Jorge Luna Podcast #6 - Living your life with purpose
Jorge Luna Podcast #6 – Living your life with purpose
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Living With purpose:
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We must define first what purpose really is:
Purpose’s basic concept is an individual’s voluntary behavior and active awareness, it has a significant history in religion, philosophy and science. Purpose can also be operational - defined as entity, class, or property which may, but need not have consciousness. Intentionality, target-directedness, future orientation and a hypothetical result state are the central conceptual ingredients.
A purpose is an abstract description or characterization of any of a large number of situations. A goal is a concrete description or characterization of single situation at a point in time. For example, “helping people find happiness” is a purpose. While ‘Helping John find his glasses” is a goal. Confusion can arise when the terms are used together, for example, one can have as a goal achieving a purpose. Every situation can be characterized as achieviung a large number of different goals, and a even larger number of different purposes.
Purpose may refer to:
Subject of discourse
This is a classical definition and brings in simple concepts: But in positive psychology and in yoga, we strive to make regular life more meaningful rather than focusing on illness (mental).
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If this is the case then our purpose must have meaning:
Inquiry into the Meaningful Life, or “life of affiliation”, questions how individuals derive a positive sense of well-being, belonging, meaning, and purpose from being part of and contributing back to something larger and more permanent than themselves (e.g., nature, social groups, organizations, movements, traditions, belief systems).
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This is really the 8Mil question: what is the meaning of life. In its broadest sense, this question is far too complicated to answer for the individual. For an individual this question may take a lifetime to answer:
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It is more helpful to first have short term purpose rather than a long term view> Long term goals are often vague, unrealizable and lack concreteness. Short term goals or purpose should be real, specific and concrete. The more that a goal has these three qualities the deeper the meaning and the more profound the purpose will be.
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Aside from meaning, in order to find purpose we must be engaged or challenged. We must therefore become a component of a solution to an issue that we find meaning.
When we help others or are productive in a solution, individuals feel better by improving their self esteem and creating a feeling of belonging to a group.
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Helping to feed the homeless: the act does in fact help people in need but it also has a beneficial effect on the participator!
This is living with meaning⇒ purpose!
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The trick is not to get overly attached to the outcome of your purpose! This is where things tend to go wrong for so many of us!
A fund raiser that doesn’t work: a charity that is barred access b/c of red tape etc.
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Do you give up on your purpose or do you learn from the failures as much as the successes.
MORE Show Notes
YogaWorks South Bay - Manhattan Beach - Teacher Trainer
200 hour class – Saturday/Sundays
You have to be practicing for at least year.
500 hours to start teaching Yoga** **
Informational at YogaWorks @ 730pm August 29, 2013
** Classes**
Jorgeluna.com - Class schedule
Retreat in Palm Springs .
Trend - In Los Angeles - A really cool summer - Lots of cleanse . Not really hot.
Happiness –and living longer ?
** ** voluntary behavior - conscious behavior - “living your life for god”
intentions –targeted directness
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“ Well balanced life”
GOALS
Reglion - Lifestyle , Traditions, Answering the questions for you.
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Yoga - You to decern choices.
Science - Devotation aspect out . Concrete.
Distinct ion of Purpose
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Goals - Has to have meaning , Need to be concrete
Purpose - Meaning greater than its parts. Using means to achieve the end. “World a better place”
Goal - Working a soup kitchen . Goal “can” serve a purpose
Accountability - Self . Is with Self . Choosing a goal you can be self accountable.
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Higher power - Connecting with God. Accountable .
Success rate - Connecting higher power allows me to be dedicated. Connection to God. Connection.
Connection - Accountability - Higher Success rate in Goals. -
Connection (greater than yourself) + Accountability (self, conscious, ? ) = Goal
Goals - Real specific and Concrete