What's Your Consumption Factor? Creating An environment we can live in

In a New York Times Article entitled "What's Your Consumption Factor" we are given new insight into our foot print we are leaving on our environment. We are impacting our environment 32 times more than developing countries. The average rates at which people consume resources like oil and metals, and produce wastes like plastics and greenhouse gases, are about 32 times higher in North America, Western Europe, Japan and Australia than they are in the developing world. That factor of 32 has big consequences.

As we begin our new year it is a good time to consider how we can change our consumption factor so that we can lessen our foot print on our environment. As stated in http://livinginatoxicworld.blogspot.com/ those countries that consume most leave a heavier foot print and in order to preserve our environment for our children must work to reduce our consumption.

We can choose to be the change we want to see in our world and work to reduce our consumption and thereby reduce our environmental footprint. Our environment, our own health, and the future of our children depend on us.

Eat, Pray, Love and Love's Secret

Spiritual connections are the basis for relationships in both Eat, Pray, Love and award winning book Love's Secret Live Your Life In Love. Throughout Love's Secret you will connect with heart warming stories that present aspects of your relationship and teach you new skills of resolution and communication with your mate. Each chapter empowers you with skills to leave drama and pain behind and create love, romance and passion.

Start your new year in love by booking a retreat with your mate now http://www.retreatandheal.com/retreats.html. In my next post learn how to release the old and prepare for 2008 to be your best year yet!

Love's Secret Wins Finalist Self-Help Relationship Book

Love’s Secret: Live Your Life In Love wins USA Book News Award
Sedona, Arizona, — USABookNews.com announced the winners for its National “Best Books” 2007 Awards and Love’s Secret: Live Your Life In Love was awarded Finalist in the “Self-Help: Relationships” category. Annie B. Lawrence, Ph.D., author of Love’s Secret says this award validates the years of research and work creating her book. She feels the timing is perfect for what people living in today’s tumultuous times need to strengthen their relationships with themselves and their partners.
Love’s Secret offers seekers an action plan to create love, romance and passion and leave pain and drama in the past. Empty nesters find easy steps to recapture romance and passion, and all couples find answers to build a foundation based on love – not conditions. The pain and drama we have all become accustomed to, creates stress and can literally make you sick.
Many who have watched The Secret, and read the Power of Now, still feel stuck in patterns that create chaos. By reading Love’s Secret, connecting to a chapter or character and putting the information into practice, you are empowered to live your life in choice.Love’s Secret makes creating our reality a simple and achievable task. What the world needs now is love sweet love has never been truer. Our world at war and even closer to home, the shootings in our school system make love and peace a valuable commodity.
Love’s Secret offers tools that empower readers to find inner peace and live their life in love. Retreat and Heal’s programs and workshops put them into practice. People travel from around the world to visit Sedona for its peace and beauty, find the inner peace and love you deserve at Retreat and Heal in Sedona Arizona. Annie B. Lawrence, author, is a spiritual life coach and keynote speaker and is available at 928.282.5237
ISBN # 978-0-9793535-0-5
$22.95 212 pages

To Place orders for the book or receive an autographed copy contact Sedona Publishershttp://www.retreatandheal.com/products.html or order your copy at 55% off on Amazon.com and stuff your stocking with love!

Want more love, passion and romance

Retreat and Heal offers couples retreats in Sedona, Arizona. Our retreats heal body, mind and spirit. If you would like to experience more love, passion, and romance in your life our retreats empower you with an action plan.

Follow these five steps to release anxiety and overwhelm.
1. Take a break and push the pause button on your life. A retreat gives you time to clear your mind and gain clarity.
2. During your break. Take time in nature and journal each day. Get clear on the things that are working in your life and what you want.
3. Make a plan to restructure your lifestyle. Make a realistic plan that is simple and easy to follow. Work your plan by focusing on what you want. Spend time each day in meditation focusing on what you want to create.
4. Make time in your schedule to move your body. This can be dancing, walking, jogging, yoga, or biking. Whatever has meaning for you--create a plan and just do it! Moving your body keeps stuck emtions moving and avoids the feelings of frustration, fear, and overwhelm.
5. Make a commitment to follow through with your plan for 21-days. It takes 21 days to create a new habit. Make a commitment and follow through to make it happen.

Does Britney have love linked to Pain and Drama

Everyone wants to feel loved, and yet 50% of all marriages end in divorce, similar to Britneys. Love's Secret Live Your Life In Love, offers couples an action plan to leave pain and drama behind and create love.

When a child is conditioned to experience love only when it feels pain or trauma love becomes wired neurologically to pain. Once this conditioning is set, they continue to recreate pain and drama in an attempt to feel love. This is a conflicting belief system and could be the underlying cause of 50% of all marriages that fail.

Love's Secret offers couples proven tools to cut love's connection to pain and drama. The Secret and The Law of attraction offer couples the awareness that what they think, is what they attract. Yet most couples feel stuck in pain and lack the skills to bring about the change they desire. http://www.retreatandheal.com Visit our website, or amazon.com and order your copy of Love's Secret. When you order your copy before Oct 31 you will receive a free 15 minute consultation.

Al Gore gets Nobel Prize--in time for national blogging day

National blog day to make a difference is October 15. Al Gore was just awarded a nobel prize for his work with global warming. Many still deny any relationship between global warming and emissions and co2. Yet, extreme weather conditions are happening daily if anyone is aware. For the first time in history the summer was so extremely hot that the northwest passage is open for shipping. Fires in the west, in Florida, and more hurricanes than ever in history with typhoons in China, and tsunami's leave our world in turmoil.

Still in reading blogs I have noticed that some still deny a relationship with our changing weather patterns and global warming. It is apparent that our leaders are not concerned with our health and environment--simply money, and power. Until we wake up and decide to make our voices heard and demand that our leaders take steps to produce healthier alternatives for transporation our future is unsure.

The technology is available for producing electric and other alternative fueled cars. In a state like Arizona the technology is available for solar energy yet the solar cells are still not affordable for mainstream. What can we do to make a difference? Direct our money where our values are. Don't buy new vehicles, until the industry produces vehicles that are better for our environment.

Passion test can love last beyond initial passion--Love's Secret has the answer

Passion pulls couples together and then pain can push love relationships apart. Passion and Pain seem to be the universal love dance. Many in hollywood are drawn together by passion and then soon pushed apart by the pain of past hurts and trauma.

Pregnant Christina Aguilera and her husband Jordan Bratman, announces her baby registry. After losing custody, of her children Britney Spears reunites with her mother. James Van Der Beek, slow dances with wife Heather McComb to "The Joker" at West Hollywood hot spot Winston's. Also there Julia Roberts and husband Danny Moder, dressed down in jeans, dancing and holding each other close. Brad Pitt and Angelina are ready for their fifth child and direct their passion toward creating affordable housing, eco issues, and other world issues.

The love relationship is not always easy to survive and keep the embers of passion alive and blazing. Love's Secret tip for today is to find an anchor tool to bring you back to love. As a couple if you are commited to the relationship then agree to find a word to keep you focused on love. When life brings up old habits and issues that push your buttons agree to bring your focus back to love. When you consistently bring your focus back to what is most important in your life you can establish new love habits. As you reclaim your power, you can choose to leave pain and drama in the past.