There is a big difference between feeling energised and feeling ‘charged’ . The latter is an unpleasant feeling, and I would like to extend your understanding of the electric charges that accumulate and put stress on our body, in this blog.

I had 3 triggers to write this -

• clients always asking about my thoughts on their Earthing mats

• during a training session for Buildingbiologists, a strong interest in Earthing and Body Voltage became obvious

• I was asked to give a presentation in Integrative Medicine about Earthing and Dirty Electricity.

Our bodies are relying on the tiniest of charges to send nerve impulses, or to move ions through cell walls, etc. We are delicate little flowers, like on the image at the top.

If the functioning of our nervous system and our inter-cellular communication are made difficult by external electrical forces, - it causes stress to our body. A problem with this kind of stress is that we don’t feel it. We don’t see a cause, it does not hurt. We are evolutionary programmed to respond to obvious threats, or to signals of pain, to escape unhurt.

In our highly electrified environment, we are surrounded by wires/ cables, that are surrounded by an electric field. These fields want to go to Earth. There is just one little problem, - we live in concrete buildings, on synthetic shoes, insulated furniture, - and the fields have to find the next best thing, which is the human body. All the water and salts, together with the nature of cells is very attractive to electric fields.

As a result, a BODY VOLTAGE builds up. The noise becomes louder and louder, as our body finds it ever harder to maintain its natural functions.

Buildingbiologists can measure this process and give you an indication on your load, especially in bed, - where you should be relaxing and rejuvenating.

On a side-note, research has shown the healing power of Earthing, see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4378297/

Earthing mats, arm-contacts, etc. are widely used (if my clientele are anything to go by), and that can be a problem:

If you connect yourself to Earth, all the fields of the surroundings suddenly start flowing through you! This is not desirable, especially when considering Dirty Electricity and its odd frequencies.

A better solution is -

• Reduce the fields, by shielding the walls/floors with shielding paint

• Move the wires

• Find earth in nature: walk barefoot on grass, swim, garden, hug a tree,

• Use flowing water: Rinse hands and lower arms, shower, take a bath,

Dirty Electricity, DE, is a much used term that strikes horror into every health-aware person’s heart. The term describes all frequencies in our cabling that are not 50/60 Hz. Other frequencies can be harmonics 100/150/200/… or caused by other sources, like poor power supplies or cheap solar inverters.

As DE are also electric fields, they need to be dealt with in exactly the same ways as described, above. Any ‘meters’ that plug into a power point, measure frequencies inside the wiring. It’s like being alarmed about a lion inside a cage: What is outside, matters!

DE filters are expensive solutions, that usually only work for much higher frequencies, above 2000 Hz. Be careful, some heat up and can cause fires, others are sold in pyramid schemes, - beware. If they work, they still don’t filter the harmful fields that are not considered ‘dirty’, - the 50/60 Hz electric fields.

This is it, in a nutshell. Hope that cleared up some misunderstandings and that this information will help you take steps to a better sleeping environment.

There is no place for toxic charges in your bedroom! Peace be with us :-)