The New Holistic Wellness Paradigm

 Current Wellness Paradigm:  Body, Mind, Spirit    

Modern day research has increasingly drawn us toward understanding the human–nature relationship and tells us the many ways that we are linked to the natural world (nature) environment. For example, our current standard paradigm advocates for the sustainability of natural resources (water), the health benefits associated with engaging with nature (plants) to improve body, mind and spirit, and, humans’ preference for scenes (art) dominated by natural elements, just to name a few. 

But as a society we are still separate from our natural world because of our modern cultural values that say that science and technologies are often superior to, and improvements upon nature.

We rely on globalization and industrialization to satisfy our materialistic desires (convenience and financial) − but I believe we have lost the path to a mythic life of meaning and truth due in part to a competitive system that focuses on the mainstream and dominance of the individual over others, and the species over nature.

In short, one implication is that we as a society can no longer feel life, naturally without human intervention. 

The New Holistic Wellness Paradigm

Holistic means whole.  We must expand the usual mind-body-spirit paradigm to contextualize humans in our broader nature rather than the individualistic human ego-centered paradigm in which our society tends to operate.  This means adding to the paradigm, community (people), because the inter-being with a group or place is what makes us feel happy and responsible for it. For example, including the experience of how plants are grown, harvested and sourced by the very people that interact with nature can make us feel the benefits of what is being produced, inducing a feeling (empathy), like the smell of the grass after rain.       

Our ancestral heritage tells us that human development, culture, and changes throughout the world, past and present help us imagine and design futures that inspire human and environmental complexity.

Since their earliest origins, our ancestors have depended on plants for their primary needs and existence. Plants provide food, medicine, shelter, dyes, fibers, oils, resins, gums, soaps, waxes, latex, etc. (Ethnobotany).

Native Wild Living explores the relationship between humans and the natural world as it relates to how people of a particular culture and region (our ancestors) make use of indigenous (native) plants for their existence and sustainability. 

We are Human. We live in Nature. We still have an opportunity to ethically and sustainably use plants from nature to live and grow sustainably thus leaving a footprint for a sustainable future.

But global changes are currently transforming our ecosystems and disrupting human relations with the natural world. For example, indigenous societies around the world already face the loss of traditional activities (hunting, fishing, and harvesting) and agricultural practices due to altered weather patterns, loss of lands, disruptions to customary ways of transmitting cultural knowledge, changing markets, and a host of other factors.

Yet those ecosystems—the intricate relationships among species, land, water, and air (space) —as well as the traditional, place-based knowledge of ecosystems shared across many generations, may hold some of the answers necessary to address and mitigate global threats.

Vision

Our vision is to continue to build a global community that embraces the interconnectedness between Humans and Nature through Biodiversity; Sustainability, Cultural and Cooperative Exchange so that we can feel life as we knew it once before. 

Through which we can offer natural products, handmade by indigenous people that embrace nature, touch our wellness daily and sustainably.  

We support our local ecosystem by growing plants and botanicals and visit other countries in search of rare plants not feasible to grow in the United States.

We film and document how plants are grown, harvested and sourced to provide evidence that the integrity of the plant is organic, pure and simple. 

Each circle represents a pillar for Holistic Wellness:  Body, Mind, Spirit,  Community, Space, Emotion, and Nature is at the Center