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    ZEN and the art of GOING BAREFOOT

    Aug 25, 2019 4 minutes

    These days I’m going barefoot. It’s real nice on your feet; at night they glow like warm coals. Bringing my attention into them brings me instant sleep.

    The benefits of bare

    I’m saving on buying new shoes. I’m not contributing to the massive pile of plastic submerging our poor home Earth. I have another point of connection with the earth.

    Also, I have inherited varicose veins from both parents, and wanted to explore my theory that more bone and tendon movement would help pump the blood more efficiently up my legs. It has helped.

    I got further inspired by the barefoot runners of Mexico, a guy called Barefoot Ted who is famous on the distance running circuit and that pretty cool book by Christopher McDougall.

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