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Nature’s Healing Power – right under our feet!
When was the last time you went outside and walked on the grass with your bare feet, or gardened barefooted, or walked on a sand beach? When I was a child, we spent our whole summers barefooted, our soles becoming so toughened that we could run across stones. But, except for the beaches, it isn’t something we see people doing as much these days.
And, it turns out, disconnecting ourselves from Mother Earth with shoes, buildings and asphalt is seriously undermining our physical health. In recent decades, there has been an alarming increase in immune- and inflammation-related diseases. In fact, inflammation is now believed to be the underlying cause of more than eighty chronic illnesses. And researchers have found that the increases began to show up first in highly industrialized countries.
One of the markers of inflammation, as well as other conditions, is a deficiency of electrons in the body. We’re learning that we are bioelectrical beings living on an electrical planet. Our brains, hearts, muscles, nervous systems and immune systems are electrical subsystems. Based on a largely unrecognized electrical relationship that all living things have with the ground and with the sky, our bodies seem to be designed to serve as a kind of antenna to receive and to transmit energy. But it seems we’ve lost our bioelectrical roots.
Former cable TV pioneer Clinton Ober has been on a one-man mission for more than a decade to share and validate his simple, but very crucial discovery that the earth beneath us provides something we are deprived of in our modern, industrialized lifestyles: negative-charged, free electrons - the ultimate and most potent of the known antioxidants. In his book, Earthing, Mr Ober, along with Stephen Sinatra, MD and Martin Zucker, says that getting your feet back on the earth …” reunite[s] you with the natural electrical signals from the Earth…restores your body’s natural internal electrical stability and rhythms, which in turn promote normal functioning of body systems… By reconnecting, you enable your body to return to its normal electrical state, better able to self-regulate and self-heal.”
Observation and research indicate the following benefits from Earthing: improves or eliminates symptoms of many inflammation-related disorders; reduces or eliminates chronic pain; improves sleep in most cases; increases energy; cools down the nervous system and stress hormones; normalizes biological rhythms; improves blood pressure and flow; relieves muscle tension and headaches; reduces hormonal and menstrual symptoms; dramatically speeds healing and prevents bedsores; reduces or eliminates jet lag; protects the body against environmental electromagnetic fields (EMF’s); accelerates recovery from intense athletic activity. A simple, but powerful way to restore health.
Obviously, walking around barefooted is not always an option or realistic. If you can do it, though, you can reap much of the benefits of “earthing” or grounding by being barefoot on ground, sand or concrete for as little as 1/2 hour twice a day. But the research has shown that…” lasting changes in stress, sleep, pain and body rhythms occur when people are connected to the Earth for longer periods of time on a continual basis. Nighttime sleep, when the body is most receptive to healing, appears to be an ideal time for Earthing.”
For the scientific studies he finally convinced some researchers to conduct, Clinton Ober designed simple but effective grounded, conductive pads and sheets for “Earthing” while sleeping or sitting. It doesn’t get easier: receive healing while you read, eat, watch TV, work at the computer, and best of all – while you’re asleep! These products are now available online at a reasonable cost at shopearthing.net. And you can read more about it all at the website for the Earthing Institute.
So, kick off your shoes, snuggle up on your grounded bed sheet and welcome those healing, free electrons! As one of Earthing‘s book reviewers writes: “May the Ground be with you!”
Emotions on the Move
Something I learned from Master ChunYi Lin and his Spring Forest Qigong healing that comforts and encourages me is that “Everything is energy; and energy can be transformed.” What an empowering thought! We can easily become discouraged by the time and effort it takes for our healing and our growth, especially when it involves old emotional issues from our past. But realizing that everything, including emotions, is energy creates a more hopeful picture!
Healthy energy is moving, flowing energy. The words we have for emotions – like “grief”, “sadness”, “anger”, “worry” – are simply words that we have created to describe the way that energy moves. For example, the word “grief” describes energy that is being released or let go; “sadness” is more like a gentle opening and flowing. “Fear” describes a contracting type of energy. “Worry” is about energy that seems to churn uselessly like food in an upset stomach, and so on.
When we are able to feel and, especially, to express our emotions in a healthy way, this keeps energy moving in the body, and thus leads to improved health and a greater sense of peace and well-being. When emotions are being expressed in an unhealthy way – such as exploding, over-reacting, repression or imploding – energy has a difficult time moving through the body. It’s the movement of energy which helps the body to heal, grow, repair, and let go of dis-ease.
The trick is that often our unhealthy, “stuck” old emotional patterns are unconscious. They are so much a part of us and our reactions to life that we are not even aware of what they are. And it is these unconscious emotional patterns that can wreak the greatest havoc on our health, happiness and the quality of our relationships with others. The good news is that there are more ways than ever before to release and transform those old stuck emotional patterns – old and new therapies and approaches that address the whole person and these patterns of energy called emotions. Even if such therapies are not available in our own communities, healing work involving energy fields can be done from a distance.
We need no longer be “victimized” by feelings and reactions that were passed on to us by others and from our environment. We can take responsibility ourselves to seek out therapies and approaches that assist us in identifying and transforming these old patterns into healthy, moving energy and truly transform our lives.
