It's Gotta Be the
Shoes!
I remember that day as if it were yesterday. I was sitting
on Sproul Plaza on the UC Berkeley campus, attempting to write despite the pain
and numbness of a very-painful-but-undiagnosable inflammatory wrist condition I
had developed recently.
A man dressed head-to-toe in pink spandex riding a unicycle passes
by me, stops, reverses, looks right at me and says, "Why are you so sad,
pretty lady? Take off your shoes....It's gotta be the shoes."
Can you just see it? Doesn't it make you smile? :)
Well,
I was not amused.
"If only you knew what I was dealing with," I thought.
"If you knew how many experts I'd seen. How many tests
I'd been through. How many needles I'd been poked with...
"You wouldn't be so flippant with me.
"It's the shoes....
"As if."
But if you know me, you know what happened next :)
Me
and my "as if" took off our shoes.
We put our books and pencils away, walked around campus, and
sooner than you could say, "Pink Man, what did you DO to me?" we had
a spring in our step and a smile on our face.
It must have been the Pink Man.
No! It Was the
Shoes!
I don't know if Pink Man was channeling Edgar Cayce, on
LSD, or just ahead of his time, but he gave me some really good advice!
And now, thanks to years of research and the perseverance of Clint
Ober, a man determined to reduce his own pain, over 7000 studies have now been
published that prove pain and inflammation can be significantly reduced by
taking off your shoes!
Really.
Its a practice called Earthing, and the process is simple.
In fact, take your computer with you and do it with me now....
Take off your shoes and socks. That feels good already,
doesn't it? :)
Now go outside.
Touch your naked toes to the dirt, grass, sand, or cement.
Great.
Last step... Breathe a sigh of relief as the pain drains from your
body.
That's it.
Claire,
have you gone Hippie Dippy on me?
"That's cute and all," you might be saying, "but
where's the evidence? I mean, I'm not going to get all earthy just for
fun, you know."
Well, I'm glad you asked! :)
Free electrons cover the surface of the earth, and they are just
waiting for you to take off your shoes, so they can rush in and fight the good
fight against pain-producing free radicals.
All you have to do is let them in :)
And you don't even need Pink Man.
But you get extra points if you smile :)
And breathe...
And remember how good it is to be alive :)
Because when you do all those things while you're connected to the
immense power that is Mother Earth...
Your heart rate slows down. The chemicals of tension and
stress disappear from your bloodstream. Your immune system improves.
And your body gets pumped full of tranquility and euphoria.
And with all that , my friend,
Your "as if" doesn't stand a chance :)
Go ahead. Give it a try. Feel the tingle in your feet
as they soak up the delicious electrons.
You'll wonder how you ever
went a day without connecting with your Mother :)
Love,
Light, and Gratitude for all!
Claire
:)
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