Natur heilt: Wege zurück an unsere Wurzeln | Erfahrungsmedizin | QS24 Gesundheitsfernsehen

Become a subscriber to Wikisana now. Welcome, dear viewers, to our format Nature Medicine. Today we can dive into the exciting world of survival together again. And what I find so beautiful about my two experts is that it is not about fighting in nature, but again about the connection and really also about knowledge and intuition and mindfulness. And today we are talking in particular about what it means for our health, when we have less comfort again, when we move more, when we are in nature. And I am allowed to talk about this exciting topic today with Niklaus Hippe. He is a survival coach and survival expert. And Benedikt Fuchs, he is also a survival coach. Two very experienced men who have really mastered very difficult situations, who have an incredibly great knowledge and are already dealing with it from an early age. I'm looking forward to it. Stay tuned. Hello, dear Niko. Hello, dear Benedikt. I have two such excellent experts. And I think it's really nice, as I said at the beginning, that you have such mindfulness and also intuition. And as you said in another program, that you are really aware, that you really look at what is around you again. Not just when you are in a, let's say, survival week or something. And I think that's very nice. Exactly, yes. That's also the case when I'm out in nature and bring my attention to nature. So I realize what's going on outside, which animals, which plants, what the flow of life is like in nature. And if I'm out there long enough, it always turns around and goes back to myself. So this awareness, this attention also goes back to me. And I pay more attention to myself again. Automatically, when I'm out in nature, I pay more attention to myself. How am I doing right now? What can I do to make me feel better? Which paths do I have to take so that I can be healthy again in general and can be out and about? Yes, very nice. And I just notice that we live in a world today that is so cut off from the things that are actually natural, that we cause a lot of diseases. If you look at all the allergies that have developed in the last 20 years, 20 years ago there was not yet the term, as far as I know, lactose intolerance or something. Or these 100 different things. Why? Because we drink milk, for example, which is simply no longer healthy. The question is, was milk healthy for us? In between, what the cows produce into the milk, because we keep them the way we keep them, is simply not healthy. If we look at the grain, how it is grown, that is not healthy. If we look at our everyday life, where we turn on the light in the evening so that we can continue to live the day, although actually nature would say, now it's getting dark, now we can go to sleep soon. All these things that were actually natural in the past and where you couldn't resist, now you can change it all artificially. And that's how so many diseases arise. We don't even have to talk about overweight. Overweight is, among other things, because you don't have to move as much as you used to. Then the next topic is diabetes, for example. We eat carbohydrates in the morning, lunch and dinner. Carbohydrates and a lot of sugar, of course. Carbohydrates are turned into sugar and at some point it will be too much for the body if we only eat sugar. There used to be times when there wasn't much to eat, for example in winter. Then you lived a lot on meat and fish because it was more available in winter or a few more potatoes in the basement when you grew up. But then you also had a lot of meals, if you had anything to eat at all, where you just had fat and protein. And then it came back to balance. And so you can look at so many areas. My favorite area, because it also affected me a lot, is also stress management. How many of us have had burnouts or are constantly overloaded? And you just notice that we have too many possibilities of what we can do. Then you want to do this, do that, try this out and so on. And you always have to bring more performance, even at work. You always want to create growth. It's not natural that you always create growth. But at some point nature grows and then it dies off again. But it's not just about growing. These are all points where I say that these are diseases of civilization that are definitely related to our lifestyle. And now the question is, of course, what can you do to get back to health, also internally? What also comes with it, of course, is the distraction factor. That means I have a lot of opportunities not to deal with myself at all, but I come home tired and stressed from an exhausting working day and turn on the TV and then I lie down in bed and hope that the next day will be better. And that's how I block this healing process, this process that I deal with myself. And in our case, survival training, nature is a good medium, a good bridge to start this healing process. And we notice it. It was like that for me, I noticed it for myself. And I think I'm saying the same thing for you. And we already notice it in those who visit us, customers who have already taken many courses. And that doesn't just affect the individual people, but we also notice that it is family-wide. Here, too, we have the same problems. Parents who have children, for example, who spend too much time in front of some flimsy boxes, TV, computer and so on, who don't want to go out at all. And where, I would say, family-wide social problems arise for various reasons, especially in recent years, where they weren't allowed to meet outside at all and things like that. And now we have the opportunity to bring people back to nature and thus also back to themselves. And all of this via medium survival or nature. And that is extremely valuable. So much happens in one. I have also noticed that by chance in life this survival came to me. It's not like I said, I now want to learn to live in nature without equipment. That's not