My good friend Linda shares a post on Facebook about Earthing and I am transported back to my childhood.

Walking, running, being barefoot meant summer had arrived. School was out and shoes went from daily protocol to being lost in a closet or under a bed.

Barefoot. By midsummer the goal was to be able to run on stones and feel nothing. I loved it and we ran everywhere. It meant freedom, feeling wild, no restrictions.

Then September arrived and squeezing back into the confines of a shoe felt tight, unnatural, uncomfortable. Soon the shoe became the norm and the freedom of my feet would have to wait  till the calendar returned to where I could once again connect with the earth.

Today I rarely allow bare feet. Not sure why. I don’t have a yard. My outdoors is my terrace – concrete. Pretty, but nonetheless, concrete.

But the Earthing video on Facebook, found me thinking. Where could I go and walk barefoot? I live in the city. Green areas, parks,  are full of geese or people walking dogs. This translates into pee and poo. So where can I go?

When I was a kid in the country, I don’t remember concerning myself with what had taken place on the ground that I ran on.

Who knew that walking barefoot could be such a challenge. 

And there I am on an afternoon walk in Rockway Gardens, a gem in our city and I hear, “This is it.”

I sit down and take off my shoes. I am back. Bare feet and the feel of cool grass, I connect and we are one and off I go. 

People I pass, smile. One of the Rockway Gardners calls out, “If I wasn’t working I’d be doing this.” 

So now my walks are with my shoes in hand and not on my feet.

A few blogs back, I wrote about a man I saw in the woods on a trail in a nook of the city who was Earthing. And I was the one smiling and commenting on his choice.

I felt how he must feel connecting to the cool earth on the souls of his feet. Alive and happy. Months later, Life sends me a reminder, and finally I am following his lead.

We need the Earth, grounding is as essential as air and sun. 

The Earth recharges us  with Electrons, we ground, we reconnect. Balancing and healing, the Earth is there for all.

The Electrical Magnetic Frequencies that we subject ourselves with daily deplete us on all levels. We must return and remember that innately we know this.

Now it is October and I have yet to publish this blog and I’m thinking it’s too late. Fall is upon us and snow is pending.

And then I find myself in the woods where I first saw the man in early Spring with shoes in hand.

And yes, it’s October and the air has begun to chill and the leaves have begun to fall. 

But the Earth whispers to me and I take off my shoes and I walk.

A family passes and a man calls out, “Cool, barefoot!”

I pass a mother and child and they are in search of ‘swamp monsters’ and I think of Pooh a very interesting bear and his adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood with Christopher Robin and I feel good and full of innocence.

Cold weather is here and walking barefoot may no longer be ideal till Spring  presents itself again. I’ve given thought to this.

Regardless of the temperature, we must get out and connect to nature and when bare feet on the earth is not comfortable we can close our eyes and breathe and in our minds eye we can see ourselves barefoot in the dark soil, the green grass, the cool fallen leaves or the warmth of shoreline sands.

We are beings of Energy and we must connect to the energy of our Earth.

Please do not disconnect from our planet. We must remain one and remember, connection is not found in front of a screen. It is outside our front door, in our gardens, our parks, our wooded areas, our shorelines. 

Nature needs us to remember for its salvation.

We need to remember for our salvation.

earthingcanada.ca “The Earthing Movie”  

Photos by; Sharon Cooke