Friday, February 16, 2007

Natural Living and Living off the Earth

What is natural living?

Ask anyone this question, and you will get different answers each time. So what exactly is natural living?

All the products we use contain chemicals. Some of these are refined, some of these artificial, some of these are completely natural. When you go to your greengrocers, the fruit and vegetables have probably been grown with artificial help – fertiliser. This is not natural living. Natural living entails us living alongside nature – not adding artificially to it to grow food. Natural living also asks us to heal our body holistically – with herbs, not medicine. Natural living asks us to be holistically minded – to think of ways of improving out lives without being materialistic.

How do we ‘live off the earth’?

In a sense, we already do live off the earth. Every thing we eat or use starts out from the ground in raw form. The problem is that we don’t use our resources effectively. We use more and more, and the earth is starting to become tired. Adding chemicals to continue production is like a sugar boost, but how long can it last. Over coming weeks and months, I will be teaching you how to live sustainably, naturally,

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