N.D.D. “Nature Deficit Disorder”??
The latest disease added to our list of needing a cure for……
How have we become so out of sync with nature? As far as I can tell, it has been a process of cultural training over the last few decades of my life. ….. Can you see the tremendous pattern of imbalance emerging?
I used to work managing a health food store and it got to be a ritual of welcoming many new regular customers beginning at the start of every New Year. Why? They would come in to purchase products to begin an intense cleanse after the holidays from an over indulgence of sweets and partying- of course!! Many were sickened with colds, diseases of gluttony until their bodies told them there NEEDED TO BE A CHANGE here and now!!--- One cannot keep this up and feel at all well in the world!! After Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years all within a 2 month period, how can one ever expect their physical body to keep up with all the “trash accumulation” without emptying that trash once in awhile? Sounds like good reasoning right??
What few people even know is that Winter,( in Chinese Medicine), is the time of hibernation- retreating from excess and rest from the growth/work and harvest seasons. Just look at nature. Trees drop their leaves and the sap withdraws. Bears hibernate. No food grows or can be found but what is left over from a late Autumn that humans haven’t picked over & left to feed the birds and wild animals. A true observer will see the pattern. In Chinese Medicine it is the season of the “kidney” wherein the life force, or “chi” is stored. We have the potential to store up energy in only 3 months (from the Winter solstice – December 21st-- to the Vernal Equinox March 20th), enough potential energy reserves for the following 9 months to be used for the remainder of the year, until Winter arrives again. If we do NOT honor this season properly, our bodies WILL age all the faster the next 9 months!!! --- “Holy crud Batman!”- as Robin would say! (Translation: We should pay attention to this!)
So many will arrive at health food stores in order to buy all the processed food sold there and think they are doing their body/mind/soul a great justice, tipping the balance of the scales.?? When we start eating from the EARTH- in it’s WHOLE state: meaning Nuts, seeds, whole grains, fruits and vegetables (All in their season by the way)---Then we are eating from the Earth as God intended since he put all the plants and animals here before we arrived- just for us!! –for food, clothing and shelter. The more we eat processed food, man-made chemicals & pharmaceuticals (& drugs by the way are NOT in their natural state!) and even animals laden with antibiotics and GMO feed, the MORE we become out of sync with nature. No wonder we don’t recognize ourselves anymore!!!!!!
How many of us can tell the time by the position of the sun or the stars at night or the rising of the moon? Plants and animals grow, mate and live by the “light” cycles. Many indigenous people still do-- away from cities and artificial light. So many of us can’t sleep because we don’t get out in nature--or into sync with nature-- and our bodies can’t handle the stress of this anymore. We are literally falling apart and so is our thinking. We think we need “light boxes” to give us enough vitamin D to help us not come down with the dreaded “S.A.D.” ( Seasonal Affective Disorder) We think indoor gym memberships will keep us strong, or camping once a year in the summer with our families, or buying the latest network marketing supplement juice from the other side of the world and not finishing the bottle--- that THIS alone will get us back in sync with nature.
Why study the heavens? Look at all the ancient cultures- Egyptians, Inuit, Native American, Mayan etc. Even the Jews built their temples in alignment with the stars/seasons so that they would know which days they were to attend the temple specifically for the REQUIRED feasts and festivals. Even the Mormons built the Salt Lake Temple in alignment with this ancient tradition and few of them even comprehend the symbolism of it marked right in front of their eyes!
If one studies the Word of God, you will see that even in the time of Noah when the world became so wicked, God started over with a group of 8 ( the number of rebirth BTW) and specifically with a male and female of every kind to begin again. You see that God, who created us all, makes covenants with a man and a woman together. That group of 3: man, woman and God, comprise that number 3, and that number is always used to represent covenant in the scriptures. This pattern is repeated through every religious culture. Do you recognize it?
God still to this day uses the 4 elements- fire earth, water and air to cleanse and renew our bodies. The plants all take in the water from the rain, the fire from the sun, the minerals from the earth, and the wind to strengthen them. This is called “synthesis”. When we eat of these plants, those same elements are released as “metabolism”: the fire as light to our cells, the air as oxygen to our blood, the water as cellular fluid and the earth as minerals; all the building blocks needed to make every enzyme and to structure every organ and system in our physical bodies. All this in turn, builds our minds and spirits. The plants this very day are even adapting to changes in the earth and are moving to higher elevations or more pure environments to live where they can grow under the sun fully undisturbed. This should be a metaphor for us- to “move higher”—(closer to God--their very same creator like us) in our consciousness in order to be renewed and continue not only to survive---but to thrive!!!
Many homosexuals are so out of sync with nature that they think they can live in a “virtual reality marriage” and that 2 women can marry and raise a boy, or two men can marry and raise a girl child who will become a normal member of society!! At the risk of “accepting all people” some company executives even support Ellen Degeneres as a spokesperson for a large company frequented by traditional families, thinking it will help their image?? How have we lost such a sense of ourselves that we don’t even know who to mate with? Or, that this is even acceptable and we can continue to replicate a long lasting species in this manner????? I guess we can blame it on violating the laws of nature for too long. We confuse the issue of support by accepting more and more things of a non-natural order and not even realizing we are altering forever the moral code which God set as a pattern for us in order to have joy. It is our God given right to choose, and this battle, fought over in heaven, continues here on the Earthly battlefield. We have agency to choose to alter God’s pattern and yet we also think we will NOT be totally unaffected by it or that others will not have to live with the consequences of it either. One cannot decide they can do it on their own and throw God by the wayside--keeping him out of schools, public meetings, families, communities, one’s mind, one’s diet, one’s lifestyle, one’s heart and find in the long run they will continue to naturally thrive in this world.
Our world is a wonderful place of God’s patterns- repeated over & over in all seasons, in all places, in all peoples, in all times-- here with all of its abundance to enjoy and thrive with. All those patterns are here to help us recognize Him! Observe them, read them, study them, ponder them, pray about them, apply them in your daily life—not just once a year or until you tire of your New Year’s resolutions.
When you find God’s patterns, you can live with JOY in His “eternal plan of happiness”. Isn’t happiness what we are all looking for? I hear people say it ALL the time—“If I could only find happiness!!”……. It’s all right here!!! Right under our noses!! Return to God & His natural laws and you too will see it plain as day and no longer suffer from your curable case of “Nature Deficit Disorder”.
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