Sometimes we overcomplicate things.
We can think that being spiritual, woke, and healthy means complicated morning practices, many hours of breath work, and having the latest adaptogen powder.
It’s almost like people get attached to the chase of wellness or spiritual evolution—longing for something falsely outside of themselves—instead of wondering if the answers were much closer.
I’ve found the most potent practices often are not difficult, but it’s one’s ability to arrive to the simplicity that can be hard.
“Take off your shoes” is one of these profound simplicities.
Your instructions are simple: go press your naked feet into the earth and breathe. It’s not just woo-woo, it’s scientific.
As humans, we have a nervous system which is like an electrical circuit in the body. And as conductors, what we interact with—should the charge be strong enough—runs through our bodies. Most people wear shoes that have plastic soles, acting as an insulator between their somatic system and the earth, resulting in a break between our circuitry and the Earth’s energy field. As if this break was not damaging enough, most humans walk around with cell phone in hand, with the amplified phone network frequency (likely 5G) running through their circuitry, unable to ground.
The detriment flows two ways: firstly, in the inability to ground excess charge carried in the body, and secondly, in the inability to receive the nervous-system-regulating and healing energy of the Earth’s various energy fields, depending on the weather, environment, and terrain.
A study referenced by alchemist Frater Albertus speaks of how a rabbit running through the wild automatically knows which plants are poisonous and safe, because both the rabbit and the plants are in connection with the Earth’s vibratory field. However, if you put that same rabbit in a cage with both a poisonous and an edible plant, it won’t know the difference and will likely eat its way to death.
I think that much of the disharmony in humans—in both somatic and mental health—arises from this disconnect with nature. While wearing shoes that inhibit this connection, we’re also exposed to 5G radiation—which some claim to be inharmonious to our natural state—which is being pumped through our bodies from cell towers and from the phones in our hands.
Being barefoot may seem like a small act. But cultivating a connection with nature’s medicine by dropping into its vital field is essential from a health standpoint and evermore needed as a practice of exploration to be in connection with a symbiotic nature system that has done that which humans so often fail at: achieve symbiotic balance.