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Earthing, Barefoot Walking, And Other Healing Lessons From Nature

October 14th, 2010 4 comments

 

Join our family (and my Dad) today on another adventure as we learn more awesome health lessons from the greatest teacher ever.


A walk through our property along Patoka River allows nature to make students of us again!
 

Come along with us and you'll learn…


1.  How to "root and reach" for to prevent gravity from dragging you down.

2.  How to get age-reversing anti-oxidants from a rock

3.  Why barefooting like a Native American could give you the pain relief you've been looking for! 

4.  How to prevent falling (lessons from a tree)

5.  How to improve your balance with a downed log, a couple of sticks, and a youthful spirit.

Plus, I wanted you to check out some of the amazing health benefits of simply "grounding" yourself to the earth with this EARTHING RESEARCH!
 
Leave a comment and let me know what you think and tell me YOUR favorite part about nature!
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Barefooting for health

July 9th, 2010 4 comments

I get a lot of emails asking what I think of this shoe or that shoe to help with reducing stress in the body.

Today I got another one but it was about not wearing any shoes at all!

I am a very big proponent of going barefoot as much as humanly possible.  TONS of "input" or "afferance" comes in through your feet!

As a matter of fact, a standard treatment for Native Americans suffering with back pain was to run barefoot along a river bank.  The flood of input or "afferance" into the central nervous system blocked pain, relaxed tight muscles, and improved coordination to the brain!  (This is also how chiropractic adjustments work, btw)

So if you've stopped using your feet the way they were designed in have buried them in leather coffins your whole life, guess what?

You're going to develop a "sleeping foot", or even a "dead foot" that has a real hard time interpreting the terrain underneath you and you're going to have a lot of trouble with your knees, hips, back, and even all the way up to your neck and shoulders!

So here's my response to the email I received and the videos about barefoot running which are all excellent!

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"The videos are very good.  i believe whole heartedly in being barefoot.  I do it mostly

in the garden but would definitely use a barefoot shoe or the vibram 5 fingers.

The coaching the guy did in the vimeo vid was good but, of course, I would teach
about maintaining intra-abdominal pressure so you could maximize the rebound force
or "elasticity" as he called it.

Thanks for the forward.  I've had others asking me about the same thing.

Back to nature, my friend.

Steve
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