The Body Still Knows the Ground

Before shoes, before floors, before rubber and asphalt, the body stayed in contact with the earth. Skin to soil. Not as a ritual, but as a condition. Today it’s called grounding—or earthing—the practice of making direct physical contact with the surface of the earth. Proponents say it reduces inflammation, stabilizes circadian rhythms, improves sleep. That it restores something modern life has interrupted.

The science is cautious. A small number of peer-reviewed studies suggest that grounding affects blood viscosity, cortisol levels, and electrical charge at the skin’s surface. The body, it turns out, carries voltage. And the earth holds a negative potential—a quiet charge that doesn’t pulse like artificial current, but flows steadily, without interruption.

Traditional cultures didn’t measure it. They just lived it. The earth wasn’t treated as neutral—it was a source. And the body, whether modern medicine accepts it or not, still seems to remember what contact feels like.

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