Natural Living Tips

After a while certian phrases are repeated so often that they tend to lose their original intent.  Natural living could be one of these as the phrase begins to be used in political arguments or in existencial conversations.

In the first case it reflects a stand, an ideological stand, where many times anything and everything that doesn’t fit into the speaker’s view is categorized as unnatural.  Everything, and many times illogically, that is used as an argument from this point of view, will be presented as Natural Living.

In the second case, revolving around our existence, it is adds a touch of glamour to our conversations.  When taken to extremes the fine line between conviction and fanatiscm gets lost.

The risk in both cases is that it devalues the concept and limits any type of real dialogue - the type that allows the participants to learn and grow.

As I say in the title, “Natural Living is Healthy Living” is a statement that this morning made sense to me. It implies balancing our actions, our emotions, our food and the environment. The important word being “balance”.

We cannot stop progress nor should we want to. But we can administer and manage our resources so that quality of life includes health and nature.

In our typical Western view of life we tend to equate “health” with not feeling bad, while in fact it should be more than that. It should include all aspects of being human, the psychological, the spiritual, the physical, our relationships, our mission and everything that makes up our life and balanced in such a way that “health” is feeling good so we can pursue our own personal mission.

Natural living means living in concert with others, even if we cannot see them and do not know them.  If we waste resources, somewhere, sometime, somebody  will have to go without. And it could easily be you or me, or him or her.

Little by little the “them” and “us” mentality is changing.

Them can easily be us as well, so do onto others as you would have them do unto you.

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If you ask a hundred people what natural living is you will probably get a hundred variations on what it is. My point here is simpler and not necessarily living next to nature or just eating fresh food or even applying eco-friendly energy savings. It can be all of these but for this post the point is:
- Natural versus normal.

Natural come from nature and normal comes from norm. Many things can be both normal and natural but not everything that becomes normal practice is natural.

So natural living would be relating to life style and quality of life (versus quantity of life), from the point of vies of that which allows you to reach the end of your days and be able to state “I have done my best and it was good”.

Another way of looking at this is if you wrote your own obituary and looked at what your family could say, what your children, your spouse, your work collegues and anyone who with whom you had contact at any time could say about you.

And the best answer would be that you touched their lives and that left them being better for it.

This has certain implications such as making you a better person, thinking of others but finding and living for your mission in life.

It would mean natural relationships, making a practice of respecting and taking care of the little things in life - all the resources that are available, balancing your life.

This balancing would have to include the spiritual, the physical and the psicological. Your emotions, your actions, your work ethic.

In the final analysis leaving the world, and this definately includes nature and the ecology, other people, better for having passed through this life.

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