Earthing for Healthy
Blood Pressure and Heart Health
According
to the renowned integrative cardiologist Stephen Sinatra M.D., co-author of
Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever, Earthing can have potent
effects for healthy blood pressure.
“Blood should flow
like red wine—smoothly and easily,” he says. “Too many people have thicker
blood, more like ketchup. That takes a lot more effort from the heart to
circulate, and the pressure against the inside of arteries and blood vessels is
much higher!” Thinning the blood helps to lower blood pressure…and Earthing can
help thin the blood.
“Indications are
that Earthing is indeed a natural solution to thinning the blood,” says Dr.
Sinatra. “Earthing’s positive effects on blood viscosity are so impressive, in
fact, that those on certain medications, such as prescription blood thinners,
need to be careful when beginning an Earthing program.”
Other
studies have shown Earthing may support heart health in other ways, as well,
including reducing stress…balancing the autonomic nervous system…and managing
levels of cholesterol (a stress hormone).
If
we can understand the beauty of nature and how it gives everything it has
selflessly then we can surely lead a life filled with peace and harmony.
It’s
true that nature always so full of love. Amazingly it’s what we want it to be
sometimes warm, sometimes soothing, relieving, refreshing, healing, a little
naughty, and innocent but understanding it’s loving
Yes.
Nurturing the nature amounts to nurturing ourselves. For natural cycles to
remain favorable to us we have to involve our mind and body to keep nurturing
the positive aspects of our ambiance and ecological surroundings. We live in an
interdependent world and can't afford to ignore even a single element of the
nature. This has got to be nurtured scientifically!
To
sustain our inner nature, we need sustenance by outer nature!
Whenever
feel little depleted --just sit all alone under the sky and with nature anywhere
any spot available and feel the difference.
Let
us also give back to nature what we take from her. Resources should be renewed
constantly for survival.
1
Since "Humanity' did not nurture with "Nature", but nurtured on
Nature and also nurtured faster than the Nature its resources are near
depletion. It's high time for humanity to nurture the Nature more and the
Nature must nurture the humanity lesser for replenishment of its resources.
2
Nurture with The Nature refers to nurturing of humanity with equitable
nurturing of the Nature. It means that consumption of the Nature's resources by
humanity must be optimum to keep pace with the Nature's nurturing requirements.
The nurture of the Nature and humanity must be equal in pace and opposite in
nurturing substances [nutrients]. To exemplify oxygen is given off as bye
product in the atmosphere by the plants and vegetation's which is consumed
[inhaled] by animals including human for survival; opposed to this
carbon-di-oxide is emitted by the animals and human as respiratory waste
product, this is consumed by the plants and vegetation's for energy production
through photosynthesis [nutrients and medicinal substances synthesis]. The
excretory waste [faeces and urine] of animals and human are used as fertilizer
to catalyze the plants and vegetation growth rate. Thus plants and human are
interdependent through mechanism of feedback regulation; this applies to other
inanimate forms of the Nature and human.
Far
from the maddening crowd, rainbows shine through silver clouds, songs of birds
echo across flowering valleys, waterfalls cascade down majestic mountains and
we pause to wonder about the poetic painter whose imagination creates sheer
miracles on the canvas of the Universe.
As
the sunflower turns towards the sun to soak in its energies, when we surrender
to the warm embrace of nature, fatigue gives way to vigor and the mind finds
new strength.
‘Nature cures, not
the physician.’ Hippocrates recognized the powerful attribute of nature. In its
pure, unpolluted state, nature contains all the energetic and spiritual
elements needed for life and vitality!
Why
do wind and water, trees and ether have this wondrous effect on us? It’s
because all of creation including the human body comprise of the very elements
that prakriti प्रकृति or nature is made up of. Prakriti प्रकृति and Purusha पुरुष are the two different aspects of the
manifest Brahmn ब्रह्म, known as Iswara ईश्वर. Purush पुरुष sets in motion the entire creative
process and Prakriti प्रकृति gives shape and signifies pure
energy.
Nature
consists of life force or prana प्राण , by which all living entities are
upheld, and, on manifestation, nature takes on the forms of earth, water, fire,
air and ether. When we are physically and emotionally depleted, we lose these
life-sustaining energies and negative energy accumulates, resulting in disease
and disharmony. But nature automatically helps us discharge negative energy and
recharges us with its life giving force! John Muir, the naturalist says,
‘Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad. Whatever is done and suffered by
her creatures, all scars, she heals’!
Here’s
how different elements of nature help rejuvenate and heal us:
Trees
& Air: The energy converting activity of photosynthesis — the constant
cycle of conversion by green plants — maintains the earth’s natural balance of
carbon dioxide and oxygen. In the midst of green trees, our negativity is
absorbed, and replenished with positive energy, making us feel better. A simple
walk in the woods, or sitting under the shade of trees enhances our well-being.
Flowers:
Flowers are powerful energy givers. When someone is unwell, we bring them
flowers, helping them feel better. We also send flowers, along with loving
thoughts to comfort the bereaved. And countless, invaluable herbs like basil
and thyme are used in healing.
Earth:
Just as we try to reach up to the heavens to receive its blessings, we need to
reach down to mother earth to take away our negativity. Spending time in the
garden gives us a calm connect with all of life. As we dig our fingers deep
into the soft earth, we can feel its energy and our spirits soar! Walking
barefoot on the ground or along the beach saying our meditation mantra is also
a powerful way to heal.
Water:
Rivers, lakes and oceans make us part of the flow, washing away resentment and
help us cleanse ourselves physically and emotionally. Bathing is a sacred
renewal, discarding the old and embracing the new.
Fire:
Fire is an active force reflecting the passion and creativity within us. It can
animate and create with its colours of red, orange and yellow. Thus, lighting
diyas दिया
or earthen lamps in our homes, helps keep the environment pure and free
of negativity.
Mountains:
Nature’s peace and the pure air refresh us as we climb up the mountains. They
influence us with their sense of stability and strength as we climb up. We find
the will to touch skies, which otherwise seem unreachable. Sir Edmund Hillary
said, ‘It is not the mountains we conquer, but ourselves’.
Ether:
The fundamental element is ‘Akashik आकाशीय Intelligence’. Turning our hands
upwards and consciously drawing in the blessings from the power we believe in,
will enable the channels in our fingers to open and we will feel life flowing
in with a tingling sensation.
If
constraints do not allow us to ‘get away’, we can receive similar benefits by
gazing at a blue sky overhead or a scenic painting, and practicing visualization. ‘God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and
flowers and clouds and stars’, said Martin Luther.
The
luminous star of Bethlehem led the wise men of the East to the manger where
Jesus was born and Buddha बुध्द found enlightenment under the Bodhi बोधी tree.
Nature
is the flutist and we the flute! When there is no disharmony and ego within,
nature plays incomparable divine music through us.
