Earthing

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Has anyone tried Earthing?
Who wants to make a grounding sheet with me? It's cheap and it ll be fun

Here is a link:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=yout ... 3Dyoutu.be

While I do take care to frequently walk barefoot on the ground and lie in the grass, the idea of sleeping on the grounding sheet makes me nervous. For the record, I never used an electric blanket either. The googled anecdotes are either positive or neutral (reporting no effect) and nobody says they felt worse. But even so the idea of conducting electricity into my bed gives me a bad feeling. If you do this, I eagerly await your report since I know you aren't a shill for the mat makers. But until it gathers more evidence I'm going to stick to unmediated earth contact via my bare feet.

I didn't have a chance to watch the whole video, but of what I saw looked nice. Hope you have a chance to give earthing a try! I'm a fan. I've been grounding myself at night for over a month and the main changes I have noticed is my sleep greatly improved along with aches and pains being less.
Thought to mention a concern I've seen mentioned about home made grounding sheets is the lack of a safety electrical resistor being used. It might be mentioned in the video, but if not resistors cost 50 cents from electric stores from what I recall seeing in another video.

From the little that I know of heating radiators, that makes sense.

I recall reading that many homes electrical systems are grounded on the water plumbing pipes, when metal is used to supply water, running through homes.

Ya I've heard that too .. about the water pipes. I don't even know where to look first - behind the socket plates?
As for the heating radiators, I just have heat vents (the flat ones). I don't know if that would work for this project. I can try the window for my son's room but it'll be hard to do and I worry about lightening outside and how it will affect the rod, even though it'll be dug below the ground.

I went to the hardware store the other day to ask for a voltmeter. Long story short, he asked me what I needed it for and I mentioned .. "I need to make a grounding blanket." .. and then came the moment of silence and the peculiar look. He asked me what it was so I just said, "Something to help with vitamin G deficiencies" .. another strange look .. hahahahah

Lightning

One of the most common technical questions asked about Earthing is: Do I have to worry about lightning if I am grounded to the Earth?

Lightning is a massive natural phenomenon that is unpredictable and challenging to totally protect against. It is poorly understood. The following will help you understand how and usually when lightning occurs and what is your likelihood of being hit when grounded to the Earth.

Most lightning strikes occur in the summer during the afternoon (70 percent between noon and 6:00 p.m.). As the air temperature warms, evaporation increases. The warm moist air rises and forms fluffy cumulus clouds. As the moisture accumulates, the clouds darken and change into cumulonimbus or thunderstorm clouds with a flattened base and puffy top reaching as high as 40.000 feet. The upper portion of a thunderstorm cloud develops a positive electrical charge, and the bottom of the cloud develops a negative charge. Negative charges repel negative charges and attract positive charges. So, as the thundercloud passes overhead, a concentration of positive charges accumulates in and on all conductive objects below the cloud. Since negative charges closer to the clouds are most efficiently repelled by the negative charges of the cloud, positive charges tend to accumulate at the top of the highest objects on the ground. In most cases that means high ground, trees, communication towers, and aerial power, telephone, and cable TV lines. It could also be you – if you are standing out in the open and are the tallest object in the area. Example: you are out playing golf and standing in the middle of the fairway.

Homes are rarely hit by lightning. When it does occur, the lightning most often takes the path of least resistance to the ground. Generally, the path of least resistance to ground in a home would include large conductive systems like the plumbing pipes, electrical wiring network, or telephone and cable TV lines, all of which are directly grounded to the Earth.

The National Safety Council reports that your odds of dying from a lightning strike in one year are 1 in 6 million. To put this in perspective, your odds of being hit and killed by an automobile as a pedestrian in the same period are 1 in fifty thousand – a risk 120 times greater. This information suggests that being hit by lightning is rather unlikely. However, follow standard lightning safety guidelines as directed by National Weather Service http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/ if you live in a lightning-prone area. Disconnect your Earthing device and don’t use it during lightning and thunderstorms.

This article is quoted from Clinton Ober’s “Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever?”

-EARTHING OZ

Ok. I caved and bought the starter's kit LOL

I'm waiting impatiently..