Is Barefoot Contact With the Earth Necessary For Health?
22nd February 2012
By GLR Sayer Ji
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Feeling “grounded” is an increasingly uncommon experience in this day and age, and it should be, considering we no longer regularly touch the groundwith our bare feet, as nature intended.
It is no great mystery that the human foot was designed, over countless millenia, to be in direct contact with the Earth, the literal and symbolic ground of our being. And the Earth is no inert substance, but rather a living and breathing entity (of which we are but a mere part) capable of infusing us with its life, ‘singing the body electric,’ as Walt Whitman once mused.
Indeed, the Earth breathes life into us through a continual stream of free electrons…
It is well established, though not widely known, that the surface of the earth possesses a limitless and continuously renewed supply of free or mobile electrons as a consequence of a global atmospheric electron circuit. Wearing shoes with insulating soles and/or sleeping in beds that are isolated from the electrical ground plane of the earth have disconnected most people from the earth’s electrical rhythms and free electro
—James L Oschman, Can electrons act as antioxidants? A review and commentary.
The effects of which James Oschman speaks are not simply theoretical. There are a wide range of measurable changes in the body associated with this “grounding” including changes in pulse rate, respiratory rate, blood oxygenation, perfusion index, and skin conductance which have been clinically studied.
Grounding has also been shown to reduce delayed onset muscle soreness, lowers and synchronizes cortisol levels during sleep, reduce inflammation, modulates neurological function, and reduce oxidative stress.
A new study published last month in the Journal of Environmental and Public Health covers this topic in greater depth, and is well worth the read.
About the Author
Sayer Ji is the founder of GreenMedInfo.com, the world’s largest, evidence-based, open-source, natural medicine database.
Comments
The Life Line
From teachings of Dr. Dick Versendaal, Creator of Contact Reflex Analysis, singular "optional" alternative health class offered to students at the University of California, Irvine. (Medical Program)
"Electricity comes from the earth through the feet, travels up the back side of the body, up to the head, back down to the feet and circles in that same direction 3 times before returning back into the earth."
Due to the many unhealthy aspects of our bodies, when the electricity comes up from the earth traveling along the front, down the back and circling this way causes many disruptions of all kinds!
Unnatural shoes obviously causes a block to our life line....
Dr. Versendaal in all his classes teaches the connection between our feet, shoes and the heart. Soon more and more healers will be taught these truths.
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grounding cords
this "earthing technicue" has been advertised by a dr. frank sinatra. on his website, they sell elastic strapped grounding cords that you plug into the grounding area on your house outlet. i've been doing this over 2 years. i can't say there has been a difference in me but it always could of been worse. approx $36.000
barefoot
I absolutely agree, and make it a point to walk barefoot on the earth as often as I can.
I hate shoes and socks ,so stifling, causes skin diseases and smelly. Whoever invented them, same with neck ties and stiff collared shirts..can't breathe, why choke myself !! Who invented them..illuminati......!!....??