8 Ways to Expose Yourself To Earth's Healing Negative Ions

Many of us are aware that a return to nature is sorely needed in a world of technological devices, 5G, wifi signals and more. We are literally being insulted all day and sometimes all night long not just physically, but psychologically, socially and mentally as well. And the reason we know that a return to nature is our best remedy to counteract our technology bombarded lives is because when we enjoy even a short time in a nature setting we just feel better—and quickly. Why do we feel better? One big answer: NEGATIVE IONS. 

What are negative ions?

First, positive ions are atoms or molecules that have lost one or more electrons and consequently have a shortage of electrons.

In contrast, negative ions have gained one or more additional electrons which makes these odorless, tasteless, invisible molecules negatively charged as a whole.

There’s a delicate positive-negative ion balance in nature.

In a thunderstorm, the natural ratio of positive to negative ions can be disturbed very easily.

The normal concentration of positive ions in the air is very high. During and following the storm, the number of positive ions gradually declines while the concentration of negative ions increases.

Negative ions are actually biologically active and make a positive impact on the natural 24-hour cycle. Created in nature as air molecules break apart due to sunlight, radiation, ultraviolet rays, the vital energy of plants and moving air and water, they are not harmful even if their concentration is high. 

Offices, factories, and shopping malls are places where we will encounter an excess of positive ions.

We should very frequently expose ourselves to places with very high concentrations (tens of thousands) of negative ions such as these:

• mountains

• parks

• waterfalls/water fountains/your bathroom shower/misty rain/dewy grass

• springs

• beaches/pounding surfs

• forests (especially pine forests)

• moving air/wind

• dirt/earth

Along with placing ourselves in nature settings teeming with negative ions, here are some other creative activities you can do to generate negative ions right in your home or office environment:

• Burn beeswax candles; they are said to clean the air, produce negative ions and assist with allergy and asthma reduction. Make sure your beeswax candles are the real thing. Some manufacturers sell candles that are not 100% beeswax.

• Operate a Himalayan salt lamp wherever you spend a good deal of time in your home. They counteract the electronic vibrations and excessive positive ions caused by electronic devices in the home. The heated salt attracts and absorbs water in the air and then evaporates it; the salt mixes with the water molecules creating a solution. The positively charged ions of sodium and the negatively charged ions of chloride become neutral and are released into your environment. This reduces pollutants, irritants and allergens from the air.

• Run an indoor water fountain. The force or energy of falling or splashing water causes the neutral particles in air to split which frees electrons to attach to other air molecules resulting in negative ions.

• Have amethyst and tourmaline crystals nearby or wear them. Tourmaline is believed to convert moisture from the air to negative ions. Amethyst is considered to be similar in nature.

• Surround yourself with plants. They clean the air by taking in carbon dioxide and breathing out fresh oxygen and many negative ions. Some plants release higher levels of negative ions than others (best choices: chrysanthemum, coconut palm, gerbera, spider plant and weeping fig). You will be able to tell if your plant is effective at dispersing negative ions into your environment if it thrives in its growth inside your home or office.

  • Adding on to the concept of plants in the home, diffuse high quality purely natural essential oils in a good diffuser. This creates a natural ionization effect. Read more about how to in our article, How Essential Oils May Help Purify the Air We Breathe.

• Use radiant heating from far infrared devices (they warm the body and not the air) and emit negative ions.

• Sit in front of bon- or hearth fires. Fires creative negative ions, too.

• Walk barefoot or use earthing/grounding inserts in your shoes; try earthing sandals (see earthrunners.com). When you come into direct contact with the earth, your body is suffused with negative ions and aligns to the same electric energy level as the earth.

  • In addition to walking on bare earth, walk on dewy grass or take a walk in the misty rain. Dew and mist also contain negative ions.

There are more ions in the WOODS than in the FIELD; more on a SUNNY day than on a CLOUDY day; and more where the ground has a high RADIOACTIVE content. PLANTS are nature's most prolific source of negative ions for they conduct the negative energy of the earth into the air by ejecting it from the tips of their leaves. We are told that "there are life-giving properties in the BALSAM of the PINE, in the FRAGRANCE of the CEDAR and the FIR, and other TREES also have properties that are HEALTH-RESTORING....

