getting grounded.

For most of my life, I’ve found shoes to be a pain in the ass. Growing up a dancer and a dance teacher, the notion of putting on shoes has, more often than not, been more of an inconvenience than anything (blame it on my gypsy, Stevie Nicks loving mom, I guess :). What I’ve uncovered in the recent past, however, is how incredibly healing my “convenience” has been.
It’s in the wisdom of the ancients that I’ve learned about grounding, though it’s our modern day necessity that needs to label this anything more than connection. Native American Indians, Egyptians, Mayans and the like roamed the earth barefoot for centuries with the knowing that our giant battery of a planet is where they, too, recharge and renew life into their body. This healing modality has been studied more and more within modern science as a way to decrease inflammation, improve production by recharging our brains and energy, and promote healing on many levels.
in a nutshell, the Earth is negatively charged with electricity. Modern-day humanity is laced with positively charged cell towers, cell phones, computers, et cetera. Technology produces a positive charge with the by-product being free radicals. Free radicals= bad= disease (Dis-Ease).
Grounding is very simply standing barefoot in the grass (or on concrete- but NOT asphalt), and allowing the negative charges of the earth to pull free radicals out of your body. If the grass is wet, even better.
To receive full benefits, you’ll need to do this for 10–15 minutes. After a few, though you’ll literally begin to feel a tingling sensation in your feet. That energy will begin to rise through the body until you feel the energy from head to toe.
When I initially heard of grounding practices, I was told by many women over and over again to start grounding myself. Unfortunately, it was the dead of winter before I genuinely wanted to give it a whirl, and I wasn’t about to go out barefoot in the snow.
Lucky for me, I later learned of earthing.com, an ecommerce store that peddles products you can use in your home that produce the same effects Mother Gaia does. You can watch testimonials here and order products to cuddle up and feel the energy indoors. Definitely a plus for anybody not yet ready to shed the matrix and actually breathe in that good ass prana, baby (thanks, Ralph :) .
My soul honors your soul, namaste.
