• Despite how advanced we think, we’re constantly influenced and inseparable from the natural elements. The lack off or excess off such natural elements is a delicate balance to honour, just like if you want a plant to grow you must nurture it with adequate sun and water otherwise it will welter and die.
• Prior to the industrial era generally human beings inhabited a more natural balance with such environmental forces. That means from 1750 onwards we started to change the way we live so drastically that thousands of years evolutionary conditioning has been overlooked and inadvertently deemed unessential to modern well-being. From the dawn of the human civilization 60,000 years ago to 1750 means that 99.9% of human evolution was in a certain manner of environmental dependency. In the last 280 years or less than 1% of human evolution the way of life has changed immensely, so much so that we have somewhat uprooted ourselves from vital energy sources without knowing so. With the development of technology and rapidly changing lifestyles (further away from natural forces) we have rapidly cut ourselves off from the evolutionary structured stresses of mother nature by following the collective momentum. Thankfully modern science also reiterates the vitality of environmental stimulus. Elements such as: cold water, sunlight and nature immersion.
• Nature is complete, whole and balanced despite how chaotic it may seen with sanitized human eyes. Being immersed in a natural environment mirrors your true state (un-conditioning consciousness) and the setting alone is free from most modern toxins. Overlapping environmental structural stressors have a type of positive compounding effect whereby: sunlight, the Earth (electromagnetic field to micro-organisms), water/food and wildlife constantly re-align us to the environment. To live effectively in nature one must be more in their body than in their mind. The body and sharpness of the senses are continuously engaged as natures uncertainty continuous demands vigilance of awareness, whereby the modern world demands increasingly more and more mental activity. To be whole in this world we need to bring a balance of both.
Unconscious evolutionary interplay from our natural environment in human adaptation to survive and thrive means the original health conditioning coach is mother nature. Only since our existence moved away from the natural elements in the last few hundred years did we realize retrospectively how vital and self-balancing these natural forces are and how without them we don’t really know (generally) what is best for our health. The overcompensating need to rise above our environment due to survival challenges, like starvation, meant we may have overlooked how this challenging environment also supported us. Simple food eating, fasting and frugal living might have been recalled as obstacles of the time but now are regarded as staples for good health.
Example: Okinawa (Japan) was a Blue Zone (dense populations of centenarians and remarkable standards of vitality and wellness for elderly) based on the people whom lived 100 years ago, a way of life unlike today. Now the modern people of Okinawa have a much lower life expectancy and lower standard of health. The main difference is now the people of Okinawa live like modern-westerners. This raises the question of whether this modern way of life is worth it? Not for the sake of merely living to 100 years plus but more importantly for quality of life and vitality as we age.
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