One potted plant per 100 square feet of floor space can help clean the air in the average home or office.... 15 to 20 potted plants of the right variety, such as PHILODENDRONS, SPIDER PLANTS, ALOE VERA, PEACE LILIES, CORN PLANTS, POTTED IVY, SNAKE PLANTS, and FLOWERING BANANAS would do the work of a good high-efficiency air cleaner in purifying the air in a room. – Paulien, Gunther B. The Divine Prescription and Science of Health and Healing. Brushton, NY: TEACH Services, 1997. Print.

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Negative Ions Skin Benefits and How Negative Ions Improve Your Health

Both positive and negative ions contribute to life and are very necessary. Air minus these elements is neutral air and won’t sustain life.

But too many people constantly expose themselves to a positive ion poisoned atmosphere. In today’s modern lifestyle, we constantly deprive ourself of negative ions benefits. It contributes to disease. Living a more natural life gives us the antidote. It’s how we reap negative ions benefits both for skin and health.

Are negative ions good for you?

Negative ions benefits truly exist even if their concentration is high. Nature creates them as air molecules break apart. This breaking apart action happens as a result of sunlight, radiation, ultraviolet rays, the vital energy of plants, and moving air and crashing water.

Studies show exposure to negatively ionized air increases oxygenation of the lungs and the vital capacity of lungs’ ciliary(1) activity.

Negative ions benefits help to relieve headaches and respiratory conditions and even assist to regulate blood pressure.

Regular exposure to negative ions in nature generates a sense of profound well-being.

Skin and your anti-aging efforts benefit enormously from exposure to negative ions. (Read on for those important details.)

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Here’s how negative ions occur in the example of the thunderstorm:

After a thunderstorm raindrops strike the earth. Water droplets split into larger positively charged particles and smaller negatively charged particles. And the smaller negative particles repel from earth’s negative surface back up into the air (negative repels negative).

As electrons leave water molecules they attach themselves to oxygen molecules. Once an atom or molecule acquires more electrons than protons it instantly becomes a negative ion.

Science calls this natural action the Lenard effect named for German physicist Philipp Eduard Anton Lenard. Although he didn’t discover negative ions Lenard did scientifically prove that air is negatively charged in certain natural conditions like the waterfall.

Negative ions benefits and health go hand in hand. They give us enormous health benefits based on increased energy and vitality. We can say this because naturally occurring negative ions in air, ground, plants and water enhance our own internal electrical conductivity.

The more you daily expose yourself to the negative ions benefits from these natural sources, the more energy and vitality you’ll enjoy.

Earth’s sand, soil, grass abound with negative ions that raise from the rocks underground. The sun, cosmic radiation and lightning strikes also offer us negative ions. They float in the air and also go into the natural ground surface under our feet.

Depending on what time of day you choose to enjoy sunlight, you’ll subject your skin and body to either positive ion harm or negative ions benefits. The sun emits different light frequencies and energy depending on its height and trajectory in the sky.

The midday sun causes major proton generation dumping masses of positive hydrogen ions into the atmosphere. These positive ions pelt your eyes and skin.

It’s better to enjoy either the sunrise or sunset because both generate a copious buffer of negative ions benefits.

Or connect your bare skin with the ground to absorb vitality generating negative ions. Walk barefoot or lay down on the ground for at least 15 minutes at a time. We call this action earthing or grounding—your natural gateway to negative ions benefits.

As soon as your skin makes contact with organic negative ion surfaces, you create a natural pressure gradient between the negatively charged earth and your body. Negative ions immediately transfer into your body through the skin for as long as you keep skin and body and the negatively charged medium in contact.

Negative Ions Skin Benefits: Better Circulation of the 5 Fluids

Contrary to synthetic ingredient skincare devoid of negative ions skin benefits, PHYTO5 5-element quantum energetic skincare is naturally formulated. PHYTO5 skincare is rich with natural plant-based hero ingredients—bringing negative ions skin benefits right to your skin.

PHYTO5 skincare works to balance the five fluids present in skin for improved radiance and exalted natural beauty. Almost without even trying, PHYTO5 deliver negative ions skin benefits to your skin.

Each of these five fluids corresponds to one of the five elements in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). And each of these five fluids, especially when balanced, offer you negative ions skin benefits.

The five fluids are:

1. vital energy: energetic Spring and the Wood element

2. red blood: energetic Summer and the Fire element

3. lymph: each of the four 18-day transition periods of the Earth element, bridging one of the other four seasons to the next

4. blue blood: energetic Fall and the Metal element

5. water: energetic Winter and the Water element.

