Littering ourselves: littering the world

This is the collection of litter that Elijah and I picked up off one lane on the way home from school today.

There is no doubt that much of it came from the same source, probably thrown out of the car on the way home from town.

This just further helps to support my notion that those who pollute their bodies with rubbish, think nothing of polluting the land with rubbish either.

There was a time, a long time ago may I add, when I used to eat take away food after a night out drinking too much alcohol in town! This was back in the day when i smoked cigarettes and didn’t really care much for my body. I also didn’t care much for the environment either.

Fortunately times have changed and I have noticed a direct correlation between me caring more about my body and what I put into and onto it, and about my caring for the environment too. We are the micro of the macro, and this to me has always proved it.

This is one of the many reasons that I am so passionate about yoga, because it helps us to awaken to our bodies and to treat them with more respect, it also helps us to awaken to the wider world around us and to appreciate that our every action has a consequence and with that we have a responsibility.

We have a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families and the community within which we live, but to the wider world as a whole. Everything we do, every thought we think, it all has an impact somewhere, on someone and on something. There is much truth in the saying, “choose your thoughts wisely, for they are the energy that create your life”.

This is another reason why it is so important we are aware of the manner in which we litter our minds with stuff that we see or hear, be that on Facebook or television, or from other people. It all has an impact on how we think and how we feel, and not always positively, diminishing our energy and numbing our minds.

So it’s not just takeaways and poor food choices that pollute us, but our experience of the world around us and how we digest (or don’t digest) this, and what we hold on to, energetically or otherwise, polluting the way we feel and impacting on the quality of our lives.

I can’t help thinking (ha!) that it is only by healing and cleaning ourselves up, becoming more conscious of our thoughts and those to which we give energy (reducing the litter that we take in and hold on to from our past), as well as the diet that we eat, that we will help to heal and clean this planet.

Of course we can pick litter up, that might help, doing what we can, one day at a time, to help clean up this planet and you might find that the more you care for the planet, the more you might care for yourself, it works both ways. It might also be helpful if polystyrene takeaway packaging was banned!

Love to the planet!