Please do state that wellness is the fulcrum by which you wish to live your lives, and start on the journey to learning about finding your inner peace, your inner balance.

True wellness comes from a relaxed, peaceful state of mind. From this place, we make wise decisions and conduct ourselves in such a way that promotes dignity and respect in all our relations.

When we use alcohol or drugs to induce states of relaxation or highs not normally experienced during waking consciousness, we are cheating a bit in that we would not normally experience these states on our own, except through our choice to intake these substances.

The power of yoga, meditation, music, and healing work, like medicine, allow us to transfer states of calm, relaxation, and safety to other situations because that experience, whatever it may be, grants us passage to the reserves of inner resources that we might not have even known we had access to prior to experiencing it.

Anything, then, be it food, cigarette smoking, homeopathic remedies, Tylenol, or prayer, may be used to be more peaceful or high or low or right with the world and is, in some way, shape, or form, like using a “drug” for an intended purpose.

When we realize this – that we have access to anything at all in our realities to draw energy or usefulness from, we open ourselves up to the idea that anything is possible. That, perhaps, is our greatest fear, but also the key to our freedom and our buoyancy.

The answer to the resultant question, then, of, “What should I choose in anything in life?” lies in what sustains us, makes us richer inside, fuller in our experience of our world, and brings us greater joy. If we are calling upon substances or people or organizations that cannot meet us where we’re at, in terms of what we truly need to be well in this world, then we must re-evaluate what we’ve chosen to enter into partnership with and re-adjust our relationship to it and/or choose to enter into agreement with something different altogether.

Now, back to this state of inner peace or balance for which we all strive. Please do not think that achieving peacefulness inside is somehow without its share of excitement, exuberance, joy, or other natural highs. The only difference between choosing wellness, or peacefulness, as opposed to not choosing it as one’s personal preference, is that wellness, as a state of balance, buoyantly resumes its position at calm and peaceful inside. So when you’re angry or stuck and have been working on making yourself more peaceful inside, why, you find that what you bounce back to, even after all the harmful feelings, is a little more buoyant—a little more well than you ever had been before.

So in other words, when you work toward making inner peace a consistent pattern within yourself, you are simply stating that you wish to experience more emotional states from a “clean” place—even anger or upset or frustration or what have you. It is possible to do so because you will have shifted your state of neutral to a truer place, and your attempts to remain calm, rational or accurate in your engagements will, therefore, become much more successful.

So, you see, the key to wellness is to promote a relaxed state of mind as the fulcrum – not to eliminate the violence or what-have-you from your inner world, so much as to put yourself in a better position to choose otherwise in the first place.

Because there is nothing wrong with karma, per se, in terms of experiencing all the potentials that exist in this world—particularly if you can accept responsibility for the reality that manifests as a result of your choosing—most of which you could probably sense coming before you chose to choose it.

Let all of us heartily promote wellness in our daily lives—in our businesses, our friendships, our relationships, and our life transitions… in our dinner choices and purchasing decisions—let it all be well! And let us realize that it is our choices, big and small, in all aspects of our daily lives, that, in the end, comprise the series of events we call our lives lived.