Grounding improves circulation of both red and blue blood so necessary for skin health.

By improving circulation, negative ions skin benefits also include improved lymphatic flow.

Lymph is a colorless fluid containing white blood cells that bathes tissues and drains through the lymphatic system into the bloodstream. Radiant skin health and beauty demand good lymph flow.

Earthing also supports the flow of vital energy which is another requisite for natural beauty and skin health. It enhances cellular health vital to skin. (And it also supports good brain function.)

Negative ions you naturally absorb also supports you to maintain moisture balance in body and skin.

Negative Ions Skin Benefits: Balanced pH

Negative ions also help restore an optimal pH level important for health and skin. It shifts your body’s indicators blood acid-base balance to alkaline.

Lay on the earth or walking barefoot on it for several minutes a day and help alkalize your skin.

Negative Ions Skin Benefits: Counteract Harmful Positive Ions in Some Skincare Contains

Many cosmetics, fragrances, shampoos, conditioners and body washes are formulated with synthetic ingredients with a plethora of harmful positive ions.

They bombard skin, hair and body with too many positive ions. Fluoride toothpastes generate many positive ions.

It makes complete sense to use only natural skin, hair and personal care products if you want to reduce your exposure to positive ion bombardment.

Negative Ions Skin Benefits: Mitigating Signs of Aging

Theoretically, if skin cells contain positively ion charged free radicals and they do, then negative ions should slow signs of aging and cell damage. This is because negative ions bond to free radicals that hold a positive charge.

Since skin is permeable to negative ions, it better absorbs the nourishment from quality natural skin care products. These naturally formulated products also help you maintain moisture in skin. Radiant dewey skin looks younger.

Negative Ions Skin Benefits: Accelerated Wound Healing

Studies demonstrate accelerated wound healing when the wound’s exposed to negative ions. Negative ions skin benefits include rapid closure of the wound beginning at skin level.

One among them, a 1986 study published in General Physiology and Biophysics, showed that accelerated wound healing occurred in rats whose skin was exposed to negative ions for three hours.

The researchers also found that harmful microorganisms (Clostridium perfringens and Staphylococcus aureus) proliferated on oxygen deprived skin. Negative ions pulsed onto the injured tissue immediately killed the harmful microorganisms.

Are negative ions good for you? Absolutely. Stay away from these positive ion generators.

Unfortunately, positive ion poisoned atmospheres form the foundation of today’s modern living. Western technology is distorting the electrical charge of the air we breathe. So we need to take proactive measures against this.

Here's a list of positive ion generating offenders:

• man-made fragrances and chemicals

• modern structures of concrete, steel, plastic

• mobile phones

• cell towers

• power lines

• office buildings with central heat and A/C

• hermetically sealed high-rise apartments

• automobile exhaust fumes

• off gassing of man-made plastics, paint, etc.

• factory fumes

• airplanes

• synthetic fibers

• smoking

• air pollution

• industrial waste

• state-of-the-art insulation (actually prevents negative ions from entering the building)

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Endnotes:

(1) Cilia are small slender hair-like structures on the surface of all mammalian cells. They play a major role in locomotion as they move water to the cell in a regular movement.

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Donsbach Ph.D., D. Sc., N. D., D. C., Kurt W. Dr. Donsbach Tells You What You Always Wanted to Know About Negative Ions. The International Institute of Natural Health Science. Huntington Beach, CA. 1981.

Mindell R.Ph., M. H., Ph. D., Earl. The Happiness Effect: The Positive Benefits of Negative Ions. Square One. November 2015.

Matadeen, Harry. Negative Ions: The Grand Unifier Of Health And Life. Self-published. September 2019.

Robertson, Sheena. “Negative Ions and Anti Aging.” Guardian Liberty Voice, 4 Dec. 2020, guardianlv.com/2020/12/negative-ions-and-anti-aging/. 

“Role of Vegetation in Enhancing Radon Concentration and Ion Production in the Atmosphere.” Environmental Science & Technology, pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es201152g. 

Get Negative Ions In Your Life and Be Healthier

Anyone can reap the benefits of earth's gift of negative ions. Nature gives you all kinds of organic opportunities to get more negative ions to elevate your health and vitality. This list of benefits will motivate you to get yourself into nature a little more every day.

