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Nature Girl: A Guide to Caring for God's Creation
by Karen Whiting Rebecca WhiteLove God, Love the Planet As you become an expert in all things green, Nature Girl offers fun ways to care for God’s creations while enjoying the wonders of nature! With activities, recipes, science experiments, and much more, you can discover how to create recycled jewelry, plan a spa day with friends, make your own earth-friendly skin care products, or team up to clean a park or a neighbor’s yard. Each chapter covers different topics, like water, air, energy, and recycling, and includes crafts, Scripture, games, quizzes, interviews with experts, and quotes from real girls like you. From the itty-bitty flowers at your feet to the air high above your head, discover how you can make a difference for our planet.
Nature Play at Home: Creating Outdoor Spaces that Connect Children with the Natural World
by Nancy Striniste“A magnificent resource for transforming backyards into stimulating environments which enhance children’s creativity, learning, and fun.” —Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, The Nature Principle, and Vitamin N Access to technology has created a generation of children who are more plugged in than ever before—often with negative consequences. But there is a solution. Unrestricted outdoor play helps reduce stress, improve health, and enhance creativity, learning, and attention span. In Nature Play at Home, Nancy Striniste gives you the tools you need to make outdoor adventures possible in your own backyard. With hundreds of inspiring ideas and illustrated, step-by-step projects, this hardworking book details how to create playspaces that use natural materials—like logs, boulders, sand, water, and plants of all kinds. Projects include hillside slides, seating circles, sand pits, and more.
Nature Spirits & Elemental Beings
by Marko PogacnikBased on firsthand practical experiences of communicating with natural spirits through meditation, this eye-opening guide to healing the earth teaches how to work with elemental beings by describing each in detail while defining their roles within the web of life. As a result of tuning in to plants, trees, and animals, and illustrating the disrupted flow of energies within the landscape, the true impact of human culture upon the harmony of the natural world is evocatively revealed. Insight into related topics, such as how the long-suppressed Goddess culture embraces these energies to make strides toward healing the earth, can set anyone with earth and landscape concerns-gardeners, growers, designers, and builders-one step closer toward becoming environmental warriors.
Nature Spirits, Spirit Guides, and Ghosts
by Atala Dorothy ToyBoulders laugh, trees talk, and practically each patch of ground has meaning, in Atala Toy's experience. Faeries, angels, ghosts, orbs, and spirits of place are just some of the life forms with which she helps us attune-and shows us how to record their image! Readers will cherish her rare combination of esoteric wisdom and practical guidance. With substantive clarity, she explains time travel, portals, dowsing, negative and positive vortexes, balls of energy known as merkabahs, ley lines, and orbs-the plasma of some life form visible to human eyes or to cameras, many of which are nature spirits who enjoy being around happy energy and so are often seen at parties and spiritual gatherings. A professional interdimensional communicator, Atala is up to the minute in her understanding of the emerging field of spiritual sciences and the correlations between modern physics and ancient metaphysical traditions that perceive the oneness of all nature. We all communicate interdimensionally every day, she says. We just don't know it, and so we lose out on the many ways to receive help from the other life forms who share our space. Drawing on her own and her clients' experiences, she teaches through colorful stories and her own powerful photographs. Titles include "The Ghost Who Washed Dishes," "The Haunted Hotel," "The Guardian of the Spring," "The Horse Who Knew More Than His Owners," "The Jilted House," "The Stranded Gnome," "The Moss Faery," "The Owl on Turtle Island," and "The Balsam Who Loved the Birch." She also includes lessons explaining the energetic principles of the situation; simple exercises for mastering the principle contained in the story; and tips for photographing other life forms using technology available to anyone, such as digital or even cell phone cameras.By entering the fascinating realm of this book, the reader will join the growing number of people aware of subtle energy and able to see through the veils between dimensions. Not only is this possibility personally enriching, it serves a broader purpose as well. Needless to say, the planet and everything on it is at a critical juncture. In damaging the earth, we have damaged the nature beings' home as well. It is therefore strongly in their interest to assist us in transforming the earth into something better. This book shows us how to learn from and enjoy them in a most delightful way.
