Electrical charge

**emad** · 27-04-2006, 11:39 AM

Hi All :

When i come to touch the bed or the door , i feel electrical shock ,any views?

Regards
Emad

**bernard** · 27-04-2006, 11:43 AM

Emad,

It is an electrostatic discharge. It comes often with clothes or shoes with "rubber" soles and/or carpet.

**Diane** · 27-04-2006, 05:43 PM

It is best experienced in a dry climate or very cold one.
I grew up in one that was both.

In the winter, it was fun to stroke a cat, run one's hand around and down to the end of its tail, in the dark; the sparks would shoot off in a visible crackling stream. The cats didn't seem to mind, at least they'd stick around for two or three strokes. I recall science demos in school using cat fur, rubbing an amber rod to build up a charge on the rod; when charged the static on the rod passed over one's own head, could lift hair up off the head.

Another trick with static electricity: Rub a blown-up balloon against your hair, then put it against the wall. The balloon will stay up against the wall. (It will fall down eventually, but it will stay up there defying gravity for a little while, held in place by static electricity only.)

If you rub your dry sock feet on a carpet you can touch someone and "shock" them.

Static electricity can be quite strong. I think that any success that can be obtained by manual techniques that involved passing hands carefully over someone's body repeatedly, slowly, without touching them, are likely due to static charge lifting body hair. The follicles are highly innervated with mechanoreceptors.. it just makes sense to me that they'd be the receptors stimulated by this sort of technique, if anything peripheral is...

At least I'd like to see the people who treat this way rule out static electricity (which we all know exists) as a confounding factor, before claiming to be channelling psychic energy, etc.

**emad** · 27-04-2006, 07:09 PM

Hi Bernard & Diane :

Thanks for replying .

http://www.coastwidelabs.com/Technic...e_protecti.htm

You are correct ,when i sit on a plastic chair ,the hair of my forearm stand up to that plastic ,so can we address pain through hair traction .

Regards
Emad

27-04-2006, 11:39 AM	#1
emad Arbiter Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: The Earth Planet Age: 38 Posts: 2,067 Thanks: 1 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Electrical charge Hi All : When i come to touch the bed or the door , i feel electrical shock ,any views? Regards Emad __________________

27-04-2006, 11:43 AM	#2
bernard Admin, Moderator... Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: France Age: 56 Posts: 12,013 Thanks: 241 Thanked 137 Times in 91 Posts	Emad, It is an electrostatic discharge. It comes often with clothes or shoes with "rubber" soles and/or carpet. __________________ Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. L VINCI We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. I NEWTON Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not a bit simpler. If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein bernard

27-04-2006, 05:43 PM	#3
Diane Human Primate Social Groomer and Neuroelastician Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Weyburn Sask. Posts: 19,676 Thanks: 1,490 Thanked 3,193 Times in 1,570 Posts	It is best experienced in a dry climate or very cold one. I grew up in one that was both. In the winter, it was fun to stroke a cat, run one's hand around and down to the end of its tail, in the dark; the sparks would shoot off in a visible crackling stream. The cats didn't seem to mind, at least they'd stick around for two or three strokes. I recall science demos in school using cat fur, rubbing an amber rod to build up a charge on the rod; when charged the static on the rod passed over one's own head, could lift hair up off the head. Another trick with static electricity: Rub a blown-up balloon against your hair, then put it against the wall. The balloon will stay up against the wall. (It will fall down eventually, but it will stay up there defying gravity for a little while, held in place by static electricity only.) If you rub your dry sock feet on a carpet you can touch someone and "shock" them. Static electricity can be quite strong. I think that any success that can be obtained by manual techniques that involved passing hands carefully over someone's body repeatedly, slowly, without touching them, are likely due to static charge lifting body hair. The follicles are highly innervated with mechanoreceptors.. it just makes sense to me that they'd be the receptors stimulated by this sort of technique, if anything peripheral is... At least I'd like to see the people who treat this way rule out static electricity (which we all know exists) as a confounding factor, before claiming to be channelling psychic energy, etc. __________________ Diane www.dermoneuromodulation.com SensibleSolutionsPhysiotherapy HumanAntiGravitySuit blog Neurotonics PT Teamblog Diane Jacobs.com (personal website) Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division (Archived newsletters) Canadian Physiotherapy Association Pain Science Division Facebook page @PainPhysiosCan WCPT PhysiotherapyPainNetwork on Facebook @WCPTPTPN Neuroscience and Pain Science for Manual PTs Facebook page @dfjpt SomaSimple on Facebook @somasimple "Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong." ~Lorimer Moseley “Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.” ~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" ~Roland Barth "Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire

27-04-2006, 07:09 PM	#4
emad Arbiter Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: The Earth Planet Age: 38 Posts: 2,067 Thanks: 1 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Hi Bernard & Diane : Thanks for replying . http://www.coastwidelabs.com/Technic...e_protecti.htm You are correct ,when i sit on a plastic chair ,the hair of my forearm stand up to that plastic ,so can we address pain through hair traction . Regards Emad __________________

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