Your Life Matters: Choose to Save It!

Of the 7.7 billion people on the planet, 3.7 billion are under the age of 29. It will take all of us to assure a healthy future for them. Evolution, adaptability and success are well served when each generation is wiser, more liberated and more courageous than the previous generation. Knowing the truth in every area of one’s life transforms the very landscape of how we live, where we live, who we love and what we do. Our health, emotions, relationships, authenticity, and usefulness depend on it. The Shifting Baseline Syndrome was identified by Daniel Pauly in 1995, in Trends in Ecology and Evolution. The phrase describes an incremental lowering of social, environmental and health standards resulting in each new generation lacking knowledge of the historical natural condition of the environment and their society. Understanding the concept of shifting baselines will remind you that you are a culmination of the generations before you, both on a cellular and psychological level. It is a fact that a person of good conscious, when provided with the correct knowledge, will take correct action. Our true purpose; each and every one of us, is to understand ourselves, unravel our own limitations and insecurities and be the opposite of timid. Be courageous, brave, intrepid and bold no matter what the world reflects back to your age and supposed fragility. Use your voice for good. Shifting baselines affect the quality-of-life decisions you make daily. This syndrome results in a continuous lowering of standards of nature from generation to generation. Shifting baselines are the chronic, slow changes around you such as the disappearance of species in nature, or the increased drive time from work to home, or the denatured food that you consume every day. Because there is no longer a reference point for nature before human disturbance, each generation redefines nature and accepts degraded natural ecosystems to be the norm. This can be applied to the state of your neighbourhood from one generation to another, rising crime rates and garbage in the city and all over the planet. Disrespectful attitudes on the street, corrupt politicians, higher cost of living and unaffordable housing costs all become the new normal, and people forget or don’t have any idea what has changed or been lost. This means that each generation defines what is ‘natural’ or ‘normal’ according to current conditions and their personal experiences. The result is that with each new generation our standards are lowered almost imperceptibly, and over time healthy living becomes redefined by industrialization, fast food, technology and dysfunctional politics. For 1000 years many countries colonized, pillaged and enslaved aboriginals, women, men, children, mammals and resources. Each of us must reconcile this history within ourselves and be part of a solution for humanity’s survival. It is an absolute game changer in your life when you value right action in all your choices, decisions, and intentions. It’s a game changer no matter your belief system when you decide that your behaviour matters! Once you decide that change is inevitable you get to direct the energy of change. Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict animals are forced to make a decision. People undamaged by greed cannot imagine how other people would willingly destroy the common good for personal gain. Build yourself an ark; whether it is a new job, grow your own food or become part of an organization for a better future. We are not accountable for the actions and thinking of previous generations, though we are responsible for cleaning up their mess. This is not meant to negate the great wisdom and teachings of previous generations who fought for life and liberty. We are most definitely accountable for our own choices and actions. Considering there are 7.7 billion people on the planet, who all share the same need for food, shelter and comfort, why is it that violence, famine, and poverty continue to be a common thread in all societies today? Hence the question, where does your moral compass point? Science has proven that people begin to believe a lie the more often they hear it. Politicians and their spin propaganda, advertising and promotion of all the products you buy, successfully convinces you to not think for yourself. The state of global affairs, perhaps even in your own backyard, has become so unstable that we become uncomfortable with the reality that we face. Fine tuning your moral compass gives you a sense of integrity, self-worth and self-confidence. When this comes from your internal feelings of justice, compassion and honesty, you will have the fortitude to not be swayed by the broken moral compass of the world around you. People who have a healthy functioning moral compass are more grounded, focused, content with life and productive. They minimize harm to this world and maximize their contributions and give back as much as they take and more. Only when you decipher the truth where you live in the world can you build a life that works for you, fix a life that might be destroying you, and most important of all, find value in yourself and believe you can have the life you want and deserve My goal in writing this book is to assist you in realizing what is working in your life and what is not working for you. I want you to fully understand the importance of good food and nutrition for a healthy functioning body and mind. I want to show you how to see through the chaos and confusion of the social, political, environmental and medical present-day realities that have partly shape who you are and most definitely limit what you can accomplish.