But what Clinton Ober has done in his book Earthing is to give a purpose and understanding to why it is so important to expose our bare feet to the earth. Through Clinton’s work and that of many others, grounding (earthing) ourselves to the earth’s surface has now become a health issue. Succinctly, we have isolated ourselves from the earth and as a result we are suffering unnecessarily.
I am only a few weeks into the awareness of the subject of grounding ourselves to the earth, and therefore I do not claim to know or understand all that Clinton Ober and others are saying in the book Earthing. But I can attest to a slow change I am beginning to experience as the result of trying the experiment of earthing.
On a front page to the book the authors suggest:
If possible, read this book sitting with your bare feet directly on the earth—grass, gravel, dirt, sand or concrete.
You will simultaneously experience what you are reading about—how contact with the Earth restores your body’s natural electrical state.
The positive shift you feel is the start of a process in which your body slowly becomes infused with the Earth’s omnipresent and ever-present healing energy.
This is Earthing, a remarkably simple, safe, and natural act of reducing pain and stress.
And so several weeks ago with the book “Earthing” in hand I went outdoors and sat in a lawn chair with bare feet in sand – a sandbox that my daughter no longer uses.