How to Live Simply
How to Live Simply
Living simply can be the best help for stress and the best help for anxiety.
Following a simpler life:
Helen and Scott Nearing wrote the book, Living the Good Life,
in 1954, about living in Jamaica, Vermont. The book
became a manifesto for the back-to-the land movement
of the late 1960’s. From their perspective, the good life
was a simple life of breaking the day into 3 segments:
First: Do work, usually physical labor, that would
provide food (they built a greenhouse, stone storage buildings made
out of stones they gathered from the land).
Second: Do work that provided income. For the Nearings,
it was tending to their Sugar Maple Trees.
Third: Play. Helen usually played music and
Scott studied and wrote about economics.
Can you divide your day into three segments?
Ask Imagine Changes:
Question: What happened to the Nearings?
Imagine Changes: They moved to Maine and again applied the same
simple living techniques to their lives. Blueberries became their cash crop.