Before we all launch into some intense organic eating regime with soaking everything and singing to our sprouting beans let's look out to our environment for a large degree of causality to our health or lack thereof.

First and foremost humans require oxygenated AIR to breath to maintain homeostasis and cellular metabolism. AIR quality is the most important aspect of human health that is overlooked quickly by most health practitioners. My personal experience has found that this one variable, the AIR that we breath, is the most critical piece of 'happiness' and 'health' and unfortunately can take some peoples search for health a lot easier than we would guess --- location location location.

Now let's not jump to an instant conclusion that we must be in some heavenly pure region to have the most 'healthy' AIR for our optimal function. In fact it is not 'just' or 'only' the degree of pollution of the air rather its vibration and polarity that affects us mostly. Our lungs are wonderful filters that block out all sorts of pollution; not allowing absorption of many toxic chemicals that may be bound in imperfect air we breath past there fibrous membranes (mercury vapors cross lung membranes, blood brain barrier and placenta -- noted here for a later and important blog entry). Our bodies are bioelectrical systems and are greatly affected by fields and charges. The AIR we breath is the most abundant 'thing' that we ingest and surround ourselves in everyday, it need not be perfectly 'clean' or infinitely filtered, but the AIR must be more negatively charged than positively charged for us to feel well, true!

Interesting that most of our thoughts and moods are in fact directly related to the ionic characteristics of the air that we are breathing at that time. Change the characteristics and polarity of the air the human is breathing and you can effectively alter every process of the physical being and every thought of the 'mind', maybe even impacting the way the spiritual form can feel or connect to its 'spaceship' (body and mind).

AIR ION content is either negative or positive or balanced.

Negative ionized AIR is a mass of AIR that is composed of more negative charged anions which have gained an electron. These air masses tend to be ideally generated by the friction of water with air and real sunlight (lake, ocean waves, rain, lightning strikes, waterfall, etc); also found near photosynthesizing plants (forest, house plants, jungle, wilderness); or generated through negative ion rich materials (bees wax candle, warm salt lamp, air ozonator, air ionizer). There are over 5000 scientific documents correlating negative ions to positive health effects while showing the opposite negative effects from positive ions on health.

So why do I keep suggesting the air simply needs to negatively charged and not purified perfectly? 1. Well the negative ions bind to positive charged pollutants and the larger particle drops to the ground and is no longer in the air. 2. Negative ions absorb through our skin very quickly as well as through our lungs and have a similar cleaning and renewing effect within our bodies. Call it natures healing touch! 

Positive ionized AIR is a mass of AIR that is composed of more positive charged ions. Positive ions have lost an election and are looking to steal an electron from another anion to bring itself back into balance. Positive ions are generated through any destructive process: combustion, petroleum off gas, florescent lights, computer terminals, forced air systems, electromagnetic fields generated by high voltage/high current electrical lines, cosmic radiation, nuclear radiation, microwaves, cell phone waves, wireless home telephone waves, wireless internet wifi, etc, etc. Beyond these very obvious sources of positive ions, the most powerful consistent sources of positive ions come from nature in two main sources dry winds descending from mountain ranges and stagnant humid hot air masses. The slow moving humid air masses often occur in landlocked regions close to equator and a greater distance from a large body of water. The dry winds are very specific meteorological phenomenon that can be defined by  name worldwide:

Location ……………...Name of the positive ion wind

Germany...........................Foehn & Tramontana


Austria...............................Foehn

Israel...................................Sharav

Egypt.................................Khamsin

Italy....................................Sirocco


Central France..............Autan


California........................Santa Ana


Argentina........................Zonda


Canada.............................Chinook


Malta.................................Xlokk


Java....................................Koebang & Gending


Northern Sumatra........Bohorok


Libya.................................Sharkia


New Dehli.......................The Desert Wind

Australia...........................The Desert Wind (K-3)

Thinking this  positive ion field is just straight bad news is not the case: 25% of the population actually respond to positive ion air masses by surging into hyper activity, often called the Full Moon Ion Effect (I will discuss this in a lot more detail on another blog post). The 'other' 75% of the people are often negatively affected by positive ion fields causing all sorts of 'unhappiness' and lack of 'health'.

Let me point out some important facts from one guru on the subject:

Fred Soyka wrote the "The Ion Effect" --- he writes about the amazing positive effects negative charged ions on the human body. One study completed by Russian Ion scientists in World War 2 found that athletes who trained breathing negative ion enriched air had ~10 times greater training improvements in balance and aerobic capacity as compared to athletes breathing 'normal' air on the same training program.

Fred further wrote on the devastating effects of positive ion enriched air masses due to his personal experience with illness as he moved into a region in Europe that had strong positive ion winds. Positive ion fields air masses from the Chinook winds in Canada and Santa Ana in California have been studied in a 1974 by a Swiss meteorological report and they found the following:

Physical side effects of positive ion enriched winds: Body pains, headaches, dizziness, twitching eyes, nausea, fatigue, faintness, fluctuations in electrolytical metabolism, water accumulation, respiratory difficulties, allergies, asthma, heart and circulatory disorders (heart attacks approx. 50% higher) low blood pressure, slowing down in reaction time, more sensitivity to pain, inflammations, bleeding embolisms of the lungs, and thrombosis. 

Psychological side effects of positive ion enriched winds: Emotional unbalance, irritation, vital disinclination, compulsion to meditate, exhaustion, apathy, disinclination or listlessness toward work, insecurity, anxiety, depression (especially after age forty to fifty); rate of attempted suicide about 20% higher, larger number of admittance's to clinics in drug cases.

Its time to find the right location to live and breath and then take on the soaking and singing to the beans! Let's all search out the finest negative ion rich region and move to one before another cloud of positive ions takes away our inspiration and balanced thoughts!

With integrity,  

Adam Wood