Research on BodyTalk Distance Healing
The idea that healing can be experienced at a distance from the “healer” is something many people find hard to believe, or at least they are skeptical about it. However, healing from a distance is a very old phenomenon. Throughout our history as the human race, people have believed that healing can take place at a distance. They have believed it, because they have experienced it or seen its effects in others. Sometimes it’s been in the form of a formal healing event, other times through prayer or focused intention.
These days, with the development of modern physics, we are learning how and why it works. And now there is a beginning in research in this area to examine such practices more closely. An initial study involving the BodyTalk System specifically was recently carried out by a team of researchers across the world from each other.
Dr. Donald Ka’imi Pilipovich, an acupuncturist and BodyTalk practitioner presented research at the 2010 conference of International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine (ISSSEEM) in Westminster, Colorado on June 26th 2010. To emphasize the fact that BodyTalk works solely by directing intention, the study was designed to measure the effects of distance BodyTalk sessions. Dr. Thornton Streeter from the Center from Biofield Sciences in Pune, India, arranged for subjects to be scanned with a PIPP machine, a GDV machine and a Thermal Imaging machine, before and after the sessions. These imaging devices measure heat and other electromagnetic emissions from the body and showed dramatic changes in the study.
The subjects were divided into two groups, one group received sessions and the other group or control subjects were scanned but did not receive sessions. Dr. Pilipovich sent the test subjects in India, distance BodyTalk sessions from his clinic in Boulder, Colorado.
The results were dramatic. All test subjects showed much more significant changes in biofield readings than the control subjects. And all test subjects reported positive changes in health two days after the sessions. In comparison, only minimal changes or none were reported by the control subjects.
If you’d like to read more and see the before-and-after imaging, click here (lower part of the page) for a brief summary of the research paper that was presented to the conference.
Imagine the implications of this work!
Talk with Your Body About Toxins
Toxins are something we all need to be aware of these days.
Here’s an excerpt from a blog called Essential Healing Solutions that gives both the bad and good news about our toxic world. As the article states, the good news is that we just have to “tap into the communication system of the body” to support its natural healing capacities. And, further good news is that the BodyTalk System does just that. With BodyTalk we can often correct imbalances in the body and stimulate the immune system so that it can address accumulated toxins, both identifying them and assisting the body to effectively address them.
Talking with body chemistry through BodyTalk
Homotoxicology Bridges the Gap in Healthcare
…We are exposed to toxins all the time from the air we breathe, the products we use on our body, to the food we consume. Our bodies have an amazing ability to keep us healthy despite our encounters with these toxins. Specialized organs and systems within our bodies are designed to detoxify and protect us. When we are first exposed to a toxin we are in Phase 1 of the chart of homotoxicology.
| Phase 1 | Phase 2 | Phase 3 | Phase 4 | Phase 5 | Phase 6 |
| Excretion | Reaction | Deposition | Impregnation | Degeneration | Neoplasm |
As you can see in the chart Phase 1 is Excretion, this means the body is actively excreting the ingested or applied toxin. The body tries to excrete the toxin by sneezing, coughing, sweating, vomiting, or pushing it through the urine and feces.
If the body is unsuccessful at moving out these toxins (perhaps because we are exposed to too many, our diets are poor, or we’re stressed out) it will move into Phase 2 the Reaction phase. It is during this phase that the body begins to react to the toxin through inflammation. Here is where the body produces a fever, mucus, swelling, etc. This is the natural process the body uses to move the toxin to Phase 1 where it can be excreted. If this process is stopped for any reason the body moves to Phase 3.
Phase 3 is where the toxin becomes Deposited within the body to be dealt with at a later time. It is the body’s way of saying, “I know I need to deal with you but at the moment I can’t, so you need to sit over here out of the way until I can move you out.” But as we know, like paperwork on the desk, we don’t always get to it when it would be ideal and other things pile up on top until it becomes buried underneath the newer paperwork. This is Phase 4, Impregnation.
Impregnation is the beginning of toxin layering and in the body you begin to experience more complex diseases and illness like allergies and autoimmune diseases. The body at this point is often unable to handle this toxic layering and moves to Phase 5, Degeneration.
The Degeneration Phase is exactly what it sounds like, the body begins to break down and many people are unable to recover at this stage. Some of the disease processes that are listed in Phase 5 are fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, lupus, tuberculosis, and heart attack. (Some people move through phase 5 without symptoms other than fatigue.) If the body continues to accumulate toxins, it will eventually move to Phase 6.
Phase 6 is Neoplasm and it at this phase the body is cancerous.
The good news is that the body is designed to heal and at any point along the chart with the right support and recommendations the body can reverse the process and move back towards Phase 1.
The questions many people have at this point are: “What phase am I in?”; “How do I know what is right for me to reverse this trend?”; “Don’t I have to live with my chronic disease for the rest of my life?”…The answer to each of these requires a practitioner who knows and understands how to tap into the communication system of the body and accurately guide it back to the Excretion Phase – some of the best tools for doing this are the Avatar and homeopathy. The body is amazing and all it needs is the right support at the right time to guide it back to its natural state of health and brilliance.
