Has anyone tried earthing or grounding?

[coffeewithcream]

Has anyone tried earthing or grounding? Would love to hear your experience with it?

earthinginstitute.net/groun...

[acceptanceand]

I’d be interested to know too hear From people who have tried grounding. 😊

[LindaP50]

Never heard of grounding - sounds uncomfortable for one.

Earthing was recommended to my husband when he had Lyme disease. He tried it. I even tried it. No positive or negative results were found by either of us. Although the integrative doctor believed in earthing.

[coffeewithcream in reply to LindaP50]

The terms grounding and earthing are thought to be interchangeable. When you say earthing do you mean walking barefoot outside? I love to go barefoot in the soft grass or on the beach and always feel good when I do. I just need to make more opportunities to do it so I can see if it makes a difference in my PD and overall health.

[CuriousMe12 in reply to coffeewithcream]

The link doesn't seem to guide much about barefoot walking but ends with a route to courses, bedding and throws... for sale.

[LindaP50 in reply to coffeewithcream]

Instructions from doctor were to go barefoot on the grass and even dirt area and walk around for a length of time.

[rebtar]

Yesterday i walked barefoot on grass for the first time in ages. Then i lay in the grass and relaxed. Cant say if that was earthing. But i felt better, meds worked better, and slept better. Not to mention it was pleasurable. Pleasure i think increased dopamine. In (i think) Lakota language, there is a word for the information that we receive from the earth through the soles of our feet. That is wisdom in a word. English is a language focused on nouns. Things. Static. Lakota, i think, mostly focused on verbs, movement, change, action. Interesting to contemplate.

[coffeewithcream in reply to rebtar]

Thank you for your comment. Will you be doing more of this? I love going barefoot on the grass or on a beach too. I always feel good when I do I just haven't done it enough to know if it makes a difference in my PD symptoms. My main symptom is resting head tremor and sometimes I don't even realize it is happening. I am going to pay more attention to my tremor when I am barefoot. I would like to know if it is worth buying some shoes with leather soles. The only ones I can find are very expensive but may be worth the cost.

[rebtar in reply to coffeewithcream]

I've been recommended to wear leather sole shoes as well.

lso, take a look at Naboso insoles.

[coffeewithcream in reply to rebtar]

moccasinscanada.com/collect... this is what I'm looking at.

[Esperanto]

The grounding recommended with mats and sheets containing silver wire seems to be another attempt to profit 💵💶 from our PD misery. Daphne, Dap48, was positive about it five years ago but stopped using it due to the exposure to EMF (electromagnetic fields).

healthunlocked.com/cure-par...

Simple and free earthing does not seem unhealthy, but the unscientific claims associated with it are often exaggerated, such as the "cure" for PD! Kang Il Lee, an 80-year-old doctor in South Korea, had PD for 7 years, but by walking barefoot outside for 2.5 hours every day, his PD problems have almost completely disappeared. In Dr. Lee's case, it is likely that the outdoor exercise are primarily responsible for the improvement. John Pepper without shoes 🙂

earthinginstitute.net/dong-...

[Gallowglass]

I’ve started to water my garden barefoot. So far I love it and when I skip a day my neuropathy pain ( feet hands shoulder hip) is worse all day.

[Ponieboy]

I have found just going barefoot in the yard helps with my right foot a little bit. I don't go barefoot that often seeing that I live in Texas and always am on patrol for fire ants. I have considered just sitting in the backyard in the evenings when it's cooler barefoot and relaxing and focusing on the still.

[mariaannap]

I have been using grounding for years having RA (rhumatoid arthritis). If I had a flare up I would put my hands and feet on damp concrete and the inflammation would gp away in 1/2 hour. I no longer have RA but I still use a grounding sheet from the earthing institute. Don't know for sure if it helps Parkinson's but no risk of trying it.

[Biblelover]

I practice grounding because it makes sense. Changes may be subtle. When I was visiting Costa Rice I did some grounding at a tree at the volcano region and it was spectacular. I like to do the grounding first thing in the morning.