Benefits of Earthing

​“Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.

• Hippocrates

Many of us are completely disconnected from Nature.  We only take shoes off to climb into bed, move in vehicles instead of walking and move on manmade surfaces of asphalt, concrete and different types of flooring.  We never touch bare earth with skin.
The Earth is charged more than 10,000 times a day by various electrical storms over its surface. This energy.  We use ground wires to use electrical energy safely.  This grounding drains away any unwanted buildup of electrical charge.  When a device or person is connected to Earth, that device or person will equalize with, and maintain, the stable electrical potential of the Earth.
Humans are electrically charge beings.  This can be measured using various instruments and as death is occurring, a change in energy begins at the feet and disperses up the body and out the top of the head.  There are positive and negative charges in our bodies that are necessary for movement of nutrients and fluids throughout cells, organs, and systems. 
Walking, sitting or standing on bare Earth for 30 minutes or more, balances out our energy levels and provides the following benefits:
- reduces or eliminates chronic pain
- improves sleep, in most cases
- increases energy levels
- lowers stress and promotes calmness
- normalizes the body’s biological rhythms
- thins blood and normalizes blood pressure and flow
- relieves muscle tension and headaches
- lessens hormonal and menstrual symptoms
- dramatically speeds healing and helps prevent bedsores
- reduces or eliminated jet lag
- protects the body against potentially health-disturbing environmental electromagnetic fields (EMFs)
- accelerates recovery from intense athletic activity
The Indians used to bury the sick up to their necks to help them heal from illness.  There is a reason why putting your hands in the dirt when gardening feels so good.  Remember as a kid when you ran around on the grass?
As a new massage therapist, I was having a tremendous amount of body pain.  I talked to two different people, a Reiki Master and a Yoga instructor and both asked me if I grounded at the end of a session with clients.  Interestingly what I was doing was putting my hands on their feet and silently asking for anything I missed to be removed and let them heal.  I was pulling this “stuff” out and into myself.  When I changed how I ended the session by focusing my energy on connecting to Earth and silently separating our energies and blessing them, my pain stopped.  I never would have believed this except that in one session, I’d had a woman walk in with a migraine and ask for a massage.  I did not believe my massage instructor when she’d told us to be careful not to take on other people’s “stuff”.  As I put my hands on her head and was working, I got the worst headache!  I don’t get headaches, so this was weird.  I immediately took my hands off, shook them out and consciously kept my energy separated from hers and finished the session, without any problem and removed her headache. 
As scientific instruments become more sensitive, energy has been proven many times.  I urge you to set aside your judgement and skepticism and try it.
For an interesting read, I recommend, “Earthing”, by Clinton Ober, Stephen T. Sinatra M.D. and Martin Zucker.  Much of the above information is from their book.