| Release all meaningless activities. | | | | greens in pots using plants like garlic, onions, |
| Do you need to read the newspaper and listen to or | | | | buckwheat and lentils. Not only will you eat healthier |
| watch the news every day? Is what you read, listen | | | | food, you'll be reducing your carbon footprint and |
| to or watch helping you create a positive attitude | | | | doing your bit to improve the health of the planet. |
| and the realization that through your own efforts and | | | | Get out of your car and onto your feet. |
| positive thinking anything is possible? So often the | | | | How far do you drive to work? Could you find |
| negativity of the news drains our optimism and | | | | employment closer to home, or even at home? Time |
| makes us feel helpless in light of seemingly endless | | | | now spent in the car could be used getting exercise |
| wars, calamities and insurmountable problems around | | | | if you were able to walk or cycle to work. You'd feel |
| the world. If you're not going to personally get | | | | better, lose those unwanted pounds and, again, be |
| involved with one of these issues, give them no | | | | reducing your carbon footprint. |
| attention. | | | | Discover natural ways to stay healthier. |
| Release all unnecessary possessions. | | | | Rather than just relying on prescriptions from the |
| You'll have to determine what is necessary for you. | | | | doctor, heed the advice of Hippocrates: 'Let food be |
| Those in the householder stage with children will have | | | | thy medicine and medicine be thy food.' So often the |
| different requirements than empty nesters. Our true | | | | side effects of medicines are virtually identical to the |
| wealth is not determined by what we possess, but | | | | symptoms they are prescribed to treat. Read books |
| by what does not possess us. Our true wealth is not | | | | on natural healing or take courses to upscale your |
| determined by what we have, but by what we can | | | | knowledge on how to look after yourself. You'll save |
| live happily without. That which we possess needs to | | | | unnecessary trips to the doctor and you'll feel better |
| be looked after. This takes time and energy; time | | | | mentally, emotionally and physically. |
| and energy that could go elsewhere if we had less | | | | A simple life is a balanced life. |
| stuff. | | | | A simple life is a balanced life, relying on a careful, |
| Put your time and energy where your heart is. | | | | dynamic interplay between activity and rest. It's not |
| So often we do things because others expect them | | | | for nothing Native Americans sometimes call modern |
| of us. Do these activities make us happy? Do they | | | | civilization 'Termite People' because we are forever |
| fulfil us? We need to listen to and follow our hearts. | | | | scurrying about. Look closely at the word |
| Then the whole world supports our every step, we | | | | 'business'-'busy-ness'. We often wear our 'busy-ness' |
| are guided by coincidences, and we find true peace | | | | like a badge. When someone asks if we are busy, it |
| and happiness. | | | | is expected that we are. Life is a delicate balance |
| Grow some food of your own, preferably organically. | | | | between activity and rest. Find that balance. |
| In the supermarket of today we rarely know where | | | | Put the above ideas in place and your life will be |
| our food comes from or how it's been grown. Some | | | | simpler, healthier, richer and more satisfying. This is an |
| crops are sprayed more than ten times before they | | | | organic process, meaning that results come at the |
| are harvested and the chemical residues are | | | | right time (which may or may not correspond with |
| absorbed when we eat them. It's not difficult to | | | | your expectations). Just concentrate on thinking and |
| create a little vegetable garden and/or plant a few | | | | living more simply and leave the results and timing to |
| fruit trees. Apartment dwellers can grow micro | | | | God. |