Life Tree News
Creating Prosperity with Harmony
Alice G. Vlietstra, Ph.D.
March, 2012

In this issue:
1. Welcome
2. The Eco Mind
3. Expand Your View and Flourish
4. Quotes
5. Upcoming Teleseminar:  Creating a Happy Home

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1. Welcome

Here in St. Louis, flowers are blooming and trees are budding.  We are celebrating the new growth of spring.   Just as we enjoy seeing the new life of spring, we also can celebrate new growth by expanding our ways of seeing the world.  I would like to share with you a new growth of that is emerging in a number of disciplines.  It is called the Eco Mind.

The Eco mind is a world view that looks at the world in relationship to everything else. It creates a more life-serving mental map than one that only focuses on completion for scarce physical resources. Breakthroughs are occurring in a range of disciplines are confirming the positive social aspects of ourselves.  We are complex human creatures with many sources of strength that enable us to cooperate and work together in the best interest of all rather than just to compete.

We all have core assumptions in how we view the world.  These assumptions, often hidden, determine what we see and what we do not. They are often based on outdated limited views of ourselves developed at an earlier time.  Upon reflection, we can change them.  This spring, consider expanding your view by developing your Eco Mind.      

2. The Eco Mind

The Eco Mind thinks differently. The Eco Mind thinks:

Less about quantities and more about qualities.
Less about fixed things and more about the every-changing relationships that form them.
Less about limits and more about alignment.
Less about what and more about why.
Less about loss and more about possibility.
        Frances Moore Lappe´

3. Expand your view and flourish.  I can help you

1.    Discover your strengths and spot them in others
2.    Build cooperation by aligning on your strengths with others
3.    Relate to your emotions positively with empathy to create a commitment for    growth
4.    Look for what is just and right.  Treating people fairly builds the bonds upon which our survival depends.
5.    Be a doer.  We are not couch potatoes, shoppers, and whiners. 
6.     Give your day value and meaning by discovering your inner purpose.
7.    Develop your creativity  and ability to manifest change

4. Quotes: 

This is my life.  It is my one time to be me.  I want to experience every good thing.
Maya Angelou

You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk.
Louise Smith

5.  Upcoming Teleseminar; Creating a Happy Home 

Did you know that your relationship to you home and your emotional health are related? Even more, if you work on your business at home, it impacts your success. It is related to how we think.  Being positive, honoring your strengths, and tending to our relationships with others as well as our physical resources creates a climate for prosperity and success. 

Join us at our upcoming teleconference on April 10, “Creating a Happy Home.”  Three of us will be sharing:  Dr. Jane Granskog will share on the Eco mind. I will share on using your strengths, and Samantha Shields, a home energy specialist, will share how your surroundings can create positive energy.

  Creating a Happy Home - Call 760-569-9000 Access code 308311, 9:00 - 10:00 AM CDT Tuesday April 10th,

Warm Regards,

Dr. Alice

Resource: 

Lappe´, Frances Moore; Why Thinking Like an Ecosystem Might Save the World, Yes Magazine, Spring, 2012.