We Walk Wrong

I get a daily dose of stuff in my inbox from Men's Health Magazine and today there was a whole section on the benefits of walking barefoot and why we've been walking wrong all these years. Click here to read this great article.

For the better part of my life I have preferred to walk barefoot. I love the feel of grass and the soil conforming beneath my feet as I walk. In the past two years, I have been practicing fox-walking more and more. When I was at Tracker School last year, there was a whole session on how to walk properly as our ancestors used to do. One of the instructors there even called modern footwear "coffins for our feet." Honestly, other than being barefoot, the only other shoes that I actually like wearing are the hybrid sandals that have become popular in the past few years.

At Tracker School, they offered this insight as to why we shifted from a slower pace to a more damaging one: when we moved from the hunter-gatherer mindset to an agricultural mindset, we needed to make trails/roads to our villages so our walk changed and became faster and in the process we end up damaging our bodies and the earth when we hit with our heel first. Read more by clicking here.

So seriously... take your shoes off and walk barefoot... in the house, the grass, the woods (etc...) you just might start feeling connected to the earth again.