Ikigai

• Fill your belly to 80 percent Ancient wisdom advises against eating until we are full.
• Moai - connected for life. Being part of moai helps maintain emotional and financial stability. the feeling of belonging and support gives the individual a sense of security and helps increase life expectancy.
• There is a tension between what is good for someone and what they want to do. This is because people, especially older people, like to do things as they’ve always done them. The problem is that when the brain develops ingrained habits, it doesn’t need to think anymore. Things get done quickly and efficiently on automatic piot, often in a very advantageous way. This creates a tendency to stick to routines, and the only way of breaking these is to confront the brain with new information.
• One way to reach a state of mindfulness is through meditation, which helps filter the information that reaches us from the outside world. It can also be achieved through berathing exercises, yoga, and body scans. Achieving mindfulness involves a gradual process of training, but with a bit of practice we can learn to focus our mind completely, which reduces stress and helps us live longer.
• Spending too much time seated at work or at home not only reduces muscular and respiratory fitness but also increases appetite and curbs the desire to participate in activities. Being sedentary can lead to hypertension, imbalanced eating, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, and even certain kinds of cancer.
• Science has shown that sleep is a key anti-aging tool, because when we sleep we generate melatonin, a hormone that occurs naturally in our bodies. A powerful antioxidant, melatonin helps us live longer, and also offers the following benefits :
• It strengthens the immune system.
• It contains an element that protects against cancer.
• It promotes the natural production of insulin
• it slows the onset of Alzheimer’s disease
• It helps prevent osteoporosis and fight heart disease.
• People who live the longest have two dispositional traits in common: a positive attitude and a high degree of emotional awareness. in other words, those who face challenges with a positive outlook and are able to manage their emotions are already well on their way toward longevity. A stoic attitude, serenity in the face of a setback, can also help keep you young, as it lowers anxiety and stress levels and stabilizes behavior. This can be seen in the greater life expectancy of certain cultures with unhurried, deliberate lifestyles.
• Few key ideas from better living through logotherapy :
• we don’t create the meaning of our life, we discover it
• we each have a unique reason for being, which can be adjusted or transformed many times over the years.
• Just as worry often brings about precisely the thing that was feared, excessive attention to a desire can keep that desire from being fulfilled.
• Humor can help break negative cycles and reduce anxiety.
• We all have the capacity to do noble or terrible things. The side of the equation we end up on depends on our decisions, not on the condition in which we find ourselves.
• A donkey that is tied to a post by a rope will keep walking around the post in an attempt to free itself, only to become more immobilized and attached to the post. The same thing applies to people with obsessive thinking who become more trapped in their own suffering when they try to escape from their fears and discomfort.
• There is no future, no past. There is only the present. You feel the snow, your skis, your body, and your consciousness united as a single entity. You are completely immersed in the experience, not thinking about or distracted by anything else. Your ego dissolves, and you become part of what you are doing. This is the kind of experience Bruce Lee described with his famous “Be water, My friend.”
• The experience of being completely immersed in what we are doing is called “flow” and described it as the pleasure, delight, creativity, and process when we are completely immersed in life. The seven conditions for achieving flow:
• Knowing what to do
• Knowing how to do it
• Knowing how well you are doing
• Knowing where to go ( where navigation is involved)
• Perceiving significant challenges
• Perceiving significant skills
• Being free from distractions.;
• Strategies to get into the flow
• Choose a difficult task (but not to difficult) - if it’s too easy it’ll be boring, if it’s challenging it’ll get the flow going, if it’s beyond our ability, you’ll get anxiety.
• Have a clear, concrete objective - In an increasingly unpredictable world moving ever more quickly, a detailed map may lead you deep into the woods at an unnecessarily high cost. A good compass, though, will always take you where you need to go. It doesn’t mean that you should start your journey without any idea where you’re going. What it does mean is understanding that while the path to your goal may not be straight, you’ll finish faster and more efficiently than you would have if you had trudged along a pre-planned route.
• Concentrate on a single task - Concentrating on one thing at a time may be the single most important factor in achieving flow.
• To be in a distraction - free environment
• To have control over what we are doing at every moment
• Rituals give us clear rules and objectives, which help us enter a state of flow. when we have only a big goal in front of us, we might feel lost or overwhelmed by it; rituals help us by giving us the process, the substeps, on down into parts and then attack each part one by one. Focus on enjoying your daily rituals, using them as tools to enter a state of flow. Don’t worry about the outcome, it will come naturally. Happiness is in the doing, not in the result. Remind yourself ”Rituals over goals”
• Meaningful and inspiring statements

1. Don’t worry
2. Cultivate good habits
3. Nurture your friendship everyday
4. Live an unhurried life
5. Be optimistic

• To be more antifragile
• Create redundancies
• Bet conservatively in certain areas and take many small risks in others
• Get rid of the things that make you fragile

10 rules of ikigai

• stay active’ don’t retire
• take it slow
• don’t fill your stomach
• Surround yourself with good friends
• Get in shape for your next birthday
• Smile
• Reconnect with nature.
• Give Thanks
• Live in the moment.
• Follow your ikigai

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