ARTICLES by Nina Roxanne Howard

Inspire Change

We are living from an old paradigm.  We have reaped the rewards of a life filled with comfort and convenience and at times excess.  How many pairs of shoes do you have in your closet?  We bought the American dream and we have to work, sometimes 7 days a week to enjoy the illusion of freedom and success.  Today many people are trading in their big suburban homes for smaller apartments in town making it easier to manage their lives and reduce their carbon footprint. More time and less stress is their new mantra.

In his "crash course", Chris Martenson explains that he is not an economist but a trained research scientist and former Fortune 300 VP.  But more importantly he adds, "I am a concerned citizen.  I think the next twenty years are going to look very different from the last twenty years." 

As the economic landscape changes, many are 'falling to pieces' because of company downsizing, job loss and foreclosures.  In the new paradigm, the new energy that is rapidly transforming our world, personal, social, economic and government structures and even business is no longer "business as usual".  We are not a failure, it is our system that is a failure.  It has reached its zenith in the old energy and the new energy is giving birth to the new world.  Have you asked yourself what are you going to do when all our system take a dive for the worst?

The Mayan calendar points to this time frame as the time that any structure built on power and greed crumbles.  Unfortunately, we may all experience the fallout..  As Chris Martenson so eloquently states, "My work, as I see it, is to help you accept the following statement:  The future has arrived." Begin to be the change you want to see in the world.

Nina Roxanne Howard is a forward thinking entrepreneur who has built the Bellanina Spa, Institute and skin care brand in Ann Arbor.  She teaches classes on conscious transformation which she calls, “The Rabbit Hole” and publishes Envision the Shift Newsletters.