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There Are Healing Corridors In Your Neighborhood

How To Identify One

4 min readFeb 4, 2025

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Green Healing Corridor. 2024. Photo by Karina Pawlak

It feels different here. A calmness exists here that penetrates deep into your body. Muscles relax. The mind unwinds. And there is something else that seems to be here that is absent in the bustling suburb surrounding it: Magic. It feels as if a fairy may peek out from behind a tree. It feels like if I make a wish here, it will be granted.

It makes me wonder, is this location enchanted? Or am I enchanted and made aware of it by this location?

I take off my sandals and step barefoot on the grass. The Earth’s electrons enter my body and neutralize free radicals. Sounds a bit fringe sciencey? More studies are needed, but so far science backs up “earthing,” aka “grounding.” Here is a link to a study. Either way it feels good. After a few minutes I feel more connected to the Earth. I do this in the summer. Sometimes I do it in the winter. I don’t last very long in the winter.

We are so concerned about whether something is scientific enough nowadays. This makes sense for many things. When it comes to our medications we want rigorous proof. But sometimes we get so stringently didactic about it we close ourselves off from possibilities that are a long way away from being confirmed by a lab or even of such a nature for which an adequate experiment could be set…

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Karina Pawlak
Karina Pawlak

Written by Karina Pawlak

Philosopher. Artist. Powerlifter. Author of Lifting Weights & Growing Organs. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1927023939

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