What is Natural Living?
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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jenny said,
April 2, 2011 @ 11:32 pm
There is always contentment in nature . Natural things literally are a source of happiness.