To be strong to be useful and no more?

To be strong to be useful like a cog in the machine?
“Be strong to be useful” said Methode Naturelle’s motto and morals. But wait a minute, do you mean “useful” like a tool is useful, a cog in the machine is useful? Who or what should decide my own agenda, if not myself?
Isn’t there more to living one’s life to the fullest than just being strong, or even healthy? Isn’t it also important, maybe even more important, to be happy and free? How about “Be strong to be free” for instance?
In order to to be helpful to oneself, to others and to the world, wouldn’t it be a very relevant and fantastic thing to make oneself a strong, healthy, happy and free individual? How about a more comprehensive and probably more inspiring motto that would say “To be strong, healthy, happy and free”? And since I strongly believe it is our true nature to be strong, healthy, happy and free, how about a simpler motto, that would sound more like a positive invitation, like: “Explore Your True Nature”?
A different orientation for a different predicament
MovNat holds a unique philosophy called “True Nature” that is the foundation of the overall MovNat approach and orientation and that addresses major global issues that were almost unknown to Hebert, i.e., the Zoo Human predicament.
The philosophy behind MovNat is embodied in the motto: “Explore Your True Nature“.
The world changes ever more rapidly and indeed it has tremendously changed in the last century, and so have people, not in nature, but in lifestyle, mindsets and expectations as well as physical condition.

Spiritual Suffering
Mental Suffering
Physical Suffering
We’re not in 1905 anymore. More than a century later, we all face the massive, ongoing and increasing influence of the “Zoo” and it is a saddening thing to observe that more and more of us are turned into Zoo humans becoming weak, sick, depressed and conditioned. Unquestionably, we have become a pathetic version of what Nature had generously and intelligently designed us to be, or of what the human species itself, as a whole, had evolved to become until now.
It is a destructive predicament, and it would clearly be an ostrich attitude to deny or minimize it. Softly destroying your true nature, it also progressively destroys the nature that is around you and that is the real source of your life and health.

Evolution???

Contact with nature is vital, but so is natural movement and natural eating

It is all connected actually. Painkiller anyone?
Is it really a fate we cannot do anything about?
It is not easy to deal with this predicament indeed. We were all born in the Zoo and being true to our nature is an amazing challenge. There is no ideal, perfect or ultimate one-size-fits-all solution and there is also certainly no easy one. You still can choose to go for coping mechanisms like watching more DVDs, playing more video games, eating more ice-cream and drinking more soda or beer. Or take a chill-pill?

Kid disconnected from his true nature and trying to cope with his physical and mental suffering
You can also go for quick-fixes: run on a treadmill or buy a Wiifit and swallow loads of laboratory-made supplements. But that’s treating the symptoms, not the causes. The truth is that it takes genuine dedication and often a tremendous courage to seriously and durably commit to a positive change in one’s own life.
“Nature deficit disorder”
The real priority issue is to battle a “nature deficit disorder”.



Nature Deficit Disorder - a great term coined by Richard Louv in 2005 and it refers to the alleged modern trend that both today’s children and adults are spending less time outdoors, resulting in a wide range of behavioral problems.
But when I say “nature deficit disorder”, I am not only talking about a lack of direct contact with nature in modern children, but a chronic lack of understanding, respect, experience and expression of the very nature that lies within us.
I believe that movement is our nature, and that it is actually natural movement that suits us best, all simply because it suits best the fundamental, universal, evolutionary and biological human nature which I call our “True Nature”.
Movement in nature is best, but above all, it is natural movement that matters first, natural movement that can re-awaken the need to be in touch with the nature around us. This quote by Pascal illustrates this viewpoint perfectly: “Our nature lies in movement, in complete calm is death.” It is actually more than a personal, subjective viewpoint. In fact, no animal, including the human animal, can thrive and maintain health and vitality when deprived from movement.

There are very effective solutions though, that are natural and healthy, free or quite inexpensive, but again it is all about being committed to apply them in real-life. Your real-life. It has to be a life-affirming orientation, and more than a concept: it must be an experience, a reality.
MovNat, in this regard, is actually much more than fitness and can as well be more than just the Natural Movement Training System. It is also an education program designed to rehabilitate the “Zoo human” with its unique “True Nature” philosophy that affirms that it is our universal birthright to be strong, healthy, happy and free.

It addresses much more than just the hypothetical promise and the limited objective of obtaining an ideal body shape. It actually guarantees something actually invaluable and priceless, which is that you will learn how to experience your true nature again, without having to go back to life in huts or caves, while still having the possibility to enjoy the best of modern life.
Getting back to a wild state is probably mission impossible, and actually not necessarily such a desirable ambition. However, being true to one’s nature is, with sufficient commitment, a very accessible goal that will positively transform your experience of life.

Young kids free and happy to explore their true nature
Where there is exuberant movement, there is strength, health, happiness and freedom.
So before you can actually be strong and may decide to be useful to others, I strongly advise that you start where it all starts…
…finally meet who you truly are. Explore your true nature!
Erwan Le Corre










