How to prepare for alternative lifestyle in nature - Learn what qualifications are needed for life in nature. How to find the right balance in life

What is an alternative lifestyle ?

It has been known since many decades that our entire planet suffers from pollution and abuse by high tech life. Yet alternative life style in no way means going back to stone age technology dropping all achievements of modern society. Alternative lifestyle means to truly and sincerely listen inside your own heart to make sound and wise decisions on what is needed for true happiness and what part of modern high tech ( city ) life serve no other purpose but our laziness or profit making or other aspects of our or other people's ego. Alternative life in nature is a far more demanding life than most situations in cities ! Yet mankind is made to be more versatile than average city life offers. Mankind is made to enjoy challenges, to enjoy growing by solving problems. Solving problems by inventing new solutions, by creating new solutions, by creation new ways of thinking, living or doing.

Healthy nature as a prerequisite for life - No nature = No life

An alternative lifestyle should result in a total recovery of all global nature, rain forests, waters, land - by reducing the overall pollution and resource consumption to a fraction of todays emissions and consumptions. Our all consumption of nature by using natural resources, by polluting creates ill nature and destruction of nature. The current reaction to the long time ongoing global effects to these environment pollution effects of modern high tech lifestyle is to reduce in smallest steps until we may see a change or improvement in nature. Small steps are too small to rescue our nature! What we need to learn is to instantly make ONE big step as far back as possible without endangering our all health and wellbeing. Health and wellbeing however largely depend on:

• Love
• Harmony and peace between human beings, neighbors, family members, neighboring countries, other cultures
• Happy life in freedom - life in autonomy
• Freedom to improve, freedom to make choices, freedom to progress in a healthy way in harmony with all

Alternative lifestyles are aimed to:

1. Create a healthy balance between resources consumed and resources produced by humans in a particular life style. Hence a primary purpose is to find a style of living resulting in self sustaining life.
2. Live in harmony with all nature - fully integrated in nature without distorting nature, without polluting nature, without being a burden to nature but the be an asset to nature, to support nature, to protect wild nature as made by God. This harmony with nature requires a much deeper understanding of nature far beyond the knowledge of science. Understanding nature requires feeling nature ! Felling nature requires an open heart and thus spiritual development of all our spiritual senses in addition to our physical senses.
3. To enjoy life by knowing and living the truly important aspects of happy life
4. To develop our God made family sense again and live in an extended family open to all, supported by all, enjoyed by all - at the expense of none. Fully self-sustaining, each paying in full for his lifestyle, each one being fully liable and responsible for all his action or absence of action.
5. Learning to make decisions with love - in wisdom - with God as our only guide in all our decisions.
6. Living in nature, amidst nature understanding the value of nature and the purpose of nature as our God given playground for a happy, creative and productive life amidst best friends and loved ones
7. Understand the potential of nature, the needs of nature and the healing power of nature for all mankind. As a result mankind should learn to maintain a healthy, growing and expanding nature always capable to support our entire global community, health and prosperity as needed for a truly loving life amidst a community of loving humans

Qualifications for alternative lifestyle

Alternative lifestyle means a life with technology - but far less technology as currently employed. Current tendency of mankind is to produce as much as possible, as cheap as possible, as fast as possible for the greatest possible profits. True alternatives to such current life styles must include a strict selection of what serves our greed or laziness and what truly is necessary for the best possible health of all, happiness of all and mutual peace in freedom of all.

Hence a happy life may require much more professional qualifications and a higher readiness to actually and physically work than hundreds of millions currently do. Instead of having others - cheap labors - do all our dirty work, demanding work or dangerous work, an alternative life style does include the need that we all are willing and capable to do all we want to be done on our own. If there are expert jobs unable to be done by ourselves, then we need to be willing to have friends doing that job for exactly ( to the cent ) do that job for us. To enjoy life we need to fully understand the real value of others, to enjoy others as true experts, to realize the value of others in our own life and thus by honoring efforts, products and services of others as equal to our own life nd work.

To truly understand limits, we humans sometimes need to exceed limits. Now and for the past many decades we have already exceeded healthy limits of our planet in many ways. We have created artificial political or other boundaries limiting the free flow of humans around the planet. We have exceeded the amount of energy consumption and pollution emission this planet can handle. Hence latest now it would be our duty to adjust by reducing our destructive behavior, going in retreat into nature and feel, think or better meditate about our past actions and particularly to figure out our past mistakes before continuing any heavy activities.

Readiness to work is essential for alternative life style - all need to work

Going into retreat amidst nature should also serve the purpose of going deep inside to review your past years, decades or entire life to assess our true needs. Depending on our true needs we then need to assess our own contribution to those needs for a happy life. Professional qualifications are needed. Some of them you may have now, others may be totally missing. Professional education and vocational training should be based on real needs of mankind rather than on marketing and profit making activities and needs. We all should acquire as many and as high qualifications as possible to become an active source of true needs. For true alternative life to be successful, to be happy for all, technical skills, alternative medical skills as well as farming skills are needed.

By spending repeated vacation or retreats in various countries - in deepest provincial areas of simple life and harmony or problems encountered, we all may very soon assess our needs in knowledge and skills for a happy life. When you miss something, you may start to appreciate that part of life. When you live in a retreat in healthy nature you also may be amazed how many daily high tech aspects you never may miss. Hence you may realize how many of our daily gadgets might be dropped without even the smallest loss in quality of life or health even less love in life.

Our modern and very affordable travel opportunities should be wisely used to experience a variety of different cultures, habits and technical levels applied in various current lifestyles on this planet. Traveling the world for at least a few years either while working freelance or employed or while working for an international humanitarian organisation such as UNICEF, UNHCR, WHO, UN, Care, FAO, and many others NGOs may help you experiencing this world while being useful for this world and while actually paying for all the travel and experiences waiting for you.

Make your dreams come true by shrinking the size of your dreams until dreams become affordable and feasible by your own means

Later more on this topic. You also find several articles and photos about alternate lifestyles in the newest posted pictures of the Photo Gallery of the Philippine islands - album Banaue rice terraces. See how many Advantage of village life vs city life and how small a dream home in nature could be. Learn to adjust the size of your dreams to make your dreams affordable for your budget and to maintain dreams you actually can realize all on your own - at your own expense as a result of your own personal efforts and resources.

God bless

hans