the goal of survival for us, but actually for us the goal is to live in harmony again. And you can also live well in the house. But the exciting thing was really that we got this chance, our knowledge from centuries, millennia of old, or from millennia of old knowledge. This knowledge that really came from the natives of North America, from a person who decided many years ago to devote his life to the preservation of this knowledge, who really left his tribe for 63 years of his life, an Indian, and wandered through North and South America and visited all the elders and learned from them. Because he knew that if one generation does not pass on this knowledge, it will die out. And we are still young and on the way. It's not like we're ready-made survival trainers. For me, I will never be ready. When I die, I will still not be ready, because I am always on the way. And that's so exciting that we didn't invent it ourselves, that survival, that's how you could do it and so on, but that it really is the culture of the past, which can still live with it. And this knowledge is so, so old and so wise, that the longer you do it and live, the deeper the realization of what else is behind it, what you didn't even notice at the beginning. That's a great gift. And also for the children, because I said it once in the interview, a friend of mine said, the kindergarten teacher wrote, the children have to practice going into the forest, because they can't do that anymore, before they go to kindergarten. And I thought, as a girl, we're in the forest and we've been building huts all day. It was such a magical world and you were so connected to nature. And when the children don't have that anymore, so much is missing from the earth and from natural adventures too, right? Yes, absolutely. That's the point where we also said, the more you move away from nature, the more unhealthy life becomes, because it becomes more unnatural. And then you have to beautify your life with medication and coffee and whatever, so that you can manage your everyday life well. And if you can really get back into this harmony, into being one with the earth, we are a part of the earth. And it's so nice when you develop this feeling again and then you realize what life actually means. How wonderful nature is. It's so nice when you're so old. Did you also learn that from this man? Or where did you learn that? It started with his student. Ah, yes, so great. Beautiful. Exactly, although you have to say, it didn't stop there, but these natural peoples around the globe all have this red thread in them. Whether you are in North America, South America, in the Aborigines or somewhere in the steppes of Africa. The natural peoples all have more or less this similar knowledge, of course specialized in their place, but the red thread is the same. It's about this root, that we are still a part of nature, that we are the mother earth, and that they can learn from it and learn again. And as soon as you go out again, it starts again. This healing process starts immediately. You can feel it after an hour, after a day when I'm out, when I haven't had it for a long time and when I hear the birds again, it touches me immediately. It's not like I take a pill and maybe it helps, but it's like I go out and after half an hour I arrive. Yes. And with me again, and in nature. And I think it's also, as you say, a very big mental question, because when we experience again that we can take responsibility, that we can tackle things, that we can experience real adventures, that's really a mental challenge for us, of course, because what you do there, partly without equipment, it's almost unimaginable for me how that works. I have a lot of respect for that. And I think you can sometimes come to the limits, right? Yes. And I have to say, where does life take place? Life takes place at the border. Yes. Where do we live, for example? We live on earth. We don't live on earth and we don't live in the air. We live on earth. And where is life possible? Only a few kilometers between the earth's surface and further up. That's where life is, on the border layer, so to speak, between universe and earth. And if we look at where in nature most of the life is, then it's on the edges of the forest, where meadows and forests cross, or on the river, where water flows into the country. Most of life takes place on these border areas and that's the most diverse life. And if we look at our inner self, when do we grow the most? When do we become more mature? Then it's at the points where we have reached limits. And that's a bit of a sad thing, that in our current culture, in our current system, you always try to make it as easy as possible. So all the consumption is also stimulated with things that make life easier. But who can still read a map today? Everyone has the address, click on Google Maps and off you go. And that's also something nice. But the question is, who can still orient themselves? If you don't have Google Maps or your cell phone battery is empty, then many of them are already abandoned. You don't remember that you could ask people, where are you going? And whenever you make life easier, skills are lost. And you just have to be aware of that, that at the moment when you voluntarily look for boundaries again and get to know your own boundaries, with joy and fun. And that can be hard at times, but then you realize how you have an experience of success. If you remember how you did your matura or your abitur or some other final exam or something, how you fought for it and it was really hard and you were desperate and you didn't feel like it anymore. And then came the exam and you already had it here. And then you made it. And after that, this experience of success, I made it. And then there is something to celebrate. And if we don't put ourselves in this situation where it can be hard, then there is nothing to celebrate. Then our life becomes monotonous. And then you need artificial, how should