The Thriving Roadmap Level 1: Compass and Territory
The Thriving Roadmap is based on the following principles:
- It's our birthright to THRIVE ... in alignment with other people and the rest of the Web of Life
- Happiness is the feeling we experience when we're THRIVING
- Everyone has the same right to thrive; no person's well-being is more important than another's
- The only thing anyone is ever doing, is trying to thrive (however unconscious, misguided, counterproductive, or tragically destructive their strategies might be)
- All human beings require the same essential things ("Life-Needs") in order to thrive. Human beings who don't get their Life-Needs met eventually become ill physically, mentally, and/or emotionally.
Examples of Life-Needs of course include things like clean food, air, and water, but also include things like harmonious connection, touch, belonging, self-expression, and freedom/choice.
Click here for a full list of the essential Life-Needs that are behind both the understandable and head-scratching things we humans do, as we try to thrive and feel good.
- Once we become adults, our well-being (thriving) is ultimately our own responsibility, and other adults' well-being is ultimately their responsibility. It's essential to learn how to navigate this in healthy ways, to find our way to aligned thriving. (And, be sure to keep reading for more on how we get there together.)
- Every one of us has within us all the personal power and discernment we need to learn how to thrive ... with ease. (Even if we've grown up in a culture that has only taught us how to survive.)
- Because we are social beings, human interaction (relationships of all kinds) is the primary medium through which our well-being is nourished ... or diminished.
- We can learn how to communicate in ways that contribute to our own and others' thriving!
- We can learn how to create and sustain positive connection
- We can learn how to thrive, and how to have thriving relationships
Learning how to THRIVE (how to be happy)
requires learning how to:
- genuinely value and consider ("respect") our own well-being, remembering that we are ultimately responsible for our own thriving (once we reach adulthood)
- genuinely value and consider ("respect") others' well-being, remembering that they are ultimately responsible for their own thriving (once they reach adulthood)
- experience our body sensations and feelings as they're happening without avoiding, denying, numbing out, going unconscious, being "captured," or being overwhelmed by them
- realize that we are not our body sensations, feelings, thoughts, and impulses and learn how to witness or observe these inner experiences from a consciousness characterized by grounded presence, compassion, and the capacity for authentic choice
- identify our Life-Needs
- learn how to meet our Life-Needs
Are you ready to continue your journey?
The next step is the
Thriving Roadmap Level 2:
Thriving Fundamentals -
Solve the Mystery of Your "People Problems"
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