Updates from the Homestead, and Energy Medicine
The
sun has finally returned after more than a week of cold rain. I’m delighted to
report that everything is drying out. The dark pink peonies are blooming in the
garden out front. Peonies are beautiful flowers with the one flaw that they
only bloom just once, in late spring or early summer.
I wish they were
all-summer-long bloomers. Peonies bring me back to an early summer trip to the Hamptons,
where pale pink and white peonies were in bloom everywhere. I love that certain
flowers have the power to bring me back to wonderful places I’ve been.
There
are flowers on the ancho and jalapeno chili plants in the food garden. It’s
time to trellis the green beans, which are putting out long tendrils now.
Squash plants also need some support.
Now
that it’s warm enough to go barefoot, I’ve been earthing more (I still use my
earthing mat under my feet indoors, and carry my earthing sandals everywhere).
I blogged about earthing last winter, when it was all new to me. Since then,
the sequel to the film ‘Grounding’ has come out. I want to see ‘Grounding 2’
soon.
Earthing
is very basic, and scientific, in case you’re tempted to dismiss it as snake
oil: the Earth’s metabolism and our metabolisms all run on a DC current: all
the electronics we are surrounded with run on an alternating (AC) current,
something alien to our natural biorhythms. When we connect back to that natural
DC resonance, it’s a wonderful balm for our bodies. It brings us back to where
we’re supposed to be.
I mean, computers and other electric conveniences have
made life easier in one way, but in another way, blast them. They, and
rubber-soled shoes, have created this big disconnect between us and the
tremendous energy medicine the Earth has to offer.
Check
out Intuition Physician online for more on the medical community’s support of
earthing.
I’m personally
convinced that the each individual’s chakra alignment has an important effect
on the impact of earthing on each unique body. As a quick example, I am very,
very root chakra centered. And since earthing draws energy down, to the root, I
feel less of an immediate impact than say, someone whose chakra alignment is
higher, at or near the crown (including the throat and heart chakras).
For
these people (and animals), earthing’s effects are pronounced right away. All
that energy crowded near their crowns is pulled downward, earthward, to regions
of the body where energy is typically weak.
But
whatever your alignment, earthing is a potent way to bring your energy back to
where it should be – in harmony with Mother Earth’s. So here’s to a barefoot
summer! Just try it. You have nothing at all to lose.
/II\
Namaste.