I say, an artificial kick or you have to live it virtually. And at the same time, it is the case here that in a survival situation or in survival training, it is important that you have coaches who accompany you. Because as Nico says, if you move to the limits, that is a very narrow degree. First of all, I have to say, the survival training like we do now, for example, has nothing to do with what many people imagine. Many people know it from the pictures, where you line up with a helicopter and jump with a parachute and eat worms and stuff. That has nothing to do with it, but it's about a holistic life. And we as coaches and the more experienced, the better it is. We see each other very closely. Who is coming to us and where is he? So no one needs to be afraid that when he, for example, books a training, that from the beginning he has to be naked somewhere in winter. Because many people believe that. They think, no, that would be nothing for me, I couldn't do that. But we pick up the people where they are and then accompany them on their way. Also with equipment where you can really touch yourself a little. You touch yourself. You go step by step as always in life. I can't go from 0 to 100, but I have to learn to feel good again. Then I sleep in the sleeping bag. Then I notice it's raining. Maybe it's not as bad as I thought it was. It's not that cold at all. And then we show how we can leave the sleeping bag. Then we teach how to make a fire with wood. And the fewest can do that. When they go out and then they get a pack of wood from us and then they open it and there's only one in there. And then, ah, I can do that anyway, I've done it a hundred times. And zack, and it goes out because I didn't pay attention to the wind. Then the wrong material. Then they learn with wood. And if they can do that, they learn another method how to leave out wood. And so you move step by step on this path to learning. So to the professional, so to speak. And we already have some students now who really have done the master exams, you could say, our evaluation, who then go out and can really survive without anything for a while. Yes, and I also heard that in the real wilderness. Yes, yes. But with us, it was just a little bit more difficult. Yes, we then go somewhere else. Yes. And that is very important, that you can do everything in between. But you don't start in the middle, but you start slowly and do it step by step. And then you learn in there. Yes. And you don't have to, you can go as far as you want, right? Absolutely. And the danger is, if you go too far away from your comfort zone, that you then go into trauma. Yes. And trauma processing, I think everyone can confirm that from the viewers. Trauma processing is so much more work than if we didn't go in there, but if we had left our comfort zone, but only so far that we can grow without going into trauma. Yes. And that also has a lot to do with mindset. So we have a year-round training where you learn for a year how to find yourself again, how to survive in nature. And there is also a lot of personality development coaching in there. That means Benni teaches a lot there. You meet regularly and work on topics like where are blockages, where are inhibition thresholds, where are you standing right now, where is it going well, what can you celebrate, but where do you have to maybe also see how to get on. And every successful person in the world has some kind of coach. Yes. And that is so important that you just understand that you can achieve exactly what you want in life and you can live your dream if you get on the way. Yes. And that takes strength. But I know a lot of people who are stuck at some point for years or decades and don't get anywhere. And every time you meet, they complain. How many of you know such people? Yes. Who always complain that something is always terrible. Yes. And that's where it's so exciting. It's only in here whether life is terrible or whether it's beautiful, whether it's paradise, even if it's hard. And that's so exciting because nature gives us the perfect tool, the perfect tool so that we can go in there and learn exactly that to get to our center, to get to our fulfillment. And I am so grateful that we are now at a point where we dare to teach that too. It is really so that we, I think, we have already come a long way as a coach and educator and teacher because we were also allowed to gain a lot of experience. But I still see the way in the next decades where it is so exciting when we can all continue to grow. And I mean, what our participants tell us, what they have experienced and what huge development steps they take in one year. We are allowed to accompany them. That's a blessing. We can be grateful for that. And then we have a 17-year-old boy and a, I don't even know how old she is, over 50-year-old woman after one year of training in Sweden in the wilderness left alone. Wow. Without everything, no knife with her. If they have a knife with them, you call it camping, our teacher said. Yes. And after five days we picked her up. There was a fire. There was a warm house where she could sleep well. But it had been raining all the time. And she had prepared warm food. She had found drinking water and she was fine. Wow. And that's so great to see something like that, that such an experience of success is possible. And I would like to thank my trainers and my teachers who have spent so much energy of their lives to promote their growth and to go through situations that they have made to the people they became and to the people they became and to the people that they became and to the people that they became so that we could teach them well. And we have developed an education that works on different levels. So, once you have in our education you do it for a year you go out ten times. So, almost once every month and are just ten months outside in nature and learn in these ten months how beautiful life is outside and how little you need. And