You Were Made for a Garden
ENVIRONMENT is the 3rd guiding principle of living CREATION Healthy.
Environment is the external space outside of us but that which affects what happens within us. All of our senses -- sight, smell, sound, touch and taste -- can influence our mood as well as our health, either positively or negatively. Research demonstrates not only the importance of our larger environment (air and water quality) to our health, but also our immediate environment (light, sound, aroma and touch). In this Life Guide, you ll discover ways reinvent your environment and revitalize your life!
Table of Contents
1. The Environment Within
2. Valuing Nature
3. Befriending Nature
4. Got Clutter?
5. Coloring Your World
6. Sounds of Life
7. Aromas and Scents
8. Three Precious Gifts
An 8 book series
The CREATION Health Life Guide Series takes a deep dive into CREATION Health, a faith-based health and wellness program based on the Bible's Creation story.
The word CREATION in CREATION Health is comprised of the first letters of: Choice, Rest, Environment, Activity, Trust, Interpersonal, Outlook, and Nutrition. Each Life Guide focuses on one letter of the CREATION Health acronym and translates the fundamental concepts into easy-to-follow steps. The guides include questions designed to help individuals or small groups plumb the depths of every principle and learn strategies for integrating them into everyday life.
Individual readers and group participants will discover that embracing the CREATION Health prescription can help restore health, happiness, balance, and joy to life. The CREATION Health lifestyle has a long, proven history of wellness and longevity worldwide. People just like you are making a few simple changes in their lives and living longer, fuller lives. They are getting healthy and are able to do the things they love, well into their later years. Now is the time to join them by learning about healthier living and then turning what you learn into a healthier lifestyle.
CREATION Health Life Guide series reading order
* Creating Healthy Habits for Life Part 1 #1
* Rest At Its Best #2
* You Were Made For a Garden #3
* Activity Supercharges Your Life #4
* Trusting God for Renewed Life #5
* Creating Outstanding Relationships #6
* Creating Healthy Habits for Life Part 2 #7
* Eat for Energy #8
Kim Johnson is a popular writer, speaker, and fervent advocate for holistic living. As the author of three books, eleven lesson series, and many articles, his writings focus on healthy living and spiritual connectedness. His materials have been used in hundreds of churches throughout North America and internationally as well.
Johnson is an ordained minister with more than 35 years of experience as a parish pastor and church administrator. Over the years, his work with parishioners emphasized principles of whole-person health as a path to optimum mental, physical, social, and spiritual well-being. His later work with pastors and church leaders emphasized skill development such as vision casting, goal setting, support systems, relationship management, and accountability.
Johnson has put his experience of working with pastors and parishioners to use in the CREATION Health Life Guide Series by creating a resource ideally suited for use in churches, small groups or individual study. Johnson holds a Master of Divinity degree and received his Bachelor of Arts in theology. He currently serves as Director of Resource Development for churches in the state of Florida. His personal interests include reading, classical music, art and book festivals, kayaking, traveling, volunteering, and small group study. He and his wife Ann make their home in Orlando.
