Earthing or grounding has been a movement focused on reconciling humans with nature. It is about walking barefoot and “grounding” to allow the body to receive energy – through free electrons – from the Earth’s magnetic field, and thus reduce the damage caused by the electrical charges of electronic devices and that lead to oxidation. of the body.
This practice, in some way, provides numerous benefits to both physical and mental health. Click here to find out what the energy of nature does in your body, mainly since the energetic negativity of the earth fosters an internal bioelectric environment that establishes normal functioning in all the body’s systems, regularizing the biological clock to body diurnal rhythms. and facilitating new experiences characteristic of mindfulness meditation and psychospiritual transcendence.
There are times when this connection with nature releases a series of experiences that are difficult to describe in just one word. Empowerment, admiration, terror, are just some of the feelings and emotions that Mother Nature is capable of provoking; However, there are other psycho-emotional effects that are impossible for us to encapsulate in a single word, language or culture. For this reason, we share below an infographic that brings together expressions that encompass psychoemotional phenomena through the presence of nature:
Waldeinsamkeit (in German): the feeling of being alone in the forest.
Ammil (in Devonian dialect, Western English): the delicate lacquer of ice that encases the leaves, firewood and grass after a period of freezing followed by a partial thaw in the morning, the entire landscape is dazzling and shiny.
Psithurisma (Greek): the rustling of leaves in the wind.
Gökotta (in Swedish): waking up early in the morning simply to go outside and listen to the first songs of the birds.
Komorebi (in Japanese): flashes of light that dance between the leaves of the trees.
Tuil-Bheum (Scottish Gaelic): a torrent caused by a .
Hanyauku (in Kwangali): the act of walking on tiptoe in hot sand.
Zawn (Cornish): A deep, narrow inlet that is carved by a cliff near the ocean.
Mangata (Swedish): A bright, shining path created by the reflection of the moon on the sea.
Poronkusema (in Finnish): An obsolete term that describes the distance a reindeer can travel without needing a break.
Kalpa (Sanskrit): the passage of time on a vast, cosmological scale.
Turadh (in Scottish Gaelic): the momentary disappearance of clouds between rains.
Utepils (in Norwegian): enjoying a beer outside the home on a sunny day.
Rudenèja (in Lithuanian): the way nature begins to sense the arrival of autumn.
Shemesh Khola (in Hebrew): “sun sick” or when it is sunny but it feels cold.
Plimpplamplettere (in Dutch): when stones jump along the .
Uitwaaien (in Dutch): The literal translation is “walking in the wind” or walking while there is wind in the countryside to clear the mind.
Wabi-Sabi (in Japanese): finding beauty in imperfection or impermanence, apprehending the natural cycle of birth and death.
Hanibaram (in Korean): the dry, cold winds that blow from the west on a calm day.
Petrichor (in English): the wholeness, the smell of the earth that emerges after the rain.
Kachou Fuugetsu (in Japanese): when the wonder and beauty of nature allows for self-discovery.