Adding Life to LIFE

Why go through life as if it is a drudgery? From the time we wake to sleep, we need to add life to whatever we do. Whether it is about, doing routine such as brushing teeth, getting dressed up for the day or doing chores like watering plants, cooking or spending time with our loved ones such as playing with kids or talking with a family member and even in office while doing our work. Many a times we do things only b’cos we are expected to do things and the focus is on its completion. Rarely do we pay attention to the process.
The state of mind you are in most of your time during the day indicates the state of your life. If you are spending most of you day in anxiety or anger, that is what your life is about.
No matter how much you have, you always have something less than the other and something more than the other. So if there is something to complain about there will always be something to appreciate or if we have a reason to keep track of or worries, we have also a good reason to count our blessings too. Worrying makes us helpless and unenthusiastic towards life, however, counting our blessing helps us to appreciate life and gives us vigor to deal with life challenges.
Begin your day, counting your blessings. Give life to everything you do. Enjoy whatever you are doing. Stay in the moment and experience fully, that which you are doing. Eg. If you are watering your plant focus on the colors of the leaves today. When you are cooking smell the aroma of the spices. When you are drinking water feel the taste of it. When you are eating food, experience how it is nourishing your body. Maybe that is the reason they say not to talk while eating. If something is a drudery combine it with something you like. Eg. Listning to music while driving. Reading while waiting for someone or something etc.
This does not mean that we need to work in slow motion. It only means we need to be present in the moment. As mentioned earlier, the state of mind you are in most of the day indicates the state of your life. If you find yourself thinking about what you need to do next or what lies ahead, chances are good that there is an eagerness to finish what you are doing and hence some anxiety too about the future. Which means your state of mind is about eagerness or anxiety. Some of us do things constantly dwelling in our past. Thinking about what happened in the past and how it could have happened differently. Hence the experience would be of either sorrow or anger. And that is your life experience. And how will we be leading our life differently? When I am in the moment of the task I am doing, I give undivided attention to it. And when I do it, I learn something new about my task which I would not have otherwise. For eg. When I water my plants and am in the moment. Chances are good that I would be enjoying it, I feel relaxed among my plants. It would be a fulfilling experience because the reason I have a garden is for the beauty it adds to my surrounding and I am in the moment of beauty contributing to its growth. Similarly when I am in the moment with my kid or a family member, without being bothered about what is happening in the kitchen or TV. I would learn something new about my loved one, A reason to laugh. Probably a reason to reach out to the person. When you are dressing yourself up and are in the moment, you will realize how good you are looking in the dress you picked up and how well it suits you. You will find yourself happier and confident.


But it will not be easy changing to this way of living - i.e living in the moment, giving life to what you are doing. Simply because we have been
programmed as kids to do everything focusing on the end. We are meant to do everything fast. Before we do something we are told what we would have to do after that. Problem is not with planning. Problem is with speed and sending accuracy for a toss.
So it is time to reprogram ourselves and our kids. Lets be with the process of life. Lets experience every moment of life and that is when we add Life to LIFE