NATURAL HYGIENE
PERSONAL CARE & SOCIAL NEEDS COURSE
Sustaining Health Through Community
Overview
The Natural Hygiene Personal Care & Social Needs Course (NHC 109) is the ninth Course in the Natural Hygiene Essentials Program (NHEP). This Course presents the first cluster of what we could call our 'personal support needs' for healthful living. With the NHC 109 Course you begin your study of many other needs of life... needs that revolve around your mental, emotional, and spiritual life. All previous Courses you have studied have laid the foundation for this Course, and upcoming Course 10.
As you study the needs of life presented in the NHC 109 Course, and in the next Natural Hygiene Psychological & Spiritual Needs Course (NHC 110), keep in mind that they are quite important as well. Indeed, once your basic practices of healthful living become a daily routine, and your health and vitality are strong and consistent, many of the 'Support Needs' become dominant in your life.
Providing for your major physical needs results in a definite feeling of strength, solidity, and power inside you. Your body knows that it is receiving what it needs, and it rewards you with a sense of ease and smooth functioning in your everyday life. As you study, learn and practice the 'Support Needs', you are rewarded with a more subtle, but often sweetly satisfying feeling of overall rightness and joy in your life.
All needs of life, taken together, complete the full circle, leaving no holes, cracks, or voids. A well-rounded lifestyle not only supplies your needs and provides a solid sense of confidence and resilience, but also keeps you smiling, happy, and contented.
Benefits of Completion
Upon completion of the Natural Hygiene Personal Care & Social Needs Course (NHC 109), you will know that Personal care and hygiene, living in a naturally comfortable climate, and having basic security needs under control are important aspects of physical health. Carefully attending to these needs can make a big difference in your overall sense of ease and well-being.
When healthful living is practiced daily, your body will take care of itself in most respects. Living in, and interacting with your outside environment in natural, organic and beneficial ways, promotes the finer aspects of excellent health.
Periodic rest and relaxation, along with its opposite, play and recreation, are enjoyable activities that should be attended to daily. Life should be fun!
Interacting with others is prompted by our instinctively gregarious nature. Enjoying time with others fulfills a very deep psychological need within each of us. Whether it be an intimate relationship that provides a loving outlet for sexual desires, deep companionship and building a life together; or whether it be an assortment of casual relationships with others, individually or in groups, we can choose from many different ways to be creative and have fun with others.
The NHC 109 Personal Care & Social Needs Course will teach you:
- Personal Care – Learn the simple basics of natural care habits for your physical body. Skin, hair, teeth, nails and your 5 senses are examined in light of healthy maintenance of them.
- Comfortable Climate – Every animal in Nature has an ideal range of temperature and climate where it feels and functions best. Humankind is no different, nor an exception to this rule. You explore what the ideal climate is for human beings, and why.
- Security of Life and Its Means – Considering and attending to issues of security for your life, and your family members, is necessary for a feeling of safety and security.
- Rest and Relaxation - You will learn the essential benefits of rest and relaxation, and how effective they are toward relieving everyday stress and bioenergy drain.
- Belonging to a Group or Social Circle – Humans are fundamentally social beings. All of us have the urge to spend time with others in our life. This need varies, depending on many factors.
- Play and Recreation – Play as exercise was addressed in Course 8; here we look at play and recreation as the simple desire to engage in activities for the sheer joy of doing them.
- Laughter, Storytelling, and Entertainment – Creative imagination can be beautifully stimulated with storytelling. The pleasure of laughter needs no explanation! Entertaining stories mixed with humor and laughter can be the best form of fun and education.
- Healthy Expression of Sexuality – The obviously important feature of sexual desire is procreation. In human beings, sexuality has been elevated to amazing heights of expression. Here we look at healthy ways to engage in our sexuality.
- Love, Sharing, and Gratitude – Intimately woven into all aspects of life, especially our social lives, are the acts of showing love and gratitude for the miracle that is Life. Sharing that love, in many ways with others, with animals, and with all of Nature, demonstrates our highest potential as human beings.
Enrollment
The Natural Hygiene Personal Care & Social Needs Course (NHC 109) is online, and consists of 10 Lessons, 84 Topics, 9 Lesson Tests and 1 Final Test. Within each Lesson are a number of Topics that cover all the essentials of a particular subject. At the end of each Lesson is a short true/false test. At the end of the Course is a Final Test, which covers all the essential points you learned.
We strongly recommend enrolling into the Natural Hygiene Essentials Program (NHEP). The 10 Course NHEP will give you a thorough understanding of the full spectrum of Natural Hygiene. The knowledge you gain from the NHEP will serve you very well for the rest of your healthy life.
Student and teacher interaction is available through email, TI’s Telegram channel and we host monthly video Q&A sessions.
Preview A Course
Click the links to access the NHEP Introduction and NHC 101 Philosophy Course for free - no account required. This will give you hands-on experience on how the Courses are structured, how to work with the Course online, how to proceed through the Lessons and Topics, and finally, how to test yourself about the knowledge you have learned.
You can see for yourself what Natural Hygiene is all about. If you like what you see, and if the Natural Hygiene philosophy resonates with you, please consider enrolling into the full Natural Hygiene Essentials Program. We sincerely believe you will be glad you did!
Course Outline
The Natural Hygiene Personal Care & Social Needs Course (NHC 109) contains the following content: