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(NaturalNews) For over five years, NaturalNews has served the interests of the natural health community, bringing you important news about natural health, medicinal herbs, nutrition, Big Pharma and the FDA and even covering important, timely issues like financial protection, bailout money and the housing bubble crash. For most of these five years, we've spent considerable time focusing on criticism of the FDA, drug companies, medical journals, conventional medical doctors and others who operate from a limited view of health and healing.
As you may have noticed recently, that focus has begun to shift in a meaningful way. Fewer stories are now focused on criticism of what's wrong, and more stories and projects are focused on solutions and positive experiences. As one reader stated, we're "upgrading our vibration" to be more positive and constructive.
It doesn't mean we won't still cover important stories about dangerous developments at the FDA, USDA, FTC or drug companies, but as I've learned from personal experience over the last few years, griping about what's wrong gets you nowhere.
The best way to make a positive change in the world, I've learned, is to demonstrate the solutions yourself. In other words, be the change you wish to see in the world (to quote Mahatma Gandhi).
It's a simple concept, of course, but it can take a lifetime to truly embrace. As the editor of NaturalNews, I've found embracing this concept quite challenging until just recently. For many years, I allowed myself to be distracted by what's wrong with the world, and I focused a considerable amount of energy highlighting those problems and urging readers to take action to combat them. I can already hear the followers of the Law of Attraction snickering, because you already know what I'm going to say next: Whatever you give your attention to becomes larger and more powerful!
I don't claim to be some sort of Saint. I made mistakes along the way, and it took me a lot longer to learn this lesson than I would have liked, but I get it now: The truest path to helping others learn about natural health and green living is to demonstrate it through our own actions and words. Nothing more really needs to be said about Big Pharma and the FDA. Instead, what we need to be focusing on here at NaturalNews are solutions for living with outstanding health, with compassion for all living things, and with respect for the Earth and our environment.
As a shoe company slogan once said, "Just do it."
Walking the path instead of just talking about itMy recent move to Vilcabamba, Ecuador, was a significant part of my personal shift in the direction of natural health authenticity and "walking the talk." It's one thing to sit in an office in front of a laptop and talk about what's healthy; it's something totally different to actually move to a country with the highest biodiversity density in the world, launch a botanical refuge, grow your own food and medicine and LIVE the lifestyle you've been promoting.
It's an important point of authenticity, however. When I work to teach others about the benefits of juicing organic vegetables every day, I'd better be demonstrating it every single day myself, in my own life, right? Advocating such things only carried credibility if you're walking your own talk.
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