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Fri Apr 26, 2013 4:36 pm  |
I would fully agree that walking barefoot is beneficial for one's well being. It's great, most wonderful micro massage available. Very de-stressing. I'm barefoot most times, but obviously I don't run around shoeless in the streets, I'm kinda reasonable that way. However... Having spent decades as avid barefooter I am more than convinced that the claims listed there are hugely exaggerated. There are downsides as well (infections, injuries, soil actually dries skin out, yadda, yadda, yaddaa). No device or gadget can even remotely replicate that, it goes beyond just wires and electrons. It's just as believable (well, actually less) than those energy hologram bracelets that are also a huge pile of horse manure, overpriced placebo effect is the only thing one purchases there.
I would also like to point out that for most part of human evolution the whole species were running around without any kind of foot wear and they did not actually live longer or better, despite being connected with earth 24/7. Some individuals happen to have a very romantic notion of that time. There are enough humans around now as well who are shoe less their whole lives, it's very easy to research their lifestyles and make educated decisions on the far-fetched claims in those links.
Another argument against those claims is that it's actually Dr Perricone and his pal endorsing it. Even if followers and by now even some mainstream people have embraced Perricone's other theories does not make them any more legit. I take everything he says with a truckload of salt and justly so, he's after naïve socialites' credit cards, nothing else, with his (fiction) books, (fad) diets and (essentially useless) products.
That said, I'm very pro the underlaying concept. Grounding as a connection to earth is actually free and does not require any gadgets. There are all kinds of visualization and meditation techniques that actually accomplish that and they are free, even available on YouTube. Just take a pick, yoga, Wiccan, shamanism, basic energy work... they all use same concept and the process itself is usually same, just goes under different names.
Whether those techniques actually charge people up with a tiny sliver of some higher energy or it's all just in the head is besides the point as long the result is achieved and no one got swindled. An open mind is a powerful ally is all I'm saying. I'm a realistic/skeptic person, even if horribly judgmental, very much into cold hard facts, fan of sound scientific research and I have insist that grounding meditation does work for me. That's also another reason why I find the BS that Dr Perricone and Dr Sinatra are sprouting insulting.
I invite everyone who's interested to try this simple meditation before judging the whole concept: http://www.project-meditation.org/mt/grounding_meditation.html |
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