Benefits of Walking Bare Foot
Do you remember when you walked bare foot ?
If you are not in habit of walking bare foot, take some time off and try to walk bare foot for a while. How many among us know that this simple pleasure is a powerful healthy habit. In fact now the scientific validations also started pouring in.
In the year 2012, The Journal of Environmental and Public Health carried review of the research on the health benefits of connecting human body to the ground.
The research shown that the grounding shows to :
1. Improve quality of sleep and feelings of restfulness
2. Significantly reduce muscle stiffness and chronic pain
3. Regulate the secretion of cortisol, which is a stress hormone. This way it helps to regulate typical cycle of peaking in the morning and dipping lowest at the midnight, promoting more restful sleep, regulating blood sugar levels and appetite, and helping to control weight.
4. Reduce the severity of inflammatory response after the tense workout.
5. Thin blood by imparting your red blood cells with a stronger negative charge on their surface, improving their ability to repel each other and to flow through the tiny capillaries.
6. Raise heart rate variability, your heart's ability to respond to stimuli and alter the pace of its beating.
You may question how such a simple thing can yield so much profound benefits.
Simple. Very Simple.
Walking barefoot outside, with the soles of your feet free to mesh with the surface of earth, is one such case. It creates a direct connection between the body and the earth, which is not only a simple pleasure but serves to make you healthier.
Electricity Has to Do with It
You can not imagine your life without electricity, it lighten your homes, offices, can not enjoy TV program or movie. But at micro level , our body is a power house of bio-electricity. The body is essentially having a number of electricity circuits, in which trillions and trillions of cells constantly transmit and receive energy as they govern every action we take, every physiological function we perform, and every thought we create.
All our movements, behaviors and actions are energized by bio-electricity. Our body is made-up primarily of water, in which variety of charged ions, called electrolytes, are dissolved. The earth is an electrical entity, charged with a virtually limitless supply of electrons that come from lightening, it is essentially a supercharged battery overflowing with electrons.When we, a bio-electrical being, directly touch the earth-making a good conductor of electricity-we absorb a steady flow of free electrons into our body which helps to create the conditions for our body, which helps create the conditions for our body to effortlessly heal itself.
It is Important to Know Where to Walk
We have multiple of option to connect with the goodness of earth. Good grounding surfaces are :
If you are not in habit of walking bare foot, take some time off and try to walk bare foot for a while. How many among us know that this simple pleasure is a powerful healthy habit. In fact now the scientific validations also started pouring in.
In the year 2012, The Journal of Environmental and Public Health carried review of the research on the health benefits of connecting human body to the ground.
The research shown that the grounding shows to :
1. Improve quality of sleep and feelings of restfulness
2. Significantly reduce muscle stiffness and chronic pain
3. Regulate the secretion of cortisol, which is a stress hormone. This way it helps to regulate typical cycle of peaking in the morning and dipping lowest at the midnight, promoting more restful sleep, regulating blood sugar levels and appetite, and helping to control weight.
4. Reduce the severity of inflammatory response after the tense workout.
5. Thin blood by imparting your red blood cells with a stronger negative charge on their surface, improving their ability to repel each other and to flow through the tiny capillaries.
6. Raise heart rate variability, your heart's ability to respond to stimuli and alter the pace of its beating.
You may question how such a simple thing can yield so much profound benefits.
Simple. Very Simple.
Walking barefoot outside, with the soles of your feet free to mesh with the surface of earth, is one such case. It creates a direct connection between the body and the earth, which is not only a simple pleasure but serves to make you healthier.
Electricity Has to Do with It
You can not imagine your life without electricity, it lighten your homes, offices, can not enjoy TV program or movie. But at micro level , our body is a power house of bio-electricity. The body is essentially having a number of electricity circuits, in which trillions and trillions of cells constantly transmit and receive energy as they govern every action we take, every physiological function we perform, and every thought we create.
All our movements, behaviors and actions are energized by bio-electricity. Our body is made-up primarily of water, in which variety of charged ions, called electrolytes, are dissolved. The earth is an electrical entity, charged with a virtually limitless supply of electrons that come from lightening, it is essentially a supercharged battery overflowing with electrons.When we, a bio-electrical being, directly touch the earth-making a good conductor of electricity-we absorb a steady flow of free electrons into our body which helps to create the conditions for our body, which helps create the conditions for our body to effortlessly heal itself.
It is Important to Know Where to Walk
We have multiple of option to connect with the goodness of earth. Good grounding surfaces are :
- moist grass
- sand
- bare soil
- Stone and Rock
- concrete and brick (as long as it is directly on the earth)
But asphalt, wood, Rubber, Plastic, Vinyl, Tar or Tarmac will not be of any benefit as they are insulators. Swimming in the ocean also a fabulous way to ground as the seawater conducts the electricity from the ocean floor. And In order to ground you need not to have to walk, exercise or even stand. You may sit in a chair and read a book. So long as your bare feet are in direct touch/ contact with the ground, you are getting benefit of earthing. When you sit or lie on the grass or sand, you will derive the same benefit.
Shoes
Some time it is not possible to go out without shoes due to hostile weather conditions, shoes with leather sole are fine but synthetic, rubber or plastic soles will not help as these are bad conductor of electricity.
What Old Chinese Wisdom Says On Walking Barefoot
The skin is a very good conductor, conducting any part of it to the earth will effectively work.But among the various parts of our body, one is especially potent : a spot right in the middle of the ball of our foot. It is known to the practitioners of chinese medicines as Kidney 1 (K1). This acupuncture point joins all the energy pathways of the body known as meridians : that is, it connects to every part of body. No wonder tai chi as well as qigong-the chinese equivalent to Yoga-are taught and practiced outside without shoes.
Similarly in Temples in India, one has to visit the deities
bare foot only. 
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