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This article expounds on the concept of grounding. I hope you'll take a look. It's that important!
http://www.townsendletter.com/May2010/earthing0510.html
an excerpt:
Earthing Triggers Physiological Normalization
For me, the concept of reconnecting to the Earth has revealed one of Nature's great healing secrets. On a personal note, I experienced an immediate cessation of annoying restless legs syndrome when I started sleeping grounded two years ago. I sleep grounded now whether I am at home or traveling. Over time, the also annoying need to get up at night to pee, typical of men my age (72), has substantially abated. Some nights I get up once. Others not at all. A couple of my friends have had the same results.
My wife has less pain from substantial musculoskeletal issues as a result of sleeping grounded and using grounded EKG patches during the day. One woman who transcribes for me wanted a conductive bedsheet after hearing and transcribing some of the interviews of doctors and patients that I did for the book. After she started sleeping grounded, she told me that she was "absolutely amazed." Not a single flare-up of her fibromyalgia pain.
To quickly experience Earthing yourself, just walk or sit barefoot on grass, sand, gravel, or unpainted concrete ground surfaces that conduct energy. Wood, asphalt, and plastic do not conduct. Stay for at least a half hour or so and at the end of that time you will notice you are calmer, and if you had pain to begin with, it will be less, or maybe even gone.
Biophysicist James Oschman, PhD, a leading expert and author on energy medicine, sums up Earthing this way: "The moment your foot touches the Earth, or you connect to the Earth through a wire, your physiology changes. An immediate normalization begins. And an anti-inflammatory switch is turned on. People stay inflamed because they never connect with the Earth, the source of free electrons which can neutralize the free radicals in the body that cause disease and cellular destruction."
Please read the book to learn the full story, the research details, and the dramatic feedback from doctors and patients. There is much in the book that will interest sophisticated, open-minded practitioners and health-oriented readers of this publication. You will be amazed, as I was, by the primordial power and promise of this concept.
The Benefits of Earthing
For more than ten years, Earthing research and feedback from individuals who have grounded themselves, primarily while sleeping at night, demonstrate a multitude of benefits. Here is a short list of them:
improvement or elimination of the symptoms of many inflammation-related disorders
reduction or elimination of chronic pain
better sleep and faster to sleep
increased energy
lowered stress, more calmness by cooling down the nervous system and stress hormones
normalization of the bodys biological rhythms
thinner blood, improved blood pressure and flow
muscle tension and headache relief
lessened hormonal and menstrual symptoms
dramatically faster healing and reduction/prevention of bedsores
reduction/elimination of jet lag
protection against potentially health-disturbing environmental electromagnetic fields (EMFs)
accelerated recovery from intense athletic activity
http://www.townsendletter.com/May2010/earthing0510.html
an excerpt:
Earthing Triggers Physiological Normalization
For me, the concept of reconnecting to the Earth has revealed one of Nature's great healing secrets. On a personal note, I experienced an immediate cessation of annoying restless legs syndrome when I started sleeping grounded two years ago. I sleep grounded now whether I am at home or traveling. Over time, the also annoying need to get up at night to pee, typical of men my age (72), has substantially abated. Some nights I get up once. Others not at all. A couple of my friends have had the same results.
My wife has less pain from substantial musculoskeletal issues as a result of sleeping grounded and using grounded EKG patches during the day. One woman who transcribes for me wanted a conductive bedsheet after hearing and transcribing some of the interviews of doctors and patients that I did for the book. After she started sleeping grounded, she told me that she was "absolutely amazed." Not a single flare-up of her fibromyalgia pain.
To quickly experience Earthing yourself, just walk or sit barefoot on grass, sand, gravel, or unpainted concrete ground surfaces that conduct energy. Wood, asphalt, and plastic do not conduct. Stay for at least a half hour or so and at the end of that time you will notice you are calmer, and if you had pain to begin with, it will be less, or maybe even gone.
