Humans are no longer directly connected to the Earth throughout most of the day and this can cause some minor static electricity buildup which interferes with natural bodily EMF activity. The patients in this study that slept in grounded beds reported better sleep, waking rested, relaxed muscles and less chronic joint pain.
Yet, we are usually ungrounded all throughout the day thanks to the modern shoe! We are also putting undue stress on our joints by walking with our heel rather than the ball of the foot. I'll give you some highlights from this article on learning to walk right,
http://anthropik.com/2007/06/learning-to-walk/
The most famous runner of ancient Greece was Pheidippides, whose record run from Athens to Sparta was 140 miles in 36 hours. Among our Indians, such a feat would have been considered very second-rate. In 1882, at Fort Ellice, I saw a young Cree who, on foot, had just brought in despatches from Fort Qu'Appelle (125 miles away) in 25 hours. It created almost no comment. I heard little from the traders but cool remarks like, "a good boy", "pretty good run". It was obviously a very usual exploit, among Indians.
Here is how you can tell the difference between natural fox-walking and shoe-bound cow-walking:
Try a small experiment. Take off your shoes, plug your ears, and walk across the space you now occupy. Then listen for the thud in your body. If you are a heel walker you will here the impact of your step. You are walking "ON" your bones. You are walking "ON" the earth.
Now, stand with your feet together, fall forward and land on the largest part of you foot, the front pad, get a feel for this. Then once again with no shoes and ears plugged walk across the floor in this forefoot manner, Then listen to see if you hear the thud. You are stepping "IN" your joints. You are stepping "IN" the earth.
There is stepping in and stepping on. Focus on it, work on it, connect with these two varieties of walking and then read on, and take this practice out into the natural surface areas. When you walk heel first, you pound your bones. When you step more into the forefoot, you step into your joints. I call this Integrative walking and it is a posture that you will grow and feel your way into. Changing your body posture.
It's gonna be tough for me to start practicing now that it's summer!
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