Another Essential Step Toward Optimal Health
One of the hallmarks of vibrant health is the ability to live spontaneously. This means that you are free from addictions, habits, and routinized behavior. You base your choices on a fresh relationship with the present moment. So, there is a very direct relationship between awareness and health. To the extent you are aware in this moment and not run by unconscious or automatic behavior, you are healthy.
If you really think about this and take action based on this principle, the implications are quite radical. If you are having your morning cup of coffee, you are doing it because you have a spontaneous relationship with this moment– you are fully present to the process of making that coffee and you actually taste its essence with every sip. Most of us find that it’s quite easy it is to slip into unconscious behavior where we have our morning coffee because that is what we do in the morning. It is a routine, a habit. If you live spontaneously, there is never a sense of, ‘well I do this just because that’s who I am and that’s what I do.’ You are always awake and aware; every choice you make is coming from a source that is connected to present moment reality.
Can you imagine if all of your lifestyle choices were coming from this place? No more addictions, habits, or routines? No more habitual perceptions of who you are and how life is? In Chinese medicine, that is the essence of health. In my book The Purpose Principle, that is also one definition I give to life purpose– awareness of present moment reality.
To be healthy is to be aware. To be aware is to be fully connected to this moment. Choose to let go of old addictions and habits and see what happens. It may be hard at first, but it is like opening a door to a much more energizing and gratifying way of life.
Kevin Doherty
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