Nature Therapy: How to Use Ecotherapy to Boost Your Sense of Well-Being
by Rémy DambronNature therapy is the practice of reconnecting with the natural world to refresh your physical and mental well-being. Including tips to help you discover your connection with the outdoors, activity inspiration and a holistic approach to wellness, this book is the ultimate guide to unlocking the transformative power of nature.
Nature Therapy: How to Use Ecotherapy to Boost Your Sense of Well-Being
by Rémy DambronNature therapy is the practice of reconnecting with the natural world to refresh your physical and mental well-being. Including tips to help you discover your connection with the outdoors, activity inspiration and a holistic approach to wellness, this book is the ultimate guide to unlocking the transformative power of nature.
Nature Wants Us to Be Fat: The Surprising Science Behind Why We Gain Weight and How We Can Prevent--and Reverse--It
by Richard Johnson2022 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS FINALIST — HEALTH: GENERAL &“It is exceptionally well organized and presented, making it an ideal and highly recommended addition to personal, community, college, and university library Health/Medicine collections.&” —Midwest Book Review Nature puts a &“survival switch&” in our bodies to protect us from starvation. Stuck in the &“on&” position, it&’s the hidden source of weight gain, heart disease, and many other common health struggles. But you can turn it off. Dr. Richard Johnson has been on the cutting edge of research into the cause of obesity for more than a decade. His team&’s discovery of the fructose-powered survival switch—a metabolic pathway that animals in nature turn on and off as needed, but that our modern diet has permanently fixed in the &“on&” position, where it becomes a fat switch—revolutionized the way we think about why we gain weight. In Nature Wants Us to Be Fat, he details the mounting evidence on how this switch is responsible both for excess fat storage and for many of the major diseases endemic to the Western world, including heart disease, cancer, and dementia. Dr. Johnson also reveals the surprising link between the survival switch and health conditions such as gout, kidney disease, liver disease, stroke—and even behavioral issues like addiction and ADHD. And, most important, he shares a science-based plan to help readers fight back against nature. Guided by ongoing clinical research—plus fascinating observations from the animal kingdom, evolution, and history—Dr. Johnson takes you along on an eye-opening investigation into: What you can do to turn off your survival switch What we have in common with hibernating bears, sperm whales, and the world&’s fattest bird Why it&’s fructose (not glucose) that drives insulin resistance and metabolic disease The foods we eat that trigger the body to make its own fructose The surprising role salt and dehydration play in fat accumulation The surprising link between the survival switch and health conditions such as gout and liver and kidney diseases, and even behavioral issues like addiction and ADHD Dr. Johnson not only provides new recommendations for how we can prevent or treat obesity, but also how we can use this information to reduce our risk of developing disease. Nature wants us to be fat, and when we understand why, we gain the tools we need to lose weight and optimize our health.
Nature and Health: Physical Activity in Nature (Routledge Research in Health, Nature and the Environment)
by Eric Brymer Jo Barton Mike RogersonExperiences in nature are now recognised as being fundamental to human health and well-being. Physical activity in nature has been posited as an important well-being facilitator because the presence of nature augments the benefits of physical activity while also enhancing motivation and adherence. This volume brings together a mix of cutting edge ideas in research, theory and practice from a wide set of disciplines with the purpose of exploring interdisciplinary or trans-disciplinary approaches to understanding the relationship between physical activity in nature and health and well-being. Nature and Health: Physical Activity in Nature is structured to facilitate ease of use for the researcher, policy maker, practitioner or theorist. Section 1 covers research on physical activity in nature for a number of important health and well-being issues. Each chapter in this section considers how policy and practice might be shaped by current research findings and knowledge. Section 2 considers contemporary theoretical and conceptual understandings that help explain how physical activity in nature enhances health and well-being and also how best to design interventions and research. Section 3 provides examples of current approaches. This book is an ideal resource for both researchers and advanced students interested in designing future-proofed research, for policy makers interested in improving community well-being and for practitioners interested in best practice applications.
