By Marc David, from "The Slow Down Diet"

Allow your body and your outlook to be new again.
Let the journey be what it is, because that's what it will be anyway.
When uncertainty reigns, let it be your guide.
When your inner knowing issues forth, follow it
with trust and self-respect.
When your metabolism is wounded, let it cry.
Before you test the chemistry of your body, taste your tears.
Before you take a drug, meditate, reflect, and pray.
Before you limit yourself with a diet, expand yourself with love.
Before you lose a pound, gain an insight.
Before you exercise, be still.
Before you attempt to cast out a bad habit, thank it for its teachings.
Before you harm yourself in thought, word, or deed, pause.
Before you allow someone dominion over your body, awaken.
Before you seek advice, remember your wisdom.
Before you speak, make sure its an improvement on silence.
Before you're intimate with another, touch the sacred.
Before you fall ill, catch yourself.
Before you lapse into fear, choose light.
Before you believe in a world absent of a Creator, give birth.
Before you remember your divine purpose,
celebrate its imminent arrival.
Before you eat, give gratitude.
Before you sit for long hours, dance.
Before you arise, bless everything.  Before you sleep, do the same.
Before you live another day, agree to be here in your fullness.
And before you breathe another breath, choose eternity, choose love, choose now.