Grounding

Barefoot TJ

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There may be a benefit to walking barefoot, but gaining electrons sure isn't the cause. If it were, you'd feel incredible after walking across a nylon carpet with rubber shoes on. Van de Graaff generators would sell like cocaine. This stuff is just woo aimed at people who never took physics in high school. Now if you told me that stimulating all those nerve endings by walking barefoot did something good for your brain ... I could buy it. I don't know much about how the brain works. LOL
 
There may be a benefit to walking barefoot, but gaining electrons sure isn't the cause. If it were, you'd feel incredible after walking across a nylon carpet with rubber shoes on. Van de Graaff generators would sell like cocaine. This stuff is just woo aimed at people who never took physics in high school. Now if you told me that stimulating all those nerve endings by walking barefoot did something good for your brain ... I could buy it. I don't know much about how the brain works. LOL

Agreed. With all due respect to those who are honestly trying to tout the benefits of being barefoot the whole "Earthing" or "grounding" thing makes me cringe. There are so many tangible, proven benefits to being barefoot at the very least we don't need to engage in speculative pseudo science.
 
There are so many tangible, proven benefits to being barefoot at the very least we don't need to engage in speculative pseudo science.

I absolutely agree. I was reading that and the deeper into the article I got, the more it sounded like every "fix everything wrong with your life in 5 minutes" ad plastered on so many websites...

All just modern Snake Oil medicine... :(
 
I absolutely agree. I was reading that and the deeper into the article I got, the more it sounded like every "fix everything wrong with your life in 5 minutes" ad plastered on so many websites...

All just modern Snake Oil medicine... :(

I'm also afraid that promoting it only gives more ammo to people who are looking for an excuse to dismiss barefooters as a bunch of weirdos (or at least moreso than we already are). We all know plenty of sound, practical reasons to be barefoot and promoting ground is just ... ah ... shooting ourselves in the foot. ;)
 
Don't forget, I share a lot of stuff for the purpose of stirring conversation. It's up to each person to decide for themselves what they prefer to believe.

Personally, I am barefoot perhaps 97% of the time, and I have experienced NO healing from it, mentally or physically. I do it because one, I enjoy it, and two, I have no choice.
 
Don't forget, I share a lot of stuff for the purpose of stirring conversation.

It does that quite successfully. It also lets us know what's "out there in the wild" as far as current information and ideas (be they right or wrong...), and that helps us better understand both what and where these conceptions are coming from when we engage with people who bring them up.


I may not respond to each of these links you post, but I do try and read as many of them as I can for exactly that reason.