• Communicate with your family, friends, clients and business partners
  

• Physical Flexibility can come in many forms. Stretching, yoga, pilates, gymnastics, and swimming are all fine ways to keep the body young and supple.

• Mental Flexibility is a matter of sustained learning and child like wonder and curiosity. Pay close attention to children and how they describe and ask questions about their world.
  

• Spiritual Flexibility may be as simple as realizing that an open mind can be a great host creating lots of space for peace and understanding.

The dictionary defines transition as - a passage from one state to another, an evolution, an abrupt change in energy state. Every moment of our lives is ripe for change, for positive growth, and for evolution. We just have to choose it.

For many of us, life can become a habit. It takes something major and out of our control for us to change the patterns we follow. We want more but we don't know how to gently shift what we do, without disturbing the pattern, to achieve the improvements we want in our lives.

Every step we take, we can choose to change our direction. Every time we speak, we have the opportunity to use more positive, gentle, or encouraging words. Changes don't have to be big to get results. They just have to come from a place of commitment. Choosing to be fully alive and appreciate the opportunities and possibilities that exist instead of just following the standard path of our day-to-day existence is a mental transition that can become a permanent change.

Marci Grossman is a CPA and writer, energetically choosing to enjoy the experiences that life brings. Visit her website at www.empressmar.com

Kayaking Lake Superior

• Do you feel your life is well-balanced?

• What does balance mean to you?

• What does being in balance feel like?

• When have you felt most in balance?

• Create some "˜YOU' time. Everyone needs time alone to meditate and recharge. Start with 2-5 minutes for silent reflection. Read a few pages in a book, take a walk, make a yummy new recipe. It really doesn't matter what you do, as long as it's all about YOU.

• What do you truly want? Are you living your life according to your dreams and desires? Take time to figure out what makes you tick. If you want to explore this idea further, check out the True Balance Life Coaching Life Balance E-Course.

• Record your ideas . It doesn't matter how far fetched they may be. Have fun letting your ideas fly! I use a large white board and lots of colored markers to boldly state my unconventional intentions as a creative outlet.
  

• Journal. Self Expression by journaling is a marvelous tool for clearing your mind. One of the best lessons in the book, The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, is creating morning pages. Morning pages consist of three handwritten pages of free thinking - psychobabble journaling daily. It's a blast to witness and record your thoughts as they hop around the page like a juiced up water bug on the river.
  

• Log all of your "happy moments."� Each day has potential for many small moments that bring joy and happiness. My family shares five "happy moments" each night at the dinner table. We've found this is an excellent way to stay positive and learn more about each other.

• Move your body every day. When we are caught up in crossing items off our to-do lists, we tend to neglect all the opportunities there are to enjoy our bodies in the process of living. Whether you dance, walk, run or ride, your body and spirit will thank you for the gift. Get up and move your butt!
  

• Alleviate low-back pain and improve range of motion.
• Ease medication dependence.
• Enhance immunity by stimulating lymph flow"”the body's natural defense system.
• Exercise and stretch weak, tight, or atrophied muscles.
• Improve the condition of the body's largest organ"”the skin.
• Increase joint flexibility.
• Lessen depression and anxiety.
• Pump oxygen and nutrients into tissues and vital organs, improving circulation.
• Relax and soften injured, tired, and overused muscles.
• Release endorphins"”amino acids that work as the body's natural painkiller.
• Relieve migraine pain.

Earth Day, A New Earth, And Energetics

My daughter and I had a great day at our local Earth Day festival on Sunday. Compostable balloons from Whole Foods, Seed Balls from a local summer camp, some great music and our awesome Sunday farmer's market combined for an awesome celebration. In the afternoon I planted some salad greens, sunflowers (volunteers from the compost pile) and more broccoli in our garden.

I love days like that and I embrace the belief that "every day is Earth day!"� It's not always easy to act in ways that feel nurturing to the Earth. But by staying conscious about our relationship to this planet, our home, we can begin to live and act as if today and every day is Earth Day.

