Gamaze

Following my post on The Meaning of Life, I’ve finally been able structured my research and experience on how to really enjoy a long life and healthy life. Simply, balance is one of the keywords here. You can not only get too little of something you love, you can actually get too much of it as well. Just take a look at nature and how it works, it all about long term balance from a big picture perspective. A a few years ago a wise man, my father, told me that “too much sun makes a desert” – not immediately grasping how right he was. He was really pinpointing the importance of having balance in life. The opposite would be that too much rain causes a flood. But together they create the most beautiful nature there is. Life is complex and does not consist of single opposites alone. On the other hand, it does not have to be that complicated either.

This made me passionate about researching this area more in-depth, i.e. how to best follow nature’s most central law. I’ve spent hundreds of hours of reading, thinking, discussing and actually practicing the areas below and now feel confident in bucketing the ingredients to a long, healthy and balanced life into four simple sections:

1. Positive attitude & love
2. Meditation & mental calm
3. Healthy nutrition
4. Regular exercise

Of course, all of these needs to be built on a foundation of happiness. If you are not satisfied with your life, it will be like building a house on sand. Figuring out what makes you happy is the first step. Once you’ve done that (yes, it may take years before you do that), ensuring all of these areas above get their fair share of honest attention in life should really do it for you. Unfortunately, none of these can be faked for achieving real impact in prolonging  your life.

Sure, you can be completely happy and feel great by just focusing on adjust one or a couple of these but I’m convinced that taking all four aspects into account will benefit you greatly. It is something that is difficult to explain before you really experience it yourself, but a true feeling of pureness is the closet I can get to an explanation. As commonly known, you don’t know what your are missing before you’ve experienced it.

I could easily write a book about this and I’ve decided to actually do that – providing full transparency by publishing each section of each chapter whenever it is ready. I openly invite you to comment and contribute to this through comment option. By doing this I hope I can help some of you towards a longer and more enjoyable life, or at least planting some valuable thoughts and ideas.

So let the journey begin…

Mattias Life happiness, health, Life, open book