Subversive Health

I have the old fashioned idea that taking care of my health is MY RESPONSIBILITY.  Sure, good genes, diet and exercise help.  But, I keep on looking around for what I can do to live a healthier life.  Earthing or Grounding is what we all used to do — back before shoes.  Then when we started wearing shoes with rubber soles instead of leather soles our disconnect from the earth got even worse. Below is the abstract from an article on Earthing and the link to the full article in the journal EXPLORE.

Earthing (also known as grounding) refers to the discovery that bodily contact with the Earth’s natural electric charge stabilizes the physiology at the deepest levels, reduces inflammation, pain, and stress, improves blood flow, energy, and sleep, and generates greater well-being. Such effects are profound, systemic, and foundational, and often develop rapidly. Earthing is as simple as routinely walking barefoot outdoors and/or using inexpensive grounding systems indoors while sleeping or sitting, practices that restore a lost and needed electric connection with the Earth

Once we realize that we are not just a bag of chemicals — once we understand that we are bioelectrical beings — beings designed to be connected to the earth — then earthing starts to make sense.