Earthing is the practice of making a connection with the earth where you transfer energy from the earth into your body. There are several ways you can do this, both naturally or with conductive products for use when you cannot be outside. Here, we are going to talk about connection through walking.
We have so many responsibilities, and our lives are busy. Work, kids, school, and engagements, we run through our days, struggling to find time for ourselves. While this has been our lives for many years, the recent pandemic has given many of us new insight as to why self-care is important and necessary. People are starting to slow down and take time for themselves.
Life Happens And Then it Changes
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There have been drastic changes in the way we live over the last 100 years. With these changes, we have lost a healthy connection to our earth’s surface. We live in houses, work in buildings, and often have little time in our lives to make those important connections. Many in the last few years have started to recognize our lack of connection as a problem for both our mental and physical well-being.
This connection is now referred to as Earthing.
Earthing Through Walking
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How many of us take walks on a weekly or even a daily basis? Many who live in cities walk the streets in their neighborhoods, and suburbia is the same. If you live rurally, you walk down your country road, through the fields that maybe you own. Next question. How many of you do so barefoot?
I know this could be considered both strange and maybe unsafe, depending on where you are walking. However, if you can find a place to do so, walking barefoot helps to connect you with the earth’s surface, enabling you to not only get good exercise but also take advantage of the earth’s healthy electrons present in the soil. As Chevalier points out, even the materials in our shoes make it impossible for us to connect to the earth where we walk.
You don’t need to do anything special, just walk barefoot. Feel the grass ticking your toes, the sand warm under your feet, the soil squeezing between your toes. Ok, I know, that’s annoying to me too. But the rest of it is wonderful. Just walk.
There is another way to connect with the earth through walking if you are a person who meditates. Walking meditation is a wonderful way to connect in an even more complete manner, allowing not only our body to connect, but your mind as well.
Through walking meditation, you can connect with the earth while focusing on the movement of walking slowly while visualizing drawing the healing energies from the earth up through your body. Make sure you are walking in a safe place where there is no need to worry about falling and it is safe to walk barefoot.
For a walking meditation, remove your shoes and feel the earth beneath your feet. Visualize your feet connecting with the earth, even becoming part of the earth. See the energy exchange as you push negative energy out and take positive energy in, those natural electrons working their magic on both your physical and mental health.
When you are ready, bring yourself back to wakefulness and prepare to move on with your day. Make sure you eat or drink a little something to help bring your body back to its normal rhythms.
What Does This Do?
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Chevalier points out that the benefits of Earthing include a reduction in stress and anxiety, reduced pain and inflammation, better sleep, improved blood pressure, better regulation of cardiovascular and circulatory systems, and improved health in the autoimmune systems.
Why Does This Work
Research suggests that the “Earth’s negative potential can create a stable internal bioelectrical environment for the normal functioning of all body systems (Chevalier, 2012).” Moreover, ” the Earth’s potential may be important for resetting the biological clocks regulating diurnal body rhythms, such as cortisol secretion (Chevalier, 2012).”
Additionally, it has been “suggested that the free electrons available through earthing can neutralize the positively charged free radicals that are the most frequent cause of chronic inflammation and pain (Chevalier, 2012).”
Conclusion
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Walking barefoot in the park for even 30 minutes per day could improve much more than just your mood and mental stability. Researchers are continuing to learn the benefits of connecting completely with our Mother Earth and walking meditation is a way to do this.
Get out of the house, take a walk on your lunch break, take those shoes off, and enjoy the feeling of the grass between your toes, or the warm sand under your feet, and visualize being part of the planet beneath your feet. Enjoy being part of nature. Find a little self-time in our busy lives.
References:
Chevalier, G., Sinatra, S. T., Oschman, J. L., Sokal, K., & Sokal, P. (2012). Earthing: Health Implications of Reconnecting the Human Body to the Earth’s Surface Electrons. Journal of Environmental and Public Health, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/291541
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