Nature and Normativity: Biology, Teleology, and Meaning (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)
by Mark OkrentNature and Normativity argues that the problem of the place of norms in nature has been essentially misunderstood when it has been articulated in terms of the relation of human language and thought, on the one hand, and the world described by physics on the other. Rather, if we concentrate on the facts that speaking and thinking are activities of organic agents, then the problem of the place of the normative in nature becomes refocused on three related questions. First, is there a sense in which biological processes and the behavior of organisms can be legitimately subject to normative evaluation? Second, is there some sense in which, in addition to having ordinary causal explanations, organic phenomena can also legitimately be seen to happen because they should happen in that way, in some naturalistically comprehensible sense of ‘should’, or that organic phenomena happen in order to achieve some result, because that result should occur? And third, is it possible to naturalistically understand how human thought and language can be legitimately seen as the normatively evaluable behavior of a particular species of organism, behavior that occurs in order to satisfy some class of norms? This book develops, articulates, and defends positive answers to each of these questions.
Nature and Treatment of Stuttering
by Richard F. Curlee William H. PerkinsDoctors Richard E. Curlee and William H Perkins delve into the causes of stuttering and suggest tips to deal with stuttering.
Nature''s Hidden Oracles: From Flowers to Feathers & Shells to Stones - A Practical Guide to Natural Divination
by Liz DeanNature''s Hidden Oracles is a practical manual for natural divination in the outdoor environment all year round.By collecting and interacting with the objects you find outside, you can generate new ways of seeing and become more mindful of our environment and what it has to say about our past, present and future. Nature''s Hidden Oracles shows you how to connect with your surroundings and the ways of our ancestors through practices such as flower divination, herb-scrying and listening to the oracles of the stones and trees that surround us.Chapters Include: 1 Oracles of the trees: Leaf, bark & branch2 Flower divination: Petal predictions3 Herb scrying: Sensory messengers4 Oracles of stone: Rocks, pebbles & witch stones5 Natural charms: Beach, field & forest
Nature's Apothecary: Harness the healing power of herbs, mushrooms and other adaptogens
by Paula GraingerDiscover the restorative power of adaptogensIn Nature's Apothecary, Medical Herbalist Paula Grainger provides the solution for stress, anxiety and exhaustion by introducing us to a group of healing herbal ingredients known as adaptogens - plants with health-giving properties.Adaptogens have been scientifically proven to lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol and prevent adrenal imbalances that can lead to fatigue and burnout. In this illustrated guidebook you will delve into the history and science of these miraculous plants and learn how to maximize wellness using the most easy-to-source adaptogens, incorporating them into your life via delicious smoothies, energy bites and desserts, invigorating teas, tonics and lattes and wonderful beauty elixirs.Covering all the common adaptogens such as Ashwagandha, Maca, Korean ginseng, Turmeric, Liquorice, Rosemary and Rhodiola, this updated edition also contains brand-new recipes and information about the benefits of popular fungal adaptogens including Reishi, Lion's Mane, Cordyceps, Shiitake and Oyster mushrooms.
Nature's Apothecary: Harness the healing power of herbs, mushrooms and other adaptogens
by Paula GraingerDiscover the restorative power of adaptogensIn Nature's Apothecary, Medical Herbalist Paula Grainger provides the solution for stress, anxiety and exhaustion by introducing us to a group of healing herbal ingredients known as adaptogens - plants with health-giving properties.Adaptogens have been scientifically proven to lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol and prevent adrenal imbalances that can lead to fatigue and burnout. In this illustrated guidebook you will delve into the history and science of these miraculous plants and learn how to maximize wellness using the most easy-to-source adaptogens, incorporating them into your life via delicious smoothies, energy bites and desserts, invigorating teas, tonics and lattes and wonderful beauty elixirs.Covering all the common adaptogens such as Ashwagandha, Maca, Korean ginseng, Turmeric, Liquorice, Rosemary and Rhodiola, this updated edition also contains brand-new recipes and information about the benefits of popular fungal adaptogens including Reishi, Lion's Mane, Cordyceps, Shiitake and Oyster mushrooms.
