Although the term Holistic welfare It makes you put your eyes blank and go for your Doritos, mostly understand it instinctively.

Living the best possible means adopting a balanced and complete lifestyle.

Of course, this is easier to say than to do. Ideals of social networks often, finding harmony seems impossible.

The trick is in looking for imbalances in your life and constantly emphasizing them, without judging yourself or those around you.

When we think about well -being, we often focus on an aspect of ourselves excluding everyone else. Attend only to the needs of the body, but not to those of the mind, or ignore the spiritual life at the expense of the material, only leads to greater long -term disharmony.

Interestingly, this search for balance embodies the essential values ​​of a green witch.

Here are some ways to lower the rhythm, breathe deep and enjoy more life.

Note: This article does not intend to diagnose, treat or cure any disease. The term «holistic welfare» is used here in a spiritual, not medical context. For all that, a duly accredited homeopathic professional goes to your doctor. Of course.

Cultivate.

Ultimately, green witchcraft is reduced to the magic of growing things.

In the garden and in your life.

Of course, in the art of the Green Holistic Welfare Witch, this means different things for each person, but let’s start with the literal.

A small garden begins. Even if it’s just a plant. An easy In a pot, if necessary.

Take care of that plant or that garden during a whole season. Consider it as what it is: a living being, that breathes and has needs.

Develop a relationship with him. I do not say you have to have dinner together in the light of the candles. (Although maybe …). Living plants on the table are always a nice detail at a dinner). I just say you make a hole in your life.

Note that as it grows, you also grow.

It is a perfect metaphor of the relationship with the natural world.

Eat the wild things.

Ok, you don’t go crazy now.

You should know well the plants in your area and know how to find those that are not contaminated or sprayed with pesticides.

But knowing what things of nature can be eaten without danger is so powerful.

Sign up for a forage class with a local expert, investigate a little and take off your head that the only fresh things that can be eaten are in the fruits and vegetable section of the supermarket.

Eating wildly connects you with your roots and nature.

It is also incredibly stimulating to learn to live on earth, even on a small scale.

Practice natural self -care.

Your body is a temple. Addor it.

Think of all ways in which you take care of yourself and learn to do them more naturally.

Experience making your own toothpaste, lotions and natural soaps.

Prepare your own body care products from scratch is a quiet type of meditation in itself.

Take your time to appreciate the smell of the whole bee wax. Feel the pleasant texture of a thick sea salt between your fingers. Deeply inhale essential oils and learn to mix them to create pleasant aromas.

It is frankly sensual.

Reduce synthetic chemicals.

Not even the most delivered green witch is perfect.

In a world in which plastic dominates containers, bleach lives in almost all laundries and body care industry contaminates us with parabens, to completely escape from synthetic chemicals is not realistic.

But do what you can.

You will see that you can clean almost anything with some combination of white vinegar, baking soda and/or alcohol.

The more you eliminate toxic elements from your life, the more natural it will be to detect them and eliminate more.

Baby steps.

Stay in tune with the stations.

We have ever heard it. It is practically a mantra in earth -based spirituality:

«Stay in tune with the stations!»

But what does that really mean? And how do we do it?

Simple things, such as maintaining a season altar, taking time for nature walks and buying local, fresh and seasonal ingredients in the market are great ways to reconnect with the nature we carry inside.

Find a natural exercise that loves you … and that you love you.

Once I had a conversation with a Tai Chi instructor and told me something that I never forgot.

«In the West you think about exercise as something that happens abroad. In the East, we think of the exercise as something that happens inside.»

To be sincere, as a young man I never liked the exercise. When I thought about him, the aggressive weightlifting came to mind, the stinky gyms and high -impact hard bodies that established an impossible standard of beauty and perfection.

But I enjoyed dancing, and I began to discover the most spiritual side. Learning new styles kept me interested, and perhaps even a bit worried. I started studying belly dance, Indian classical dance and even New York burlesque.

Suddenly, the exercise did not seem like a task. It was like making art.

More or less at the same time, I started to practice yoga. And I realized that no only I looked better. I felt better. And not only because I felt more flexible and strong. Even my dream and my digestion improved.

This, I thought It is what they understand by «holistic well -being.»

I started looking for forward to exercise, and feeling quite unbalanced if I lost it.

For me, the key was reduced to finding ways to move my body and do it a little every day.

Like a more refreshing and vigorizing forms to exercise, it is to do it in nature. It comes out outdoors. Make the Sun Greetings to the sun.

Develop a magical practice of full attention.

I recently wrote about mindfulness as the foundation of witchcraft.

In green witchcraft, full attention is possibly all.

When you stop to listen to the sounds of the forest on a walk through nature, that is Mindfulness.

Even noticing the temperature when you go through the door in the morning and how it feels on the skin is a type of full attention.

Practicing mindfulness acts as a kind of magic in your life. You need less, you do more and appreciate everything.

Even suffering.

Spend time with your spiritual community.

Your social welfare is as important for your integral well -being as any other welfare marker.

New research suggests what our elders always knew: loneliness is not only healthy.

It is frankly deadly.

Ded time to find and develop a network of people to trust is worth it that one does not know until it really needs them.

Blessed is.

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