The Höga Kusten in Sweden is an amazing destination to re-connect your body (and mind) with the Nature.
It will be beautiful to spend more time outdoor and, if you need a recharging power break, to boost all its benefits with an effective practice that you can easily combine with your walks, hikes or runs.
That practice is named grounding your body: it is simple, anyone can do it almost anywhere, and requires no special skills.
Grounding is highly recommended for everyone and particularly to whom spends a lot of the life in artificial environments.
(Sailors are included since spending most of their holiday time on a floating boat and very little time walking on dry land :)
Why grounding
When you walk barefoot on the Earth, you start an effective antioxidant process with health benefits: through your feet resting on the ground, you absorb free negative electrons from the Earth. You are “grounding” (or earthing) your body.
Research supports re-grounding practices as an essential element for boosting our overall health and well-being, improving sleep, and decrease stress.
If you spend much time indoors, the more you can walk barefoot on the ground in Nature, the better.
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How grounding
The sand - or the stones of a beach close to the water, the grass covered with dew, the hard surface of a rock, even soil or mud are ideal to walk barefoot.
Asphalt, wood, plastic (as the rubber or plastic soles of your shoes) are not suitable since they will not allow the electrons to pass through.
Take off your hiking shoes and socks: let the skin of your feet come into contact with a natural surface of the ground
Practice it by standing barefoot, walking few steps or laying: anything that allows your body to connect directly with on a natural ground.
Grounding technique in a nutshell: kick off your shoes, put your feet down and put pressure on the ground, take few steps.
Pay attention to the sensations that the feet transmit to the body: how it feels to put your foot on the ground and then lift it again.
How does your body feel with each movement and when your feet touch the ground?
Stop and stand up, maintaining a conscious contact with the ground.
How does the surface feel against your feet?
Give your feet a variety of sensory inputs, even walking on different natural surfaces or moving on surfaces that have different temperatures.
Be mindful with your breathing, keep it slow and silent, shut your mouth and breathe through the nostrils only, prolong a bit your exhales. Calm your mind and relax your body. You’re there and now.
What means grounding in the High Coast
Enjoy every step re-grounding yourself into the amazing Höga Kusten outdoors
Get rid of your shoes and walk barefoot, or even just put your feet on the bare earth where it uplift the most.
Take your time for your own grounding session when you go hiking one of your favorite trails at the Skuleberget mountain, or have a stop to enjoy it while you're running in a cozy forest along the Höga Kusten Leden, or simply laying on that sunny beach close to the southern entrance of the Skuleskogen national park. You can find a place for grounding almost everywhere.
7 suggestions for stunning wild grounding spots around Docksta:
Earthing where the sea meets the shore
Laying on the rocks at the summit of Vårdkallberget that you reached after a beautiful walk in the forest (get the map here).
Walking on the wide and smooth rocks of the Slåttdalsberget mountain within the Skuleskogen national park.
Grounding with a great view on the red Nordingrå granite rocks along the southerly sunny segments of the Höga Kusten Stigen at Skuleberget (get the map here).
Again at the Skuleberget, taking a pause at the shelter facing to south that you find along the Kalottastigen path on the summit (it’s marked with red dots).
Hike along the segment of the Höga Kusten Leden two kilometers south of the old church in Docksta, and enjoy a mindful session with a fantastic view over the Dockstafjärden at the Per Olsbo's shelter (get the map here).
Bury your feet a little beneath the sand’s surface of the beaches you find at the Kälaviken bay (Skuleskogen) or at the Storsand beach (Nörrfallsviken)
Simply find a tree and hug it or snuggle up in its roots.
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