Nature's Cancer-Fighting Foods
by Verne VaronaA revised edition with new recipes and updated research on the best foods to eat to fight cancer A comprehensive, holistic, and practical plan for cancer prevention and recovery, now completely revised and updated. Grounded in documented research from leading medical institutions--along with studies of the world's healthiest populations--nutrition educator Verne Varona has developed a breakthrough nutritional and lifestyle program for immunity building and cancer prevention and recovery.
Nature's Essential Oils: Aromatic Alchemy For Well-being (Countryman Know How #0)
by Cher KaufmannLavender is calming and relaxing; lemon uplifting and stimulating. But why do each of these scents provoke specific, visceral responses? In Nature’s Essential Oils, certified aromatherapist Cher Kaufmann demystifies the how and why behind essential oils, explaining the environmental factors that impact the chemical make-ups of herbs and plants and how they trigger our physical and emotional responses. This thorough and welcoming guide includes recipes for oil blends that can be used in diffusers and personal inhalers as well as for bath salts, salves, linen sprays, and more. Kaufmann also explains essential oil dilution and safety, shares the best carrier oils for each application, and includes tips for buying and storing oils. With detailed profiles of more than 30 of the most common essential oils for well-being, this is a valuable resource for anyone hoping to expand their knowledge of essential oils and their properties.
Nature's Gift of Food
by Jan de VriesYour food is your medicine and your medicine your food. So said Hippocrates, the father of medicine - but nothing could sum up Jan de Vries' approach to dietary management better. Over the past 35 years the number of people seeking his advice on food-related problems has increased dramatically, for although there are numerous books available on the subject, the information they contain is often contradictory and confusing - not surprisingly, maybe, when there are over 4,000 addictives finding their way into our food everyday. But wholesome eating is, in fact, very simple and you only need the sensible guidance contained in this book. The results speak for themselves. A balanced diet produces a noticeable increase in energy levels fairl quickly. Nutrition is a subject close to Jan de Vries' heart and his enthusiasm is evident in this latest book. Easy to read and easy to follow, it is a dietary plan for every household.
Nature's Hidden Oracles: From Flowers to Feathers & Shells to Stones - A Practical Guide to Natural Divination
by Liz DeanNature's Hidden Oracles is a practical manual for natural divination in the outdoor environment all year round.By collecting and interacting with the objects you find outside, you can generate new ways of seeing and become more mindful of our environment and what it has to say about our past, present and future. Nature's Hidden Oracles shows you how to connect with your surroundings and the ways of our ancestors through practices such as flower divination, herb-scrying and listening to the oracles of the stones and trees that surround us.Chapters Include: 1 Oracles of the trees: Leaf, bark & branch2 Flower divination: Petal predictions3 Herb scrying: Sensory messengers4 Oracles of stone: Rocks, pebbles & witch stones5 Natural charms: Beach, field & forest
Nature's Medicine Cabinet: Seasonal Recipes and Remedies for a Year of Botanical Wellness
by Meagan VisserTake control of your health and wellness with the power of natural medicines.This guide introduces you to the world of herbal remedies, essential oils, and natural healing plants. Discover the healing properties of various plants and oils, and learn how to extract their benefits in your everyday life. Whether you're looking to boost your immune system, ease headaches, or reduce stress, Nature's Medicine Cabinet provides easy-to-follow instructions and proven techniques to help you achieve it.Inside you'll find:TeasTincturesSalvesSyrupsAnd moreCreated with beginners and experienced natural health enthusiasts in mind, this book offers detailed information on preparing, growing, and harvesting your natural remedies. Ditch the chemicals and harness the power of nature with Nature's Medicine Cabinet.
