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Hi everyone! In this video I'll talk about five essential aspects of living more
fully,
having fun, enjoying your relationships, and having a lot of success in your
career.
Are you feeling burned out, bored, disconnected or lonely?
Have you reached a certain level of success in your life but it's not quite what
you'd imagined it would be?
Or maybe you're doing just fine but you wanna boost it up a notch?
Sometimes it's important to go back to the basics of what brings us
safety, joy, and aliveness.
The first step in living more fully is practicing mindfulness.
Mindfulness is non-judgmental curiosity of
our internal thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations.
It's kind of like looking at our internal world as if it's projected onto
something like a computer screen
and simply noticing what arises.
When we do this, we deepen our understanding and
intimacy with ourselves. The second step to living more fully is practicing
compassion,
and this often needs to start with ourselves. Self compassion
is unconditional love, warmth and support of ourselves,
even the stuff we don't like, maybe especially so, so that we can extend
that compassion to other people.
It's been said that two wings of a bird are mindfulness
and compassion. That one without the other is insufficient. We really do need
both to propel us forward and create movement
in our lives. The third step to living more fully is practicing self care.
Self-care can include consistent and adequate sleep,
nutrition, exercise, and social support. I talked before about how it's like
four wheels of a car. All four wheels need to be inflated
and solidly on the ground in order to propel us forward so that we can live
our lives with full engagement. The fourth step to living more fully is to
build a different relationship with our Inner Critic.
With mindfulness and compassion we can notice that the Inner Judge will
criticize us no matter what
and yet it has a protective function. Its primary purpose actually is to protect
us from rejection, from embarrassment,
from failing. So given this, we can learn to sift out
its truth from its judgment so that we can address the truth
and take care of business. The third step to living more fully
is living authentically in the world and this requires us to be in alignment with
our core values
and to honor our passions and talents
and interests. This is not always easy to do especially when our authenticity has not
always been appreciated.
Sometimes we've even been subjected to discrimination,
to shaming, to ridicule and other forms of violence,
just for simply being. It's important to
value ourselves regardless of those external factors
so that we can live our life full of abundance and thriving
not just surviving. From a place of mindfulness and compassion,
ask yourself the question, "What ways would I like to live more fully?"
If you'd like to see the handout that I created for this video, feel free to
go to my website at www.LivingMoreFullly.com
Take good care.