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Imagination is one of the great gifts of being human. It gives us profound joy and is like the exotic spices that turn a tasteless meal into a delight. If you've ever witnessed young children turn a trip to the dentist, a dusty walk, or a daily chore into an adventure, you've seen the power of imagination. It gives hope, helps us to forget troubles and focus on what really matters and prevents us from taking life too seriously. This playful capacity of humans brings us into our hearts and connects us with each other. Imagination helps us to create and express our inner world or something beyond ourselves."The man who has no imagination has no wings." - Muhammad Ali
If a sound in the external world occurs right before something painful happens, you associate that sound with the painful event and then that sound will then later trigger a protective defense response. But if the sound occurs just before food, when you're hungry, then the sound will be associated with that kind of a positive or a repetitive event. -Joseph Ledoux, the Big Think
Grounding, a Proven Healing Method
In 2012, assisted by other researchers, I published a review study on the health implications of grounding in the Journal of Environmental and Public Health. We reviewed and summarized more than 15 studies on grounding, as well as many others on the effects of Earth's electrons on health. Basically, what we concluded from our review is that grounding helps improve cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, nervous, and immune system function by restoring the body's natural internal electrical stability and rhythms.
It also restores the body's healing potential. This study, along with my more than 10 years of research and observations, support that for many, daily grounding activity can:
- Decrease inflammation as well as assuage its physical symptoms
- Reduce or eliminate chronic pain
- Improve sleep
- Increase energy
- Thin blood and improve blood pressure and blood flow
- Relieve muscle tension and headaches
- Lessen hormonal and menstrual symptoms
- Speed healing, even after surgery, and prevent bedsores
- Alleviate or eliminate jet lag
- Protect the body against potentially health-disturbing environmental electromagnetic fields (EMFs)
- Accelerate recovery from intense athletic activity
- Balance the autonomic nervous system by decreasing sympathetic and increasing parasympathetic nervous activity: When dealing with challenges and stressful situations, we use our sympathetic nervous system and expend energy. When we're calm and relaxed, our parasympathetic nervous system kicks in, so the body can repair and restore itself.
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