Celebrate Your Own Independence on Independence Day!

Happy Independence Day to you!  Thinking about the significance of The Fourth of July,  the day that a group of  people declared their independence from  the control of those who felt it was their right to tell them how things needed to be, we can all likely apply this in our own lives.  If you are reading this blog, you are likely independent minded, as to live the holistic life or even try to do so takes effort,  being able to go to the beat of your own drum at times and go against the common way things are currently done.

So today, celebrate yourself and your efforts to think independently.  It takes courage to be willing to be different, to ask questions, and to do things differently if you don't like the answers you receive.  Allow this independence day to awaken in you the  desire to declare independence from the mass market that tries to sell you products that you may not need or want and often ones that take a toll, one way or another  on the environment.  Declare your independence from the part of you that does things, or at least some things, the way you always did, despite new information that you have received that tells you there is a better way, that would reap benefits for those who come after you, if you just make a bit more effort.

So once again Happy Independence Day and I challenge you today to find something in your life that you need to declare independence from and do so!  Feel free to comment and share! Just click on the word comment at the bottom of this blog, if you are reading this and would like to share something in your life that you are declaring independence from.  I will share, just to be fair.....  I wrote in an earlier blog that I love EO wipes.  I use them liberally, likely, often when  they are not really necessary.  I use them on hands, toys, surfaces....They are alcohol based and so therefore antimicrobial by nature.... But they still end up in landfills when I am done.  And part of the holistic life is developing resistance by some exposure to less than ideal bacteria..... Now I don't see myself giving them up 100%, but cutting my usage in half....  that is doable.....  So that is my declaration.... What is yours......?