Mood:  mischievious

I'm going to take a walk at Quail Hollow today! I love it there, and I'm fortunate enough to live close enough to walk in this beauty whenever I'd like. I love to walk in the woods! Think of all the health benefits you get when you walk in the woods: The chance to get close to nature and feel at peace with it; the good exercise you get from walking which helps with so many things, from being able to sleep better all the way to building nice legs and being good for your heart; plus it's good to breathe in the fresh forest air...There's GREAT aromatherapy there!

For instance, did you know that breathing in the scent of pine is actually a disinfectant for cleaning the lungs? Nature takes good care of us!

Mmmmm...And the flowers! And sunshine! There's something to be said for the healing power of just feeling a part of it all!

Quail Hollow is nice because it has so many environments to visit, and they all change through the seasons, so it's like so many parks all in one!


I love to go out into the meadows and prairies and bogs! It's like a fantasy land I could get lost in.
Keep an eye out for Upcoming Events, because we'll be planning some nature walks and lectures soon, to be held at the park!

Nature is awesome wherever you go. That's where I feel close to God. God is just as present in the tall buildings and the city streets, but you can really feel the energizing power in its pure form in when you're right out in the middle of the way things were meant to be!

There are so many things about nature that make me curious! What lives in this hole, what made that noise, what is this flower called? There are so many things we can learn about ourselves and the world from just watching nature.

Did you know, for instance, that desert tortoises will travel miles to mine and eat the calcium needed to keep their shells strong? Did you know that monkeys, bears, coatis, and other animals rub citrus oils and pungent resins into their coats as insecticides and antiseptics against insect bites? Chimpanzees swallow hairy leaves folded in a certain way to purge their digestive tracts of parasites,and birds line their nexts with plants that protect their chicks from blood-draining mites and lice!

This and more information can be found in one of my favorite books, entitled Wild Health, by Cindy Engel. We can learn a lot from animals by learning how they keep themselves well! (How many times have you heard a squirrel sneeze from the trees? Hahaha!)

But if an animal does get a little bit sick in the wild, it will respond to infection by fasting, resting, staying warm, and allowing vomiting and diarrhea to do their jobs. Our hinderance of these natural responses within us is done at our peril! Animals are much wiser in their instinctual ways.

People sure can be silly. People do things like:

~feeding their kids things that are known to make them hyperactive;

~getting eye jobs and nose jobs, tummy tucks and thigh tucks, new breasts and new chins and feet sculpted to fit better into shoes with unnaturally pointy toes;

~cloning human cow combinations and mixing people with monkeys, and putting human blood in pigs and human brains in mice...where is this all leading to?

They're even putting human genes into rice! Science is getting tooooo weird!

(And we wonder why our planet...our bodies...our emotions...are so out of balance. It's not a mystery to me!)

So, as for me, I'll learn about health by observing what occurs naturally in nature. There's something to be said for keeping it simple, you know?

Golden Afternoon

Have a great day!
Mary Jo Eshelman, ND, CTN, CNHP
allnatureworks@aol.com








Did you know that a Pyrenean goat with a broken leg has been known to make itself a plaster of clay and grasses, using it's mouth? It actually made itself a poultice of lichen and clay and applied it to the wound! (WITHOUT having a cloned human brain!!!)


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