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Is Our Waste World Going To Kill Us?

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I’m a bit weird because I can’t waste anything.

I even insist on showering early because I don’t want to waste any of the day.

I can’t waste any of the food on my plate.

How do you feel about waste?

Because I think that, in the end, waste is going to kill us.

And besides, it’s so, er, wasteful.

About a third of landfill is food.

Wasteful.

But there ‘s one kind of waste we seldom or ever think about and one day, I’m concerned, it’s going to be the end of us.

It’s ‘space junk’.

“Currently in Earth orbit, there are more than 23,000 objects larger than about 4 inches (10 centimeters), another half a million objects larger than about 0.4 inch (1 cm) and possibly 100 million more smaller than that, according to NASA.

“And there’s all sorts of stuff up there: dead spacecraft, spent rocket boosters, lost gear from space missions (including a glove, a camera, a blanket, a wrench and, somehow, a toothbrush), random bits of wrecked gear, paint flecks, bits of metal, frozen propellant, and a lot of screws and bolts.”

This according to the website Space.com.

There have already been collisions.

What if just one unfortunate incident starts a chain reaction and . . . well, who knows.

Could our communications networks be knocked out?

What about our Internet satellites?

Is our Internet safe from space junk?

How safe is anything?

You and I didn’t create this waste.

Nor can we be safe from the consequenses.

Except to avoid depending on it.

Best wishes.

Neil

PS This is the first of blog posts related to my new book ‘Romancing Your Life & Changing The World.’. For more visit HERE.

I’m Really Only One Year Old.

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That is, if I lived on Uranus.

But then, if I lived on Neptune I would only be half a year old (and a bit).

So on this planet Earth it seems like I’m getting old.

On Uranus or Neptune I’m just a baby.

On the other hand, if I lived on Mercury I would be 350 years old.

How embarrassing to admit that.

The point is, age is only related to the number of times our planet, whichever one, revolved around the sun.

We speak of our age as if it’s a given, always a fixed number.

Maybe we’re only as old, or as young, as we feel.

Let’s stop talking about our age as if it’s a given.

A fixed number.

It’s only the number of times the Earth has revolved around the sun.

Here’s another point.

Maybe if we started thinking of ourselves as how we feel, our emotional and mental age, that might be a different story.

Then maybe, through the power of thought, we would actually become that age.

There’s a book ‘Ageless Body, Timeless Mind’ by Deepak Chopra.

Everyone should read it.

It’s how we can stay younger healthier longer.

At least we should do something about keeping our minds and bodies going long after the ‘old’ word takes hold.

It’s certainly not in my vocabulary.

Would you like to calculate YOUR age on other planets?

Go to this website to calculate yours.

I wish you long life and a happy one.

Neil.

PS. You can read magical astonishing eighteen stories about finding Truth in my new 104 page book and buy your copy HERE.

3 Secrets Of Staying Young.

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I started my plan to stay young at the age of 24 when I enrolled in the first full-time yoga school in Australia, the Gita School of Yoga.

Ever since I have practiced the 10 chakra asanas (positions) I learned every day without fail for the next 50 years.

So this is the basis of my first secret to staying young.

Secret 1. Take care of your body.

Learn the basic yoga positions and perform them every morning, like the first thing you do on getting out of bed so it becomes routine. Search ‘Chakra Yoga’.

Do muscle stretching daily with gentle exercises, for me it was mostly lying on the mat, to strengthen the muscles that support your spine and lower back. Search Callan Pinkney books or videos.

Buy an electric massage chair. Everyone should have one. Even to relax your body after mowing the lawn, it’s magical. Get the vibration type not the roller type.

Walk. I lost my car when my business and I went bankrupt 30 years ago and I’ve walked everywhere since.

At that time I was having trouble with my lower back and my legs, which caused me to take up the muscle stretching and persist with the yoga.

Two years ago I was diagnosed with lumbar canal stenosis which I believe had been kept at bay for those 28 years by my exercise program.

Still, they told me I’d never walk again and would be wheelchair bound for the rest of my life; well I’m still walking (with the help of a support) and there’s no wheelchair in sight.

Whatever you do, keep moving.

Secret 2. Keep your mind active.

I’ve written and self-published 5 books in the last 20 years. They’re not novels as everyone expects them to be. They’re non-fiction, about what I’ve learned about life (just like this blog post).

I write and publish a blog post every weekend.

I also post to my Twitter timeline and to 30 Facebook Fan Pages once a week at least.

I’m thinking about writing my next book.

I meditate once a week with a group of people under a teacher.

Secret 3. Your thoughts create your reality.

Think young. Think well.

You are not the statistic that represents the number of times the Earth has travelled around the Sun since you were born.

For this reason I’m not going to tell you my age.

But when I turned 50 I was so horrified that I decided to always be 49. Which is my true age today.

Think about it.

I invite you to visit my Author Page listing all of my books, where you can read more or order your copy of any of them online.

Best wishes,

Neil

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