Nature's Medicines: The Definitive Guide to Health Supplements: From Asthma to Weight Gain, From Colds to High Cholesterol--The Most Powerful All-Natural Cures
by The Editors of Prevention Gale MaleskyWhat is the mysterious healing power behind the scores of supplements that have been called miracle medicines? Why are many of these supplements so potent? In Nature's Medicines, you'll find information on the most controversial and powerful health supplements on the market, including • Vitamins and minerals: Find out which can prevent arthritis, cancer, and heart disease--and add years to your life. • Nature's herbs: Discover the herbal supplements that boost immunity, relieve stress, remove toxins, and pump up your energy. • Emerging supplements: Find out what you're really getting when you buy highly publicized supplements like bee pollen, coenzyme Q10, melatonin, shark cartilage, and more. How effective are they? What have researchers discovered about how they work? You'll also find exact recommendations from M.D.'s, alternative practitioners, and herbalists, such as: • The new memory aid: a Chinese herb that "can help protect your brain from damage due to aging, heart disease, or toxins." • The new cure for high cholesterol: an herb that can "lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels, raise HDL levels, and promote weight loss." • The new pain medicine: a natural anti-inflammatory that "acts like a home-style ibuprofen." • The new arthritis cure: a supplement that can "slow the loss of cartilage by pumping more cartilage-generating nutrients into the body." And much more--in all, more than 95 supplements to prevent or cure common diseases and health conditions.
Nature's Path: A History of Naturopathic Healing in America
by Susan E. CayleffAn eclectic group of firebrands overcame strong odds to create the naturopathic healing system.An alternative medical system emphasizing prevention through healthy living, positive mind-body-spirit strength, and therapeutics to enhance the body’s innate healing processes, naturopathy has gained legitimacy in recent years. In Nature’s Path—the first comprehensive book to examine the complex history and culture of American naturopathy—Susan E. Cayleff tells the fascinating story of the movement’s nineteenth-century roots.While early naturopaths were sometimes divided by infighting, they all believed in the healing properties of water, nutrition, exercise, the sun, and clean, fresh air. Their political activism was vital to their professional formation: they loathed the invasive, depletive practices of traditional medicine and protested against medical procedures that addressed symptoms rather than disease causes while resisting processed foods, pharmaceuticals, environmental toxins, and atomic energy. Cayleff describes the development of naturopathy’s philosophies and therapeutics and details the efforts of its proponents to institutionalize the field. She recognizes notable naturopathic leaders, explores why women doctors, organizers, teachers, and authors played such a strong role in the movement, and identifies countercultural views—such as antivivisection, antivaccination, and vegetarianism—held by idealistic naturopaths from 1896 to the present.Nature’s Path tracks a radical cultural critique, medical system, and way of life that links body, soul, mind, and daily purpose. It is a must-read for historians of medicine and scholars in women’s studies and political history, as well as for naturopaths and all readers interested in alternative medicine.
Nature's Pharmacopeia: A World of Medicinal Plants
by Dan ChoffnesThis beautifully illustrated, elegantly written textbook pairs the best research on the biochemical properties and physiological effects of medicinal plants with a fascinating history of their use throughout human civilization, revealing the influence of nature's pharmacopeia on art, war, conquest, and law. By chronicling the ways in which humans have cultivated plant species, extracted their active chemical ingredients, and investigated their effects on the body over time, Nature's Pharmacopeia also builds an unparalleled portrait of these special herbs as they transitioned from wild flora and botanical curiosities to commodities and potent drugs. The book opens with an overview of the use of medicinal plants in the traditional practices and indigenous belief systems of people in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and ancient Europe. It then connects medicinal plants to the growth of scientific medicine in the West. Subsequent chapters cover the regulation of drugs; the use of powerful plant chemicals—such as cocaine, nicotine, and caffeine—in various medical settings; and the application of biomedicine's intellectual frameworks to the manufacture of novel drugs from ancient treatments. Geared toward nonspecialists, this text fosters a deep appreciation of the complex chemistry and cultural resonance of herbal medicine, while suggesting how we may further tap the vast repositories of the world's herbal knowledge to create new pharmaceuticals.
