What Separates Us From Peak Performance and Happiness?

Thinking about the past and the future keeps you out of flow and happiness.

It’s that simple.

Flow is engaging in activities in which you have competence that create a challenge but are not overwhelming. In this state, you are not concerned about judgment and you lose track of time. The brain produces optimum adrenaline at about 30 hertz in Beta waves and dopamine which is our happiness drug.

Regret, worry, anxiety, blaming, fear, complaining, jealousy, and hatred are all thoughts about the past or future. They are the ego’s mechanisms to maintain control of our identity so that we think we know who we are.

When you maintain your focus on only what is happening now, the ego loses traction. One of the things I do when I find my mind drifting to past or future troublesome thoughts is concentrate on three breaths and the sounds occurring around me.

Spirituality teaches that happiness comes from three modalities. In our activities we accept what we are doing, we enjoy what we are doing, or we are enthusiastic about what we are doing.

If we do not like what we are doing and cannot justify its purpose, we should stop. Controlling our current feelings is taking responsibility for our consciousness and our life. Feeling joy in what we are doing is the purpose of life. Each moment should be so in the present that we are conscious of exactly how we feel, what we hear, and what we are thinking.

Thinking is part of our consciousness and we should be aware of our thoughts and decide what to do about them. When we are not thinking about the present, we should bring our thoughts to the present by being aware of our senses or some grounding exercise.

Enthusiasm is joy with a vision or plan. Like “flow”, enthusiasm is our self expression making a contribution that includes everyone’s participation. There is no ego or judgment in enthusiasm. There is no “I am great” or “I am better than others”.

We cannot change what happened in the past nor take care of tomorrow before tomorrow. If we stay in the present, in what we enjoy, and move towards our vision, tomorrow will be the best it can be.

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Read “Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose” by Eckhart Tolle

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