Biophysicist James Oschman, PhD, a leading expert and author on energy medicine, sums up Earthing this way: "The moment your foot touches the Earth, or you connect to the Earth through a wire, your physiology changes. An immediate normalization begins. And an anti-inflammatory switch is turned on. People stay inflamed because they never connect with the Earth, the source of free electrons which can neutralize the free radicals in the body that cause disease and cellular destruction."
Please read the book to learn the full story, the research details, and the dramatic feedback from doctors and patients. There is much in the book that will interest sophisticated, open-minded practitioners and health-oriented readers of this publication. You will be amazed, as I was, by the primordial power and promise of this concept.
The Benefits of Earthing
For more than ten years, Earthing research and feedback from individuals who have grounded themselves, primarily while sleeping at night, demonstrate a multitude of benefits. Here is a short list of them:
improvement or elimination of the symptoms of many inflammation-related disorders
reduction or elimination of chronic pain
better sleep and faster to sleep
increased energy
lowered stress, more calmness by cooling down the nervous system and stress hormones
normalization of the bodys biological rhythms
thinner blood, improved blood pressure and flow
muscle tension and headache relief
lessened hormonal and menstrual symptoms
dramatically faster healing and reduction/prevention of bedsores
reduction/elimination of jet lag
protection against potentially health-disturbing environmental electromagnetic fields (EMFs)
accelerated recovery from intense athletic activity
To clarify, I didn't mean that the money-maker schemers were the DS members who are here to truly be helped and give help. There are a lot of promoters for those schemers who join this site to only post about their product or treatment or whatever. How can you say no one here is vulnerable? We're all sick! Of course at times, we can find ourselves believing in this schemes, only to waste time and money (and mental health) on the pursuit to give us happiness and good health. So why aren't people allowed to question what they doubt, without a self-righteous attitude in response?
Earthing or Grounding as it's called in other methods, is a practice used in many forms of meditation. The fact that it's scientifically proven to have benefits just strengthens the importance of using it during meditation.
Good article aside from the fact it promotes selling a book.
In any case, I was convinced enough by the science (having read the book... the article wasn't promoting the selling of the book, but was a doctor's review of that book as well as the treatment it espouses) to try the product. We got it set up (easy as anything) today and have tried it out briefly and I do believe I had some good effects. They last only about as long as you've used it, which is why the recommendation is to use it during the whole of sleeping time.
I had more pain than usual this morning because I had forgotten to take my clon and LDN but after using the conductive grounding pad, I did feel better than I usually do!
No, I haven't read the book, but as a nurse I can't off the top of my head see how "grounding" or walking on dirt/grass is going to thin the blood. If that's true I wonder why the medical profession doesn't warn Coumadin users against the potential risk of walking barefoot, except to take care not to cut oneself due to the possible increase risk of bleeding.
On a personal note: my old pain management doc suggested I stand outside in the grass barefoot for 5 mins 3 times a day. His theory was basically what I would imagine the author of this books theory is. He put it simply this way: the earth releases negative ions in the body through the feet which he felt allows the CNS to function better and hence decrease pain. I did try it for several months. It was great getting out of the house, the grass felt good on my feet and it was relaxing. My pain didn't decrease, but my emotional state improved :-)
Adrianne
Remember, people who have spent their time in conductive contact with the earth all along would probably not be ON Coumadin in the first place.
Think about cigarette smoking for a moment. For years, as research was ongoing and it was more and more known to be fact that smoking caused great physical harm, the medical establishment was not warning the populace against smoking. Many a doctor smoked and did not urge patients to avoid it. It took time, a long time after the facts were known. You can consider this to be similar. The smoking didn't suddenly start to be harmful. It took time to realize, then it took time to convince skeptics, then it took time to get it out there, and it took time for the public to accept and act.
Lastly, if you would like me to, I could expound on HOW the effects of the electrons faciliate the thinning of the blood. It actually repels the cells, so that they are not coagulating and clumping. Makes sense, right?