Do you know what fulfills you? Let's ask this: What do you do to fulfill yourself, balance yourself, center yourself? If your response doesn't include one or more of the following, then you are most likely vacating life/circumstances instead of participating: Intellect / Spirit / Body
What do I mean by this? Well simply put, if you are doing pleasurable and albeit happy things like vegging out to television, internet, a good book, etc., then you are taking a mental vacation which is to say vacating your life. Vacations are great and important, but have their place and shouldn't ever be in place of intellectual, spiritual, or body fulfillment.
In order to actually center and be balanced (self fulfilled), you need to be engaged and working in the present on at least one or more of these areas, and ideally all three. Consider your brain, as an example, as you would the muscles in your body. Just like a muscle, your brain can atrophy from not being exercised. Same with your spirit...it will wither from not being fed. It's a vicious cycle between your thoughts and actions if you are not fulfilled and centered that will pull you further and further away from true happiness.
Find what makes your heart sing and your thoughts flood with excitement and your soul dance and DO that daily!!!
What do I mean by this? Well simply put, if you are doing pleasurable and albeit happy things like vegging out to television, internet, a good book, etc., then you are taking a mental vacation which is to say vacating your life. Vacations are great and important, but have their place and shouldn't ever be in place of intellectual, spiritual, or body fulfillment.
In order to actually center and be balanced (self fulfilled), you need to be engaged and working in the present on at least one or more of these areas, and ideally all three. Consider your brain, as an example, as you would the muscles in your body. Just like a muscle, your brain can atrophy from not being exercised. Same with your spirit...it will wither from not being fed. It's a vicious cycle between your thoughts and actions if you are not fulfilled and centered that will pull you further and further away from true happiness.
Find what makes your heart sing and your thoughts flood with excitement and your soul dance and DO that daily!!!
So very true. When I'm beaten down and tired, feeling like I have no energy to feed Intellect/Spirit/Body and decide to veg out: I always end up staying up too late, sleep poorly, and all the feelings from that horrible day are still waiting for me the next morning.
ReplyDeleteBut if I break the cycle, and put in the work, a different, healing cycle starts of good rest and a blank slate for the next day.
So very true. When I'm beaten down and tired, feeling like I have no energy to feed Intellect/Spirit/Body and decide to veg out: I always end up staying up too late, sleep poorly, and all the feelings from that horrible day are still waiting for me the next morning.
ReplyDeleteBut if I break the cycle, and put in the work, a different, healing cycle starts of good rest and a blank slate for the next day.