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Let Nature Guide You to big-picture, sustainable balance will require a
perspective adjustment from each of us. It took 150
The line between enough and too much is a moving years of heavy production and consumption to get to
target but Nature always shows us the way. Choosing to this point, and it will take a few more years to turn the
eat clean foods according to seasonal availability connects tide. But we can do it. We actually need a lot less than
us to the earth’s natural rhythms. Ask: Does Nature give us we’re accustomed to consuming. We can use new
this food here, now? If not, it may not be the best choice technologies to clean up the messes we’ve made and
to buy it. We can rethink “convenience” and factor in invent new ways to use natural resources in a balanced,
the nutritional and connective benefits of cooking from wise way. Using just enough ultimately feels the best,
scratch. What are we “saving” our time for, anyway? and it will take seeing through a new lens to see what
that looks like. As we shift our priorities from profit and
As we look at our bio-footprint, we can ask ourselves: convenience to renewable and good-for-everything,
• Am I taking small steps to reduce my plastic we will create cleaner production methods, new bio-
consumption, use less electricity and fossil fuel, degradable materials, and greener, sustainable business
and switch to renewable materials in what I use? practices. As we put our hearts and minds together
on this, we will collectively learn to live in sustainable
• What adjustments do I need to make next week balance with each other and our earth.
to better balance myself and my place in all of
my ecosystems?”

• What do the details of sustainability look like? For healing Catalyst, Denise LaBarre, LMT, has a
me, personally? For my family? My community? hands-on healing practice on Maui and travels to
My country? My planet? teach and share her insights. you can learn more
body-emotional wisdom in her book Issues in
Improvement happens gradually, over time. Shifting Your Tissues: Heal Body and Emotion from the Inside Out or go to
from ignoring consequences and over-consumption her website: www.HealingCatalyst.com

A TRUE LINEAGE, A DEEP PATH

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