As we master the foundational HumanaNatura techniques of Natural Eating and Natural Exercise – outlined here via our Meals and Fitness pages – we soon better appreciate and prepare ourselves to pursue other natural health opportunities waiting in the flow or course of all our lives.
These higher-order opportunities for health primarily involve our daily outlooks and longer-term plans and life patterns. In practice, they encourage new personal health and self-awareness and increasing personal alignment with key dynamics of natural life, especially the adaptive or progressive quality that is natural phenomenon of health. Importantly, these opportunities for greater health lie almost entirely outside the time we spend eating and exercising.
Our progressive health opportunities include the way we work and spend our leisure time, the quality of our relationships and interactions with others, and the goals and ideas we use to structure our time and outlook. HumanaNatura calls the planned or intentional pursuit of these powerful and open-ended opportunities for new health and well-being, Natural Living, the third and most personal technique of our four-part Natural Health System.
As you use HumanaNatura to increase your health and capacity for natural life through Natural Eating and Natural Exercise, we encourage you to pursue these larger life and health opportunities as soon as you can – creatively and in an individualized way for sure, but also in one that is organized and scientifically-informed too.
Natural Life Plans
The personalized but organized pursuit of healthier and higher quality life is discussed in detail in the Natural Living section of our Personal Health Program. In HumanaNatura’s Natural Health System, this effort includes the essential modern health practice of creating, implementing, and periodically refining what we call a Natural Life Plan.
Unlike informal goal-setting or improvised personal changes, natural life planning with HumanaNatura utilizes seven regularly repeated steps, each designed to ensure that we develop our unique expression of healthy life as steadily and optimally as possible. HumanaNatura’s planning process helps us to identify and pursue our most compelling opportunities for greater personal health, overcome natural health limiters and barriers we inevitably face, and creatively seek ways we can act to ensure lifelong progressivity and growth.
HumanaNatura’s seven-step process for creating and refining a Natural Life Plan is based on proven life-improvement practices from cognitive-behavioral science. The process is augmented by our self-guided Natural Life Plan Worksheets and Natural Health Assessment Tool. These important natural health aids encourage personalized but targeted reflection and action along HumanaNatura’s Ten Dimensions of Natural Living, our unique framework of health-critical life attributes adapted from the science of natural human life:
The Ten Dimensions
- Autonomy
- Harmony
- Community
- Rhythm
- Intimacy
- Growth
- Movement
- Security
- Simplicity
- Nature
You can download or print a copy of HumanaNatura’s ten dimensions here or order a professional-quality poster of them at the HumanaNatura Marketplace.
Seven Steps To New Life
Each time we begin a new Natural Life Plan, a natural health self-assessment is combined with a creative vision of greater personal health and quality of life, which are then used to formulate a revised set of health and life advancing goals. HumanaNatura’s seven steps for creating a Natural Life Plan are easy to understand in principle and put into practice in our lives:
- Assess – the high and low terrain of our current health landscape
- Envision – positively describing a more optimal life and personal mission
- Describe – our life as it is today, especially as it relates to our vision
- Formulate – a new Natural Life Plan, focusing on needed goals and actions
- Review – our Natural Life Plan, especially planned actions and their timing
- Implement – creatively and pragmatically acting toward our new goals
- Evaluate – our plan actions and results, using key lessons to plan again
You can reach HumanaNatura’s life planning worksheets at Natural Living Worksheets, and learn more about the how and why of Natural Life Plans and our Ten Dimensions via the Natural Living section of our Personal Health Program.
Your Next Steps
As your health improves through the foundational HumanaNatura techniques of Natural Eating and Natural Exercise, we hope you will consider other opportunities for new health, well-being, and quality of life – via the powerful, lifelong and life-wide, and life-changing HumanaNatura health science technique that is Natural Living.
To help you begin this important journey of next steps and health-seeking discovery, and to give you a feel for Natural Living’s full scope and power, we would encourage you to take a moment to consider a question: What is one thing you can change, right now, that will immediately improve the rest of your life?
However you answer, we hope you can see the natural power of this question. Perhaps you sense the way it fosters new engagement and creativity in us, and new curiosity and honesty too. Imagine the possibilities that might come by asking and answering this question, again and again, and acting on your answers and learning from your actions.
This important and deeply personal process of reflection, health-seeking action, and progrsssive learning is the essence of Natural Living, one that can be informed by and naturally encourages our increasing use of the science of healthy life.
We encourage your questions and comments about the science and practice of Natural Living, Natural Life Plans, and quality of life improvement via our Ask Us page.
