3 Resolutions Worth Keeping
For your heart, your mind, and your planet
The poo-poohing of your ability to change will begin shortly. Around January 2nd you’ll see the first articles about how nothing will stop you from regaining the weight you will lose in the weeks after your New Year’s diet started. Sometime mid-month you’ll be on the receiving end of the knowing, sad sermons about your inevitable return to your phone after your self-imposed screen fast. And by February you’ll be informed how nothing you do personally will stop the inevitable march of climate change and the destruction of the natural world.
The behaviors we’ve always felt we should change have become existential threats that we must change.
I would challenge all that. In fact I’d assert that the world as constructed by contemporary corporate media is invested in your not changing. Why ruin a perfectly good profit center? Yes, resisting the pull of our old ways is difficult. But there’s a big but in this. The behaviors we’ve always felt we should change have become existential threats we must change. And so looking ahead and also looking back at what I did successfully change in my life I wanted to make the plausible case for, dare I say it, permanent change: a pathway for improving your health, your mind and…
