Personal Sustainability
Forgetting our own well-being just isn’t sustainable. Here’s how to reconnect:
• Make yourself a priority: The busier you get the more tenaciously you cultivate your own peace. Keep track of how many times you stretch, garden, get in the sauna and play music each week, making sure you don’t let life’s vital bits slip away.
• Take time out: Only work when you feel like it. Sundays should be reserved for family, spirit and rest. Make your Monday’s dedicated to whatever you feel like doing. Where to find the time to just sit? Whether you call it quiet time, meditation or contemplation, the point is to have a period each day when you are not thinking, socializing or working. What you are really doing when you make a time and place just for you is inviting your inner nature to become a player in your outer life.
• Move it: Activity also plays a role in mental health. Swimming may help calm you mind, releasing difficult feelings and leaves you rejuvenated and inspired. The sensations of buoyancy and gliding through the water wash away all unwanted thoughts and feelings. You might not make time to walk everyday, but your dog may help you get out and about. Your dog can also teach you things: To reach big goals take small steps, giver yourself treats for each success and always make it fun.
• Work from the inside out: For any people, internal habits make the biggest difference. Let go of stress by maintaining a newer constant state of appreciating. This helps you feel more positive, see opportunities and have more energy. Connect to everyone else, no matter who they are and how they live. Feeling one with everyone restores you to center. Fill your well by doing things that bring joy to yourself and your state of mind every day.
*Natural and Sustainable Living Tip: Use an ecosmart fire place. Available in array of edgy freestanding units or built-ins, this innovative clean-burning open fire lets you cozy up to a toasty flame anywhere in your house. It’s flue less and without any heavy smoke.
“I left Earth three times and found no other place to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth.” -Wally Schirra (Mercury astronaut)
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