The four pillars of life

Our life is more meaningful and joyful when we strike a balance in major areas of our life. These major areas of our life are Health, Fitness, Material wealth, Finances, Personal Relationship: Spouse & family, Social Relationship: Friends /community/colleagues, Career/Profession, Relaxation /creativity and Spiritual development (purpose of life). We experience unbalance when we lack the progress in any one of these areas that gives rise to a sort of incompleteness in life.

Balance: For the purpose of our discussion, let us condense down those nine major areas into four as

Health

Wealth

Relationship &

Self Development

These four components serve as the four pillars of our life.

The quality of life depends on how nicely one balances these components. If growth of one component is slower or faster in comparison to the other components then that leads to a mismatch. For example, if one has enough wealth but disappointingly a poor health.

The Problem: By nature innately, we are designed to be in this balanced state. We move away from this balanced state when we are unaware of this reality. The speed at which we ride the life has given a hazy vision that masks the visibility of this balanced state. Since we lose the sight, we hunt to see a solution in the external world .In this process, we drift further away from this balanced state.

Way to go: All, we need to do is to become aware of this balanced state which exists deep inside us. For this, observe and become of aware of the subtle incidents in the four areas in our life. Once, when we start to observe these occurrences, we will be surprised to recognize that we are filled up in all these major areas in abundance. The more and more we observe & harness these subtle happenings, the more and more we get great quantity in return.

Practically, you can test the above aspect. You see the area where you are doing exemplarily well now. This is because that you are deeply connected in this area and emotionally attached to the experiences that are centered in this area. The same level of intensity of the connectedness may not be there in the area where you do not see the growth. For example, you are in a better health because you are connected within yourself at a deeper level when it comes to your health.

The Practice: There is no point having a faster life when the fastness is not allowing to move forward towards our life goals. It is like running fast without knowing the final destination. Ultimately, we end up nowhere. In fact, it is dangerous and we may lose the site of the balance. So, practice ‘ME’ time regularly where we spend time in bringing to our awareness the subtle happenings of the major areas of the life. The success of this practice lies in how subtly we capture these incidents. As one continues with this practice, soon he witnesses his life changes for good. Trust me, it works.