electricity

What a $30,000 Flashlight Taught Me About Life

August 30, 2016 By Julian Kaufmann

It’s back to school time; Fall is coming and football season is upon us. Meanwhile, my oldest daughter is entering into her final semester of college, and I am feeling a bit nostalgic. And truth be told, a little older now as well. It is hard to believe that 30-years have almost past since my senior year in college.

https://vimeo.com/180499771

I received an electrical engineering degree from Clemson University in 1987. Today it costs about $30,000 a year to attend Clemson, and it was worth all that and more to me. Clemson taught me so much about electricity and helped prepare me for so much in life by teaching me how to learn.

During my sophomore year, I took an introductory circuits class and we learned the most basic of all circuits – the flashlight. Flashlights are comprised of:
1) A power source – the batteries (V = volts)
2) Conductors – the metal material that conducts the electrical current from the power source to and from the filament (I = current)
3) The lamp or filament (the light bulb) (R = resistance)
4) A switch to start or stop the flow of electrical current

Today it would cost me over $30,000 to get to the point in college where I would learn about the flashlight. The following is a simplified circuit diagram of a flashlight:

In addition to forming the foundation for understanding more complex, circuits, the flashlight also provided me a framework in which to explain God and the spiritual energy that animates life and the universe.

In a flashlight, the power source is typically a battery. A battery provides the voltage – the electromagnetic force that causes the electrons to flow through the circuit. In life, we have a higher power that is the source and force behind all there is. This higher power is God. Like the metal conductors in the flashlight, we conduct energy as well. We are conductors of the flow of divine energy that emanate from God. Our light is more than a bulb, it is our soul’s expression of the divine expressing through us.

If you would like to learn more, please visit me at juliankaufmann and become a Prime Mover today. To join is free and you will receive access to my e-book – Why Less Is More – The Simple Science of How to Get More Energy Out of Your Life. A prime mover converts energy from one form into another and does work in the process. That is what we do! We take the energy of God and then convert this into our life’s work.

Namaste — from my light to yours!

7-Benefits Of Being Grounded

May 24, 2016 By Julian Kaufmann

Humans evolved in environments that included us walking barefoot on the earth and sleeping on the ground or in trees.

Yet over time as we have become more sophisticated and economically prosperous, we have become more disconnected with the earth’s energy. Today we live in concrete filled cities, wearing shoes for most of our day and rarely, except on vacation, allow our feet to make contact with mother earth.

It is little wonder that our energy may seem low or that we feel disconnected from life.

For we are energetic beings and electrical energy animates everything we do.

Consider that our brains produce electrical signals that control all of our functions and our bodies emit an energy field. Just like it is critical that your home’s electrical system is properly grounded so too is it important that your body is grounded as well.

Earthing is a term for making contact with the natural ground with our bodies– be it grass or beach sand. The theory with earthing is that being in contact with the earth allows negatively charged electrons emitted by the earth to flow into our system.

Grounding on the other hand is a principle in which you remove any voltage from your body by electrically connecting to a ground rod driven into the earth. You can ground yourself by connecting your body to your homes neutral wire.

The following are some ways that earthing and/or grounding may benefit you:

Sleep Better

Studies show that grounding helps improve the quality of sleep. Early indicators suggest this is related to lowering levels of cortisol in the system and resynchronizing the 24-circadian rhythm profile.

If sleeping on the ground is not an option or does not seem appealing to you, you can try sleeping on “grounding sheets”. These electrically conductive sheets are electrically connected to your home’s neutral wire by being plugged into the electrical wall socket.

Reduce Chronic Inflammation

Inflammation is strongly associated with chronic illness and reducing it can help improve symptoms of conditions and allow your body to heal faster. Inflammation results from oxidation caused by free radicals being released into your body. Stress, poor diets and other environmental factors contribute to oxidative stress in the body.

Earthing advocates believe that the earth emits excess electrons into our bodies, counteracting the free-radical induced inflammation. In essence the earth brings balance to our bodies by donating excess electrons that otherwise are lost due to the stress we experience.

Stop Being Shocked

Getting your body more grounded can help reduce how often and how severely you get shocked from static electricity. By being grounded you discharge any voltage in your body before the static charge can build up.

Improved Mood

Being in nature has been shown to improve people’s mood. Camping, hiking or simply spending time in a city park can do wonders for a person’s demeanor. Escaping the concrete jungle for a relaxing respite in nature is a wonderful thing. The next time you are at a park bench – kick off your shoes and put your feet in the grass.

