As humans, we have a tendency toward complacency. We become comfortable with our routines and habits and we begin to ignore the signs and signals that something in our personal lives is out of balance and requires attention.

It can be our health, our finances, our social life, our home life, our business or our work life.

Whatever it is, if left unaddressed, any imbalance will tip the scales in the wrong direction. It eventually reveals itself as mental, physical, emotional, or even financial health problems.

Take, for example, heart disease. It’s the number one killer for one main reason: unhealthy habits. Lack of exercise, poor nutrition, and chronic uncontrolled mental stress top this list.

Unfortunately, the damage caused by fostering unhealthy habits doesn’t stop at a personal level. Indulging in unhealthy habits at home in our personal lives can be thought of as a lifestyle disease that becomes a destructive global problem when governments run by people start to act in the same way.

This complacency towards nature’s nudges, her signs and symptoms for us when thrown out of balance, further exacerbates any imbalance and puts the health of our precious planet Earth under anguish, stress and eventual collapse.

Main lesson: We are not separate from Mother Earth. We are her children and she has given us a wealth of natural resources to tap into and experience a fabulous life. If a crisis occurs in nature, it is because we have abused its privileges, exceeded the limits and created an imbalance.

Instead of aligning ourselves with Mother Nature/Earth and using her natural resources in balance with a heavy dose of gratitude, we selfishly use and waste her resources, most of the time for temporary monetary gain and end up damaging the environment created for us. May we live and prosper. in.

We stripped its lush green forests and leached precious minerals from the soil, leaving it barren. We poison the air and water, burn down your landscape, and needlessly kill your amazing display of exotic wildlife for sport or trophy.

Our insensitivity to the hand that feeds us has separated us from what we are, nature.

Destructive personal habits eventually manifest as malaise or disease in our lives, and this same principle manifests as malaise on a global scale. So what is the answer?

We must reverse our war against nature.

The ills that suddenly appear in the world in the form of disease, the pandemics that occur globally as a result, the fires that rage out of control, the pollution that poisons both the air and the water, and the governmental and social collapses are all direct results of our thoughts. complacent and unhealthy habits and actions. They bleed out of our personal lives collectively affecting our environment, our government and our ecology in negative ways.

Ignoring the signals while waiting for a wake-up call before initiating changes puts us and our environment in grave danger, as most alarm bells don’t sound until problems are critical and reach boiling point. At this stage, things quickly go from minor symptoms to major problems, and suddenly we are faced with a nasty global crisis that disrupts trade, travel, productivity, and damages the health of the economy and the world as a whole. .

In the end, a war with nature is a war with us.

Global warming, environmental pollution, the ruthless extinction of precious life-giving animals and plants, the population explosion, food shortages and climate changes are global problems worldwide that we, as humans and guardians of Mother Earth, we must solve. That can only happen when complacency is removed, responsibility is accepted, and each of us contributes to bringing nature back into balance and maintaining it.

And it starts at home. “How we do the small things is how we do the big ones.”

Our personal lives, our lifestyles, the habits we adopt and how they affect our health, mentally, physically and emotionally do not remain bottled up at home, but rather play out collectively on a global scale and ultimately affect the health and stability of the entire world. world.

The truth is that eliminating complacency by changing our personal daily habits and lifestyles to healthier ones is the first step to experiencing these same things globally.

We must stop our self-centered and arrogant attitude and point fingers. There is only one direction in which we can look for answers and that is directly towards ourselves, because we are the answer. If there’s anything to point a finger at in all of this, it points directly at us. If changes need to be made, they start and end with us.

Each of us is an important cog in a larger plan, and when we don’t play our roles effectively, we damage the whole.

In other words, “we are all in the same boat” and we must become supportive, resilient, and selfless with each other, Mother Nature, and the world around us.

If we expect our environment, our ecology, and our economy to be healthy, prosperous, and balanced both personally and globally, and to keep them that way, we have to step up and make serious changes.

We can no longer sit on the sidelines, blindly indifferent to the world around us, waiting for a crisis to “wake us up.”

It’s time for us to “twist that index finger.” We must accept responsibility for our lives, for the health of Mother Earth, our planetary home and her bountiful life-giving resources. We must take responsibility for, support and contribute to the stability of our governments, our appointed leaders and the decisions they make.

As the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, once asked: “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” Let’s expand that wise request to read: “Ask not what Planet Earth can do for you, ask what you can do for Planet Earth.”