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Two distinct poles are forming in society: people who are becoming more and more dependent on modern technology, their smart devices and prescribed consumer trends, and others who are increasingly abandoning it and want to return to an authentic, natural rhythm of life. The former believe that technology will solve all their problems. Others look for solutions in nature. I personally believe that nature is much wiser and more intelligent than man’s technological creations. Every time we move away from nature, we only complicate our lives.

Unfortunately, living in harmony with nature is becoming a platitude. Living with nature is natural, everything else is much harder. When we respect the rhythms of nature, we receive the best schooling that creation has to offer. You observe and it becomes clear to you how everything is connected, how it is formed and where it comes from, which also builds our body and gives us energy.

In practice, this means that I admire how a small seed grows into a plant that feeds me, how food scraps become compost, on which new food grows, how a dry branch gives us warmth in the winter, how a single egg miraculously hatch a chicken that then loosens the soil and gives you hundreds of new eggs. Since I have been collecting seeds for some time, I am amazed every time again by the abundance of nature. Each plant produces enough seeds for an entire city. The economy of nature is an economy of abundance. Only man wants to keep everything for himself, so he remains poor.

Why is it important to go back to nature?

Returning to nature also means returning to a normal family, neighborly relations, and community. What I find interesting is the following: we have elevated the word “civilization” to something that is considered more than something fancy, as opposed to something that is primitive but barbaric. Originally, the word civilis means a man in a city, civil law was created to regulate the rules of the game in an unnatural environment such as a city. They are not necessary in nature because things are arranged differently. And so the urban unnatural man became synonymous with something good, and the primary community became primitivus, something worse, backward… Although only this man really develops and is actually creative. A natural person can therefore survive without civilization, while a civilized person has a very high opinion of himself, but becomes ruthless the moment we cut off the internet or electricity.

Self-care is not just about food. This is an excellent way of intergenerational transmission of vital wisdom. Grandparents in particular play an important role in this. Self-care seems to me to be a wonderful way to show our grandchildren how small things grow into big things: how a small chicken connects through the shell, how you plant a tiny seed and a big plant grows… Children who have a completely degenerate feeling that everything has to happen from by pressing a button, thus teaching perseverance, observation and patience.

You can motivate a child very well if you show him that he is part of something that makes sense, if he has the opportunity to collect eggs, fruit, to have his own flower bed. Thus, the child gets the possibility of grounding. Many of today’s problems, from autism to hyperactivity, are caused by electromagnetic smog poisoning, which occurs the moment you allow a child to play barefoot on the grass, pet an animal or touch a plant.

For me, self-care is also a kind of preservation of the physical and mental health of this and the next generation. Of course, I am referring to gardening, which is based on attitude and love for everything we touch, and not just with the goal of producing as much as possible at any cost.

But one must be able to observe nature in order to imitate it, right?

I have a lot of manuals at home, but I constantly find that nature does not always follow professional guidelines. How is it that cucumbers grow best in the shade of a spruce tree, where the sun barely reaches them, and why do tomatoes—contrary to all theory—do so well on the east side, where they get barely five hours of light? It’s a mystery.

Nature has amazing adaptability. The more I watch her, the more I realize what kind of intelligence we are dealing with. Who tells a baby animal what it can eat and what poisonous plants it must avoid? He knows all this right after birth. Or chickens – it’s not enough to just lay eggs, but with their browsing they also effectively loosen the soil and fertilize it. Those, of course, that graze outdoors, like at home.

Of course, we should not romanticize the cultivation of the soil too much. Those with large acreage can cultivate the land as casually as a worker behind an assembly line. In many ways, organic farming is also becoming an industry because the demands are ever greater. The crop is over-fertilized, hastily grown with the use of machines, because otherwise it does not reach the price on the market.

Why is food so important for health?

Look, if we’re talking in six months, by then 80 percent of the cells in our bodies will be new. What do you think they will be made of? If we introduce third-class building material into the body, we should not be surprised that we are rickety. And vice versa, if we are better “buyers”, we will soon feel that we live in a better house that “creaks” less and defies external influences more easily. And this process continues as long as we are alive.People used to eat a lot of bacteria. Since there were no refrigerators, everything was actually fermented. They ate sour bread, the milk soured, there were more pickled beets and cabbage on the plate, so they had a strong intestinal flora… They also moved more, the lymph did not stand still, they used all the muscles because the work was varied. Back then, it didn’t take a lot of theory to make a person healthy.

Now we learn to eat healthy and live from manuals.

do you believe in superfoods?

In Tibet, Siberia and the Andes. In Europe, we have the privilege that nettles, nettles, dogwoods and other plants with great powers grow almost everywhere. At home, it is therefore more important to dry enough nettle leaves and seeds than to grow tomatoes and peppers. The very last ones used to be considered the best superfood and even an aphrodisiac, but today most people don’t even think that nettle seeds can be consumed. We read so little about nettles only because there is no way to make money from them.

It sounds very simple, but there are certain rules that must be followed…

When harvesting plants for medicinal purposes, it is important to know what we are harvesting, how and when. And we have to give them time to be effective. It makes no sense to try a new preparation every week, expecting a small miracle.

Our body is able to regenerate much better than we imagine. But we get too caught up in statistics: how does the body begin to change after the age of fifty or what will start to fail us after the age of seventy… If we listen to the body and know what it can do and at what pace, we can do many things, go anywhere. Some capabilities are pedestrian, but many others are being strengthened. And believe me, every day I find again that more wisdom and attention can move the “mountain” more easily than strong muscles.

It is worth following tried and tested advice and common sense. I am convinced that we have so many dementias also because of the excessive medicalization of life, especially because of the large scale of analgesic use. We know that they damage the nervous system over time. But in the last ten years, the use of painkillers has doubled, and the most powerful ones. If we “turn off” the nervous system every time we don’t want to hear what the pain would like to tell us, we will greatly weaken it in the long run. Therefore, it is not surprising that dementia is directly proportional to the “development” of society and the consumption of medicines.