What Are Principles Of Good Living?

[Thought Art]

What are the principles of good living?

I’ll add my list later 

Edited February 16, 2023 by Thought Art

[ValiantSalvatore]

I'll make one up as far as I can tell, I am fairly well-read although there is stuff I'd also implement:

• Doctor check-ups and dentist
• Filtered water
• Conscious relationships to extend possible/community
• Psychdelics
• Yoga/Meditation
• Retreats
• Life-Long Learning
• Leadership mastery
• Creating love and compassion
• Art and beauty (in immediate environment)
• Stellar life purpose
• No addictions nicotine, subtle ones anger, hatred, drama, ignorance, avoidance, 
• Assertivness facing challenges
• Open-Minded
• Direct, calm and friendly/positive
• Mastery of a subject minimum
• Financially secure and well-off for spiritual work
• Adventure! 100% and retreats
• Integration of western and eastern principles about consciouness work (like Ken Wilber, Yin and Yang etc.)
• Knowing how to deal with the opposite sex in relationships and sex
• Healing and trauma work to some extend imo
• Creating and creativity of something that has value to others and is not oversaturated at best
• Quality sleep and quantity (might be underrated)
• Understanding stockmarket and finance
• Investing 
• Basline understanding of politics 
• Mastering inner psychology, suffering, success
• Beign free of self-image 
• Acting from insight and consciouness
• Conscious families (although that is super-rare) 
• Integrity the best feeling I have acting in the real world is acting from deepseated integrity with unbiased believes and from values I myself came up with and developed (value section of lp)
• Having a map for others, oterwise they are lost and disorient themselves, that can even include things like MBTI, Mission Statement, Vision etc.
• Exercise
• Learning from success instead of only from failure
• Visualizations for life purpose, goals etc.
• Following conscious success principles (I don't have them consciously in mind, Deepak Chopra has for example 7laws of spiritual success)
• Having enough free time to follow passion and acting in wu-wei doing what you love 100% of the time
• Learning andd taking notes
• Baseline improvment
• Loving discipline 
• No manipulation and control letting go of this
• Focusing on a few of these principles
• Look out for the counter-intutive approaches
• Beign original and creating something unique 
• Developing divine&healthy masculinity and femininity - challenges for men mostly 
• Big-picture view instead of technical analysis
• More action, less theory on a few principles with self-experimentation 
• Not re-inventing the wheel
• Going to the original source
• Sobriety using time well 100% instead of notion of society of sobriety (be clean, show up to work, be sheep like 1984)
• Mastery principles loving the plateu, getting feedback, touching base with a highly competent teacher
• Learning from martial arts, and I presume dance?? for the opposite sex and practicing that in real life
• Understanding strategy and optimization to get more juice out of whatever you are doing
• Non-judgement
• Holistic synthesis
• Knowing how to present yourself and public speaking&"leadership abillity to speak to others"
• Conscious communication (did a few workshop bouts with Shinzen, very powerful although the topic was not all to relevant, instead the, Yes, but I am better and smarter type of conversations that breed resentments and leaves others feeling unheared, causes drama etc.)
• Beign social and connecting with others
• Not over-isolating one self and playing power games with others
• Understanding and integrating god-realization (still no clue, yet very curious)
• Again acting from insight! (I re-listned to Ralston audiobook and I find this powerful, while exercising I was giving my best to learn these principles actively)
• Active learning!!! Participate don't be a passive bystander
• Embrace diverstiy and create move harmony
• Balance with the true flavour of balance, not neutrality and or rationality even though they can be part of the balancing process!
• Priorities and cleanliness, creating order in immediate environment
• Non-dogmatic
• Learning from scratch
• Principles first thinking v.s holistic deductivness (my own words) breaking the whole in parts understanding sub-holons etc.

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I am unsure what else to include, I listend to the audiobook principles a couple of times (with quick notes...), so it's mostly about counter-intutiveness and following principles doing the stuff most don't want to do. Like meditation and yoga as a baseline practice and retreats with psychdelics. As a stable practice as this is pretty rough to pull off, as well as staying healthy exercising on top of that, most have a lot of commitments, and don't create such things. I'd say what would be the core of the principles.

I am unsure there is one thing I would include for hardcore guys that is lifting, yoga&meditation and or psychdelics and I mean just lifting, as Wilber recommends it, gave him massive growths and a lot of psychdelics depth I've had after an exhaustive training, if you can lifting, go to a sauna and know about physiology I bet you can lift psychdelic growth for state experiences. 

That is mostly it. I struggle implementing this, I give my best. 