Negative ions are created in nature as air molecules break apart as a result of the the action of sunlight, radiation, ultraviolet rays, the vital energy of plants and moving air and water.

They’re not harmful to you even in high concentrations.

Negative ions, abundantly found in nature, can positively and remarkably influence well-being. Get enough exposure to negative ions in nature and you may be able to get to sleep more quickly and sleep more soundly. Negative ion exposure helps you relieve your allergies, feel more energetic, concentrate better, perform athletically at higher levels, and feel happier. —from another of PHYTO5’s blogs on positive and negative ions

The healing effects of negative ion therapy were discovered by Alexander Chizhevsky (1897-1964), Russian biophysicist. He founded “heliobiology” (the study of the sun’s effect on biology) and “aero-ionization” (the study of the effect of ionization of air on biological entities) and invented the first negative ion generator.

Negative ionization of the air is now mandatory in many Russian and European hospitals and workplaces. 

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Here are just some of the enormous benefits of negative ion charged environments. Negative ions help to:

1. detoxify impurities from the skin and lymph by deeply penetrating the skin

2. reduce inflammation by defusing excess positive electrons

3. lessen chronic pain

4. increase physical energy

5. speed healing and shorten recovery time

6. support adrenal health

7. strengthen the skeletal system

8. balance the nervous system

9. combat free radicals in bloodstream

10. lower stress hormones resulting in a more calm demeanor and better relaxation

11. normalize biological rhythms such as Circadian

12. regulate blood flow and blood pressure or where necessary, decrease blood pressure; improve the function of the cardiovascular system

13. improve the function of the cilia in your respiratory tract which protect your lungs from irritation and inflammation; this reduces colds, flu, asthma and the symptoms of hay fever

14. relieve headaches and muscle tension

15. lessen menstrual and menopausal symptoms

16. eliminate jet lag

17. provide protection from EMFs (electromagnetic frequencies)

18. clear the air of mold spores, pollen, pet dander, odors, cigarette smoke, bacteria, viruses, dust and other hazardous airborne particles; negative ions achieve this by attaching to the positively charged particles of the pollutants mentioned in large numbers.

19. overcome depression (many view them as a natural anti-depressant)

20. elevate a sense of well-being

21. increase productivity

22. enhance mental clarity by increasing oxygen flow to the brain

23. achieve better rest and sleep

24. stimulate plant growth

“Imagine a simple force of nature that can: Provide you with a feeling of well-being; offer a quick rush of energy; allow you to sleep better; relieve asthma, allergies, and other respiratory disorders; lower blood pressure.

Sounds crazy, but it's true, and it's something that a drug company cannot sell you.

The healing power of negative ions first became known to the public in 1900, when a young engineering genius named Nikola Tesla published an article about the amazing work he had been doing with electricity. Using his new invention, the Tesla Coil, he was able to transmit several hundred thousand volts through the air instead of using wires.

Even more remarkable, he was able to send the current through this own body without harm. In so doing, he noted that his exposure had a beneficial effect on his body. The effect that Tesla reported was the direct result of negative ions.

Now, over a century later, researchers understand the science behind the phenomenon that Tesla experienced.” —Mindell, Earl. The Happiness Effect: The Positive Benefits of Negative Ions. 1st ed. New Hyde Park, New York: Square One, 2015. Print.

Nature Generates Negative Ions Perfectly and Purely

There’s one primary way you can get the most out of the Fall energetic season of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Generate negative ions in your world.

You can creatively rig your house to generate negative ions. But your simplest most elegant solution is to go outside in nature.

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How are negative ions created? How does nature generate negative ions?

Let’s understand what positive ions are first. Positive ions are atoms or molecules that lose one or more electrons creating a shortage of electrons.

In contrast, negative ions gain one or more additional electrons to make them negatively charged as a whole.

Negative ions are these odorless, tasteless, invisible molecules.

Nature has many ways to perfectly generate negative ions. It constantly strives to strike a delicate positive-negative ion balance.

When air molecules break apart, they generate negative ions. Sunlight, radiation, ultraviolet rays, the vital energy of plants and moving air and water directly participate in this action.

Positive ions normally concentrate the air at high levels. But when a thunderstorm naturally generates negative ions, the ratio of negative to positive ions flips.

