Organic NZ – September 2019

44 September/October 2019 Promote • Educate

Your Health Naturally

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THE Future IS HERE!

STEM CELL ACTIVATION THERAPY

The LifeWave X39TM patch is now available.

It works by activating stem cells providing

many health benefits and is backed

by multiple clinical studies and

20 years of development.

• Rapid Pain Relief


• Energy & Vitality


• Supports Wound Healing
  
  
  • Reduced Inflammation
  
  
  • Mental Clarity
  
  
  • Improved Skin Appearance
  
  
  
  

Benefits include:

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hese days I’m going barefoot. It’s real nice on your feet; at

night they glow like warm coals. Bringing my attention into

them brings me instant sleep.

The benefits of bare

I’m saving on buying new shoes. I’m not contributing to the massive

pile of plastic submerging our poor home Earth. I have another

point of connection with the earth.

Also, I have inherited varicose veins from both parents, and

wanted to explore my theory that more bone and tendon movement

would help pump the blood more efficiently up my legs. It has

helped.

I got further inspired by the barefoot runners of Mexico, a guy

called Barefoot Ted who is famous on the distance running circuit

and that pretty cool book Born to Run by Christopher McDougall.

The benefits are better sleep; increased present-moment time

(it’s harder for you to be elsewhere in your mind, so it’s a great

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meditation technique); and safer walking as you can quickly tell

your traction so there’s less slipping and falling.

Naked in nature

Weirdly it’s not nature that gives the feet a going-over – the surfaces

created for shoes are the worst. The sharp stone chips made by

machines, asphalt  which kind of burns, and the abrasiveness of

concrete – there is nothing I have found in nature that has such

sustained pain when walking across it.

My biggest barefoot tramp so far was an overnight stay at Totara

Flats hut in the Tararuas with friends – a four-and-a-half hour

flattish walk up the Waiohine River and back. Before that I had

scaled Maharahara Peak in the Ruahine Ranges and done a few day

walks in the Tararuas. I purposely took a light pack to lessen the

weight on my feet.

The only real problems were human-induced ones. The swing

bridge at the carpark end, with those metal strips designed for shoes

only! And the coarse metal chip nearing the road end.

On this walk I realised I had a ‘feeling map’ of our walk – much

the same way as you visually remember a walk: the river here, a slip

there, a steep walk over a ridge. You have the same thing going on