Edited February 16, 2023 by ValiantSalvatore

[MihaiXx]

Have you seen Leo's video: 

 

[ValiantSalvatore]

I watched it, this is more from direct experience what I wrote, so I verify it for myself instead of only watching in a sense. 

[Kshantivadin]

@ValiantSalvatore Thank you for the effort 

[Kshantivadin]

12 hours ago, Thought Art said:

What are the principles of good living?

I’ll add my list later 

Temperance and courage. Courage being the highest point of embodiment of any value.

Will edit with more

[ValiantSalvatore]

@Kshantivadin You're welcome! It would be awesome if others share their list from their direct experience and reading, as well as note-taking. I bet there are more than 65 principles and the video is 4 years old and Leo changes a lot. I bet he'd even reduce the list to some extend. 

[ucan99]

On 16.02.2023 at 0:22 PM, ValiantSalvatore said:

Not over-isolating one self and playing power games with others

Can you give an example to this?

[ValiantSalvatore]

25 minutes ago, ucan99 said:

Can you give an example to this?

Meeting others and move from monological to dialogical to translogical power, in a sense it's inevitable, besides you are at a level of consciouness unfathomable for most, then I can't really tell as it's most translogical power then. The idea is to move from I statements = monological power to we statements = dialogical power to non-judgement and a deep level of mindfulness. That is the principle of it. I made up an example, although it was to positive. Saying, I don't know and we can do this instead etc. Admitting flaws and doubts, generally gives rise to respect, that is a bit counter-intutive. 

(Translogical -> dialogical power) It's mostly a high-form of non-judgement and mindfull awareness a bit of like what open-awareness meditation and zen meditation is, you take in the whole and apply non-judgement. You might already be intuitively good at it, and the other two dialogical power "structures" / ideas, might be good. Monolgoical power in my experience is assertivness, we dialogical power more leadership, and (new concept I learned recently) translogical power is more like englightend leadership, you work as hard as others, apply non-judgement include all, play the whole ladder up and down each rung, and dispell illusion in a sense, by creating clarity, purpose, autonomey and direction for others themselves. Although this mostly plays out in we/i space. Not translogical space. So to speak. 

I am not often in a position currently like this, thick face and black heart is still a core book if it's about deep leadership coming more from an awareness&consciouness perspective and beign acting with integrity and values, as well as qualities of leadership. Although the groundwork has to be done, in the sense of having a position where these principals can be applied. 

This is also subtely pro-active. Personally I get more room, yet this also depends highly on skills and competencies. etc. 

I struggle with anger and impatience at times, and meet others who are similar. The concept is from Ken Wilber, I can't link it I did it in a payed course. 

https://integrallife.com/full-spectrum-power-announcement/

It's a bit overhyped, I did not come back to it, although it has value. I would not recommend buying it if you are not into integral theory and a nerd so to say. This is the idea in it's essence non-judgemental leadership -> dialog in we space and dialog from I space. 

Translogical power transforms power dynamics into plain non-judgmental playingfields mostly. Very open and exploratory feelings, when I contemplate how this feels to me mostly. As well as just pure beign etc. It would not feel like a powerbind and a steady struggle for one-upmanship. It's more exploratory and open. 

Brief example: Group Project

Gather ideas -> discuess in we space -> apply non-judgement -> use communication skills in we space -> make I assertion -> continue leadership principles -> non-judgement etc. This is mostly it, I find it dispells power dynamics, does not mean you can control others and get the "perfect group" and team project running. It creates more harmony though 100%.

This also goes for friendships, so you can cut the chase with topics of non-interest to you without beign very rude for example. I hope the idea is somewhat clear! 

Edited February 27, 2023 by ValiantSalvatore

[UnbornTao]

What is a principle?

[ValiantSalvatore]

The unfoldment of itself what it teaches... it's not that profound of a question. 

Check Ralston for this one...

What is insight goes way further! Does the insight of a principle give rise to new principles? ? 

Edited February 27, 2023 by ValiantSalvatore

[Realms of Wonder]

Authenticity and Self Love.

It seems that everything else comes from that.

[The Mystical Man]

37 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

What is a principle?

"A rule says, 'You must do it this way.' A principle says, 'This works…and has through all remembered time.' The difference is crucial." - Robert McKee

[UnbornTao]

2 minutes ago, The Mystical Man said:

"A rule says, 'You must do it this way.' A principle says, 'This works…and has through all remembered time.' The difference is crucial." - Robert McKee

Good definition.

Seems like there's a difference between principles, rules and guidelines. A principle is like gravity, mastery, discipline. etc