Message from Bernadette Wulf

Greetings!
This month we focus on the healing wisdom of nature. Is it any wonder we feel better when we take time to enjoy the great outdoors? After all, that is where we came from. When we get too cut off from natural rhythms, colors, fragrances, and the experiences that come direct from the natural world, we begin to get out of balance mentally and physically.

With medical drugs and mistakes now being the third largest cause of death in the United States, it seems like high time we return to nature for our healing. Even then, as we find natural remedies for our ailments, we have to be careful about our sources, as the article on Milk Thistle indicates.

Not only do we throw our own bodies and minds out of balance by cutting ourselves off from nature, we are destroying the very soil that sustains us. We have collectively forgotten that soil is a living organism. But nature always has the last word. As it turns out, our attempts to poison bugs and force crops to grow with chemical fertilizers has backfired on us. We get one-third less crop yield! Talk about poetic justice.

In the final article you'll find an interesting study that has mental health professionals recommending more of the green world and less Prozac. Nature, it seems, has the answers to most of our ills.

For the open minded - I can't leave a discussion of the healing wisdom of nature without giving a nod of appreciation to the nature spirits. This may cause some people to roll their eyes, but I often feel their presence, and occasionally see and hear them. They are simply a part of the natural world that our left-brain society has chosen to forget, but that doesn't mean they are any less real than quarks, or radio waves. I have frequently experienced their healing abilities quite profoundly.

If you honor nature and ask the nature spirits for their help, they will do all sorts of wonderful favors for you, from healing your body, to bringing you things you want, to finding lost pets. They are the energies that help the flowers grow and the crops to thrive. Give them your appreciation and they will help you thrive as well.

To Your Health!

Which Milk Thistle Really Works?

Are Psychiatric Drugs Shortening Lives?

With so many people taking psychiatric drugs like Prozac these days, I think the following article makes a very important point. As the sign in the photo at the left shows, more and more people are beginning to question the wisdom of psychiatric prescription drugs. Maybe we all should!

Excerpt from AlternativeMentalHealth.com newsletter # 67

Pesticides Reduce Crop Yields by One-Third!

Imagine that! Somehow nature had it all figured out before we invented petroleum-based fertilizers! Go figure.
To read more, click on the link below.

Nature Heals - Litterally!

We all know that depression and negative mental states can undermine our physical health. Now a new study shows that walks in outdoor greenery can improve depression.