This is one of the blogs I publish that revolve around the meaning of life and life’s purpose, our role and the power of an individual in the modern world, cellphone techonology, health and community support via volunteering. Those are diverse topics held together by the intention to learn and grow in many different fields and interests.

One can not get far in a body that is not working well. So health has to play a big role in the ability to evolve and make progress. In the body, there is either ease or dis-ease is a Eastern Medicine statement reffering to stress and how profoundly it impacts our health.
Declaring this is much easier than actually practicing it but there is hope. One needs to stay committed to placing one’s health above all else – work, friends, even immediate family. The logic is simple, keeping your health for as long as possible means that your loved ones do not end up taking care of you.
The ease or dis-ease really stands for placing one’s health and taking care of oneself as the first order of the day – making sure that we can be a in possition to keep learning and keep growing. Being at ease creates time for introspection, observation and thiking – things we sorely lack in the modern life.

Humans opperate on 5 levels: physical, intelectual, emotional, spiritual and sexual. Regardless of culture, race or era, we come with these “layers” but the modern life and the overall lack of free time seem to detter our growth. I keep telling myself that it is important to have clarity and strategy around developing all 5 of my fasets.
We (humans) focus on the physical in the first few decates of our life and then is seems to take a back seat for many people… We all thend to “think” (use intelect) much more then it is really effective. The emotional side of a modern person is stunned and often shows signs of severe disorders like depression or panic attacks. Our spirituatly is undeveloped, often confused with religion and it’s institutions. Sexually, most people lack intimate connection or even seek intimacy based on how popular is porn and how much modern culture objectifies people (as in the Irreplacable song).
I think we need to concisely focus on developing our 5 fasets. A great guideline is American saying: If you don’t use, you’ll loose it but you should also avoid excess – we are all prone to push our bodies way beyond they were made to be pushed.

Physically : stay active and walk an hour a day (half that time if you can jog, half again if you can run). Keep your muscles toned and your metabolic rate high for as long as you can, preferably deep into your old age. Avoid excess as it brings injuries that pause physical activity, slow the metabolic rate and downgrade one’s enthusiasm for physical activity. Use the best fuel possible and don’t buy processed foods. Sleep 8 hours a day as if that is the most important thing you can do (it probably is).

Intelectually : keep your mind sharp but remember that it is not the only tool you have. Our culture celebrates smarts but we are about to experiance what it is like to not be the smartest thing around (as AI arrives). There is a good chance that you think too much because our education puts too much emhasis on the brain and not enough on the other 4 layers that make us human. Yes, your knowledge is important but more important is to remember that none of us knows everything and actaully we all know little. Major life’s mysteries persist and the science hasn’t answered some of the most fundamental questons we ask. Exercise your imagination and develop your common sense – it is what kept our species alive since the begginig of language…

Emotionally : how alive are you if you don’t feel emapathy or cry for someone else’s pain? How about caring for someone else? Going out of your way to make sure they are okay? Many of us find it easier to avoid feeling too much, it is painful and why shouldn’t we avoid it? But the thing is emotions are like a muscle – they need to be engaged, need some exercise to allow us access to all we can feel and in the process to find our peace. If you’re burrying “bad feelings” how will you ever discover the “good feelings”? If you’re never sad, how much bliss can you find? We need to experience it all – this is what being a 100% alive is all about.

Spiritually : this is the most neglected side of a modern person. Spirituality is essential for our health and our success, it is how we connect to the world, how we find our place in it. It is about our purpose, what do we serve on this planet, what do we stand for? What would we die for? Spirituality needs a new revlution, a new rennesaince if we are to surviva as a species. Spirituality will show us that life is not about satisfying one’s desires or making more money – these are the saddest and the most unfulfilling destinations we are nudgged towards by the mainstream modern culture. Each of us needs to wake up and claim their place in this world.

Sexually : the modern life promotes ideas that “we are alone”, “fighting a great battle”, “achieving anything we want” but these ideas contradict our basic need to connect on the intimate level, to mash the Yin and Yang, create a deep union with another person. Human beings have a talent for deep connection because it serves purposes beyond reproduction. We need our sexsuality to keep bridging the gap created by reality and life. We need it to allow us to speak without words, to bond after we thought bond was impossible. To stay sexually healthy we need to engage other people, to be sexual and be vounrable. It forces us to get outside of our comfort zone and growth is always outside of the comfort zone.

or the “Golden Rule” as some people call it…. Why would you live ethically when it is easier to take what you want and do what you want to do? The answer is: because living ehically is more practical as it gives one access to harmony and integration into society, nature, the world. On the contrary, living un-ethically will always isolate you, make you lonely, put you in a “rat-race” while closing the doors to living fully, fully experiencing what it is to be a human.
The “treat others as you would like them to treat you” statement is a gateway to ehical living. It is also a way to practice emapthy because you can’t get the anwers to what are the things you shouldn’t do to others unless you can feel what would it feel like to be on the receiving end of your actions.
The Golden Rule doesn’t just apply to other people, we shuold treat everyone and everything in a way we would like to be treated. Animals, nature, the whole living world should be treated with grace and respect, engaged with desire to protect it and disturb it as little as we need to. We like to be respected but easily forget that respect needs to be earned. While exercising the Golden Rule, we exercise unity with everything and while trying to pay attention to how others will feel the consequences or our actions, we get a prescious break away from always thinking about ourselves, our needs, our desires…

Ever feel this world is far from perfect? Ever think things should be better? The good news is that everything can be improved and the way to really have a shot at growing as a person is to take it upon yourself to create the change. In addition, taking charge instantly provides the sense that we have the power, that change is “up to us” instead of living as a victim of other people’s actions…
“Be the change” can take any shape, from creating kindness by being kind to everyone, politeness, manners, respect, being helpfull or joining the charity or a political party that you respect – you are creating reality with any action you take. Make it count and improve this wonderful place for everyone.

Staying flexible is meant as a reminder to stay open and keep evaluating your stance and actions on all of the five levels (Physical, Intelectual, Emotional, Spiritual and Sexual). As we age we all desplay a tendency to become rigid, to turn towards conservation instead of wanting the positive change – to keep changing is to keep evolving and (in a way) to try to stop the change is to be dying.
So evaluate often. Question and revisit your decisions, your views, the way you lead your life, even your guiding principles . We need to question things in order to really understand, to see what reality is. With this (fifth) principle, we should match water in it’s adaptivity and ability to instantly adjust to the vessel that holds it.