Med-itocracy

The United States is about to move forward to make its high-cost medical system more transparent and efficient, and perhaps more focused on health outcomes and cost avoidance. The change comes from outside the system, driven by database technology and reformers seeking to shine light on how health care dollars are spent. The new measures will allow physician and hospital level analysis of outcome and cost performance, and should eventually transform the way this long poorly-accountable and intransigent system operates. Learn more about the new data transparency measures, with applicability for all nations today, at Medical Care Data Release.

June to-do’s

June is here and likely contains some to-do’s you want turn to got-done’s before the month is gone. Long range plans and a vision of the things we want to create is integral to progressive life and the HumanaNatura technique of Natural Living, but so is action toward them – each month, each week, even each day. Learn more about the importance of progressive planning at Natural Living and access our easy-to-use planning worksheets at Natural Living Worksheets.

Falling water

Feeling stressed, caught up in events but strangely not part of them? Find a quiet place and visualize falling water, forceful and uplifting even as it naturally and calmly descends – creating space to consider life with fresh eyes. If you can, plan a walk to the nearest waterfall or a special natural setting near you. When you arrive, find a comfortable spot and do nothing else for a while. Sit, exhale, stop, listen to the world outside you…

Our natural place

Amidst the preoccupations and pressures of modern life, we sometimes seek escape…leading us to nature and new opportunities for renewal and perspective on life today. In this outward movement, we form and open a window on our earlier life together, our long natural history, and the essential nature of our health in all times…

Upward life

Whatever our state of health, whatever the condition of our life, there is always new natural health and adaptiveness waiting for us. What dense fog or deep wood holds you back from new light, from new life, right now…can you name and begin to ascend from it? The work of lifelong progressivity is an essential aspect of the HumanaNatura technique of Natural Living. Learn more about it at About HumanaNatura.

Less is more

We ascend into nature and are made smaller – only a part of the world and not a world ourselves – even as we are enlarged and overflow from our journeying…

Evening hikes

With the full moon coming, each passing day is an opportunity for evening walks and moonlit hikes. Beginning perhaps after an early supper, time outdoors right now offers the refreshing light of late afternoon, a chance for dramatic sunset views, and the opportunity of the rising full moon. Daily walking and time in nature are key elements of the HumanaNatura Personal Health Program. We would  encourage you to learn more about this program and to find your own personal path between the natural and human worlds.

Healthy connections

An interesting new study adds to the already large body of evidence that strong and supportive social connections are an essential dimension of our natural health and well-being. The latest research examined elders over a five-year period and found that those with strong social connections were 70 percent less likely to develop dementia than those living in relative isolation. Learn more about the new findings at Friends With Benefits and about HumanaNatura’s ten dimensions of natural living at The Ten Dimensions.

New HN look

A new look for the HumanaNatura website is here, designed to better integrate it with our blog and social media pages. In about two weeks, updated personal and community health programs will join the new design. In the meantime, check out the new site at HumanaNatura.

Natural Sitting

Luxuriant flowers remind us of the lesson and special power of sitting, of simply being alive in nature. When we sit or act in this relaxed but attentive way, the world is changed…or rather, we are changed. Nature is made more luxuriant and extraordinary, as are we…