12-Steps to Co-create a Healthy and Sustainable Future and Evolve into a New Loving Species

The following 12-Step methodology introduces a comprehensive blueprint on how to help create an increasingly healthy sustainable future.

Considering that we face multiple life-threatening crises in the world, we have limited time to successfully transform our values. Therefore, I want to share my life’s work with you, so we can mutually co-create a healthy and sustainable future.

The following 12 Steps introduce a vision, based on this comprehensive map, guided by ethics to resolve the two greatest challenges facing humanity:
1. How do we solve the many life-threatening crises that exist in the world today?
2. How do we co-create a future that simultaneously benefits ourselves and all reality?

In relation to the first challenge, nuclear weapons, global climate disruptions, the 6th Great Extinction, artificial intelligence, and human violence threaten our future existence. Our traditional approaches to solve personal, societal, and global problems have traditionally relied largely on competition, rather than on cooperation and love. We perceive ourselves, our groups, and often our Spiritual beliefs as most important, and neglect that our lives ultimately depend on the mutual success of our Individual lives, our Social lives, our entire Species, the Planet, Evolution, and our Spiritual Oneness. Therefore, we often temporarily succeed and save ourselves, as we naively harm and destroy our underlying life-support systems necessary for our continued success and survival.

Historically, we have failed to perceive and honor our interdependent oneness within ourselves, with each other, and with reality as a whole. Therefore, we have relied primarily on our old brain functioning and our societal traditions to solve problems and conflicts. Thus, we work to win for ourselves and our special-interest groups, and in the process, often harm our essential life-support systems necessary for our continued existence.

In efforts to overcome these traditional coping methods that, unfortunately, threaten our lives, I have developed this comprehensive 12-Step program. It introduces a systematic roadmap to guide us to solve these interconnected problems, as it simultaneously helps us co-create a healthy and sustainable future. Thus, we can work to benefit ourselves, our loved ones, the world, and all reality, as we solve these life-threatening problems.

Ultimately, our success and survival depend on fulfilling two essential needs in life—healthy living and sustainable living. Healthy growth and sustainable maintenance combine to prevent destruction, so we can both thrive and survive. To fulfill these universal needs, our internal functioning and our external life-support systems must operate in harmony to support both healthy sustainable living and our regeneration of what we have previously harmed.

I will now briefly summarize each of the 12-steps introduced in this comprehensive program, so we can lead humanity into our greatest capacities to co-create a healthy and sustainable future for the benefit of all.

Twelve Steps to Co-create Healthy Sustainable Living

The following Interview with Stephen Dynako summarizes these 12 Steps

I will now briefly summarize each step to help you understand this 12-step program:

Step 1. We need a New Human Story that transcends and includes our limited Present Human Story. This New Story includes all six of our essential natures (Individual, Social, Species, Planet, Evolution, and Spiritual). In comparison, our Present Story usually considers only three of these natures (Human, Social, and sometimes Spiritual). Due to these perceptual limitations in our Present Story, we produce remarkable successes in areas in which we are interested, while we often generate destructive and unsustainable side-effects in areas beyond our special-interests. Thus, we succeed, but at the cost of risking our lives, and the lives of all future generations of humanity.

Step 2. Fortunately, we can awaken to and embrace the hidden aspects of our Spiritual nature. For instance, our Authentic Self arises from our Spiritual nature and empowers us as co-creators in the conscious evolution of the world. Our capacities for co-creation arise from the four unconditional dynamics of our Spiritual, Authentic Self. For instance, the Power of our consciousness and actions enable us to produce Unique mutations that can add Worth and Love to ourselves and the world. When we share our Authentic nature to benefit all reality, we achieve our higher purposes in life. We simultaneously benefit ourselves, other people, the world, and the whole. In these ways, we integrate our Human nature and Spiritual nature. As Human Beings, we embrace the Power, Unique, Worth, and Love dynamics inherent in our Spiritual, Authentic self. We can then beneficially serve as conscious co-creators who progressively develop a healthy sustainable future for all.

Step 3. As our Authentic Self, we can both prevent and Heal False Beliefs and Shadows. False beliefs often develop when we perceive threats to our lives, when no imminent threat actually exists. For example, we may feel powerless, self-less, worthless, or loveless in Human situations that temporarily override our inherent power, unique, worth, and love in our deeper Spiritual nature. As humans, we naturally react to these threats with fear. We then automatically react with fight, flight, or freeze reactions to save us. This combination of false beliefs and primitive reactions is then remembered for future similar situations, serving like a “shadow” that provides reactions from our past in attempts to save us. For example, these life-threatening beliefs and reactions suddenly hijack our perceptions and actions in the present situation. In the process, they frequently harm us, others, and the world with inappropriate, destructive reactions. Fortunately, we can heal both the false beliefs and these reactions by consciously waking up and grounding in our Authentic Self. We can then choose and initiate healthy responses for the situation. In these ways, we systematically help rewire our brain, so we respond in similar future situations with these new healthy actions.

