Earthing is the idea 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. Connecting through meditation is what we are going to discuss today.
Life Happens and Then it Changes
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The changes in the way we have lived over the last 100 years have increasingly disconnected us from the 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. Chevalier notes that even the insulating materials in the soles of our shoes disconnect us from the earth’s surface healing abilities.
We run through our days, work, families, friends, social engagements, and responsibilities; where do you find time to do what you need to do for yourself? 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.
Earthing Through Meditation
There are a lot of ways to meditate. Meditation is the idea of focusing your mind using both mental and physical techniques to reduce stress, anxiety, and more. Using visualization and focus, there are many ways to use medication to benefit the body.
For earthing through meditation, finding an outdoor space that is comfortable for your needs is ideal. Personally, this is a lovely treed space on my property where it’s quiet and I can be undisturbed. This could be in a park, a walk along a river, at your home, anywhere where you are comfortable and you know you shouldn’t be disturbed.
There are two kinds of meditation that I use for meditation: a walking meditation or a stationary meditation.
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. 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.
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, those natural electrons working their magic on both your physical and mental health.
Start by making sure you are wearing thin natural fabrics if you can. In previous generations, clothes and shoes were made from natural materials, hides, plant-based, etc. Today, this is not the norm but cottons, etc, are natural and can allow the conductive energies to flow. Shoes are one of our least conductive clothes because of the materials the soles are made from. Something to think about.
For stationary meditation, find a quiet safe place where you can focus, be quiet, and focus on yourself. You can make this a quiet mind-calm meditation or a visualization meditation. Sit or lie down on the ground (this needs to be on the ground unless you have a conductive earthing product with you).
For a quiet mind meditation, close your eyes and focus on your breathing. Count backward from ten if needed to bring yourself into a deep meditation. Stay quiet with as much of your body touching the ground as possible. Allow the energy transfer to happen.
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 happens if you fall asleep? As long as you are in a safe place and you have nowhere to be. Sleeping touching the ground has even more benefits than just meditating as your body is even more relaxed and open to the energies beneath you.
For a visualization, follow the directions above. Once you are in a calm meditative state, visualize your body connecting to the earth. You can even see roots connecting you like a tree to the ground beneath you, taking those beneficial energies, electrons, into your body, healing what needs healing, calming what needs calming.
After a time, bring yourself back to wakefulness and move on with your day. Again, make sure you eat/drink a little something to help normalize your body’s 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
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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