"TOOLS"
Suggestions for a good life
There are many things that are good for many people. For example, getting enough exercise, eating a varied and organic diet, practicing mindfulness, getting a good night's sleep, and more. However, there are hardly any activities that are good for everyone, all the time.
Important tools in the sense of tools or keys to a good life are questions that continually stimulate your self-regulation and coherence regulation towards healthy activity.
HOWEVER, THERE ARE HARDLY ANY ACTIVITIES THAT ARE GOOD FOR EVERYONE AND ALWAYS.
Important tools in the sense of tools or keys to a good life are questions
your self- and coherence regulation
always encourage healthy activity.
Your inner information processing implicitly constantly evaluates your perceptions,
Conditions and experiences, even without you being aware of it.
As a result of these perceptions and evaluations, a motivation for activity appears,
to act and cooperate. After each activity, the organism reflects on its interactions with the environment, whether they have led to greater coherence, and learns from them for the rest of its life.
Self-care
What's good for you in the long term? And what's not good for you?
What gives you joy?
What is good for learning?
What kind of exercise do you enjoy? How much per day and/or week is beneficial for you?
What do you like to eat and drink? How often and how much does the food do you good?
What physical needs do you feel (how often)?
In your private / close relationships
Where do you feel you belong most (in a family, group or community)?
Where do you feel accepted and welcomed just as you are, without words? And can you relax?
Are there people you can fully trust?
Who would you like to be able to trust more? What do you need to do that?
In public, social/cultural life – living in language
How important is it for you to be “normal”?
Can you express your needs and concerns appropriately in words? Are they understood and heard? What kind of response do you get?
Is your professional and economic situation suitable/satisfying/fulfilling for you?
Is the economic organization in society fair? How would you like to see participation in the economy?
What is important to you in public life? How would you like to help shape it? What would you like to cultivate?
In global and intellectual life
How important is it to you to be aware of being part of humanity? Part of the biosphere?
Do you have concerns or visions related to global life? Do you know people with similar concerns?
Can you feel a spiritual connection? Are there words for it, or is it beyond words?
On inner vertical coherence
How do my gut/body feeling, the love in my heart, my rational thinking and my ideals fit together?
What is important to me?
What do I want and can I do to ensure that my gut, heart and head are more or more in agreement?
What do I want and can I learn from these experiences and inconsistencies for the future?
With the questions formulated here, you can consciously stimulate your coherence regulation again and again,
to make your life in and with your environment as good as possible.
You can ask yourself these questions from time to time or ask and answer them mutually with a trusted person.
It is helpful if you allow yourself and/or practice sharing your needs and concerns as well as your answers to the questions with other people – to talk about them.
By communicating, you help shape relationships and your life.