Step 4. We need to expand our consciousness beyond our traditional self-centered and group-centered awareness (that leads to both successes and unsustainable outcomes). Consciousness Growth into higher levels of awareness, including care for all humanity, the planet, the evolution of the world, and our universal Spiritual Oneness, protect all the life-support systems necessary for our continued existence.

Step 5. We learn to develop, integrate, and then balance the 12 major dimensions of life (our Physical, Psychological, Family, Social, Cultural, Vocational, Economic, Political, Recreational, Environmental, Spiritual, and Ethical dimensions) that serve as essential ingredients for Individual Healthy Living.

Step 6. The same 12 dimensions of human life contribute to Social Healthy Living in our family, business, community, nation, and the world. Consequently, we now have a natural blueprint of the 12 major dimensions of human life that need to function and integrate to create healthy living throughout society and the global community.

Step 7. We have traditionally lived guided by Dominant/dependent relationships that often unsuspectingly propel us toward an unsustainable future. In contrast, we need to develop our three more advanced capacities for Healthy Relationships. These include our inherent Independence as a separate human, our social Interdependence with others, and our natural Oneness with the whole. A successful future depends on our conscious balancing of these four relationship styles, so we create both health and sustainability.

Step 8. Our children require Healthy Parenting based on Steps 1-7. In addition, support for the development of their multiple intelligences and their “mind management” skills are necessary. Children also learn to embody their natural Spiritual dynamics and co-creator capacities, so they responsibly help build a healthy and sustainable future.

Step 9. Healthy Sustainable Living requires that we prioritize how to fulfill both healthy living and sustainable living. This includes aligning our personal reality and actions in harmony with the rest of reality that has taken billions of years to successfully evolve.

Step 10. Healthy Sustainable Institutions satisfy the goals for healthy living and sustainable living by supporting humanity and life as their highest priorities. At the same time, they can support their institutional special-interests to survive and grow.

Step 11. Peace on the Personal to Global levels naturally improves by practicing Steps 1-10. Importantly, when we embody the Power, Unique, Worth, and Love of our Authentic Self, we naturally engage a personal sense of peace. When we appreciate these shared Spiritual dynamics in others, we experience a sense of shared interpersonal peace. Then, when we apply Healthy Sustainable Living practices across all six natures of our New Human Story (Individual, Social, Species, Planet, Evolution, and Spiritual natures), we experience our natural oneness and peaceful living with all reality.

Step 12. A Global Ethical System designed to create a Healthy and Sustainable Future integrates these previous 11 steps. We then evolve as responsible co-creators who contribute health and sustainability to others and the world, as we develop into a more Loving Human Species. We work to integrate our internal reality with the existing external reality, instead of forcing the external world to change to meet our personal and group desires. Thus, we learn to live as One with all, and in the process, we consciously benefit our self, others, our species, the planet, all evolution, and our Oneness with all.

Explore the 12 Steps

In the following 12-Step video, I expand my summary of each step, and then, briefly describe how to integrate the steps to create a thriving future. I will share a detailed presentation that includes the tools and practices that apply in each individual step. (In the future, you will be able to access each of these detailed presentations by clicking on the step that you desire in the 12-Step map above. If it is not available yet, my book Transform the World into a Healthy and Sustainable Future provides many practical tools applicable to Steps 2-12).

Unfortunately, our present situation appears so dangerous that we need to work urgently and cooperatively to solve these threats, as we simultaneously develop healthy sustainable lifestyles. We also need to integrate our inner, interpersonal, and outer worlds to function in harmony, so we evolve into responsible and successful co-creators who benefit the whole. In the process, we participate as happy, loving, empowered people. Since we presently have this rare and timely opportunity to transform ourselves and the world, I want to share this comprehensive program, including its practical tools and methods with you, all for FREE.

If you want to participate in this historic grassroots movement to help transform the world into a healthy and sustainable future, as well as benefit you, your relationships, and the planet, please feel free to use these tools and methods. Simply contact me at TomBougstyHSL@gmail.com regarding the tools that you choose to use and the results that you achieve. Initially, you may want to select a particular step that appeals to you, so you can later integrate other steps into your efforts. In this way, we can work cooperatively to evolve a healthy and sustainable future that also helps solve our life-threatening problems.

At last, we have a holistic roadmap that provides practical tools to empower us to act as responsible and successful co-creators in life. We can develop our greatest potentials, guided by the ethics of health, sustainability, and our New Human Story, so we live in integrity with all our life-support systems. At this crucial time in human history, we have the most profound choices ever available to humans. We can choose to transform ourselves and humanity, so we co-create a world that protects and promotes life for all future generations.