Wednesday, February 26, 2014

11 JOYS OF WALKING BARE FEET:



1. Heightens Awareness: It’s hard not to pay attention to every step when you’re walking barefoot to avoid sharp rocks and thorns. Allows focusing on the moment, quietens your inner chatter, and clears your mind. 

2. For Poise and Balance: Strengthens and stretches the muscles, tendons and ligaments in your feet, ankles and calves, supporting the stress on knees and back. It strengthens and stretches your core, help maintain the right posture, and your balance spot on. 

3. Natural Reflexology: The soles of our feet contain intricate (and sensitive) network of nerves and acupuncture points. Undulating surfaces help trigger these reflex points and stimulate the various body functions. 

4. Anti-Depressant: Walking barefeet on the seashore or dewy grass, helps decrease anxiety and depression by almost 62% by increasing the levels of those feel good endorphins. 

5. Accelerates healing: Salt water is an incredible source of free electrons. Walking or working out on the beach, helps to speed tissue repair and recovery from extreme athletic activity 

6. Ensures Restful Sleep: Through ages, patients with sleep disorders like insomnia and sleep apnea, have found considerable relief by walking bare feet a few minutes, on grass or the seashore. 

7. Ion Neutralizer: Body is a great electrical conductor as it contains 70% water. The earth has a negative ionic charge and grounding happens when our positive charged body comes in contact with earth. Negative Ions have been proven to detoxify, calm, reduce inflammation, synchronise your internal clocks, hormonal cycles and physiological rhythms. 

8. EMF Protector: Equilibrium, between our body’s and Earth's electrical potential, through a transfer of electrons, from the Earth to the body, safeguards us against the electromagnetic fields, generated by electrical/electronic devices. 

9. Anti Oxidant: The contact of bare feet, with the negatively charged earth, neutralizes positive charged free radicals, in our body. By scavenging and neutralizing free radicals in the body, these antioxidants help to ease inflammation as well as cell and tissue damage. 

10. Connects with Nature: The positive side effects of a walk in the park or on the beach are natural pleasures of the warm sun rays, the gentle breeze and the chirping of the birds…things that you take for granted and neglect normally. Helps link up with Mother Nature. 

11. Health Rejuvenator: People who walk bare feet have reduced instances of inflammation-related disorders, chronic pain, sleep disorders, low energy, high stress, muscle tension, headaches, and hormonal and menstrual (PMS) symptoms.

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