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is it that exists in your life outside of what do you live for?</p><p id="3bb8">A victorious life is a life that goes beyond living from and dedicates our energy to expanding the life within us, by <b>cultivating</b> that which we live for.</p><p id="d3c4">Connect to yourself and to the present moment by connecting to the things that make you enthusiastic about living. How can you infuse your life more with them?</p><p id="f6b5">Say you want more joy. What brings you joy? Can you infuse what you are already doing in your life with more joy? Can you reduce what does not bring you joy?</p><p id="268f">This is an exercise in recovering excitement, being turned on by life — and not having fun only in our spare time.</p><p id="e722"><b>In Short</b></p><p id="46df">1. Ask yourself what you live for. Contemplate your answers and how you could bring more of them into your life.</p><p id="8055">2. Notice how much of your time is about things you live from.</p><p id="0395">3. Can you cultivate more of the things you live for?</p><p id="b26d">Enjoyed this practice from my book? <a href="http://mybook.to/bullshitfreemindful">Get your copy here.</a></p><p id="fd1b">Hi, I am Aline Ra M, spiritual guide, energy worker, and tea lover.</p><h2 id="39ec">Sign up for my free online course: 7 Days of Mindfulness</h2><p id="2296"><a href="http://instagram.com/offlinealine">Find me on Instagram</a></p><div id="67b3" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/open-your-mind-change-your-reality-57046ff97a5a"> <div> <div> <h2>Open Your Mind, Change Your Reality</h2> <div><h3>The art of choosing the life we want to live</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*Lju-rJdxNB6nsCTQ)"></div> </div> </div> </a>

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Live for vs Live from

A simple and hands-on mindfulness practice for more joy in everyday life

“Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts.” Pema Chödrön

What do you live for and what do you live from? And how do you navigate between both?

Here is a mindfulness practice that supports you in expanding your joy in everyday life.

This is one of the 50 mindfulness practices that I share in my book, “Bullshit-free Mindfulness”. It is available in print and ebook versions, I hope you enjoy it!

Living from vs Living for

A Zen story tells of a beggar who every time gets two pennies uses one penny to buy a bowl of rice and the other to buy a flower. His behavior is criticized by the population, who asks him how could he possibly waste his penny on a flower when he has nothing. He answers: the bowl of rice is what he lives from, and the flower is what he lives for.

We tend to focus so much on what we live from: our jobs, our have to’s and should’s, our health and wellbeing. And just like that, we neglect what we live for. There lies the gap between surviving, to living.

What do you live for? The possibility of creating more beauty, more joy, more connection? Purpose? Playfulness?

I invite you to list on a piece of paper what you have been doing in the last three days, and see how many of these are things you live from, and how many are things you live for. How are you living your life?

The invitation of this week is to look beyond what you live from. What is it that exists in your life outside of what do you live for?

A victorious life is a life that goes beyond living from and dedicates our energy to expanding the life within us, by cultivating that which we live for.

Connect to yourself and to the present moment by connecting to the things that make you enthusiastic about living. How can you infuse your life more with them?

Say you want more joy. What brings you joy? Can you infuse what you are already doing in your life with more joy? Can you reduce what does not bring you joy?

This is an exercise in recovering excitement, being turned on by life — and not having fun only in our spare time.

In Short

1. Ask yourself what you live for. Contemplate your answers and how you could bring more of them into your life.

2. Notice how much of your time is about things you live from.

3. Can you cultivate more of the things you live for?

Enjoyed this practice from my book? Get your copy here.

Hi, I am Aline Ra M, spiritual guide, energy worker, and tea lover.

Sign up for my free online course: 7 Days of Mindfulness

Find me on Instagram

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