Connecting to the Earth
Our Primary Life Support System
From the dawn of life on Earth, the planet has had what's known as "natural frequency." The Earth's natural frequency is called the Schumann Resonance, which pulsates at a rate of 7.83 hertz and has been called the “heartbeat of the Earth” due to its rhythmic, consistent nature. This frequency is generated by electrical activity within the Earth's atmosphere, primarily from lightning strikes. It surrounds and protects all living things on the planet.
While research on the benefits of Schumann resonance is ongoing, multiple studies suggest that the Schumann frequency of 7.83 Hz positively affects human health and well-being. Scientific studies show that the human brain reaches its ultimate potential for health and wellness when it resonates with the Earth's 7.83-hertz frequency. Staying in sync with the Earth's natural frequency can positively affect physical and mental health and daily performance and promote overall well-being. It has been linked to improved cognitive functions, reduced stress and anxiety, enhanced immune function, sleep function, and much more.[1]
Our inner shaman knows that our physical, emotional and spiritual health is directly related to our relationship with the Earth and Nature. In fact, we are of the Earth. Humans share many minerals with the Earth, including calcium, iron, sodium, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, silicon, and oxygen. What is surprising is that, when asked where these chemicals come from, many people answer that our body "makes them." When cell division takes place in the human body, where do the chemical elements come from that make up the new cells? Again, many people say that the body makes these chemicals. However, according to Bill Size, associate professor and director of the Geosciences Program, interim director of the Human and Natural Ecology Program, and former chairman of the Senate committee on the environment, a more accurate answer is that these chemicals come from the cycling of air, water and minerals between the earth and the human body. The earth is our primary life-support system, supplying our basic needs for minerals, water and air. Size continues that the earth's crust contains most of the mineral nutrients our body needs. Instead of eating chunks of the earth for meeting our mineral nutrients, we rely on geologic processes such as weathering to chemically break down rocks into other natural materials, such as soil, that contain minerals more easily dissolved by the acid around roots of plants. The dissolved mineral elements are then incorporated into the plant and stored for our consumption by the plants that we eat or by some animal that we may eat.
What are these common chemical elements found in rocks and our body? We are mostly water, about 62 percent by weight, and we must replenish our water budget daily or our body functions will be affected. Our planet is called the "Blue" or "Water Planet" because about 75 percent of the surface of the earth is covered by water. The earth's crust contains most of the 100 or so chemical elements discovered thus far. Only eight of them make up more than 98 percent of the crust. These are, in order of abundance, oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium. In addition to water, we are composed of about 6 percent minerals: calcium, phosphorous, potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, magnesium and iron. Do you see the similarity?[2]
However, our relationship with the earth is a lot more than just minerals, water and air. As indigenous activists Sonia Guajajara and Celia Xakriaba remind us in a letter as part of the exhibition, Our Time on Earth, “we are the Earth. We arise from the Earth and we return to it. The Earth is within us. The Earth is our sister, our daughter, our aunt, our mother, our grandmother. The earth is our womb, our food, our cure. The power of our chants connects us to the charms of our ancestors. We are the ones who – through our hearts – hear the cry of the Earth. In the echo of this cry, the daughters and sons of the Earth cry too. We are the ones who no longer wish to remain deaf. Nor in silence. We have seen daughters and sons die at the hands of the colonizers. We cry with the fire that burned Galdino; with the cowardice that stoned the baby breastfeeding its mother. With the genocide – of the black body, of Indigenous peoples. We are the seed, the root, the forest, the rivers, the woods, the animals, the cosmos. Our chanting is ancestral. We never sing alone. We are relatives. The collective inhabits us.”[3]
When realize that everything is energy and that the energy of the one is continually exchanging energy with the other, we can with our conscious intention connect to the frequency of the earth to positively affect our health and well-being.
Below is a mediation for connecting with heartbeat of the earth and uploading into our luminous energy field the energy of the earth. It is good practice to take just 5 minutes several times a day and with your breath and intention connect to the earth’s heartbeat. Enjoy!
[1] HOW THE EARTHS NATURAL FREQUENCY IMPACTS HUMAN WELLBEING, https://www.biotonomy.com/post/how-electromagnetic-pollution-in-buildings-effect-our-wellbeing
[2] Size, Bill. Minerals are Links between the Earth and Human Health, https://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/1998/September/erseptember.21/9_21_98Size.html
[3] We Are the Earth: A Letter from Indigenous Leaders, https://www.barbican.org.uk/read-watch-listen/we-are-the-earth-a-letter-from-indigenous-leaders
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