I don’t think desire is enough. I do think is a start though. But going beyond desire is what will create the right action towards creating the life you want. For example, I desire to better myself, my health. So, I think about this desire more and more, and I make it stronger in me. Now I am passionate about my desire to be healthy.
So, I take the right steps towards making it come true. I choose an exercise routine I like, and I do it every morning. Maybe just 20 mins of sweat. And I also make sure I watch what I eat. I remain aware of what I put into my body. I seek the benefits of each food, I do actual research; and going from there I create a healthy eating habit.
The path to happiness
We all want to be happy, and for that we must feel well. Feeling well puts us in the best mood. Being in the best mood gives us joy to be positive. What is the origin of feeling well then…?? Health, obviously. A strong immune system. No fear of sickness. Feeling well when we have challenges in life. This is why health is king in my book, and it should be in yours too, my friend.
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
Hippocrates
In my life, lifestyle, character and behavior daily, there is nothing more important than good nutrition. Think about it. Why are we alive right now, or what sustains us and gives us physical life…?? The energy inside our cells. And how is that energy replenished, maintained, made better or worse?? Food. Nutrition. This is what feeds our minds and bodies.
You may want to eat and drink whatever you want in your life, but you know this is true. And it takes a lot of self-discipline to eat right, to stop your ego and selfish desires for poison and acquire a better eating lifestyle. But it is all worth it, because life is about quality. If you have good energy in you, then you’ll be in a better mood to enjoy life, and you’ll be more creative and intelligent, and you’ll be a better man or woman in your relationships.
And what about self-care, self-love…?? Self-care is to properly nourish our bodies and minds. It is all about adopting good habits. It is all about training your mind to desire good, nutritious food. It is about being creative and cooking. It is about choosing what is better for yourself. It is about about attracting better in your life.
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What is the true meaning of Valentine’s Day beyond all the concepts, history, and society’s influences…??
What is love really…??
People all over the world, or in most of the world, are preparing for Valentine’s Day. They are going shopping, and reserving restaurant dates, and going on trips, and doing some kind of special gesture of love for another. Why…?? This is what society influences in you, right?? This is what brings anxiety to single people, and also anxiety to people in romantic relationships. The single one wants a romantic relationship and to be bought things and remembered this one day. The one in a romantic relationship already worries about buying something special, about some grand gesture to show some irrational concept of love in one day that, society has told him, is the most important day regarding love.
But is love celebrated one day a year…?? Is love a concept that says that you have to buy and do some great gesture on this exact day?? What is really love for you??Love is friendship. Love is connection. Love is family. Love is acceptance. Love is truth. What does this mean…?? It means you are love, and your family is love, and all your loved ones, and those neighbors you don’t know. There is no special day, or person even; because love is in you, you radiate it, which means you must become loving with yourself and with others. All those troubles you carry, that mental anguish, those painful memories. These are to be transformed and embraced, daily; because true love begins in you.
Buying things, grand gestures, special trips. These do not really mean anything if you are empty inside and you do not carry love and acceptance for yourself. It should give you health of body and mind. It’s not about another, but about yourself. It’s also about the way you treat others daily. Forget special days. Show a great moral character daily. If love is to be true, then it must change you from within, not from without by making grand gestures to be seen and accepted by another.Not gestures to follow society and copy others. You feel lonely because you try to copy others, society and the concept they have of what “love” is.
But this does not help. But this only makes the loneliness heavier on you, and it brings you more anxiety, more jealousy, more heavy burdens to carry. If you can just remember that love is an essence in you, and that you transform yourself daily into love by accepting yourself and by becoming a moral person, then you can truly love whoever comes in contact with you. But no special day can do this, no special gesture; but only the commitment in yourself daily, and only everyday moral gestures beginning from yourself can.
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Life is no more than a reflection of our daily habits. For example, if you eat unhealthy foods, you will at some point struggle with illnesses, suffer physical pains, and consequently lose positivity and energy in life in all aspect. Or if you choose to let people treat you the way they please, this habit will bring you self-doubt and it will keep your mind anxious and chained to the opinions of others. And how about always letting politics frustrate you and occupy a big chunk of your thoughts??
As human beings, we are biological machines. We are ruled and made by our habits, not a single choice in the moment; but we are what we do every day. For example, I like to exercise, meditate, be ordered and clean in my daily activities, even in the most little things like cleaning the apartment and editing my upcoming young adult fantasy novel daily, BENJAMIN JONES. Fiction characters.. Step by step, the small habits like washing my dishes as soon as I finish eating. These small habits make my character and guide me into making bigger habits stick.
To adopt better habits, these are some of my suggestions. If they work for me, they might as well work for you:
1- Whenever you feel low in energy, depressed, down for some reason, is the best and most critical time for you to push yourself into better habits. Procrastination becomes a habit of self-destruction if you let it poison you.
2- Stop watching TV, reading about politics, and spending your time doing things which won’t help towards your self-development. Instead, put your mind and heart into things which help you gain self-esteem, self-worth, knowledge to actually better your life. For example, strengthen your mind with scientific facts about nutrition and about the way to expand your knowledge into certain fields.
3-Start writing, whether a journal or whatever it is. Writing daily, pondering words to express something clearly on paper. This expands your mind and gives you liberation, because doing this daily serves the purpose of letting out your emotions. One of the greatest burdens of people is not to know how to express themselves with clarity, keeping things inside, frustrating themselves because they cannot truly make themselves be heard by others. The habit of writing, whatever it is, powers your mind so it can study your own emotions and make you feel more confident about yourself.
And please check out my following article and see if it resonates with you:Steering our lives.
