How is Your Water - Your Source of Vitality, Clarity and Connection! This friendly greeting is common to every ancient and indigenous culture on Earth. Western scientists are now discovering what sustainable ancient civilizations and native peoples have always known-that water is a living being. Water is alive. It is intelligent. It has a consciousness an...

10 Spiritual Principles I Learned from the Yard Guru - The great guru in my life in recent years has been my yard. No ordinary yard, I live in the foothills east of San Diego, abutting on the true wasteland between here and Mexico, where scrub brush, poison oak and rattlesnakes would scare away the most intrepid gardener. This is why I refer to working in my yard, rather than working in my garden...

12 Vitality Secrets Right Outside Your Door - Mother Nature can teach you how to be more: FREE Animals constantly demonstrate how to shift the energy--and outcome--of any situation. Nature also illustrates that there`s always a ready source of free energy available anytime, anywhere you need it. FLOWING Modeling animals activates key body points to increase our energy, gr...

3 Easy Steps to Becoming a BackCountry Hero - Have you thought about helping to protect wildlife or wild flowers, but you don`t know how? Or maybe you want to protect your favorite camping site or that cool little stream nobody else knows about? Making a difference in the backcountry is easy for anyone – you don`t have to be Ted Turner. Not every one can fly to the Amazon delta to move b...

4 Critical Fly Fishing Tips - Good Fly Presentation Obviously, the goal when casting a fly is to present the fly to the fish in a realistic manner. You are trying to simulate nature here. If you are going for trout in a stream, for instance, this means a drag-free float of 36 inches over a precise spot that marks the window of a feeding fish. Also remember that the ...

40 Days and 40 Nights in the Wilderness with Venus - Venus, the planet, goes retrograde (backwards) less frequently than Mercury, about every 18 months, and lasts 40 days. Because it is less frequent, it is more difficult to understand and wreaks more havoc than a Mercury retrograde. Mercury affects communication. Venus affects possessions, relationships, women’s issues and most of all values. ...

5 Easy Steps to Giving the Perfect BackCountry Gift - Does the thought of buying a gift for a friend or relative make you smile or does it stress you out? Is there a hiker or camper on your gift giving list? What can you give to the someone who already has everything? The secret of gift giving is not always the “what.” Many times the “why, when and how” make an ordinary gift the Perfect Gift. Co...

5 Tips for Successful Bird Watching - Can you name the number one spectator sport in North America? It’s not baseball, figure skating or racing. It’s bird watching. That’s right, more people are watching birds than football and hockey combined. With so many people hoping to see a bird they`ve never seen before, it’s not surprising to see a clamoring for the latest tips and tools ...

5 Tips to get out there and smell the roses…. - As we move to the summer, it’s fantastic to see the sun shining, feel the heat and be able to get outside into the great outdoors to make the most of the great world that we live in. I feel myself inspired by the spring flowers, and reinvigorated as I spend some time reveling in their colours. All seasons of the year give us something special...

5 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your BackCountry Gear - Time out of doors is a precious commodity to the outdoor enthusiast - but are we getting the most out of this time? One way to ensure maximum backcountry enjoyment is to get the most possible value from the gear you acquire and use. Here are 5 ways to get the most out of your backcountry gear – and your backcountry experience. - Purchase t...

9 Tips For Taking Great Digital Photos - Introduction Modern cameras are highly automatic in operation. They have auto focus and auto exposure. The camera will focus on the subject - often identified by a small circle or square at the centre of the viewfinder - and calculate an appropriate exposure by detecting the level of reflected light - usually from the same spot. A slight p...

A Family Garden for Nature - Each year we look forward to creating a special habitat for for all of our wild and natural friends. Spring has arrived and we have been busy welcoming the season by preparing the garden for all of our summer visitors. Anyone can create a garden - even you! When some people think about gardening, they think they need a lot of space or a big ...

A Mindful Road Trip The Perfect No-Goal Vacation - It`s the beginning of spring break, and we`re heading south. That`s all we know. Our family is greatly anticipating what may be our last road trip for a long, long time. There`s a lot of excitement in our house right now as we are shifting into a whole new phase for each of us. My husband is launching a new business. I am writing a book...

A Nature Meditation - You are sitting by a quietly flowing stream in the countryside. It is spring and life is green and moist. Sitting on a rock, the sights and sounds of the flowing water begin to work their mysterious way into your nervous system. Gradually, with the simple repetition of the water?s song and the harmonious beauty of the natural surroundings, ...

A Simple Way To Offset the Environmental Effects of Driving Your Car - We all love our cars. They give us the freedom to come and go as we please, to get to work, to visit family and friends, to go shopping...on our own schedule. But automobiles also effect the environment by polluting the air we breathe and, in the larger scope of life, by creating unusual climate changes. But there is a simple thin...

A Thing of Beauty is a Joy with Photoshop - Human nature always seems to have this predilection with beauty and what society believes is beautiful. When we are fat, we want to be slim or thin. When we have the so-called “love handles”, we decide we do not love them anymore, so we go to the gym and exercise until our tongues fall out from fatigue. We are blessed with dark colored skin, ...

Artists Wildlife Sculptures Inspire A Natural Serenity - Wildlife Sculptures create the natural beauty of nesting birds in both their natural habitats and in their co-existence with the modern world. Succasunna, NJ (PRWEB) June 4, 2004 -– WE all suffer from not having the time to sit back and enjoy this thing we call life. There is barely a moment taken to enjoy the natural world all around...

Awesome Ways To Get Outdoors - Are you looking for fresh ways to spend time with your friends and family? Outdoor activities getting a little boring are they? With your fast paced life gaining speed all the time, it’s easy to stick to what’s familiar; but is that any way to live? Let’s take a few minutes and look at how easy it is to break out of the same-ole-routine and i...

Best Tips for Enjoying the BackCountry in the Rain - If you spend any amount of time in the backcountry at all, it will rain on you. Remember this - rain is a good thing; without it there wouldn’t be much backcountry to enjoy. How you prepare for rain and how you handle yourself and gear in the rain, makes the difference between a great experience and a horrible one. Here are some great ideas f...