Gardening in Style

I got all inspired yesterday after watching a documentary called GROUNDED. Long story short there are quite a few benefits from connecting with the earth or “grounding”. I fully subscribe to this idea, well, I am a gardener and without any doubt always feel recharged after working in the garden. The deeper belief here though is our mirroring or relationship with air, water and earth. Most of us get the air and water part of the scenario but we overlook our relationship with our mother earth. We all need earthing regularly. When was the last time you walked barefoot? Apparently this is something that we should all be doing more of. I was remembering the other day how my two girls, the elder one especially as a child, whenever it rained she would strip off and run outside and play in the rain. My kids never wore shoes, they played outside all weathers and made contact with the earth, the grass, the trees and the waterways on our small piece of heaven here in the Beautiful Puhoi Valley. I guess it’s true that we as a race are evolving and changing but we are still made of flesh and blood and we are still inhabitants of this earth. Ko Papatuanuku te whaea tena koe. Read the full post.

So anyways yesterday I spent the afternoon gardening. I put on my gardening footwear; heavy socks and gumboots and tried to get myself comfy to start weeding the vege garden. Well you know how you never can in gumboots, it’s just impossible so I thought stuff it and decided to garden barefoot.
Truly, what a pleasure that was. I must confess in the warmer months I have been known to strip off and garden just in my undies. There is nothing quite like it. It’s the difference between going for a skinny dip and swimming fully clothed. It’s freedom. When you feel the air circulating all around and over you, it’s a wonderful feeling.? Don’t get me wrong I’m not a naturalist. I don’t feel the need to go on holidays or play tennis with naked people.

Well yesterday after my barefoot gardening my feet have felt different. Or maybe I feel different, whatever it is, it’s a good feeling. It feels a little like my feet have woken up, from what I’m not sure. Definitely though today there was a nice tingley feeling in my feet. I wore socks and sneakers most of today but my feet felt more energetic and happier to be carting me around. So yup I’m intending to treat my feet to some air time, grass time, earth time on a regular basis. Maybe it will become second nature for me to walk outdoors without shoes, I’m hoping so.