Meaning

Meaning notes

"man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or avoid painbut rather to see a meaning in life" it doesnt take suffering to find meaning We can now pursue our search for meaning because we have been relived from true suffering and now live in a time abundance. Most of society has shifted from struggling to survive, into a lull, and we are about to start the most important conqest in the world; that for meaning. more than 1/2 of americans think of meaning in their life this conquest is the "4th great awakaning" (4GA) 2 things we can do, take spirituality and happiness seriously

SPIRITUALITY Dali lama wondered about the brains of monks, and found that science is very similar to budism and vice-verca this is because both want to lessen the suffering of man and explore the nature of reality when monks/nuns feel like their a part of something larger, their brain's sence of self drops a bit. People who pray more often tend to have lower blood pressure than those who don't, and people who go to church tend to live longer, yet full spiritual reliance for physical healing doesn't exactly work. physisions take religious histories now. buisness, not just science, is now accepting spirituality even though executives want to have the work place a "politicaly correct" religion area, employees want to bring spirituality into the workplace. These scientists also found that companies that accepted and worked with spiritualities were more sucessfull than their spiritualitly-neutral counterparts. spirituality is rapidly gaining a namesake in the market place (Just look at all of the "Green" Products in today's market)

HAPPINESS Seligman started to study happiness in the brain Some things that contribute to happiness art avoiding negitives, positive work and having a rich social network. (NOT MONEY) Marshalling these can lead to plesant life, but at a higher level, u can have a good life, where you use your strengths to recive gratification. this can turn existance to a calling, where you do what you do for enjoyment purposes, not materilistic purposes. highest form is pursuit of meaning, or preforming your highest strengths for something larger than yourself. Change happenes, and its best to just deal and go with the flow than to try and stick with your guns in the buisness world, just look at Justin Timberlake. laybrinths are becoming popular because they are spiritual. Mr. Pink did one and he eventually slipped off into another place. Laybrinths engage the left side of the brain just enough to let the right side slip free. most laybrinths are circular, and circles stand for unity and wholness. these laybrinths help medical patients heal their non-physical side of their injury All of this wont save the world, or answer all probs, but it will help

For the portfolio activity, I tried an online labrynth. Even through I sort of went through it half-heartedly, I actually felt a little refreshed after I was done. I think labrynths are a great way to do some tough thinking, because even though i was sort of out of the whole experiance, when i was actually doing the labrynth i felt an odd sence that the screen sort of drew my thoughts to it. Then they all converged into a great feeling of focus for me. Overall, to sum the whole thing up, it was a great experiance. I think meaning is really something that could help with anything in today's society. Just a little bit of Meaning added into any part of a lifestyle could increace it's productivity and happiness exponentially.