By freeing the mind of any expectations, children open themselves up to new experiences. Clearer mental space means flexible decision-making and opportunities for creativity, exploration and play. Adults can enjoy these concepts just the same.

Sometimes you have to trust that all will work out and anything meant for you and your embodiment will find its way home. That is surrendering — the trusting, loving and supportive relationship between you and an experience.

Apparently, everything I was made to believe about food and the people who became addicted to food was strikingly inaccurate…I had no idea what my health was worth…I started doing research about what was happening with my body and learned that most issues could be linked back to a person’s diet.

We have become entitled to who and what we believe should be accessible at any given moment.

Sometimes small changes now bring greater progress later. Once you develop those smaller changes, continue performing them in such a way that they become ritualistically executed. Your patterns envelop your likeness and vice versa.

The therapeutic aspects of engrossing myself in nature seemed to last throughout my week. I felt calm, whole, connected and healed.

We can become so engrossed in our own experiences and thoughts that we forget humankind is rooted in suffering. Everyone suffers.