After you read this sentence, pause for a moment, put your feet flat on the floor, close your eyes, inhale fully through your nose and exhale through your mouth.

If you did choose to try this, how did it feel? Did it feel good enough to do it again? Great -- this time imagine that as you are inhaling the breath, you are pulling pure, sparkling energy up through your feet from the center of the planet, up your legs, into your torso, down your arms, and all the way up to the top of your head. Wow -- pretty cool feeling, huh?

What a simple act, but one that I think we forget to do -- to just breathe. Of course we don't have to think about breathing to stay alive because our body automatically sustains us. But do you want to just be sustained? The choice is up to you -- you can certainly exist on autopilot, or would you rather consciously be in command of your body?

Now think about your back. Are you sitting up straight or hunched over in your chair? If you're bent over, consider choosing to straighten your spine and lift your head. Tighten your stomach muscles and feel the pull in your waist. Now take another deep breath with your feet still flat on the floor. Are you starting to feel more alive and more aware of your body?

Now close your eyes again and totally still your mind. I know how difficult this is, especially living in the New Millennium. But it is critical that we learn to do this before the negativity and excess information from our Information Overload society clogs up our brain and does not allow us to think for ourselves. Just like the body, the brain needs to be aligned and cleansed, too.

Now, with your eyes still closed, imagine the most perfect place in the universe. Make it anything you want. It doesn't have to make sense or be a place you know. Use your imagination! Totally experience this place -- see it, feel it, smell it, taste it, hear it. With your feet flat on the floor, your spine straight and your head erect, close your eyes and GO TO THIS PLACE.

Congratulations! You have just chosen to take yourself on the perfect vacation! And it didn't cost you a cent! Do you feel better? Do you feel less hurried and less stressed? Do you feel renewed and ready to enjoy your next adventure of the day?

Life is a choice. We can make it anything we want. God has given us a physical body so we can experience an existence of substance and form. And that form is a direct result of what we put into our bodies -- both through our 5 senses and through our thoughts. If you choose to feed your body and your mind with the best possible substances, your body and mind will manifest themselves into the best possible form. It is completely up to you whether you blindly trudge through each day, ignoring the signals from your body and mind, or choose to listen to your inner voice and honor its requests. All of your answers lie within you. We are meant to have perfect health and a sound mind. The God presence inside of you will joyously answer all of your questions if you will willingly still your mind, take a deep breath or two, and listen.

Living life to the fullest is BOTH possible and impossible.

The choice is completely yours.

Carpe MOMENTO!
Diana