People of yesteryear came literally to love the soil. They sat on the ground with the feeling of being close to a mothering power. It was good for the skin to touch the Earth, and the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with their bare feet on the sacred Earth. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing, and healing.
Ota Kte (Luther Standing Bear)
Throughout evolution, humans walked barefoot and slept on the ground and received from the Earth a natural, nurturing, and gentle electric energy. You may have felt this while walking barefoot on a sandy beach – a sense of well-being. That sensation is the ground’s electric energy rising up into your body, the result of the skin of your conductive body making contact with the “skin” of the conductive Earth.
Our modern lifestyle has increasingly separated humans from this flow of subtle omnipresent surface energy. Today we wear insulative rubber or plastic-soled shoes that block the flow unlike in the 1960s when we all wore leather-soled shoes. In other words, we lose the good negative electrons when we wear rubber soled shoes. Our ancestors and those people living in third world countries were/are grounded – they wore/wear no shoes and they ate raw food. The good thing is our body stores electrons (from the soil) and will deliver electrons from damage. Research now indicates it’s our Telomeres (at the bottom of our DNA) shortening that creates ageing.
Dr. Gerald Pollock states that Grounding/Earthing ourselves structures the water in our body so there’s a negative transfer of electrons in the cell membrane. This is why maintaining good hydration is so important, for when we are dehydrated we are electron deficient. Water rids a headache, not a painkiller. The supplement CoQ10 is an electron donor. When flying in an aircraft it’s a good idea to remove your shoes and socks and put your feet on the seat struts – this will ground you.
Research is now revealing that this energy creates a distinct and uplifting shift in our physiology. It promotes health, vitality, and better sleep; harmonises and stabilises the body’s basic biological rhythms; knocks down (and even knocks out) chronic inflammation; and reduces/eliminates pain. The disconnection from this natural resource right under our feet may likely be a totally overlooked – and major- factor behind the alarming rise of chronic disease in recent decades, and inflammatory-related conditions in particular.
These revelations are the central themes of a new book “Earthing”. Studies were done over many years by Stephen Sinatra, MD, the well-known integrative cardiologist, and Clint Ober, an amazing individual who discovered the health benefits of reconnecting to the Earth.