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Are you thinking about ways that will make your life better?

Are you wishing for a fresh start?

Are you wishing to establish a healthy living lifestyle that will last a lifetime?

First, you need to have a firm foundation. Why? Imagine a rocket getting ready to blast off into outer space. Think of the thrust of energy that’s involved in getting the rocket launched. Now consider just how strong the launch pad must be beneath it. Obviously, you wouldn’t situate your rocket on sand, or on shaky fill. Instead, you’d want it on a rock solid structure, so you’d get the best possible lift-off for your flight.

The same is true with your quest for a healthy living lifestyle for a lifetime. You are never going to get anywhere if you are starting from a place of self-doubt and worry. If you are a stranger to the person you currently are today, then there’s no hope of advancing any further on the path of discovering a healthy living lifestyle. You are trying to blast off from quicksand! You are trying to steer a clear course in a dense fog!

Getting to know you – then believing in yourself – is what will foster permanent and positive growth toward happy, balanced, harmonious living.

You will need to think, listen, look and keep an open mind to the choices in life. You do have choices. You are not fenced in by your responsibilities or by your past choices. You are not stuck, hopelessly so, in circumstances that are beyond your power to change. You do not have to believe that the only avenue open to you is a blind acceptance of what fate has handed you, giving you a feeling of resignation, bitterness and despair.

I challenge you to change the course of your entire life. Be willing to give up your despair and hopelessness, and open your mind to a new set of ideas.

This is not an idle commitment. It is a willingness to change the most fundamental aspects of your being, and opening up to an area of the Great Unknown within you. I am asking you to commit to something that is not at all guaranteed, and certainly not fully explored. It is more like asking if you are willing to explore in uncharted waters, to what treasures might be buried deep beneath the surface there.

Are you up for it?

If so, perk up your ears and open your heart.

Invest an hour or more every week, and diligently explore the many aspects of you to create a balanced, creative, healthy, harmonious life filled with love.

You will be exploring and practicing some extremely important concepts.

Your guide is a mature healthy oak tree.

Take it on faith that this mature healthy oak tree is a loving presence guiding you toward balance, health, harmony and love into your life.

It is time to get started on your self-inquiry.

Go to a quiet place, where you can be alone for a while, and set aside all distractions. Turn off the music. Shut the doors. Unplug the telephone. Find an inviting place to sit, maybe on a puffy pillow, or a Lazy-Boy reclining chair. If you are lucky to have an oak tree nearby…take a pillow and prop yourself up and sit at the foot of the tree. Grab this wonderful place of comfort and claim it as your own.

Take this time to learn and grow from the wisdom, the discernment, the compassion, the tact and patience developed and still blossoming anew in ways you never dreamed possible and therefore expressing your own beliefs and values in ever-spontaneous way.

The giant oak is joyful and anxiously, willing to renew a source of hope in you and those around you.