Green Child Magazine Back-to-School 2012 | Page 49

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A powerful way to transform our lives is by
reusing what is nourishing, not draining, to
the mind, body, and spirit. Set aside a small
time each day to remind yourself of what
nourishes you, what it is that you enjoy, what
feels good to you:

3. Recycle or transmute your body and/or
your story.

Your body is a recycling machine. It is constantly recycling proteins, hormones, nutrients,
waste, and transmuting excess consumption
into storage. We can transmute all that extra
storage into energy in order to create a new
body, new shape, and a new life.

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• Spend more time with the people in your
life that inspire you or feel good to be
around.
• Reuse your own nourishing thoughts and
of those who are living the lifestyle you
truly aspire to.
• Take reflective walks a few minutes each
day.
• Dance
• Sing
• Play
• Relax
• Listen to your favorite motivational speaker.
• Meditate or participate in restorative yoga.
ing with clean natural water, you will help
your body to remove toxins, clean the pipes,
and burn up all that accumulated fuel hanging
around you like dead weight.

All the junk food or excess carbs that are now
hanging on your body, weighing you down,
can literally become the fuel to propel you into
a new life.

We each have a story about the world and
about ourselves that affects our actions, choices, decisions, personalities, and so on. Stories
can be limiting. For some of us, our story can
hold us back from thriving or achieving our
greatest human potential. Most of these stories
don’t serve or sustain us, nor do they give us
an opportunity to invite our highest self or our
deepest impulses and deepest heart longings.

By nourishing your body with non-processed
foods, engaging in a daily form of balanced
exercise, getting more sunshine, getting more
deep sleep, reducing your stress, and hydrat-

It’s time to stop recycling these limiting concepts of who we are, let go of them completely
and only recycle the most unlimited thou ghts
we can think, feel, and imagine.
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