There was a beautiful coincidence - if you believe in such things - in the timing of this week's A New Earth webcast with Eckhart Tolle and Oprah. This week's discussion focused on the discovery and exploration of Inner Space and the stillness you find there.

This is what Tolle writes about Stillness:

Stillness is really another word for space. "¦ You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still. When you are still, you are who you were before you temporarily assumed this physical and mental form called a person. You are also who you will be when the form dissolves. When you are still, you are who you are beyond your temporal existence: consciousness"”unconditioned, formless, eternal.

It is through stillness that we can truly connect with the Earth. It is from our Inner Space that we can see the Earth not as an object but as a Being. From within the Stillness we can connect and communicate with and learn from the Earth.

The Earth is an amazing teacher! She has taught me much about the Law of Attraction. The Earth is the ultimate Deliberate Creator.

One of the reasons that many people struggle to attract their desires is because they focus on sending their intentions "out"� to the Universe. In order to attract things in the physical world it is equally important to send those intentions "down"� into the physical Earth. The Earth provides the medium within which your desires will become "real."�

The ability to ground our desires into the Earth was one of the tools we explored in the free Energetics of Attraction teleclass last week. If you missed it you can access the recording on the Energetics of Attraction Resource Page.

You'll also get access to the free report on the Harmonics of Human Awareness. I agree with what Eckhart says in the quote below. When you are detached, or I prefer to call it fully present on all levels of perception, not locked in at one level of awareness, you experience and enjoy life more fully!

Being detached does not mean that you cannot enjoy the good that the world has to offer. In fact, you enjoy it more. "¦ When you are detached, you gain a higher vantage point from which to view the events in your life instead of being trapped inside them. You become like an astronaut who sees the planet Earth surrounded by the vastness of space and realizes a paradoxical truth: The earth is precious and at the same time insignificant.

What steps will you take today to explore your Inner Space, honor the Earth and fully enjoy all the good this world and this life has to offer?

Visit this page to download recordings all of the Eckhart Tolle / Oprah webcasts on A New Earth.

And go download your free Energetics of Attraction Resources before you forget!

5 Little Things - To Help The Environment

By Bruce Kuykendall

Today is Earth Day! It seemed only fitting that today's 5 Little Things should be ways to help the environment. Although it would be great if everyone could drive hybrid cars, have solar powered houses loaded with energy efficient appliances - if you are like me, you don't have the resources to just go out and get all those things. But every little bit helps - and in some cases in very big ways. Try these 5 Little Things to do your part!

Turn off the water when brushing your teeth. A conventional bathroom faucet with an aerator uses between 3 and 6 gallons of water per minute. Shutting the tap off while brushing your teeth or shaving saves as much at 3,000 gallons of water per person per year.

Turn off ceiling fans when you leave the room. As a fan generates air movement downward across the skin, evaporation of body moisture takes place, causing a cooling effect. So, unless you are in the room to feel the air movement, that benefit is lost. According to Florida Power & Light, simple things like turning off ceiling fans when leaving a room can save $7.00 per month in energy costs. (multiply that by 340 million Americans - and you have some significant savings!)

Buy a water filter instead of bottled water. The average American drinks 22.6 gallons of bottled water a year. Making all that plastic releases over four pounds of carbon dioxide per person and consumes a surprising amount of petroleum (.005 barrels, or nearly a quart of oil per person).

Replace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs. If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars.

Wash your clothes in cold water. About 90% of the energy used for washing clothes is for heating the water. There are two ways to reduce the amount of energy used for washing clothes"”use less water and use cooler water. Unless you're dealing with oily stains, the warm or cold water setting on your machine will generally do a good job of cleaning your clothes. Switching your temperature setting from hot to warm can cut a load's energy use in half.

Recommended Viewing:

If you are one of those last people who really don't think there is much to global warming or that you just don't see why you should care, then I strongly suggest that you see the following two videos:

National Geographic: Six Degrees Could Change the World

A Global Warning? (History Channel)

They have been running on the History Channel and on National Geographic - or you can purchase them from Amazon.

Join the movement and take the 5 Little Things Challenge!