MEAN

A sense of meaning in our lives can create, build and strengthen our core.

To discover, or rediscover meaning we need to identify our most deeply held values. Only when we know what we are supposed to be doing and then go out and do it, can our actions align with the values we really care about.

Then we are empowered, whatever the challenge as meaning lifts our aspirations, supports us in adversity and helps us have a sense of who we are and what we care about in life.

Meaning builds our core strength and helps us find our edge, a concept with deep yogic roots, where we are mentally and physically challenged, but also able to find balance and ease. Meaning also helps define our actual edge, know our boundaries so we no longer feel responsible for absolutely everything and everyone. Even if life is hard, we don’t have to make it harder.

Meaning helps us let go of expectations, disappointments and the belief that control is the secret to making life work. We can have impact but we can’t command everything and everyone and we can never have absolute control. Imagining we can decide the exact outcome of our actions is like imagining we can decide to never die.

So let meaning keep us calm, connected, clever and content as we get less curious about the meaning of life and more curious about the meaning in life.

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