Put your bare feet on the actual ground as often as possible.

“For sure… put your bare feet on the actual ground as often as possible… mostly follow Michael Pollan’s nutrition guidelines… find some sort of ritual with cold water you can enjoy… and connect and create with the people in your life…”

In 2009, I first heard of this whole “earthing” thing. I had just gotten back from Niger, where I served as a natural resource management “expert” in The Peace Corps, and, needless to say, I was open to anything…

Putting my feet on the actual ground may or may not have had any energetic or electromagnetic effect, but it sure catalyzed some sort of new awareness. The rest, I guess, was like gravity.

Before I knew it, like so many other people at this point, I inevitably began to reevaluate how and what and when I ate, and, once it got cold, I continued to figure out how to “stay grounded”.

It really was just like following the breadcrumbs, until one day, many years later, I learned about this thing called ice bathing, I made sense of the nuts and bolts of basic nutrition, and I proved to myself that our feet really are actually “paws” 🐾 .

Needless to say, with this foundation, the rest has just been breathing, moving, and exploring. It has been pretty groovy since 2009, and it surprisingly continues to just make more and more sense. Bare feet… cold water… balanced eating… fresh air and natural light… deep, slow, nasal breathing, and a whole lot of intentional time with people I love.

On a collective scale, and on a global scale, we obviously need to figure out how to heal and how to reform our foundations. On a personal scale, though, this is a great start. Good news is… this☝️will inevitably improve the whole.