you really notice at the beginning it's like this, people come with a huge backpack and maybe a backpack and maybe a backpack and after one year they come with such a small daily backpack and actually don't need anything and are completely in luck and look forward to these trainings without being overloaded. You really have to look and everyone doesn't have to arrive there after one year. You can also just stand somewhere else. So, we don't compare among each other. And then we have more points in our annual education. Maybe you can go into that. So, of course, the topic of food is a big topic. Drowning is a big topic. Fire is a big topic. Water is a big topic. Food, of course. And that's always very multifaceted. So, when I say, for example, water, it's not just where do I find water, but how do I find water? There are ecosystem indicators, plants that show me that, also the water quality, the same with food. Where do I find which food in which season? Which plants can I eat? If I know that, I also know which ones I can't eat. The same with animals and so on. That means we learn very extensively, extremely a lot in the year. Not just about themselves, but also about nature, what roots you again, what earths you again and everything else. So the cycle closes. That's one part. A big part are also projects that we have. That means, for example, we have a boat tour in the annual program, where we really go out together and do a lot of things. We have a lot of different activities and activities. We have a lot of activities where we go out together and are in another place every day and build everything up again there, find our water again and that in the group, the community, is gigantic which is formed. That means like a family which is formed at the end of the year. It's a family. That's really a very deep connection which is formed there. Of course, we also accompany at home because the impressions are gigantic and then you come home to your world and then you maybe have the family there and that was a topic at the very beginning that we noticed that they come home and there is such a crash between the emotions and the experiences and you have to pick that up and we accompany here at home as well. That's exactly what Nico said when the mental training comes along where we accompany that this transition fits again that you don't somehow fall into some trauma at home but that you can learn there further. We have prepared tasks for at home and you get an order where you get a lot of different tasks that you have to solve on your own and have to write things together and read material so there is a huge package that we tied there that is as holistic as we managed it and I think we did quite well. And at least in terms of the time it took At least that's the feedback. We tied such a package that really accompanies from A to Z and not only live in nature but also at home because that's where people need it. It's not about us teaching people that they survive outside without a knife that is obvious that's what it's about but only the obvious but we consist of many more levels and we take it with us home to our families we take it with us home to our daily life job and there these experiences are really valuable. There I harvest the fruits of my investment in myself. I have to say the word survival has a completely different meaning than I would have imagined it would have been if I didn't have this experience and I didn't have this experience and I didn't have this experience and I didn't have this experience and I couldn't have this experience I would have never have this before in my life . if you have family at home, you can also just say, hey, I'll take my kids with me to the trainings, then they can also be out with me on the weekend. Often you have communities again, that you practice fire drilling together at home or matchmaking fire and suddenly a connection is created again to the children, who may already be a lot in the virtual world and are no longer in real life, to build real muscles, right? To really develop for life, to feel ready to take on challenges, because every life brings challenges and if you don't face them, but always flee, then you become weaker instead of stronger. I think that's so nice that the family can also be involved and can also come to the trainings and so on. So great work. I would like to briefly mention one point. We've been thinking about it for a long time, because the topic is so important to us, as far as financial education is concerned, and we really want everyone to be able to do it. So it's not about us getting rich with it now, but it's such an important thing for the world that we said we are also creating this program in a financial way, so that really for everyone there is a solution. And you can also find it on our homepage, you can also go into conversation with us and then inform yourself very intensively about this annual training. And you can only start with a basic course at first, if I may say so. Just come for a basic beginner course for just one weekend and see if it's something for me at all. And maybe you can just look on our website what offers are available. The website is survival-coach.com, not survival-couch, but survival-coach.com and just go on there and then you will find all these possibilities, what offers are available. Maybe you can just see what mood you are in when you are interested in this topic. So great, I can only admire what you have done. It was nice of you to be there. Thank you very much, dear Nico, thank you very much, dear Benedikt. Dear viewers, thank you very much and it really reminded me again who we really are. We are also creatures of nature, we are actually connected to the earth and even if you are not doing survival right now, you can give an input, go out into nature again, maybe experience something like that as a family or just take on one of these great offers. It was nice of you to be there. See you again.