6 Components of a Successful Life

It is one thing to survive and another to triumph.

We all seem to make it through life, but how many believe it is a wondrous experience every day. How many can wake up in the morning and say thank God I am alive and today I am going to take advantage of my opportunities.

It is a mind set. It is a belief set. It then becomes a thinking and behavior pattern. It creates the results we consciously or subconsciously intended.

Consciousness.

If you do not believe in God, a creator, some divine being, a universal energy, a prime mover, you cannot explain what exists. It is unsophisticated and burying your head in the sand. Science has taken us far enough to see there are things that cannot be explained if we don’t accept certain concepts of Quantum Physics and even Chaos Theory.

Believing that there is a Universal Consciousness and energy that occupies every space in the Universe and that there is abundance for every living thing, puts you alignment with achieving your human potential.

Health.

It is mental and physical. It begins by respecting and treasuring your body’s capability for optimal performance when properly maintained. Your mind/brain needs nutrients and energy is maximized when the organs work with food it recognizes.

To achieve your life’s goals and live actively to enjoy your grandchildren requires avoiding sickness, disease, and pain. Knowing what to eat and how to relax are instrumental.

Fitness.

Maintaining your weight is a small component.  Diet will do that perfectly. The body needs exercise to ensure proper functioning of the brain and nervous system. Your brain’s alpha and beta waves (thinking and creativity) are optimized with at least a half hour of aerobics every other day.

Creative thinking is supported by meditation and monotonous exercise like running, biking, swimming, and hiking. There are other solutions but experiencing the wonders of feeling good and exploring nature can be enhanced with a little physical effort. You don’t want to risk a heart attack every time you set out to see nature and push your body.

Passion

Work and boredom are two elements of suffering. The anecdote is passion. There is no time or effort limit for exertion when we are passionate about an interest. Engaging in the passion results in our happiness chemicals dopamine and serotonin.

The process for enjoying what we do is often called “flow” This is engagement in an activity for which we enjoy or have passion. Neurologists have said that happiness is a process and even the highest spiritual authorities have said that we have peak moments followed by “doing laundry”.

Happiness

It doesn’t require a rite of passage for us to be entitled to happiness. We are born to be happy. Ever watch animals play. Dogs and birds and squirrels and antelope all enjoy happiness. They are not more entitled than we are.

You are alive, you are perfect, nature provides abundance and beauty,  you have companionship all around you and a certain amount of time to take it all in. If you have to have a material goal first, you are creating the long way around for yourself.

Love

We often think of it in too limited of terms. It isn’t just the white knight and princess. I like to first think that the ever present consciousness and energy existing in every space is love. Matter is 99.9% empty space so space is dominant. Space is knowledge, energy, and love because when we have the right mind set, we see mostly wonder.

Love begins with loving the fact you are alive. It continues with loving who you are and gratitude for being here. That certainly makes you more lovable and open to being loved by others. Having over whelming thoughts of love crowd out hate, prejudice, condescension, and negativity. We all battle the negative emotions, but love is the anecdote.

Notice I didn’t say anything about getting a good education so that you could get a good job and buy a nice house. These are all part of “doing the laundry” but never sustain the feelings for which we are here to enjoy.

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