Odyssey Magazine Issue 4 | Page 153

THIS! ng? Take a chance as often as possible to go outside and feel Mother Earth under your feet had tried Earthing out of desperation – something someone had told her about – after a doctor advised her to purchase an adjustable bed, a large screen TV, and to make herself as comfortable as possible. MS doesn't get better, the doctor told her. In her case it did, and dramatically so. Another woman spent over five years with debilitating pain, inflammation, fatigue, and sleep problems after a serious car accident. Despite a long career in the health care industry, she found herself locked in an exhausting struggle to regain her health. She went from one practitioner and treatment to another. 'Like Humpty Dumpty in the nursery rhyme,' she said, 'all of the king's horses and all the king's men could not put me back together again.' Unable to work, she found herself instinctively drawn to lying in the grass or walking barefoot on the beach. In 1999, a friend gave her a conductive bed pad. She slept on it nightly, and within months her pain, fatigue, and sleep problems vanished. 'After years of pills and failed costly treatments, all I did was lay down on my bed and sleep,' she said. 'I believe our bodies have the ability to recover from almost any condition if we relieve imbalances caused by stress. To do this, we must provide our bodies with essential natural elements, including clean air, proper nutrition and pure water, and the missing link, our connection to the natural electrical rhythms of the Earth.' Even athletes, who operate at the most intense levels of physical human performance, have learned to ground and plug in to the natural energy of the Earth. In 1863, the eminent biologist T H Huxley stated that 'the question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that of the determination of our place in nature and our relation to the cosmos.' The content of this book explores that question from the simple perspective that your place in nature, in your immediate cosmos, requires you to be directly and routinely connected to the Earth under your feet. In the pages ahead, we will explore the health implications of mankind's disconnect and present the unusual story about how the disconnect and the reconnect were discovered. You will read accounts of amazing healing from doctors and people from all walks of life. Most importantly, you will learn how easy it is to reconnect, to get Earthed, and to feel better. O Earthing is published by Basic Health Publications, ISBN 978 1 59120 283 7. ODYSSEY?153 •? DIGIMAG