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Thats why the four steps that bind together the activities of Natural Living revolvearound the way we use our brains:· Awareness Use your reasoning powers in order to get beyond your self, tomove beyond self-awareness, into a universal aw areness of your connectionto nature . This evening, my daughter explained it to me this way: Webreathe in oxygen from the air and breathe out carbon dioxide for the plantsto breathe in our carbon dioxide and then they breathe out oxygen f or us tobreathe in again. We as a species are symbiotic with the plants all around us.Think of it!· Plan The power resides in each of us to take the first steps. We must planto make changes in these essential aspects of our lives through these firststeps, and all the remaining steps of our lives. Planning is our connection tothe element of time so relevant to lifes trans-formative powers. Time onlyexists in this moment so make a plan now and get changing things now.· Choice Make choi ces consciously in every moment, with a full awarenessof your connection to nature . Making choices consciously breaks the binds ofillusion built into the routines of daily life.· Creativity In making the choices of daily life, apply the full depth andpower of your creativity, to find the broad array of your connections . Weneed the power of creativity to help us find new answers or rediscover oldanswers.These are the steps of Natural Living . Before getting into the details of these steps thenext chapter provides you with a quick start guide. If you are like me youll want to getstarted right away. The next chapter provides first a short term step by step summaryof actions you can take along with thei r associated benefits. Then a long term step bystep summary of actions are provided that enable you to make the deeper changes weall must make in order to create a sustainable world. These one page guides aredesigned to give you a quick reference to the most essential information on the stepsof Natural Living to make it easy for you to review each day.The Path AheadThe main reason current lifestyles are not sustainable are manifest in the broad useof limited supplies of fossil fuels for:86