TBT About Going Wild - Ep. 30: "Nature Nurtures"

Humankind needs natural adversities for strength, resilience, and overall health. Nature's challenges are not meant to be conquered, but to be experienced. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome to Truth be Told about Going Wild. I'm your host,
Robert Hensley, and this is the podcast inspired by the
principles of personal rewilding. There's an amazing story I read
about the first biodome in the nineteen seventies and how
they planted these beautiful trees in these plants, and how

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as they matured they didn't stand, They were kind of
limp and just lay over. And it took some time
before they realized that because there was no airflow, because
there was no wind, because these plants weren't faced with
any challenges, natural adversaries, if you will, they didn't need

(00:52):
to grow strong. They didn't face any opposition that would
force them to strengthen and become hard and solid, would right,
And it got me thinking about the concept of nature
versus nurture and this idea that nature does nurture. People

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talk about the relationship between man and nature as being
a challenge, that there is something to overcome, to win,
to conquer, and in a way that's true. We don't

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want to dispel the fact that being in nature can
be challenging, but those challenges are what allow us to
become strong and stand tall and to be resilient. If
we look at the way that society has formed or

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developed and continues to evolve, then we start thinking about
this idea of what man is really facing the adversities
in the world. They're not natural adversities when we are
all stacked into cities or we're in a crowded suburb.

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If we're not self reliant in any way, if we're
not connecting with the natural world and spending time outside
and seeing what real challenges and natural adversities are, then
we're only ever facing man made challenges, and in that
way we are not at all resilient. We are not strong. Right,

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So think about this right if we when we are little, right,
and I know this is especially true for people of
a certain generation, but when we were little, we played outside,
We played in the dirt. We had dirt beneath our nails,
on our face, up our noses and our ears, and
we were healthy.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
We were, yes, dealing with germs and microbes and things
from the natural world, but those things allowed our bodies
to develop natural immunities.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
If we look at populations born after a certain point
in the nineties ISH, where people became so concerned with
anti bacterial and anti microbial, and things became so distilled
and so neutral. It became came this thing where children

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became much more sickly. They weren't forming the same kinds
of immunity that their predecessors had, that their ancestors had,
because they weren't experiencing or being exposed to or allowed
to be exposed to, these natural adversities, these things that

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we needed to come up against in order to form
those kinds of cells. Right, the code was there in
our genetics, but that doesn't mean that we didn't have
to have something to trigger you know, that immunity. We
look at that now in terms of you know, we're

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looking at you know, facing different pandemics. Right. And again,
a lot of the things that we are not ready
for or that we are not come from the fact
that we no longer spend any time in the natural
world or enough time among the natural world to build

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up any kind of protection for ourselves. Right, we are
we are at the mercy of you know, scientists to
develop cures that otherwise we might be able to find
or develop on our own. And if we think about

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this idea of you know, facing challenges and learning and growing, right,
we have to think too about the time that we
spend in nature that is not adversarial, right, where we're
not facing challenges. You know, when we look at the
scientific research of just being outside of walking amongst a

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particular grove of trees, you know, say cedar trees or
particular pine trees, that there are these you know, essential
oils and fragrances in nature that trigger within our own bodies,
you know, an immune response, right that tell our bodies

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that we need to kick our you know in ca cells,
the natural killer cells that fight you know, cancers and
tumors and things into overdrive. And we only receive that
if we're outside. Yes, we can kind of replicate that
if we bring those smells and those oils into an
interior setting and we you know, pump them into the air.

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But we that's a lot of work, a lot of
work that we have to pay someone a lot of
money to do to make happen when it exists for
free just walking out in the world. Right. So, you know,
when we think about again nature versus nurture, some of

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that to me is that we've forgotten that nature is
there to nurture us, to protect us, to present us
with some of those small challenges, those things that just
require us to experience the world and learn. Right. I
don't think for myself, I don't see nature as being

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something that is so challenging to overcome that it's going
to take my life. I think that if we settle
into and reconnect to nature and rekindle that relationship with
the natural world that we learn from nature, we get

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nurtured in a way. That nature has provided us with
just about everything that we could possibly need, and that
it's possible to rely on yourself and rely on the
natural world and not rely solely on industry to protect us,
to live well, to be healthy, to have the things

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that we need. I think that we've stepped so far
to one side of the line here that we are
literally killing ourselves. When you know there's a warm and welcome,
when there's a warm welcome to we had just next door. Right,

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the grass is always greener, Yes, it is always greener,
and sometimes it truly is the better place to be,
especially if what's next door is you know, a relationship
with the natural world. Right, if we can simply go
and spend time outside, if we can be in nature
and reap these amazing benefits for our minds and our bodies.

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So that's what I want everyone to meditate on. That's
my goal. I want everyone to be thinking about how
they live, how they relate to the natural world, and
what they might be missing out on in this in
that relationship, right, What natural forms of immunity, What health

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benefits mental and physical are we missing out on by
not being connected to nature? And how can we rectify that?
How do we stop being so reliant upon you know,
industry and man made things to protect us when we
could simply just step out our front doors and go
out into a green space of blue space and find

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all of those things just available to us for free.
So thank you so much for listening. This has been
another episode of Truth Be Told About Going Wild with
Robert Hensley. Remember there are three opportunities each week for
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and I look forward to talking with you again soon
Until next time,