Stretching our body every day is an excellent way to keep limber, fit, and healthy. Stretching on a regular basis is a great routine to incorporate into your day, particularly in the morning, right when you wake up.

I'd like you to take five minutes now to stretch out your body.

+ Head

+ Neck

+ Shoulders

+ Torso

+ Arms

+ Hands

+ Fingers

+ Hips

+ Legs

+ Calves

+ Feet

+ Toes

When we stretch, we honor and treasure our bodies. We give thanks for the physical body that helps house our innermost dreams, goals, aspirations, beliefs, and values. We value our physical being.

"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."

- Newton's Third Law of Motion

"Our very life itself is a paradox, contradictory in many senses; whenever you have too much of one thing you have problems created by that. You always have extremes and therefore it is important to try and find the middle way, to balance the two."

- Dalai Lama, 1976

Today, I'd like you to experience balance.

Literally stand up and feel your body as it stands in one place.

Listen to your breath, feel your limbs, your arms and legs, your fingers and toes.

When we mentor others, we in fact increase our own abilities, because we need to explain, enlighten, process, and understand our own experience in order to share our experiences with others.

For example, a math teacher truly understands a theorem when the teacher is able to teach a student the thinking behind that theorem. In the same way, when you mentor another person, you impart your knowledge and training to that person: you help them learn lessons in a quicker, more efficient way… the same mistake doesn’t *need* to be repeated twice ;-)

The very word "educare" means "to rear," meaning we are rearing the next generation's minds, spirits, consciences, and beliefs when we model for them what we have learned.