The Five Elements of Well-Being

There are five basic elements of wellbeing. Those five elements of wellbeing are fundamentally, I’m going to reframe them. The first one is to be attentive. It’s called take notice, but I call it ‘Be attentive’. Our bodies are fundamentally living in the now and they are the ones, our body is the one that is experiencing our experience and also bringing our attention. Our mind is the one that’s abstracting and thinking about our dreams and planning and having ideas. Practically. How do I get that idea into my daily experience? So first principle is let’s be attentive, be attentive to what’s happening in the present. Be attentive to what I’m doing. Be attentive to where I am in space. Be attentive to my sensations, be attentive to my breathing. Okay. Second element is fundamentally related to that. And that is to be active. And what I teach at Life Artists is that when we have an idea, it always manifests as a physical experience always. So if I think that I’m a wonderful person, my physical expression is going to have a very different manifestation. It’s going to be open. It’s going to be a possibly smiling. I’m going to be breathing differently. Or if I think, I don’t know how to do this, nobody’s going to like it. Even when I say that, you can see that my physicality starts to contract. Now. Be active. What does it mean? When we’re trying to manifest our dreams, energy is a crucial, crucial element and what I teach is how do I take my energy, physical energy. That means literally having enough energy to do what I want to do through my breath, through my movement, through relaxation or contraction. These influence everything that I’m trying to manifest. So be active, for me, fundamentally lead is a question of not necessarily sports, although that’s wonderful, but literally allowing myself to breathe, to move, to feel my body in space. A third one that goes right into that is that when I am a body in space, my idea, my attention is manifesting into my physical actions every day. All the things that I’m expressing. Which creates my experience. It naturally leads to connection and a lot of us as entrepreneurs, we struggle sometimes with connecting, with working with teams, with working with other people, with having conversations, with expressing our desires outwardly. Connection is a part of what we work on is, if you think about it, my expression, my energy level is going to create a very specific kind of connection. If I’m going into a room and my energy level is contracted and nervous and I am going to connect with you and you are going to connect with me in a very different way that if I am open and expressive in a way that has energy, that’s attentive. And this allows a very, very different kind of connection. The fourth element of wellbeing is to keep learning and for me at Life Artists and basically from our body standpoint, there’s no way not to, it’s just simply whether or not we bring our attention and our actions to support that learning. Most of us, we learn all the time. We go out and we have a strange connection with someone. We go home and what do we do? We start telling ourselves a lot negative stuff about, uh yeah. Instead of looking at it very, very practically, how did it feel? What was I doing during that experience? This is what I am really focused on at Life Artists, is to look at what did I physically do? How did I express myself? And then to change it simply, very simply, ah, when I was having that conversation, I was contracted and nervous and let me go out tomorrow. And work on relaxing through breath. Work on looking at the person, work on being attentive to where I am. And all of this is continually learning and that’s what I’m teaching at Life Artists. The last one about wellness is literally to give. And another thing that I like to say is most of us what? What turns me on, what gets me passionate is every one of us is unique, every one of us has something to give. We are taught to hold that gift back. We’re taught to doubt. We’re taught to mistrust. We’re taught to be a certain way. And what happens is when we do that, we are going internal instead of outward into expression. And part of giving as wellness is when we express in our daily actions, in our physicality, how we are expressing. We naturally give of our talents, of our wishes, of our desires, simply because if we do that, we become very present. And presence is one of the greatest gifts that you can give to humanity.