Nat’ Spirit sur YouTube: Antipodes
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Permaculture/natural farming

Brin de Paille (association) : asso.permaculture.fr
El portal de permacultura en lengua española : Permacultura ES

Natural Hygiene and health

Désiré Merien : http://www.desiremerien.fr

Non Violent Communication

THE CENTER FOR NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION
Nonviolent Communication (Wikipedia)
All books by Marshall Rosenberg, creator of NVC

Exchange’s networks

Espana : http://ruralvolunteers.org/WHOSTS/
International : http://www.wwoofinternational.org/
HelpX : http://www.helpx.net

Water management

Joseph Országh (scientifique) www.eautarcie.com,
“Eau vivante” (association) http://eauvivante31.free.fr

Ecolieux

Oasis Bellecombe (Alps, France) http://www.oasisbellecombe.com/

Others links

Town hall (ayuntamiento) of Maella http://www.maella.es/

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Permaculture/natural farming

« Permaculture », tomes 1 et 2. Bill Mollison and David Holmgren
« Permaculture : a designer’s manuel », Bill Mollison
« Abrégé d’agriculture naturelle », Olivier Barbié
« L’art de faire travailler le naturel au jardin » J-L Sacquet (http://www.jardinsderrand.com/)
« Graines de permaculture », Patrick Whitefield (www.passerelleco.info)
Masanobu Fukuoka : « La Révolution d’un seul brin de paille », « L’Agriculture naturelle », « La voie du retour à la Nature, art du non-faire »

Natural Hygiene and health

H. M. Shelton. : important litterature
A. Mosséri : http://www.hygienisme.org
Désiré Merien
« Les 5 Tibétains » Peter Kelder.
“The 80/10/10 diet” Dr Douglas N. Graham

Gardening and nature

« Anastasia » Vladimir Mégré
« Le peuple animal », Daniel Meurois et Anne Givaudan
« The man who planted trees » (DVD) text from Jean Giono, a moviefrom Frédérick Bach
« Les 4 saisons du jardin bio » (magazine) http://www.terrevivante.org/ )

Green building

« La maison écologique » (magazine) (http://www.la-maison-ecologique.com/ )

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“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago..
The other best time is today.”

(African word)

• Permaculture, natural farming … work with nature, observe, reflect before acting …
  And trees, trees and more trees …
  A forest is always fertile and does not need time to rest.
  Its soil is naturally rich and does not require fertilizer or amendments. It is never plowed, always covered, and falling leaves provide a steady supply of compost. There are tall trees, medium-size trees, small shrubs, grasses and vines, and everything is in perfect harmony and cooperation. Some organisms benefit from elements produced or processed by others and vice versa.
  Some principles emerge from this observation:
• No labour
• Permanent ground cover
• No fertilizer, neither chemical nor biological
• Association of plants and trees, both horizontally and vertically
• Pruning reduced to a minimum, or none at all.

And amidst all this, a human being who observes, who loves, trying to understand the mysteries of nature, trying to understand why sometimes it works and sometimes it does not …
Of course, permaculture goes much further than the care of trees and garden … but we will talk later. More information is also available on wikipedia.

“What matters here is not farming techniques, but the human being including the science”

(according to Vladimir Megre, in Anastasia).

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However, I will try to be brief and give you an overview of our vision of healthy, and above all physiological, nutrition, i.e., nutrition that is adapted to the real needs of our bodies… and not to our emotional compensations, habits, or social conventions.

NB: if you are interested in this topic, I offer an online program to help you eat healthily:
Se Nourrir Sainement (Eating Healthily, so far only available in French).

Living in harmony with nature

At Flores de Vida, we offer a way of living and eating that is in harmony with nature and attuned to the real needs of our bodies.

The simpler, the better

Digestion requires a lot of energy, and the more we eat, the more tired we become. Just look at how we feel after what our society considers a good meal. In fact, it is simply a cataclysmic meal.

In short, we eat too much, too richly, too complicatedly…

We don’t move enough, breathe little, are too sedentary…

Our bodies are not adapted to meat, fish, dairy products, or industrial food, which is full of additives and pesticides.

We are not carnivores

• We don’t have carnivorous teeth.
  If you don’t believe me, try tearing a piece of raw meat.
• We don’t have carnivorous intestines.
  In order to digest meat, our intestines would need to be much shorter to prevent putrefaction… corpses decompose very quickly.
• We do not have the liver of a carnivore.
  Our livers would need to be much larger to handle the enormous amount of toxins generated by meat.

Dairy products and eggs… not much better

Fish, dairy products, and eggs acidify the body, creating conditions conducive to disease.

Acidity… a major problem in our society.

Unfortunately, it’s not just animal products that acidify the body, but also:
* cooked grains (bread, rice, pasta, cookies, etc.)
* sugar extracted from its natural context (fruit)
* chemical additives (coloring, pesticides, herbicides, preservatives, etc.)
* stress
* a sedentary lifestyle and lack of oxygenation
* constant exposure to all kinds of waves (Wi-Fi, 4G, 5G, Bluetooth, microwave ovens, etc.

But then… nothing left?

Yes, there’s still plenty left, and certainly lots of foods you don’t know about: all fruits, most vegetables, sprouted seeds, nuts, olives, and various oilseeds… that’s a lot of happiness every day.

All grains and legumes can be eaten sprouted: wheat, lentils, beans, oats, buckwheat, barley, etc.

Some plants are not very interesting if they are not cooked (potatoes), or are even completely inedible (chard stems) or toxic (yams), but there are so many others that this is not a problem.

All cabbages are excellent raw, as are zucchini, squash, pumpkin, spinach, turnips, parsnips, beets, all types of lettuce, etc.

And there are certainly many fruits that you don’t know about…

Rediscovering the meaning of life

Our bodies need simple, easily digestible food; they need movement, fresh air, pure water, sunshine… quite simply, they need to live.

We need to communicate, laugh, dance… and then quietly savor fresh, organic fruits and vegetables.

Eating… an encounter with oneself

A meal is a special time to refocus, disconnect… it is a time to reconnect with oneself.

It is a time of awareness.

“Performing alchemy with your teeth,” as Rabelais said.

But why have we turned a simple, personal act into a social event? Why do we feel the need to gather around food?

We can easily get together to talk, sing, dance… without it being around food.
Ah, the myth of conviviality…

Chew well

A moment of awareness, then… and chewing.

If we don’t chew properly, food becomes difficult to digest (or even indigestible) because the stomach has more difficulty breaking down the pieces.

It’s good to remember here that the stomach has no teeth and that it’s our job to do the chewing for it (hihi).

Sugar and salt

A little note about salt, which is not generally considered a drug, but which is in fact a stimulant made indispensable by the use of sugar. This is the famous yin/yang balance at work here. An excess of yin (sugar) requires an excess of yang (salt), and vice versa. I’m not talking here about the sugar found naturally in fruit, but artificially concentrated sugar, whether white, brown, and whether it comes from beet, sugar cane, cereals, or even fruit. It is the concentration that is harmful.

As for salt, it hardens tissues and blood vessels and distorts the taste of food. When we eliminate it, we gradually rediscover the true flavor of food.

We do need minerals, which we find in fruits and vegetables, and not just sodium chloride…

And a final word

And finally, let’s not forget that our bodies know when it’s the right time to eat.

Our bodies know how to tell us… but unfortunately, most of us don’t know how to listen.
That signal is hunger… let’s learn to listen to it.
Let’s learn to eat when we’re hungry and to stop eating when we’re no longer hungry.

Yes, it’s a learning process, a way of life.
True health and joy await us.

Nat’

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