Be an EcoHuman: Engage Your Environment

There are many more factors to reaching your full potential as an ecohuman. It requires proactive interaction with your inner and outer ecology. It requires you to truly engage your environment!⠀

EcoHuman Health was born out of the realization that true thriving health needs to go beyond the kitchen and gym. While diet and exercise are an important part of a healthy life and proper lifestyle, they aren’t sufficient.

This article is a good starting point to getting proactive. Here are some ways to nourish the ecohuman waiting inside you.

Engage Your Environment by Unplugging

It’s always ironic to post things like this on the internet but don’t lose the message in the medium. ⠀⠀
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Taking back the weekend to really connect with nature, community and oneself is a great way to balance out the technocentric life most of us live. ⠀⠀⠀
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We find unplugging for a whole day once a week is really rejuvenating and recharges the body and soul in ways the wired world will never. ⠀⠀

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Even a few hours can make a difference. The addition of nature as a setting enhances these effects as it combines the benefits of…⠀⠀⠀
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a reduction in:⠀⠀⠀

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📌 neurotransmitter-sapping addictive apps ⠀⠀⠀
📌 sedentary screen time ⠀⠀⠀
📌 nnEMF⠀⠀⠀
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an increase in:⠀⠀⠀
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📌 phytochemicals from forest bathing⠀⠀⠀
📌 negative ions for greater redox ⠀⠀⠀
📌 sunlight for beta-endorphins release, vitamin D, dopamine and melatonin production⠀⠀⠀
📌 exposure to natural resonances for syncing the body to its optimal vibrations⠀⠀⠀
📌 natural thermoregulation for vascular toning and immune boosting⠀⠀⠀
📌 movement for lymphatic stimulation, improved circulation and fun⠀⠀⠀
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It might be hard to start but once you do, you’ll feel the magic that nature has blessed us with for millennia.

Related post: Hygge: How to Stay Energize in Winter⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀

Engage Your Environment with Free Range Kids⠀⠀⠀

EcoHuman Health starts in childhood. Just like any successful habit, when you start young and make it part of your lifestyle it becomes so much easier to maintain and build upon as you age. ⠀
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This scene is an example of it.

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The wonderful thing about children is, when left in a natural state, they gravitate towards the right choices – engaging their environment in a wide variety of healthy ways. ⠀
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Sadly, too often our society, its institutions and sometimes us, as parents and caregivers, redirect kids in ways nature didn’t intend. ⠀
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We overprotect, over-program, overindulge, focus on results, obsess about their future and uphold practicality as a mask for our fears. ⠀

A Return to a Free-Range Childhood
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Somehow, for the most part, most of the time, kids intuitively know best. The inner child, in adults and kids, has great wisdom. ⠀
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We would do well to let them be guided by their intuition more, to take those risks, to connect with themselves, nature and others in an ecological sense. ⠀
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Symbiosis is a win-win for everyone.

And kids are ripe for the rewards inherent in this kind of model. ⠀
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The scene here is a group of around 40 students (most in the distant background), ages 9-11, encouraged to jump from log to log during school time. ⠀
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They are clearly being free range kids moving in varied patterns through a spectacular natural setting while getting charged by the sunlight, ocean air, and the forest scents – to reduce it to its basic physical elements. ⠀
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Really there’s much more going on!

…Awesomeness!!! ⠀

Related post: How to See the World like a Child and Control Time⠀

Engage Your Environment: Stillness

Stillness. ⠀
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Something that is very undervalued in this fast-paced world. ⠀
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When was the last time you sat in stillness? ⠀
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• with no distractions⠀
• where you were fully present in the moment⠀
• where you released any expectations or outcomes⠀
• where you became one with the environment ⠀
• where you were grounded to the Earth ⠀
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This is a simple practice with profound effects. ⠀
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Yesterday, we had the opportunity to just sit.

In Stillness.

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We set off with the intention to hike around a lake we had never been to before. ⠀
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But as we started down the trail we came upon this huge rock formation next to the water. The sun was shining down on it and we both stopped to take in the view. ⠀
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It was a cool fall day but the spot had captured the warmth of the sun and beckoned with its serenity. We decided to sit in silence and go inward. ⠀
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You could call it a meditation but it wasn’t formally so. ⠀
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For almost half an hour we sat quietly. The only sounds were those nature provided – a lap of water from the lake, the wind through the leaves, a bird call here and there. ⠀
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Stillness.

There was a great calm all around us and inside us. It was so powerful in its restorative effects. It is so rare in today’s world. ⠀
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Afterwards, we went for an exhilarating fast-paced hike around the perimeter of the lake because we had to make up the time. That was great in its own way. ⠀
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We followed that up with a cold plunge in the chilly Pacific Northwest waters, another super restorative practice. ⠀
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All in all, it was a profound prescription for health. It was a deep dive into engaging our environment – inner and outer ecology. ⠀
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So much can be said and scientifically validated about each aspect of our outing but the stillness on the rock with the inner calm is really beyond words. ⠀
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It was even beyond time. ⠀
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Timeless. ⠀
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Stillness. ⠀
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Peace. ⠀

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Engage Your Environment: Grounding

G R O U N D I N G⠀
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This EcoHuman is tapping into the Earth’s electrical charge by conducting through a mossy covered tree on a fall hike. ⠀
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This is a somewhat novel and really easy way to ground without having to be barefoot. ⠀
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Just go outside with your bare feet or hands on some grass or earth, or to immerse yourself in a body of conductive water such as the sea or a mineral-rich lake.⠀
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The Earth is a reservoir of negatively charged free electrons.

Without a connection to the Earth, the cells in our body are unable to balance the positive charge which results from things like electron-deficient free radicals. The effect of excess positive charge in the blood can be seen very clearly by the way in which the cells are attracted to clump together.⠀
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Our modern environment is full of a wide spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, from computers, mobile phones & masts, radio & TV broadcasts, WiFi, Bluetooth, power lines, domestic wiring, and other electrical appliances. ⠀
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This electromagnetic radiation induces voltages in our bodies, disrupting the trillions of subtle electrical communications which are a vital part of the function of our body’s systems.

By being grounded to the Earth we greatly reduce the levels of these induced voltages, as we are then effectively shielded by the Earth’s large electrical mass.⠀
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What is it good for?⠀
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Once a fringe practice that many dismissed as unscientific has now been supported with a considerable and growing amount of quality research. ⠀
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Even esteemed cardiologists and neurosurgeons are prescribing this remedy with some of the benefits being:⠀
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📌 Improved immune function⠀
📌 Improved digestion⠀
📌 Improved sleep⠀
📌 Rapid healing of injuries⠀
📌 Improved blood circulation⠀
📌 Harmonization and stabilization of the body’s basic biological rhythms⠀
📌 Accelerated recovery from intense athletic activity⠀
📌 Reduction of inflammation⠀
📌 Reduced stress/anxiety/irritability⠀
📌 Reduced electrosensitivity⠀
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Less concrete but more intuitively, when we are truly connected to the Earth we become aligned with, and once again a part of, its inherent higher intelligence and life force. 

Grounding is really a great way to proactively connect as an ecohuman.

Related post: Be Ready for Summer by Tomorrow⠀⠀

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So… engage your environment and reach your full potential.