Heal Faster

Experiments have shown how grounded flowers live and bloom much longer than their ungrounded counterparts. In addition, people have been shown to heal faster by being grounded as well. Injured racers in the Tour De France already take advantage of this fact by using special bags and other connections to ground themselves and recover.

Improve Cardiac and Circulatory Health

A study has shown that grounding helps improve blood flow. Red blood cells are high in iron a magnetic mineral. When you ground the body, the cells end up with the same charge and repel each other allowing less clumping.

Recover Faster from Workouts

Are you tired of having sore muscles after working out? Being regularly grounded can help you recover more rapidly from Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) and see muscle function improve as a result. This can help you reduce the amount of time you spend with an ice pack, trying to soothe your sore muscles so you can get back in the game.

Getting Grounded

Unfortunately the shoes we wear act as insulators prevent us from making contact with the earth. One way easy way to get grounded is to take your shoes off and walk barefoot. If you camp and sleep on the ground your body is closer to the ground of course and depending on your sleeping bag may allow you to connect to the earth.

You can also electrically ground yourself by physically connecting yourself to an electrical ground in your home. Earthing mats and grounding sheets work by connecting your body through the electrical outlet to the ground wire, which is ultimately connected to a ground rod driven into the earth.

Julian Kaufmann is an energy expert, author and entrepreneur. Julian helps people waste less energy enabling them to more efficiently accomplish their life’s work. Please visit him at Julian Kaufmann to receive free resources on how to do more with less.

Sources:

“Grounding Technology: Earthing Sheets, Mats & More.” Grounding Technology: Earthing Sheets, Mats & More. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 May 2016.

The Journal Of Alternative And Complementary Medicine, Volume 10, Number 5, 2004, Pp. 735-736, and Inc. @ Mary Ann Liebert. Our Place in Nature: Reconnecting with the Earth for Better Sleep (n.d.): n. pag. Web.

Oschman, James L., Gaétan Chevalier, and Richard Brown. “The Effects of Grounding (earthing) on Inflammation, the Immune Response, Wound Healing, and Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases.” Journal of Inflammation Research. Dove Medical Press, n.d. Web. 13 May 2016.

What is Secondary Energy?

August 12, 2015 By Julian Kaufmann

Secondary is energy is energy that is derived from another energy, the primary energy.

One of the most common examples of secondary energy that enhances our lives is electricity.

Electricity, the flow of electrons resulting from electric forces, is caused by another primary energy being expended to create the driving force – the voltage. The electricity we use to power our homes and offices primarily comes the burning of natural gas or coal, nuclear fission, and increasingly through the power of the sun or the harnessing of wind.

In the case of wind-powered electricity, the primary energy would be due to temperature differences that cause winds that blow throughout the earth. Thermal currents result as air travels. Electricity is produced by the blowing wind rotating the turbine blades that in turn creates an electric force in the generator. The primary energy of the wind is transformed into the secondary energy of electricity.

Electricity can be easily observed and experienced as a secondary energy, while we may not be aware of the primary energy that is the true source of its power. For example we can merely flick a switch and then have light whenever we want. The electricity surges at our command, utilizing its energy to fulfill our wishes, providing light and/or power. Too often though we lose sight of the primary energy that is at the heart of all life itself.

The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao[i].

The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

The Tao Te Ching is wonderful book that contains timeless wisdom and its opening lines speak of the difficulty we have with conceptualizing the true source of all there is. In many ways we tend to focus on the secondary energies that are more readily apparent that the ultimate primary energy – God or the Tao.

Since the Tao could only create itself it was said that it fell in on itself creating the first force of Yin. As a result of the creation of Yin and the falling inward, a resulting opposite force, one that pushes out, was created which is known as Yang. Isaac Newton later postulated his 3rd law[ii] which states for every action there is an equal an opposite reaction. The phenomenon Newton codified of action and opposite reaction played out as Yin fell in and Yang pushed out. This back and forth of poles (Yin and Yang) gave rise to a third force Chi – which is the life force that we are most aware.

Chi, Prana and the Holy Spirit are all names for the animating force that energizes living things. But just like the Tao Te Ching stated several thousand years ago, that the name that can be named is not the eternal name.

While we have many names for the observable, derived energies, there is one, ultimate energy, an ultimate power, from which we all come from.

[i] Mitchell, Stephen (2009-10-13). Tao Te Ching (Perennial Classics) (p. 3). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

[ii] http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/newtlaws/Lesson-4/Newton-s-Third-Law