By Deepak Chopra Deepak Chopra and Annie Bond Annie Bond
Connecting to Body-Mind
To become familiar with the miracle of the human body-mind is to acquire awesome power. This power is magical because it allows you to experience the body-mind as more fluid, more flexible, and more dynamic, and more creative than you have ever imagined. But first you have to understand your true nature; you have to know the body-mind as it really is.

The field of pure consciousness creates, controls, and constantly becomes the body-mind. Get in touch with this field, and you have a completely new reality of the mind and a completely new experience of the body. You realize that you can change your body more effortlessly, more rapidly, more efficiently than you can change your clothes.
Adapted from Power, Freedom, and Grace, by Deepak Chopra (Amber Allen Publishing, 2006).
Being in Body-Mind
Looking for cause and effect is another way of choosing safe products. Sometimes I wonder if we’ve allowed consumer products to deplete the earth’s resources or to be so toxic because the products don’t look like the raw materials used to make them. We don’t see the connections. A can of pretty robin’s egg blue paint in a hardware store isn’t visibly connected to its ingredients of fungicides and petroleum or to the smokestacks of the factory where it was made. Seeing the loss and damage that occurs in its creation might incline us to purchase a more ecological brand or to buy a little less. Or having access to the old-timers’ recipe for milk paint might inspire us to try it out ourselves.
Adapted from Better Basics from the Home, by Annie Bond (Three Rivers Press, 1999).