodies use to counteract free radicals or inflammation in the body. Grounding immediately equalizes your body to the same energy level as the Earth: 7.83 Hz, or the Schumann Resonance (sometimes referred to as, “the earth’s heartbeat”). Connecting to Earth’s energy helps synchronize our internal biological clocks, hormonal cycles, and physiological rhythms. With the potential to profoundly affect our physical, mental and emotional bodies, Grounding can have healing, calming and balancing effects.
Earthing® and grounding products -or "barefoot substitutes," as we like to call them- allow you to conveniently ground yourself when indoors. Due to our busy lifestyles and/or weather that is not permitting, getting outside to walk or sit barefoot on the ground can be a luxury that many of us do not have.
HOW DO EARTHING / GROUNDING PRODUCTS WORK?
Earthing / grounding products conduct Earth’s natural energy into your body via a conductive connection to the earth. They do this in three ways: by plugging into a ground port, connecting via a grounding rod, or -in the case of shoes- through the use of conductive materials which allow Earth’s energy to flow into the feet.
Earthing® mats, patches and sleep systems, for example, plug into ground ports of three-prong outlets in homes or offices. The ground port is the lower third hole in an electrical outlet. Products that plug into ground ports do not utilize electricity; rather they connect to a grounding wire that is connected separately to each outlet. Most homes built after 1965 have grounding wires, which extend below homes into earth to protect against the potentially harmful effects of power surges and lightning strikes. By plugging into the ground port, grounding devices thus connect with highly conductive copper grounding wires in the Earth, allowing electrons from the Earth to then pass from the grounding wire, into the products, and then into the person touching them.
Rather than plugging into a ground port, a grounding device can also connect to Earth via use of a grounding rod. The grounding rod allows you to bypass use of a home’s grounding wires; you snake it out a window or door, and inserts it directly into earth. The metal in the rod conducts Earth’s energy into the device. Earthing® offers a grounding rod wire that is designed to withstand the pressure of a closed door or window, and can be used with one or two grounding products.
Earthing® products are durable, safe, and easy to use and clean. Products consist of patches, sleep systems, foot and desk mats, and even flip flops - they have something that works for everyone!
Speaking of grounding shoes, there are several other companies that now offer footwear that keeps you connected to Earth energy when worn on natural earth surfaces. Checkout out our Grounded Footwear and Grounding Shoes: the Ultimate Guide pages to learn more.
LEARNING at your fingertips
Our website aims to provide you with resources that you can use to increase your knowledge of the process and benefits of grounding while connecting you to others who are like minded. Some include:
www.earthing.com for quality, original Earthing® brand products.
Learn how to set up, use and care for your products here.
Resources: we strive to connect you to other educational sources for great information like the Earthing Institute (www.earthinginstitute.net) which has compiled the studies and papers written on the phenomenon of Earthing/Grounding.
Newsletter emails - a great way to stay up to date on all things Grounded. You can sign up here.
Other books about grounding, EMF-protection, energy healing and more.
Movies: The Earthing and The Grounded.
This page was last updated on July 21, 2023, and we’ll keep updating with new content when we can.
For example here is a link for a research paper written by me -Step Sinatra- and Dr. Stephen Sinatra - it was recently published in the Biomedical Journal (February 2023). Click here to see it. The title is Grounding – The universal anti-inflammatory remedy. We hope you like it. And it was the last research paper that my father, Dr. Sinatra, worked on before he passed away on June 19th (Fathers’ Day) of 2022. I miss him tremendously. He was the best father a son could ask for. Thank you, dad, for everything. ~Step
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