WAKING UP TO THE PRESENT

Hi. I'm Shabdam. I returned to live in Birmingham about a year ago, after 35 years of life in rural Wales.

I work as a craniosacral therapist and help my clients to begin to listen to their bodies. It is amazing how we can avoid looking after ourselves and put off the exercise; the change in diet; the need to relax and de-stress that our body is gently asking us for. We simply do not see the reality of what is going on. When at last we do, it is often when there is cause for concern and it's much harder for us to make the changes to our way of life that will lead to better health. We can be so unaware of what is right there in front of our noses. And, if we become a little aware, we often put it off until tomorrow, when we will "make a real start"!

I think many of us are doing the same with our environment!

I really hope that future generations don't look back and wonder how we could have been so foolish. How we could have been so blind to what was happening around us. (Always so much easier to see in retrospect). Some people are aware and are trying their best to wake the others up to some kind of action. But we are so comfortable that it is hard to begin to realise that we are at the 'tipping point'. See Royal College of Art video www.wakeupfreakout.org. We really don't want to give up what we think we have and can easily close our eyes to what is happening around us.
Seeing the film 'The Age of Stupid' a couple of weeks ago, was an eye-opener.
www.ageofstupid.net. This film really brought home to me the foolishness of many of the things I see going on around me, and in which I participate! Habits are very hard to break, particularly when they make us comfortable!

But if we all try to do something to save our planet, we might just leave a home for our grandchildren! Some ideas and information can be found through the Transition movement. See www.transitionculture.org. Do look if you haven't already done so.