Liferider by Laird Hamilton & Julian Borra

Author:Laird Hamilton & Julian Borra
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Published: 2019-03-11T16:00:00+00:00

The organism is an amazing thing. Take your feet. That wouldn’t be a place to put a nerve ending, let alone a load of them, right? Evolution wouldn’t put them there unless there was a specific reason. That wouldn’t be a place to put nerve endings that connect to every major organ in our bodies—unless it was an efficient or effective thing to do.

That’s the basis of reflexology—the whole thing is based on the fact that we can use pressure on our feet to influence the organs in our body. So that tells you that our feet have been designed to work that way.

Our feet are the external remote for our internal organs. They have a job to do. We’re meant to be absorbing energy from the earth as we walk around, energy that can affect our inner health—or at least we did before shoes got in the way.

This is everyday stuff, right? You don’t need to be hot-footing over a volcanic island to get the benefits of this. Or even standing and balancing on golf balls. Just taking your shoes off more often. Stand in the garden. Walk over some gravel in the drive. That’s a beginning. You can wake your feet up in real easy ways.

There’s clues everywhere to our evolutionary journey. Clues to all of the stages we’ve evolved through. Look at the stages human embryos go through. That’s our journey right there. It’s no surprise. When I broke my collarbone—my doctor goes, “Don’t worry about that [collarbone]. That was just a leftover from when we had wings.”

But my theories aren’t always palatable to everyone.

For example, I always have a debate about sunscreen—and people are always saying, “You don’t use sunscreen…that’s bad.”

Well, maybe. But I believe that my skin’s designed to absorb the sun. Same with my eyes. I don’t wear sunglasses because I believe that my eyes can handle the light that’s created by the sun. So we make our choices. And mine are based on my belief that we are part of the natural world and we’re designed for it. One of my favorite lines is:

“We are it. And it is us.”

I think sometimes there’s a disconnect. We’re the first culture in the history of man that fears the sun. Every other culture throughout history has always worshipped the sun. We’re the first one that’s covering up and getting sunscreen on. We have developed an innate fear of it.

People sometimes forget that without sun, there’s no life. Yes, there are problems with skin cancers developing, the rate of them, but equally there are diseases that you get by not being in the sun enough.

That’s just another example of a disconnect from our bodies and the relationship to the environment—to the world. Our bodies know what to do with this stuff.

Hawaiians have a really clear idea about how all this joins up. How they act together with the universe. I suppose I have absorbed that. Sometimes unknowingly. But I must have done.

Growing up in

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