Originally Posted by
3alarmer
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here is a link to one of the more exotic practitioners of "earthing". Go ahead and skim it, you might learn something.
This is almost always presented as a mental imaging exercise, thus the advice to :
All of these are simple meditation techniques. There's nothing especially new or radical about them, and they are probably borrowed from other disciplines, like yoga or Buddhist meditation techniques. It makes no difference to me or anyone else who uses them with some success whether you think it's a bunch of hooey. After a while, you begin to expect that from the more opinionated. Not a big deal, but why the compulsion to pee on the parade ? Is that how you choose to ground ?
A certain percentage of chronic pain complaint are associated with chronic misuse patterns and with chronic muscle tightness and associated shortening. Meditation is one approach to dealing with them.
You're just cherry-picking what they're saying to take out the electric nonsense. Leaving out the pseudoscience makes it benign or possibly even helpful. If you actually read what I've written, you'll see you're arguing with things I haven't said.
BTW, attacking my motives is classic ad hominem. I expect better from you.