Ayurveda and the World Health Organization state that in order to become a healthy, happy and successful person one should be harmonious at all four levels.
1. Physical level
- Clear the body of toxins and waste
- Proper nutrition
- Healthy and straight spine
- Clean drinking water (ideally from a spring, filled with prana)
- Breathing (fresh air, full of prana)
- Living in compliance with our physique/doshas
- Sleeping not too much, not too little
- Sexual life (in sattva, conserving sexual energy)
- Mental calmness
2. Social level
- A happy personal and family life
- Finding your destiny
- Bringing good to other people and to the whole world
- Becoming and being a harmonious person
- Fulfilling your duties (as a son/daughter, brother/sister, parent, employee/ employer)
- An ability to earn money (especially for men)
- Working off the karma of your family
- Ability to have harmonious relationships with people
- Successful career; material welfare
- Proper, sattvic, harmonious upbringing of children
- An occupation that gives us pleasure, corresponds with our dharma (destiny)Â and brings good to other people and to the whole world
- «Win-win relationship position with other people (refer to Stephen Covey book: «7 Habits of Highly Effective People»
- Volunteering and Community service
3. Intellectual level
- Ability to set and achieve goals. The goals should originate not from false ego, but from the Soul
- Clear vision of life’s goals and mission, and following it
- Ability to control your mind, feelings and senses
- Ability to discern important from the details, eternal from temporary
- An ability to focus and concentrate (refer to Swami Vishnu-Devananda books «Meditation and Mantras»)
- Forming a proper perspective on the world
- Reading Holy Scriptures, texts, books; Meditating on the exalted, enlightened people;
- Eliminating harmful habits, and replacing them with sattvic ones (waking up early, proper nutrition, harmonies thoughts)
- Ability to change one’s karma through knowing Universal Laws (see article on Law of the Universe)
- Awareness of our eternal nature: Spirit Soul, which periodically is incarnated in different bodies. Not identifying oneself with the body.
- Mental tranquility
- Eliminating negative emotions
- Remember: «Our thoughts define the course of our lives; they are like colours with which we paint the canvas of life.»
4. Spiritual level
- Development of Unconditional Love
- Living «here and now»
- See Divine Will and Power in everything
- Selflessness, through service to all, first of all to our relatives and friends
- Feeling united with everyone and everything
- Praying and meditating regularly
- Leading your own live path, not falling under the influence of people and the society, yet with respect and accepting good advice
- Increasing of Sattva, kindness, compassion
- Non-attachment
- Non-judgment of other people
- Fearlessness
- being free from lust, anger, greediness, envy, pride, aggression, etc.
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