People who sleep grounded often report that they sleep better, have more energy, feel more relaxed and rested, and even feel less pain. This is because grounding helps regulate autonomic nervous system activity; among other things, it promotes the relaxation response and can improve cortisol levels. Grounding overall has an anti-inflammatory effect on the body and can reduce pain and recovery time after intense physical activity. Studies also indicate it has a regulatory effect on various hormones in the body and can lead to cardiovascular benefits, such as improved heart rate variability and blood viscosity (zeta potential).

Sleeping on bare earth or outside atop a conductive or non-insulative surface is the most natural means of sleeping grounded, and it’s also free. But unless you camp or spend hours napping on the beach daily, sleeping grounded outdoors may not jibe with your lifestyle. Devices that allow you to sleep grounded indoors provide practical solutions that connect you to Earth energy in the comfort of your own bed.

There are numerous ways to sleep grounded indoors. You can sleep directly atop a grounding mattress pad/cover or sleep mat, under a grounding blanket, and/or rest your head on an Earthing pillow cover (we like a combination of all three). Earthing has spent decades inventing and fine-tuning grounding sleep systems, and their current collection (shown below) is the best yet!

Alternately you could also place a grounding mat - like Earthing’s Universal or Yoga mat on your bed and sleep or nap on it, however these mats are much thicker than Earthing’s mattress pad / cover and sleep mat. We only recommend sleeping on all-purpose grounding mats when traveling or to see how you feel after sleeping grounded prior to investing in a grounded bedding.

Another option is to wear grounding socks woven with conductive silver threading while you sleep. You can ground with Earthing socks you plug into the wall or wear grounding socks placed atop a grounding mat or mattress pad. Although plugged-in socks aren’t ideal for people who leave their beds in the night, we’ve personally found them to be a soft, cozy way to ground indoors!

Earthing mattress covers and sleep mats are grounding devices that go atop your mattress to help ground you while you sleep. They can be placed over or under a fitted sheet. These grounding devices all contain materials that conduct Earth’s electron flow into your body.

To access that Earth energy, you snap a coil cord onto these devices and plug them into ground ports of electrical outlets. Alternately, you can connect a mattress pad/cover to the Earth by way of a grounding rod that you push into the ground. Click here to learn more.

Grounding sheets, first developed by Clint Ober of the Earthing company, are the original grounded sleep systems. Woven with silver threads, grounding sheets are specifically designed to conduct electrical energy, including Earth’s natural electron flow.

Like the grounding mattress pads and mats they evolved into, the original grounding sheets were connected to cords which plugged into grounding ports of electrical outlets; alternately, you could connect them to Earth energy via grounding rods.

Earthing’s grounded mattress covers, pillow covers and sleep mats, which are made of polyurethane and carbon, are designed to last longer than silver-threaded grounding sheets. These new system are lightweight and thin, yet more durable and easier to clean than old-style grounding sheets. Hence, Earthing’s mattress and pillow covers and sleep mats have replaced Earthing’s plug-in grounding sheets and are essentially “the new grounding sheets.”

You can sleep directly on the mattress and pillow covers, just as you would regular sheets.

While old-style grounding sheets are still available from various sellers at Amazon, our top recommendations for sleeping grounded are Earthing’s current sleep system line (shown below). We have used Earthing products for over 15 years and trust the research, development, patenting, and fine-tuning that have gone into them. If you want the very best grounding sheets, we recommend you go with Earthing’s current offerings!

New-style, silver threaded grounding sheets (which you don’t plug in) are designed to enhance the conductivity of Earthing sleep mats and mattress covers. While regular sheets made from a natural fabric like cotton or bamboo are not likely to block Earth energy from the cover or mat, they can dull its flow somewhat. Because grounding sheets are made with conductive silver threads, they facilitate rather than dull the energy flow. The electron flow received will be greater.

With older-style grounding sheets, such as those found on Amazon, you plug them directly into the ground port of a grounded electrical outlet, and do not put them over a grounding mattress cover or sleep mat. In other words, the old-style sheets are grounding devices in and of themselves and offer similar benefits as those derived from using an Earthing mattress cover or sleep mat.

As functional devices that keep you connected to Earth energy, grounding mattress pads/covers, sleep mats and grounding mats are equally effective. The difference between sleep systems and regular grounding mats is the size, as well as the feel and smell of the materials.

We personally prefer sleeping on Earthing mattress covers or sleep mats because they are very lightweight and comfortable, and much thinner than Earthing’s Universal and Yoga grounding mats. They also don’t smell like anything. If you sleep atop an Earthing yoga mat for a night or two, you may notice a distinct synthetic smell. In our experience, Earthing’s grounded mattress cover/pad and sleep mat (shown below), are comfy and not too hot or too cold.

The difference between the sleep mat and mattress cover is that the mattress cover is designed to fit an entire bed surface and comes in several sizes. Whereas the sleep mat is more versatile and can be used by one person in a larger bed or be placed across the bed for partial use by two people.

To help soothe, lessen or relieve back pain, we recommend a mattress cover or sleep mat that your whole body will fit on. If you share a bed with someone who also wants to ground, you will most benefit from an Earthing Mattress Cover that covers your entire bed (several sizes are available).

On the other hand, if your partner doesn’t want to ground, then you can get a smaller Mattress Cover or and Earthing Sleep Mat that only covers your side of the bed.

For maximum conductivity of Earth energy, we recommend sleeping directly on top of the device without a fitted sheet between you and it. For pajamas, go with the bare minimum, if any.

We have been using Earthing-brand mattress covers, mats, sheets, and other Earthing products for over fifteen years. Why? At first, it was because our dad, Cardiologist Dr. Stephen Sinatra, recommended them and gave them to us.

Earthing Founder Clint Ober had introduced him to grounding, and Dr. Sinatra was excited about grounding’s simple, profound potential to help people maintain and improve their health. He and Ober began conducting research on grounding together and co-wrote the 2010 book entitled, Earthing: the most important health discovery ever?

Passionate about grounding, our dad used and recommended Earthing products religiously which inspired us to give them a try. After experiencing grounding benefits firsthand, we began practicing grounding daily – by being barefoot outdoors as well as by using grounding devices like Earthing mattress pads, mats and sheets.

Clint Ober and his team have spent two decades innovating, researching, developing, patenting and fine-tuning Earthing sleep systems. So you can rest assured that Earthing’s current sleep system collection is the very best. We, ourselves, enjoy and trust the efficacy and quality of these products, and thus confidently recommend them to you.