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BAREFOOTIN’:
your life is, meet it and live it;
H do not shun it
and call it hard names. ~Henry David Thoreau
IT GROUNDS US Reap Earth’s Energy for Wellness by Debra Melani
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Imagine feeling the surge of well-being that comes from strolling barefoot on a moist, sandy beach or sinking all 10 toes into a cool, lush lawn on a warm summer day. Both comprise an experience known as “grounding” or “earthing”. Recent research suggests that these tempting life experiences offer more than feel-good frolics; they might help reboot health.
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y the end of the day, I could hardly walk. My feet would be screaming,” relates Lynn Deen, 66, of Mio, Michigan, describing deal- ing with Achilles tendonitis and plantar fasciitis in both heels. “I struggled with it for four years. I tried everything, from conventional treatments to complemen- tary therapies. Nothing touched it.” Then Deen listened to an online interview about earthing, a therapy that involves connecting with the Earth’s electrical field, either through skin-to- ground contact (barefoot strolls) or by using home grounding products avail- able online. Motivated by a yearning to maintain her active lifestyle, she de-
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cided to try it. Three months later, she attested, “My heels were completely normal.” And because she opted to use a special earthing bedsheet, Deen says her husband benefited, too. “We have better sleep, less snoring and a better sense of well-being,” she reports. Theoretically, because the water- abundant human body is a good electrical conductor, such grounding allows negatively charged free elec- trons, which are rife on the Earth’s surface, to enter the body and scour it for free radicals: those positively charged particles that may cause dis- ease and inflammation.
“Most of the diseases today are
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