Reducing The Effects Of Electromagnetic Pollution Naturally

Posted by Lloyd on July 14, 2011 under Electromagnetic protection, Grounding | 4 Comments to Read

Today I wanted to share with you a technique that I have been using for sometime to improve my health and general well being.  This is not something that I recommend only to electrosensitives,  I think just about anyone living in todays modern world can benefit from it. Its called earthing.

Below is a short video with transcript which explains more about how earthing works.

Dr. Sinatra: “Some of the most radical ideas are really the most simple. I mean, you look at grounding for example or earthing; putting your bare feet on the ground soaks up lots of electrons because the earth is negatively charged and our bodies are so full of free radicals from anything from heavy metals, to air pollution, to trans fats.  Our bodies are being inundated with a firestorm of free radicals so you have to put the fire out. And you can put the fire out in many different ways.

Cave Man Medicine or the Barefoot Revolution

The earliest and the most primitive form of healing the body is putting your bare feet on the ground. I call it cave man medicine or the barefoot revolution. When you to go the beach or you take a beach vacation, or you go barefoot in a park, or you sleep in the park on your back, or you are looking at the stars at night and you are grounded, people say I feel really good. It is like when people go on a vacation at the beach they think, oh no stress, plenty of sunlight, good restaurants, that’s it partially. What is really happening is when they go onto the beach they are grounding themselves. Whether we are in the water or whether they are walking on the sand and that really shifts the ergonomic nervous system to a point where it is functioning better and that is what it is all about.

 Detoxifying the Body

When you walk barefoot, you are literally soaking up millions of electrons into the body so you can detoxify the body. Whenever you take on electrons in the body you are making the blood thinner, so instead of the blood being more like red ketchup it becomes more like red wine and we know that hyper-coagulable states, sludgy blood, is the most common cause of stroke, heart attack, cancers, tumors, neurodegenerative disease and diabetes. There are so many toxins in our blood stream that our blood becomes so viscous; it becomes thick. When you put your feet on the ground, like I am doing right now and my feet are on the ground that has been little bit irrigated, that is a little bit wet and there is good conductivity, I am soaking up millions and millions of electrons right through my body and these free electrons will intercept free radicals and when this happens the body has a shift and in our experiments we showed that within 2 seconds of grounding you get a change of skin conductives. It is almost like a lie detector test, it happens quickly. What grounding does from the cardiac point of view, it improves heart rate variability, it absolutely shifts the sympathetic nervous system back to the point where nervous system has more tranquility in it; we record bigger stimulation.

So I am so bullish on grounding as the most primitive, easiest, cheapest way of creating optimum health. Go barefoot in the pack, walk on concrete, walk on the beach, walk on the sand, go surfing, when you are golfing take off your shoes for a little bit: ground. If you fly in an airplane: ground.  When you do these things you are really helping the body to achieve an optimal state of homeostasis.“

What Earthing Means To Me

Its all about getting back into contact with mother earth. It sits well with my idea (and its not just mine there are many others that share the same theory) that much of the illness and disease of our modern times is linked to the fact that we have moved away from that daily contact with nature that our ancestors had. And at the same time we have introduced pollutants, massively over the last 10 or 20 years into our lives.

This contact has been lost because of the houses we live in, the offices we work in, the transport we use. They all insulate us from this contact from the earth which I believe is so vital, even fundamental.

Our beds keep us suspended off the floor, our offices enable us to spend our days several levels off the ground our autos carry us along off the ground on insulating rubber tyres. And when we do go for a walk in the park, or in a forest we are inevitably wearing shoes with man made soles which keep our feet from making any direct contact with the ground.

How I Like To Earth

The simplest and easiest technique for re-establishing the link with nature is to walk barefoot as much as possible. I like to do it in the morning, I am fortunate to have a small garden next to my house. When I get up I like to go out and walk bare foot for a few moments, if there is a dew all the better, its even more effective. If its raining or cold it doesn’t stop me I just put a coat on over my nightclothes take my shoes off and do it all the same.

Everybody does not have the luxury of a garden. Maybe it is easier for you to do this exercise during the day by taking your shoes off for a few moments in the park.

One of the best grounding exercises is to walk barefoot in the sea water. So when you are on holiday you can just paddle along the shoreline or maybe there is a lake or pond near where you live where you can do this. One effective way I have found of adding to this effect is by using very simple earthing equipment.

Earthing in your bedroom.

I installed an earthing sheet, or bed pad, for my bed initially to try the idea. Its like an under-sheet that you position below the bottom bed sheet. Then to ground it you just plug it into the electrical socket in your bedroom (there are some cases where this will not be possible). Once its installed you cant see it or feel it under the sheet.

 

 

I found initially that I did not sleep very well for the first few nights.

Then my sleeping improved and I did feel I had more energy from using it.

Because I spend quite a lot of time in front of my computer I also bought an earthing mat for my office.

This works on the same principle as the bed earthing pad except its like a rubber mat that you can put on your desk to use like a mouse pad or you can put it on the floor. I like to put the pad on the floor and when I am on my PC I take my shoes off and put my feet on it to ground.

Earthing and EMFs What Can You Expect?

Don’ t expect miracles overnight with earthing and initially I was skeptical about any health benefits.

I first wanted to learn more about the concept so I bought the Earthing book written by Ober, Sinatra (in the video) and Zucker. It was an interesting read it talks a bit about the “science” behind it, about practical ways to earth, and even talks about electrosensitivity but about half of the book is made up of testimonials. Lots and lots of stories and testimonials.

The stories about improved athletic performance and all the various diseases (particularly inflammatory) did get me wanting to try the earthing products. Having now used them for some time I can say that I honestly do believe that they have had a positive impact on my health.

I bought my earthing sheet and earth pad separately but Amazon now sell earthing starter kits where you get the earthing sheet and pad and the book, in a pack, which seems quite a good deal.

For me earthing is an easy, safe and inexpensive way to counteract the effects of EMFs and other pollutants in your environment.

Start earthing by taking your shoes off more outside, and let me know what you think.