Nature's Pharmacy: The Top 200 Natural Remedies
by Charlotte HaighFrom traditional remedies to cutting edge health advice, this is the ultimate handbook for making the most of the healing power of food.In a world of non-stop stimulation at a break-neck pace, it's never been so difficult to truly nurture our body and minds. We are constantly longing for the easiest and most efficient food tips and tricks to assimilate seamlessly into our erratic diets. But it simply does not have to be another struggle on top of an already hectic lifestyle - Nature's Pharmacy, brimming with expert advice right at your fingertips, boasts a thorough expanse of natural remedies to help you recapture your best health and well-being.With a neatly straightforward ailment directory, each remedy offers safe and effective solutions to common sicknesses - from migraines to allergies and depression to cholesterol. Nature's Pharmacy will turn your kitchen into a natural pharmacopeia, helping you to harness our ancestor's age-old, tried-and-tested remedies and explore the health benefits of everyday ingredients such as raspberries, avocado, flaxseed and salmon. With informative introductions to 200 effective and inexpensive herbal medicines, traditional remedies and nurturing foods, self-care has never been so deliciously invigorating!
Nature's Remedies for Stress and Fatigue: Recovering from Burnout
by Jo DunbarMedical herbalist Jo Dunbar follows up her Secrets From a Herbalist's Garden with this up-to-date look at stress, how it makes us feel diminished and exhausted and simple holistic remedies that we can all use to feel better.Things have changed in the last few years and countless people are crippled by stress and anxiety. The effects of stress on our health can lead to devastating long-term illnesses such as adrenal fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome. More recently, there has also been the complex condition known as long Covid, which we are steadily learning more about.Many people feel completely burnt out but do not understand how this affects their body or what they can do about it. Unfortunately, mainstream medicine has almost nothing to offer the person who wakes up feeling exhausted and unable to cope with the smallest stress. Having helped people for more than 20 years to recover from these illnesses, Jo Dunbar passes on her knowledge and experience in this accessible book. Her healing approach involves nutrition, herbs, exercises, meditation and lifestyle changes. It's a holistic rounded approach but we are empowered to adapt it to our own needs. Jo also doesn't reject mainstream medicine out of hand and she is well-versed in all the current developments and research.
Nature's Remedies: An Illustrated Guide to Healing Herbs
by Jean WilloughbyTurn to the natural benefits of herbs for enhanced energy, digestive health, hormonal harmony, pain relief, skin care, improved sleep, and more. Throughout history, herbs have been used medicinally to promote healing and vitality. Think chamomile for better sleep, green tea for enhanced focus, or elderberry for immunity boost. Today, herbs are more popular than ever, celebrated not just for their effectiveness but also as natural and affordable remedies. This beginner-friendly guide welcomes a new generation to the trusted tradition. Engagingly written for a wide audience, it presents richly detailed profiles of more than sixty herbs, including cultural history, uses, tips and beautiful watercolor illustrations.&“The simple practicality of Nature&’s Remedies by Jean Willoughby makes this book easy to consult when needed. Some of my favorite herbs were cited within its pages such as St. John&’s Wort, White Tea, Dandelion, Ashwaghanda, and Elderberry just to name a few. If you are new to horticulture and botany like I am, and you want a fresh, simple, and clean start then Nature&’s Remedies by Jean Willoughby is the book for you.&” —Tea End
Nature's Secret Messages: Hidden In Plain Sight
by Elaine WilkesReceive Wise Guidance from Your Mom—Mother Nature! Albert Einstein said, "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." Mother Nature, our greatest self-help guru, is always speaking to us . . . but in what language? When we learn how to interpret the plants, patterns, and timing in nature, a world of information appears that can help us live healthier, happier, and more balanced lives. This fascinating book takes you on a fun adventure while combining ancient secrets with modern research, and imagination with science, to help you see nature in a whole new way. Exercises throughout the book will teach you how to tune in to nature’s wisdom, empowering you to develop keen insight and create beneficial changes for a healthier mind, body, soul, and planet. Prepare to be inspired, informed, entertained, and awakened to the profound wisdom of Mother Nature!