Gardening barefoot
Return to DiscussionsGoing barefoot in the garden is good for you on so many levels. As you mentioned, the tactile feel allows you to sense things first before they get stepped on and crushed. Also, the ground has a slight negative charge to it and when we put our bare hands or feet on the soil our body soaks up a whole bunch of those electrons that act like anti-oxidants. As a modern society, we tend to spend out time insulated from the earth when we walk in shoes, drive in rubber tired cars and live inside on carpet and linoleum. This is often called "grounding" or "earthing" if you want to do your own research.
Going barefoot in the garden is good for you on so many levels. As you mentioned, the tactile feel allows you to sense things first before they get stepped on and crushed. Also, the ground has a slight negative charge to it and when we put our bare hands or feet on the soil our body soaks up a whole bunch of those electrons that act like anti-oxidants. As a modern society, we tend to spend out time insulated from the earth when we walk in shoes, drive in rubber tired cars and live inside on carpet and linoleum. This is often called "grounding" or "earthing" if you want to do your own research.
I agree! It does have it's many benefits.
I just prefer being barefoot ... even if I have to wear clothes. I do so very often and because I do and because my wife and I love to sleep and have our feet andbodies touchor lie feet to feet on the couch, with our feet touching ... I go with her to the salon and have pedicures at least once a month. I've had more women, than not, say ... "could you talk to my husband/boyfriend and tell him getting pedicures are not just for woman! His feet are nasty!"
I've been having pedicures done for years and I like that my feet are nice to look at and they are nice to feel, for me and my wife. I shave my face, pubic hair, wash my hair and shower daily. I get hair cuts on a regular basis and I find it a little strange that a guy will do all that do take care of himself but will stop at his ankles and not take care of his feet. Some of the guys feet, we've seen at the clubs and resorts, look like they belong on Hobbits! :D
Gardening barefoot may be healthy but for me ... it just feels good to have the grass and soil underfoot. I will, however, slip on flip flops if I venture onto the lava rock. Pedicures has made my feet a little more sensitive and tender! :-)
Just curious ... is being barefoot a pre-requisite to being a full fledge nudist?
Of course you will see nudists wearing some sort of footwear at clubs and resorts. Rough, hot pavements, sharp rocks, branches, twigs, dog droppings, auto fluids ... there are many things on the walking surface that you'd need footwear to protect yourself from. If you don't like or want to wear footwear ... that's a personal choice but it sure doesn't make one naked person that only goes barefoot anymore a nudist than the one that happens to wear footwear from time to time.
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Just curious ... is being barefoot a pre-requisite to being a full fledge nudist? Of course you will see nudists wearing some sort of footwear at clubs and resorts. Rough, hot pavements, sharp rocks, branches, twigs, dog droppings, auto fluids ... there are many things on the walking surface that you'd need footwear to protect yourself from. If you don't like or want to wear footwear ... that's a personal choice but it sure doesn't make one naked person that only goes barefoot anymore a nudist than the one that happens to wear footwear from time to time.;-)
I don't think so - like you said, it's a matter of personal choice. If the walking surface is uncomfortable for me I have no problem putting on the sandals.
I love to do my gardening and to walk naked and barefoot. But I don't want discomfort to spoil my enjoyment so will wear some footwear on a rough surface or if there are thorns around. Secure footwear is also sensible when climbing - whether its a ladder, a steep slopeor rocks.