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Saturday 25 February 2012

Is Barefoot Contact With the Earth Necessary For Health?

Feeling "grounded" is an increasingly uncommon experience in this day and age, and it should be, considering we no longer regularly touch the ground with our bare feet, as nature intended. It is no great mystery that the human foot was designed, over countless millennia, to be in direct contact with the Earth, the literal and symbolic ground of our being. And the Earth is no inert substance, but rather a living and breathing entity (of which we are but a mere part) capable of infusing us with its life, 'singing the body electric,' as Walt Whitman once mused. Indeed, the Earth breathes life into us through a continual stream of free electrons...read more>>>...