The Meaning of Life with Dr. Bob

There three keys to happiness that spring from the world and everts around you. These are: insightfulness, generosity and empathy.

First, nurture insightfulness toward what is going on around you. Most of us do not seek to understand our own world until that universe impinges upon us. We do not make ourselves aware.
Now, of course, it is impossible to be aware of all things. But look into your life and see what you need to be wise about.

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Example: I received an email telling me that one of my money accounts had been corrupted. This email tried to convince me that I needed to do something immediately or my account would be closed. The email then gave me a form to fill out. On that form was a request for my social security number. However, I remembered reading that no legitimate website would ask for my social security number. I immediately closed the email. Then I got in touch with the money account staff. They assured me there was nothing wrong with my accounts from their end.

If I had not paid attention to warnings that came my way, I may have given someone the opportunity to break into my accounts and steal. A type of satisfaction was mine from this incident; satisfaction is a form of exterior happiness.

Second, be forthcoming with your wealth. Generosity. Hold on a minute, you say you are not wealthy. You always have something to give, no matter your income.

Example: My wife and I have limited funds. My wife, however, earns about $100 when she acts as presiding judge at a voting station. Yes, she gets money for this act of community service. But she also gets gratification from serving her community. Her time is well spent, she feels. We also have picked three causes that we give money to on a monthly basis. These are small amounts of money but two of them help humans and one helps animals. We feel good when we give of ourselves. You can give time, energy or money. Obviously feeling good about oneself is part of being happy.

Third, have empathy for persons in your life, or those that simply pass through for a brief time. Empathy implies a deep understanding of another person and accepting them as they are. Sympathy is far more general and can employ regard for another in a shallow way.

Example: here is where random acts of kindness come into your life. This is not quite the same as being forthcoming with your wealth. Empathy is an attitude.

For more than 38 years I spent my professional career in trying to be kind to people, even if they were not kind to me. Did your parents say to you, “kill them with kindness?” Even when people are mean or spiteful to you, you try to gain the upper hand for yourself by returning kindness for pettiness.

The only danger you face in being kind to others is that you will feel so good about yourself, that it may go to your head. That probably won’t happen, however, because soon a pettiness will be flung your way. Some people are just contrary. Answer contrariness with empathy.

There you have three keys to help you obtain outward happiness: insightfulness, generosity, empathy.

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A key life phrase – I am conscious of my mind – will change your entire outlook on life. Many people, perhaps you, dear reader, have a mind of jumbled thoughts. Mind skipping in every direction imaginable. This causes any number of problems. Sometimes it causes something as simple as forgetting what you went to the refrigerator for. Or something even more serious, like forgetting an anniversary or birthday. Or something even more serious, like dropping your attention from the road as you are driving.

Obviously, if any of these are going on for you, you quality of life is diminished. Which, in turn, means that the meaning of life is not getting through to you. The meaning of life is to be happy. If you are so distracted by jumbled thinking that you cannot find this meaning, happiness is not with you.

The remedy? Be conscious of your mind. Sounds like a pun. Perhaps it is. Perhaps that will help you remember it. I am conscious of my mind.

Stop. Think.

What are your options? Opinions? Relations? Expressions? Activities? Goals? Dreams? Needs? Wants? You can only recognize any of these by being conscious of your mind.

You become conscious of your mind when you stop and think. Sit quietly in a quiet place. Eliminate as many sensory distractions as you can. In concentration just watch the flow of your thoughts as they pass by in your head. Do not, repeat, do not make judgements as to whether your thoughts are good or bad, useful or useless. Just watch. Observe.

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What’s beneficial about this? First, you are quiet, if even for a short time. That in itself is good for you. Second, you get to observe the jumble of thoughts that naturally course through your mind. When you are ready, third, you “capture” one thought about something or someone. You thoroughly examine that thought. What will you do with that thought? What needs to be done?

Suppose you have a thought of your spouse. That thought leads to another, your wedding anniversary. Ah, you need to get a thoughtful present to celebrate.

Or you think of your job. What needs to be done, as priority, tomorrow? What’s the first thing you need to do tomorrow morning to get it done appropriately?

Do you see? By taking a quiet moment to watch the streaming-consciousness of your life, you get the opportunity to organize your thoughts. Guess what that does? It simplifies and enhances your life. You can develop the time to be happy.

Repeat after me: I am conscious of my mind. Then take two minutes to quietly observe your rushing river of thought. Then grab one thought and make it realizable. A real, key life phrase: I am conscious of my mind.

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A key life phrase that will make you over: I am a well-being warrior.

Coach potatoes only grow soft and sometimes even develop a little fuzzy mold from their extremities. (Some folks who read this may be confined to a chair or bed. You are most assuredly excluded from the coach potato idea. But you can still be a well-being warrior.)

Of course there are three areas of life and living that constitute well-being: physical, mental and spiritual. Get off your couch even if you do not like exercise. DO SOMETHING.
Get off your mental couch. READ SOMETHING OR WATCH EDUCATIONAL TV. Get of your Spiritual couch. LEARN TO PRAY OR MEDITATE OR CONCENTRATE.

I cannot tell you how much better you will feel in each of these departments once you are and doing something. If you are able and you do any kind of physical activity suited to your present physical condition, your blood will sing through your arteries and veins. The “blood song” is thrilling to experience.

I cannot tell you how much better you will feel about yourself when you begin to read or watch educational TV. You’ll be GROWING YOUR MIND. An awesome reward in itself.

I cannot tell you how much better your will feel when you make connection with the Source of All That Is. There are at least these three ways of doing so: prayer, meditation and practicing concentration. When you do one of these YOU’LL BE ON YOUR WAY TO COMPLETION as a human being. OMG! That’s awesome, dude.

Let just take concentration as an example. You know you need more concentration to get done the things you really want to. But the world, the home, the workplace is so full of distractions. Well, you can actually train your concentration to be better. Close your eyes. Get the picture of a single digit number, like 3, in your mind. Try to hold that image in your mind, to the exclusion of everything else for 2 to 3 minutes. At first you probably won’t be able to do it. That’s natural. But keep trying. Soon you will develop more ability. Then try a different object held in mind for 2 to 3 minutes.

What does all this have to do with the meaning of life? The meaning of life is to be happy. You contact your happiness within. Concentration will help you do that. When you make and keep contact with the Source, you will feel happier, I promise. But then part of expressing that happiness in your life is to develop yourself mentally and physically. Do you see? A pleasant, good cycle (as opposed to vicious cycle) will be revolving in your life. Spiritual tailing the physical, tailing the mental, tailing the spiritual, and so on .

Begin now. Don’t put yourself off the couch tomorrow what you can do today. Say it to yourself until it sinks in and becomes numbered among your atoms: I am a well-being-warrior.

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