11-12-2011, 12:01 AM
What words would you like? Perhaps you can describe how it sticks for you?
A health and wellbeing and gardening example.
Alot of what society has come to see as normal regarding ones health and wellbeing...obesity, heart disease, diabetes, hormonal imbalances and autoimmune disorders can be traced back to the foods that are available to eat. These conditions arent normal. Nor are they what nature intended. Nature created a land rich in food that contained all the nutrients one would ever need to support perfect health and wellbeing. However, man intended something else...man intended to do something different than nature intended. As commercialisim grew farmers had to change how they farmed to keep up. No longer was mans mind on growing nutrient rich food for peoples health and wellbeing. Now mans mind was on how to grow more food in less space...how to have bugs eat less of their crop...and how to make the food last longer once it was picked so it could be shipped across country. This seemed ok...nothing wrong with that. Neither the farmer nor mankind noticed the growing separation between what nature intended and what they were doing. Fast forward to the present day and mankinds health is falling apart at increasingly younger ages. Mankind, however, now unaware of the extent of their disconnection from natures intent...just thinks this is normal. I dont believe that the decline of mankinds health was mankinds intent, however, it is the result of the kind of distraction mankinds intent offers us from natures intent. I value knowing the distinction.
My personal challenge to overcome this separation is present in my garden each year. At first when I was learning how to garden I listened and read what I could find and tried it. At first it seemed good enough. However, my vegetables were not as tasty as I remembered from my mothers garden when I was a kid. Indeed they were not even any better tasting than the ones in the grocery store. It almost caused me to give up gardening. Before I could go on I had to accept that sometimes even organic fertilizer often isnt all that its claimed to be. As I separated myself from all the hype about organic gardening and really thought about the foods I was growing (mostly hybridized seeds) and about the growing decline of health I had to confront the connection...and also the connection to my inner personal work as I often think about things as I garden. My understanding was realizing how far away from nature this has all become...how far from the days when one just dug up soil and planted a seed.
For this coming year I am ordering some non-hybrid seeds...seeds from foods the way nature intended those foods to be. I am composting instead of buying organic fertilizer. My desire is to get back as close as I can to the way nature intended my garden and myself to be.
For me this is the difference between our created nature and our true nature. For me there is value in separating the two natures because it helps me to stay clear about what I want to align myself to and not become distracted.
A health and wellbeing and gardening example.
Alot of what society has come to see as normal regarding ones health and wellbeing...obesity, heart disease, diabetes, hormonal imbalances and autoimmune disorders can be traced back to the foods that are available to eat. These conditions arent normal. Nor are they what nature intended. Nature created a land rich in food that contained all the nutrients one would ever need to support perfect health and wellbeing. However, man intended something else...man intended to do something different than nature intended. As commercialisim grew farmers had to change how they farmed to keep up. No longer was mans mind on growing nutrient rich food for peoples health and wellbeing. Now mans mind was on how to grow more food in less space...how to have bugs eat less of their crop...and how to make the food last longer once it was picked so it could be shipped across country. This seemed ok...nothing wrong with that. Neither the farmer nor mankind noticed the growing separation between what nature intended and what they were doing. Fast forward to the present day and mankinds health is falling apart at increasingly younger ages. Mankind, however, now unaware of the extent of their disconnection from natures intent...just thinks this is normal. I dont believe that the decline of mankinds health was mankinds intent, however, it is the result of the kind of distraction mankinds intent offers us from natures intent. I value knowing the distinction.
My personal challenge to overcome this separation is present in my garden each year. At first when I was learning how to garden I listened and read what I could find and tried it. At first it seemed good enough. However, my vegetables were not as tasty as I remembered from my mothers garden when I was a kid. Indeed they were not even any better tasting than the ones in the grocery store. It almost caused me to give up gardening. Before I could go on I had to accept that sometimes even organic fertilizer often isnt all that its claimed to be. As I separated myself from all the hype about organic gardening and really thought about the foods I was growing (mostly hybridized seeds) and about the growing decline of health I had to confront the connection...and also the connection to my inner personal work as I often think about things as I garden. My understanding was realizing how far away from nature this has all become...how far from the days when one just dug up soil and planted a seed.
For this coming year I am ordering some non-hybrid seeds...seeds from foods the way nature intended those foods to be. I am composting instead of buying organic fertilizer. My desire is to get back as close as I can to the way nature intended my garden and myself to be.
For me this is the difference between our created nature and our true nature. For me there is value in separating the two natures because it helps me to stay clear about what I want to align myself to and not become distracted.