As well as saying that all relating is relating to life, we can make some provisional distinctions to help refine our focus into specific areas of life – as and where might benefit us. In these articles I have invited you to engage in a more intimate way with the environment you inhabit (The World), other people (Relationships) and today I would like to invite you to relate in a more intimate way with yourself.
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Connection is a deep root that taps the source from which well being is drawn.
Connection to oneself – having a healthy relationship with our experience of life – is essential in this. Also, we do not live in isolation either. For all but the hermits among us, we live in relationship to other people. Dislocation from others when not chosen can lead to much sadness, and even distress.
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How we relate, to ourselves, to the world, and to the people and creatures we share it with, informs how we adapt to life.
The better able we are to adapt to life, the better quality of life we generally end up having. Challenges are met, obstacles are overcome, and opportunities get recognised and taken.
The more our basic needs are met the more we can go about actualising our potential. Remembering that ‘actualising your potential’ could cover anything from creating a business empire, to building a house, to raising a family, to just sitting peacefully in an ancient forest.
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Our ability to adapt to life is shaped by how well we can relate to it.
How intimate we are with our experience of life the better able we are to make choices that will serve us.
This series of articles contains practical invitations to explore life in potentially more intimate ways.
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