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| Green Stress Management |
| A profoundly stressful transformation is affecting all aspects of our culture, often manifesting as trauma, chaos, pain, disruptionthe whole panoply of crises we are all too familiar with. |
| How to cope with the ever-mounting pressures on our lives in these crazy times? Much has been written about how to manage stress, and much of it contains valuable insights. However, it can be said that at the core of our personal and planetary challenges is the human experience of alienation, a profound spiritual "homesickness." Is there a way in which stress management programs can help us experience the elusive but nurturing sense of belonging? |
| Herbalism is the medicine of belonging, the direct experience of the whole healing the part. Our world blesses us with herbs, with leaves of life. In the face of humanity's blind abuse and rape of nature, we discover remedies that can help us survive the impact of our mistakes. |
| Herbalism abounds with opportunities to experience the reality of the healing presence of nature, whether in treating disease or in hugging a tree. Approaching herbalism from its array of diverse and divergent components illuminates a field of human endeavor that is a wonderful weaving of the miraculous and the mundane. It is a therapy that encompasses stimulating laxatives such as senna, the spiritual ecstasy of the Amazonian shaman and the beauty |
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