Wondering what an earthing sheet is, how it works and if indeed it does work?! This is the post for you. Below I go into a simple explanation of how they work, if they’re effective and my own personal experience with one. Read on!
Curled in a chair, the light long disappeared and my face lit by the glow of the laptop, I carried on down my rabbit hole of looking for a natural mattress that was sustainable and comfortable. On my hunt, something popped up that caught my eye - the Rowland Earthing sheet.
I clicked on the link and my eyes snapped to the streamline: “Harness the Earths energy while you sleep”. YES! Said my brain, I need some of this in my life. It’s not like you can get enough of nature. But the (newly) careful spender in me wondered if it was something I really needed.
As I browsed the mostly glowing reviews I was more and more convinced I’d be needing one of these sheets in my life - most reported better nights sleep and reduced pain with some even saying their chronic pain had cleared up since using one.
The earth’s surface is covered by a blanket of electrons - these electrons are incredibly healing and can act as anti inflammatories and antioxidants within our bodies. Every time we come into contact with the earths ‘ground’ we are able to absorb these electrons through a process called grounding or earthing. This is why you see people saying that walking bare food through nature is good for us - it’s because we’re coming into contact with these negatively charged electrons that help us to neutralise and prevent a build up of positive free electrons.
As we have evolved we are spending less time with our hands in the dirt growing vegetables and harvesting food - this would have been our main exposure to these negative electrons. As we have become less and less exposed to nature in favour of high rise office blocks, commuting in cars and trains and also more exposed to man made pollutants such as wifi, mobile phones, pollution and much more we are more disconnected from the earths healing powers as we have ever been.
There is a really fascinating film on grounding here or if you don’t have a Vimeo account scroll down on the homepage.
So what is an Earthing Sheet?
The earthing sheet is a cotton sheet that lies over your bed and is plugged into a normal wall socket - the plug from the sheet only connects to your earthing pin so no electricity is involved. The silver thread woven through the sheet then conducts the grounding electrons through the sheet and delivers it to you.
The idea is that you’re in contact with the earths grounding energy throughout the night, increasing your sleep and reducing inflammation.
Rowland do two sheets - the original and the organic. Pictured is the organic sheet that is made from organic material and has less impact on the earth in it’s manufacturing process.
