The Naked Truth
When did people start to wear clothes, and why?
The only real purpose that is served by clothing is to keep us comfortable in in-climate weather. Why are we the only species on the planet that wears clothes?
Every creature on this planet was born with the covering to suit that creatures natural habitat. A polar bear would die of heatstroke in the jungle, just as a hippopotamus would freeze to death in the arctic.
Our natural covering requires that we maintain an average external temperature greater than 70 degrees. How could one possibly state that it is natural for us to inhabit climates in which we would surely freeze to death in our natural naked form.To make this stance viable, one would need to argue that we were meant to create clothing for ourselves and that it is the will of nature.
To uncover the legitimacy of that statement, we need to examine the effect of clothing on our health and natural well being.
Clothing is external insulation that simulates a warmer environment during in-climate weather. The positive effects of clothing would only apply to those people who are living outside of a suitable human climate. By suitable human climate, I am referring to a sub-tropical climate which not only maintains the proper temperature, but also contains an abundance of nutritious plant foods that best suit our species. People who inhabit these sub tropical regions would have no PRACTICAL use for clothing.
Most people would argue that we need clothing to adapt to our chosen environments and although clothing may not be natural to our species, it doesn’t do us any harm. However, every aspect of nature is part of the grand design of optimal health and abundance. There are no natural laws that can be circumvented without an adverse effect on our ability to fully experience natural well being. Then what harm is there in wearing clothing?
Healing Addiction Naturally
Anyone who becomes “addicted” to something is trying to fill a void within themselves. We feel incomplete and we are provided with very few options to become whole. If we use only will and logic to quit something then we are not filling that void and the addiction will resurface in new ways until eventually we find what we were looking for.
There is no sense in trying to “beat addiction”. Addiction means that we know what we want and we will do whatever we can to have it. Anyone who has ever tried to beat an addiction has experienced the incredible power of the forces of addiction. I call this force the “addiction energy”. If we honor the purpose of our “addiction energy”, and find out what we are truly missing or craving, than we can harness that power and use it to achieve personal health, happiness, and abundance. The key is to be very clear about what we are truly searching for physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. If we address all 4 of those aspects we are sure to find exactly what we are craving.
My point is that if we find out what we are truly addicted to we can find out how to get what we crave naturally without hurting ourselves or anyone else. Addictions and craving are just indications that we are lacking something that, deep inside, we know we need. It only becomes dangerous when we seek to fulfill such cravings in spite of our health/safety, our planet’s health/safety, or the health/safety of those around us. Due to the fact that we have been taken so far from our nature, often times there are cravings that we do not understand and so there seems to be no safe natural way to fulfill those desires. (more…)
Natural State of Health
Does a raw food diet create Health?
Raw food does not so much create health as it allows for the Natural State of Health to occur. The Natural state of Health is the condition that we are meant to experience at all times. The Natural state of health is not static. It has infinite potential that is realized more and more as we grow and evolve ourselves.
The foods we eat, the environment we live in, the activities we participate in, and even the thoughts we think can either impede the natural state of health or allow it to flourish and bloom. Obesity, disease, and deficiency only exist as symptoms of poor health. These symptoms are manifestations of our lack of attention to the natural way of life. When we do nothing more than treat these symptoms we are ignoring the messages being sent by our bodies.
Most often we think of this system of symptom treatment as being an exclusive trait of the medical model. This is false. Herbalists suppress symptoms with herbs, homeopaths suppress symptoms with tinctures, and raw foodists suppress symptoms with supplementation. In some severe cases the afore mentioned practices can be used as a means to temporarily provide comfort for a person who is working towards correcting the root issue of health. However, by and large, these methods of symptom suppression are used to ignore the messages of the body so that one can continue an unnatural lifestyle under the illusion of health. (more…)
