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That is why Natural Living revolves around these changes to the essential activities ofdaily life:· Food Switch to organically grown natural healthy local var ieties.· Home Transform your home so that it uses energy efficiently, is createdfrom natural renewable materials, and provides a healthy and inspiring placeto live.· Transportation Take the necessary steps to better use public transit.Whenever possible avoid the use of a car. If a car is required make the switchto an ultra low emissions vehicle or better with your next purchase.· Work Do what you love to do. Ensure that this activity is life supportive.Make plans to change the work you do to be supportive of a sustainablesociety in the long run. Live near where your work.In order to make these changes, its necessary to change our mode of thinking. Somuch of what we do every day seems routine and common to everyone. Most of thesystems that form the fabric of our societies support these common routines. Theseengrained systems arent normally visible. We dont even consider them, since theyseem so normal. Unfortunate ly many of the normal things of every day life havedeveloped from the abnormal until theyre perceived as normal. We need to breakthese linked systems in order to change the essential activities of our lives.The glue that links together the essential activities of Natural Living includes fourprinciple changes in the way we think. Actually, these arent changes at all; they aremore of a reawakening to the essentials of a life worth living. After all, it is a searchfor the good life, a life that create s and sustains life that is at the heart of NaturalLiving. In order to find the path, the life force that holds nature together for people,we must consciously adjust our way of thinking. Unlike most forms of life in nature,humanity has th e responsibility of a brain as our niche survival trait. This brain hasadvanced so far that, combined with our large numbers, the machines weve created,and the new ways we transform nature, we have the power to destroy ourselvesmaybe even all of nature on earth. Of course that same brain, when appliedcreatively with a broad understanding of our connections to nature, has the powerto be not only life -sustaining, but the greatest celebration of life through awarenessof life itself.85