May 22, 2007

How to Live Less Stressfully - 11 simple tips

I love the simplicity of these tips from Loving and Leaving the Good Life, by Helen Nearing (Chelsea Green, 1993)
Helen Nearing is a great pioneer of simple living. She offers eleven wonderfully wise tips for living not only a less stressful life, but for living in a more connected and organic way.

Here are her simple principles for Living the Good Life:

1. Do the best you can, whatever arises.

2. Be at peace with yourself.

3. Find a job you enjoy.

4. Live in simple conditions; housing, food, clothing; get rid of clutter.

5. Contact nature every day; feel the earth under your feet.

6. Take physical exercise through hard work; through gardening or walking.

7. Don’t worry; live one day at a time.

8. Share something every day with someone else; if you live alone, write someone; give something away; help someone else somehow.

9. Take time to wonder at life and the world; see some humor in life where you can.

10. Observe the one life in all things.

11. Be kind to the creatures.

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