Earthing & The Immune System
Earthing provides three MAJOR components to the immune system.
1) The electrical current that we've discussed above. When your child's body is functioning the way that it was created to function, you are able to fight off viruses, bacteria, infections and any other germs that choose to invade your body.
2) Fresh air. Your child's body NEEDS fresh air. Studies are now proving that because of the toxic chemicals in our homes, even in the heart of polluted cities, the air is less toxic outside our homes than inside. Getting outside and giving their lungs the chance to breathe deep and pull in clean air gives our bodies an essential tools needed to boost our immune system. The lungs themselves are used to detox our bodies. If our lungs are filled with polluted air they can't detox.
3) Vitamin D. This vitamin is so crucially essential for our health it is the least known for keeping the common cold away. Everyone turns to vitamin C when the colds begin to go around, but Vitamin D is even more important! Spending time in the sunshine will help your child boost their vitamin D in their body!
- It is important to note: viruses do not die in warm weather or go away in the summer time because of the heat. Viruses are a problem all year round, this is why we get summer colds when our immune system is low. We do not get sick in the summer because we are outside earthing. Even if we're not doing it on purpose the opportunities for us to be practicing earthing happen all the time in the summer vs the winter. If you want to boost your child's immune system get outside!
A cold won't stand a chance against your super charged immune system!
Outside Ideas
This is just a list of ideas and not by any means exhaustive.
- Read a books
- Listen to music
- Listen to an audiobook
- Play solitaire (or any card game)
- Lay on your back and watch the clouds, trees, stars or moon.
- Meditate or focus on your breath
- Memorise a poem or Bible verse
- Spend time in Prayer
- Make up rhyme
- Tell stories
- Practice Yoga (on a cloth mat)
- Stretch
- Massage each others feet
- Find their favorite treasures (rocks, sticks, leaves, flowers, etc.)
- Paint your daughters nails (with nontoxic paint)
- Stack Rocks
- Garden (barefoot)
- Watch a sunrise or sunset
- Talks
- Share a meal
- Play with your pets
- Make a fort with sticks, blankets, a tarp
- Forage for herbs
Moon Bathing
What is Moon Bathing?
It's exactly what it sounds like. It's earthing at night!
So all of the same things; walking barefoot, laying on the ground, sitting on the ground or swimming in a natural body of water that is adjoined to the ground.
This will drastically help the immune system by keeping hormones and sense of time! Which of course boosts the immune system!