To conclude, excellent habits are not born out of excellence. We all start from mediocrity or from messiness. Excellent habits are born step by step. First, with a mentality of seeking true success and self-improvement. Second, the courage to make your ego uncomfortable and step out of your comfort zone. Third, you improve your daily habits slowly but steadily; and you do it with a mind which envisions health and great success.
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Life is about how you feel about yourself. Life is about self-discovery. Most people, as I used to long ago as well, tend to seek themselves, their identities, their value, out there in the world; however, this search is the opposite of self-exploration. It is why the focus must remain always on you, on self-development.
Two essential things to do:
1- Take care of your physical health: The most important thing is the energy from food and drink. In order to feel well, strong, full of energy and positive, you must not eat heavy foods and drink anything that is going to poison you and make you feel negative in any way.
2- Do not escape your past, your hurt, your troubles, your misery, but deal with it. Embrace it. Study it. Transform it into understanding and wisdom. The worst thing you can do is escape it through distractions–i.e., going out with friends, watching tv, traveling, relationships, etc. Deal with yourself first.
In order to feel great, successful, loved, happy with yourself, you must meet yourself. All of yourself. And make sure you accept your past, and work towards moving on. The image you build of yourself in your mind must be truthful and positive. If this happens, you will be strong and confident without caring about what others say or do.
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Be aware of what you eat and drink. From this will develop your mind and body. From this will develop your energy to take on your day and the strength to overcome your obstacles.
The chemistry in your body is affected in great manner by your immune system–its healthiness or toxicity. Life is about quality. A great life requires great quality indeed. Great quality is great energy from a healthy biological system.
What is your current energy level…?? How do you feel about yourself?? Can you fight illnesses?? Are you addicted to toxic foods and drinks?? It is called self-love. It is called self-respect. Be self-aware and prepared, specially in these times.
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Being in a good mood is being positive, even in the face of something you do not like. Being in a good mood means to focus on the positive side of your life. Being in a good mood is to choose inspiring conversations and ignoring mediocre ones which do not serve you.
Being in a good mood is to give your time to people and situations in life without letting your mind be affected by any toxicity. And to be in a good mood you must keep your mind fit, healthy, truthful; and without self-deceit and self-neglect.
To be in a good mood watch entertaining and inspiring movies which give you better mental vibrations. To be in a good mood choose good music as well. And to keep yourself in a good mood develop greater habits daily, inspiring and creative habits which strengthen your unique character.
Don’t ask what makes you weak, mediocre, immoral; for you already know. You may lie to yourself and say that you do not know, and then play that intellectual game of always seeking and seeking answers to escape the truth; but you do know deep inside.
Extra fatty foods, physical laziness, gossip, hiding the truth, clinging to past memories, attachment to expectations, impulsive reactions, chasing money desperately, and so on and so forth. Don’t you know then…??
What is your life if not greater development, always moving forward in you, through your better health, through your rational ideas, through your moral behaviors…?? And what are you if not your life, which is how you think and feel–so your developing experience moving forward…??
Anything that makes you weak, lazy, stubborn, envious, angry, unhealthy, etc., must not be made part of you; because, in very fact, whatever you add to you, in thinking, feeling, eating, certainly becomes you.
And you cannot live a happy life, in love with it each day, if you become weak in this aspect. Weakness brings suffering, confusion, immorality, wrong decisions, delusions in your ways of thinking; thus, it slowly destroys your life, it slowly destroys you.
So, most people see themselves aging, wrinkles, losing muscle mass, less energy; and so, they believe that they have to accept this, and so they let themselves go either because they are lazy or because they believe that the mind will age as the body.
But they feel old and aging, losing youth and becoming depressed at this, not because of the passing of time but because of their irrational and immoral belief. To respect and love yourself is to really ponder this, and take the necessary steps every day to become healthier, sharper, more open-minded.
Aging is really a gift from life, and you only experience this as a gift if you take care of yourself. Do you have extra body fat which invites illness and weakens your immune system?? And what about eating the wrong foods and quantities, thus making your ability to think slower, duller, close-minded??
Why would somebody intelligent age this way, unhealthily, immorally, as an insult to yourself and as a bad example to others…?? The excuse of having no time is your excuse, isn’t it?? When you develop true love, respect, illumination, then you see beyond all these pitiful excuses.
But when will YOU see the truth about life, you keep aging but you never see it. Why?? Life is your chance to see this, so make sure you get rid of the mental garbage which does not let you see it.
Why belief?? Believing in yourself is absolutely different, evidently. But ideas about the future, trust in books that your mind claims as holy, this obsession with the words of others who are proclaimed saints and/or “learned.”
And not to mention stupid trust and obedience of traditions, cultural history and ideologies. You might be old in age, but you do not have to remain attached to this nonsense.
Or you might be young and full of knowledge and fantastical ideas from other people, from gurus, from books, and from your own imagination even; however, you want to see the truth and awake, but beliefs are not the way–beliefs are what keep you asleep and ignorant or unwise.
A healthy mind is an empty mind, which is not actually empty; but it is indeed empty of any attachments to beliefs, ideas, traditions, cultures. In order to know yourself and ALL existence, you must empty yours from any attachment whatsoever.
It is your own mind after all, and it shows you your life based upon its content. If all you have in your mind are beliefs, traditions, attachments to ideas and philosophies, then you will live in this illusion created by the attachment to all this.
Free yourself from the illusions you carry. Practice an empty mind, such mind is fresh, insightful, open-minded, young no matter your age, wise and ready to accept any change and new idea.
- Asa Rodriguez - 