During and following the storm, the number of positive ions gradually declines while the concentration of negative ions increases. Biogically active, they permeate the air at perfect levels giving the air that special almost undefinable quality we all enjoy so much.

Are negative ions good for your health?

Negative ions make a positive impact on the natural 24-hour cycle. Without question, they contribute positively to your health and vitality.

After a thunderstorm occurs, for example, a very high concentration of tens of thousands of negative ions fills the air around you. This might sound like a large number of negative ions. But negative ions are never harmful to you even if their concentration is high.

On the contrary, an excess of positive ions harms and diminishes health. You’ll find air excessively charged with positive ions in closed in spaces like offices, factories, and shopping malls.

These closed in spaces are positive and cannot possibly generate negative ions.

Nature is your best and purest negative ions generator.

Make it a habit to enjoy nature frequently. You’ll never have to wonder if you’re getting the healing benefits of negative ions. You couldn’t enjoy a more perfect negative ions generator than nature itself.

Nature’s the perfect agent to generate negative ions in these places:

• mountains

• parks

• waterfalls and fountains (You can even create the negative ion effect in your bathroom shower.)

• springs

• beaches and pounding surfs

• forests (especially pine forests)

• moving air and wind

• dirt, earth, sand

You can be negative ions generator yourself right in your home or office environment.

These natural practices generate negative ions perfectly and purely.

1. Burn beeswax candles. They clean the air and produce negative ions. Beeswax candles also assist to reduce allergy and asthma symptoms.

2. Operate a Himalayan salt lamp wherever you spend the most amount of time in your home. Himalayan salt lamps counteract electronic vibrations and excessive positive ions your household electronic devices generate. The heated salt attracts and absorbs water in the air and then evaporates it. The salt mixes with the water molecules creating a solution where positively charged ions of sodium and the negatively charged ions of chloride neutralize. They then release into your environment to reduce pollutants, irritants and allergens from the air.

3. Run an indoor water feature or fountain. The force or energy of falling or splashing water causes is key. Here the neutral particles in air split freeing up electrons to attach to other air molecules to create negative ions.

4. Have amethyst and tourmaline crystals nearby or wear them. Much like the Himalayan salt lamp, tourmaline converts moisture from the air to generate negative ions. Amethyst works the same way.

5. SurroSurround yourself with plants. Plants clean the air by taking in carbon dioxide and breathing out fresh oxygen. This generates negative ions in the air. Some plants release higher levels of negative ions than others. The best choices are chrysanthemum, coconut palm, gerbera, spider plant and weeping fig.

6. Use rUse radiant heating from far infrared devices. They warm the body and not the air and generate negative ions.

7. Sit in front of bonfire and hearth fires. They generate negative ions too.

8. Walk barefoot on soil, grass or sand. You want to put your body into direct contact with the earth. This connection body generates negative ions and relays them into your body. It aligns you the same electric energy level as earth’s.

9. Use grounding inserts in your shoes or wearing earthing sandals to generate negative ions and relay them into your body.

Rules of thumb for finding nature’s negative ions generators

These simple yet powerful natural settings generate negative ions:

• There are more negative ions in the woods than in the fields.

• Enjoy sunny days. They generate negative ions more so than on cloudy days.

• The tips of pine needles on forest evergreens are superior negative ions generators. Get out into the forest.

• Your own grass just outside your home is a ready-to-access negative ion generator. Walk barefoot on it for at least 15 minutes per day.

• Go outside at sunrise and sunset for negative ions for your health. Those are the times of day when the sun and atmosphere generate negative ions at perfect levels. Too many positive ions float in the air at noon and either side of it.

• Plants are nature's most prolific negative ion generators. They conduct the negative energy of the earth into the air, ejecting it from the tips of their leaves.

One potted plant per 100 square feet of floor space can help clean the air in and generate negative ions to negatively charge the air in the average home or office.

Use the best varieties of potted plants and 15 to 20 potted of them in the room you use most.

Best plants that act as negative ion generators are philodendrons, spider plants, aloe vera, peace lilies, corn plants, potted ivy, snake plants, and flowering bananas.

This group of 15 to 20 potted plants will do the work of a good high-efficiency air cleaner. Not only will they purify the air, they’ll generate negative ions on a daily basis negatively charging and invigorate your breathing air.

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Paulien, Gunther B. The Divine Prescription and Science of Health and Healing. Brushton, NY: TEACH Services, 1997. Print.