Hello to you all!
First of all, thank you to those who wrote to me with their ideas on what video software I should use going forwards, seeing as my favorite software, Skype, was being retired this month. Many of your suggestions were not well-known enough, did not work on PC, Mac, iPhones and/or Android phones, did not have enough security, or simply did not work very well in practice (here’s looking at you Microsoft Teams!). So, I’ve decided to use Zoom in the end even though I find it more awkward that Skype, as it’s been proven to be more stable and it’s well-known by most.
Grounding Experiment
Whilst I was out in the garden playing around with the idea of measuring what grounding does, I thought I’d quickly take pictures and do a video for you. For those that like to watch rather than read here’s my first “video short” on youtube about my little experiment:
The video shows that when I use my multi-meter to look at electrical resistance between my body and the ground, when I am bare-foot in the garden, there is much less electrical resistance compared to when I am wearing my wellies (or gum boots for my American speaking friends!).
I show that when there is no resistance at all, i.e. when I touch the two bare ends of the test wires together, the reading is 0.000 ohms:
When the two test wires are not touching each other nor anything else, it reads as 1 Mega ohm of resistance (the most the multi-meter is able to display), showing that there is virtually no possibility for electricity to pass from one test lead to the other:
When I connect one test lead into the ground and hold the other in my fingers whilst barefoot, the resistance lowered to around 0.300 Mega ohms at it’s best reading today. This indicates that, although my body still has relatively high resistance to the flow of electricity, compared to a copper wire for example, electricity can very much flow through my body, through the grass and into the ground and vice versa:
When I put my wellies, wellington boots or gum boots on – whatever you prefer to call them, the reading is 0.000 again indicating virtually no possibility for electricity to pass through my body, through the boots and into the ground and vice versa:
If it was confusing, basically the higher the resistance, the higher the number on the display. The lower the resistance, the lower the number on the display.
In this experiment, a lower reading means that electricity will find it easier to travel through the body, whereas a higher reading means it is harder to move through the body.
I managed to get it as low as 0.3 Mega-ohms of resistance at best today and as you can see in the video, the position of the foot relative to the sensor, the particle and water content of the soil, how much vegetation is in the way etc all affect the readings.
While it doesn’t prove that electricity is always flowing through the body when grounded (though proven by others with much better equipment than I have!), it at least shows how we are electrically connected to the ground and the potential for electrical movement.
The volt measurement setting on my multi-meter was not sensitive enough to pick up any potential difference between me and the ground unfortunately.
I know many of you that I have been in contact with, can feel the energy move through their feet into the ground and vice versa well enough to not need this information to prove it. I just thought that it would be a nice confirmation with “real-world” equipment and for those that aren’t aware of it yet.
Obviously there are a lot of health and energetic benefits to grounding which is beyond the scope of this short article!
For those interested, I can do more experimental grounding videos for example with different foot-wear and on different surfaces and at different times of the year. It will likely be harder to measure with my equipment through concrete or floor tiles for example, even though I know energy can move through those surfaces when bare-foot, but I can try and see…
