public:: true --- title: Ikigai --- - [[Knowledge]] - src [[Literature Notes: Ikigai]] - tags: #curiosity #life - Related Notes: - #[[When you attach yourself to goals, it leads to anxiety & stress]] - Notes - Do things you love and mastered (satisfying & certain), which the world needs and pays for (useful and wealthy). -  - People - Surround yourself with great friends, friends are the best medicine, there for confiding worries over a good chat, sharing stories that brighten your day, getting advice, having fun!! Living! - Be a part of a Moai like community that looks out for one another. Provide and feel financially and emotionally security . Being part of the community gives the individual a sense of security and helps increase life expectancy. - Flow - Flow is getting **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. - Experience is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it. - Questions to discover your ikigai? - 3 tricks - chose a slighly difficult task (not too difficult) - have a clear objective (like score one run more than the openent) - focus on one task at a time - Discover flow by doing - When anyone sets out to create something, his or her responsibility to use nature to gift it life. During his process, the artisans become one with the object they are creating and become one with it. - Diet - rarely eat sugar - Eat less than 10g of salt / day - Hara hachi bu , eat only till you are 80% full. over eating will wear down the body with long digestive process and accelerate cellular oxidation. - try to fast 1/ week? - Drink 3 cuprs Sanpin cha jasmine tea - Antioxidants - - Yoga - gentle excercise connect with the mind, body and soul. Connect with your inner energy. Doing this as a group promotes one ness - Surya namaskar - Attitude - You can enjoy the pleasures of life as long as they dont control you. - The way you face difficult situtions make a big difference to our quality of life. - Face them with resilience , which means focus on what is important, accept all emotions, and do actions which create new emotions - ^^**Accept old emotions, create new emotion via actions**^^ - - Epilogue & Wisdom from centenarians - ^^Do important tasks with calm and no rush^^ - And to keep your heart young. Open your heart to people with a nice smile on your face. ^^agathin azhagu mugathil theriyum^^ #realizations . If you smile and open your heart, your grandchildren and everyone else will want to see you - Nurture your friendships everyday - Follow your heart and curiousity - #happiness is always determined by your heart - Modern life estranges us more and more from our true nature, making it very easy for us to lead lives lacking in meaning. Powerful forces like money distract us on a daily basis; dont let them take over your life. - ^^Our intuition and [[curiosity]] are very powerful internal compasses^^ to help us connect with our ikigai. Be led by [[curiosity]] to fill you with meaning and happiness - Question - What happens to our mind when we are in the state of flow.