I just spent a couple of hours in my back yard putting in a garden
and loved every minute of it, especially sitting on the grass with my
barefeet in the freshly exposed dirt and pulling the dirt out of the
cut sod with my hands. I felt really connected to the earth and calm,
more so than when I go barefoot walking. My wife asked me yesterday
about my involuntary movements. I told her that it's just a side
effect of kundalini rising and a sign that I need to get back to
barefoot walking, which I haven't been doing for the last couple of
months because we moved and our new house is not close to a dirt
path. We used to live right next to a desert area with dirt bike
trails. It was okay, but people ignored the NO DUMPING sign and would
dump their garbage in there, plus dirt bikers and ATVers and paint
ball warriors would frequent it. So I didn't look forward to driving
to this desert and putting up with the garbage and noise. Last night
I had the idea of starting a garden instead of barefoot walking. I
would spend an hour every day after work with my bare feet and hands
in the garden. I believe that this would be a viable alternative to
barefoot walking. And it's something most people can do. Not everyone
lives near a sand or dirt trail, but most people have a back yard.
The patron saint of gardeners, Saint Friacre, used to heal mentally
ill people by just having them work in a garden. Thus gardening must
have some grounding effect on the psyche.

Wayne