Take off your shoes! Earthing: the health of walking barefoot

The pleasure of to walk barefoot Walking along the shore of the beach, stepping on the grass or the land of the field and noticing its freshness is more than just a funny moment or an anecdote. The body really revitalizes, relaxes and the energy flows inside.

But this is a gesture as simple and essential as it is forgotten; It seems that only children know of their power: whenever they can, and they are allowed to, they take off their shoes.

We live immersed in a sea ​​of ​​electric and electromagnetic fields, both natural and artificial. Electricity should flow through us, but shoes and surfaces insulators stop the flow. Then a charge is produced that creates tensions in the organism and harms health.

Concerned about apparently more important issues, we have not realized that something as banal as insulating shoe soles, synthetic carpets or parquet floors are threatening our well-being.

The conventional shoes are made of materials insulators that cut the electrical connection with the earth. the shoes handmadewithout insulating layers, leather or hemp are a good alternative.

Another are the technical driving shoes that are sold as professional equipment (in operating rooms, laboratories and workshops electrostatic charge is dangerous).

Earthing with bare feet, basic to have vitality

The electrical and magnetic processes They are part of our biology. The proper functioning of physiological systems, organs and cells depends on the electrical balance that conditions chemical reactions.

This is indicated by the most current and innovative scientific studies, which have shown that touching the earth with bare feet, grounding or, as the Anglicism indicates, practicing earthing or the groundingallows the body rebalance your electrical chargesa basic process to maintain vitality and health.

The body is a natural conductor and it needs both electrical contact with the Earth and water or nutrients. On the one hand, we need free ourselves from excess positive chargess that accumulate when the body is isolated from its environment.

On the other hand, we regenerate with the invasion of the free electrons (with negative electrical charge) from the Earth’s energy field fed by the sun and from the planet’s core.

Without this energy flow, the life of people, animals and plants would be simply impossible. The most obvious consequence of blocking the electrical connection is the spark felt when touching another person or a metal surface. It is produced by the discharge of static electricity.

But within the body, the lack of connection can favor the widespread inflammation and being at the beginning of processes that lead to diseases.

Demonstrated, well-being is immediate

Something as simple as walking barefoot brings marked and positive changes in biological parameters. In fact, after two seconds you can begin to perceivealthough higher benefits are obtained if earthing is made during 20-30 minutes.

This is indicated by a published study in the magazine Integrative Medicinecarried out by the team of Gaétan Chevalier, a physical engineer in the Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology at the University of California at Irvine (United States).

It analyzes the heart rate variability of 28 people. This reliable and non-invasive methodology provides information about the autonomic nervous system and its two components: the nice (which makes us more active and stressed) and the parasympathetic (which brings more tranquility and calm).

The experiment was carried out in a two-hour session. For 40 minutes, people were connected to a grounding system (some electrodes on the soles of the feet and in the palm of the hands) and the rest of the time the measurements were made without this connection.

The results were revealing: when the person was grounded, there was a increased function of the parasympathetic nervous system nearly twice as high as when it was offline. Thus, not being grounded corresponds to excessive stimulation of the sympathetic system and decreased tone of the parasympathetic, indicating a stressed nervous system.

The advantages of living connected to the Earth

Contact with the earth’s surface balances biological systems.

It relax you. Activation of the parasympathetic nervous system reduces anxiety symptomsheart and respiratory rates, blood pressure and the secretion of stress hormones adrenaline and cortisol. deflames. Electrons coming from the ground reduce inflammation and oxidationand with it, pain and damage to cells. Provides energy. Karol and Pawel Sokal have shown that it reduces the concentration of glucose in blood and urine, stabilizes iron levels, regulates calcium-phosphorus homeostasis, and promotes energy production. protects you. Avoid the negative effects of electromagnetic fields on the body. Synchronize your rhythms. It contributes to the body rhythms are harmonized with night and day. It improves both sleep at night and the feeling of vitality during the day.

Earthing prevents stress and other chronic ailments

A lack of connection to earth for a sufficient time represents a stress for the organism. One more that is added to those caused by the urban lifestyle, work emergencies or emotional tensions of all kinds. He chronic stress lies behind many of the health dysfunctions of the Modern society.

Science has shown that the chronic hyperactivity of the sympathetic nervous system predisposes to suffer Heart problemsand that increasing the tone of the parasympathetic system has a protective effect against blood flow problems or arrhythmias.

Dr. Chevalier has also verified that the connection to the earth also reduces the blood viscositya factor favoring hypertension and other heart diseases, including heart attacks.

American cardiologist and psychotherapist Stephen T Sinatra He has been dedicated to the prevention and recovery of coronary diseases for more than thirty years, which has led him to become interested in earthing and to become one of the leading experts on the subject worldwide. His works have been collected in the book Earthing, with bare feet (Sirio ed.), co-written with Clinton Ober and Martin Zucker.

In this book you can find testimonials such as that of Dr. James L. Oschman, who details how the Chronic inflamation it is one of the primary causes of virtually all diseases, from diabetes to cancer.

Oschman explains that when we step on the eartha, their free electrons are transferred into our bodies and that these are probably the most powerful antioxidants known and they act like anti-inflammatories without side effects.

And he adds: “The day we started wearing shoes we isolated ourselves from the Earth’s energy and since then stress levels have increased and immunity has decreased.”

All the evidence indicates that incorporating earthing into your lifestyle is a potent recipe for prevent the most common chronic ailments.

Besides constituting a autonomic nervous system regulatorfrom chronic stress, inflammation, sleep and cardiovascular diseases, grounding is a powerful therapy in situations of emotional stress, anxiety, panic, fear, depression, pain and fatigue, and symptoms such as headaches, heart palpitations or vertigo.

Dysfunctions as common as diabetes, obesity and hypertension could also be related to the loss of contact with earth of today’s society.

Taking into account the data provided by scientific studies, and the sensations that we all experience when going barefoot, we can affirm that under our feet we have a powerful source of well-being and that the surface electrons of the earth constitute a health resource forgotten until now.

So that, Step on the Earth, connect to it!

3 ways to take care of your electrical balance

To maintain an electrical balance, in addition to practicing earthing with bare feetwe can also do it through the water or with a connected bed.

1. Walk barefoot when you can

On grass, earth, sand or even cement or ceramics, the foot contacts, with thousands of nerve endings and energy points such as the “R1” of the kidney meridian, produces the best results.

The practice of tai chi, chi kung or yoga with bare feet is recommended.

2. Water drains you

Washing your hands with water, the daily shower, swimming, hydrotherapy treatments… these are all excellent ways to allow electricity to flow. water is an extraordinarily conductive element.

3. Ground the bed

There are devices for connect the bed to the ground from a socket. They consist of a cloth with metallic threads and a simple cable.

improve sleepself-healing mechanisms and help to wake up rested and full of energy.

There are also mats to use while sitting down. These devices can also be built at home, by hand.