How To Find Meaning In Life - Practical Action Steps

[PetarKa]

The past couple of week / months, I had been feeling depressed and uninspired to do anything in life. And a few days ago, I posted an article on this forum entitled "A Paradox Of Life - If There Is No Good Or Evil, Then How Can We Say That Self-actualization Is The Goal Of Life?", here's a link to the article:

And this is post is about personal advice to the people who might also be struggling with this issue in their lives. Firstly, I suggest you read the replies and especially Leo's answer to my question (in the article). It really opened my eyes about the issue. But also, I copied it and wrote it on a digital file so that I can look at it from time to time so that I don't forget (otherwise you will forget after a couple of days / weeks. Here are some other things I did (and still doing):

• Deeply contemplate the answer: Explain it to yourself, multiple times in fact. It needs to seep into your conscious & subconscious mind. This needs to become a part of you and your worldview. However, this without the emotions, inspiration, and belief in the whole idea is useless. So just logically understanding the concept won't do you any good if you don't feel like it's true. That's why I did the following...
• Create a leaflet with the words: Create  & live an amazing life! (see photo bellow); and read the leaflet every single day (at least, once, sometimes more, I do it after getting out of bed and before going to sleep). While I'm reading this I ask myself: What is an amazing life look like. Then I say (and visualize): peace of mind, having passion, being warm and kind to others, having an organized life, gaining wisdom, learning physics and math, discovering how the world works, etc. (these are my values, you would think about your own, whatever gets you excited deep within - If you say that you can't find anything, that's a lie, keep looking)
• Finally, and this might be a bit controversial, you have to trick yourself into finding meaning in life. Somehow I did this and I don't think I can explain how I did it, maybe I just said to myself: Hey, life is just meaningful! and I believed it. This solved a whole lot of things concerning this issue. This also might go against the no manipulation principle, but life is paradoxical sometimes, also remember Leo's video The Role of Balance in PD? I think this idea of tricking yourself is something that no one can tell you or teach you about - you just figure it out yourself at one point through growing and understanding life better.

I hope it helped! Keep creating an amazing life, because life is what you make of it!

Edited March 21, 2017 by PetarKa
I lost text after psoting 1st time

[Sevi]

This is such a nice post! Thanks

I like this part a lot:

15 hours ago, PetarKa said:

and read the leaflet every single day (at least, once, sometimes more, I do it after getting out of bed and before going to sleep). While I'm reading this I ask myself: What is an amazing life look like. Then I say (and visualize): peace of mind, having passion, being warm and kind to others, having an organized life, gaining wisdom, learning physics and math, discovering how the world works, etc. (these are my values, you would think about your own, whatever gets you excited deep within - If you say that you can't find anything, that's a lie, keep looking)

 

15 hours ago, PetarKa said:

Create a leaflet with the words: Create  & live an amazing life!

it's funny to see this...

I also have one:

 

[Bodhi123]

@PetarKa Thank you for spreading positivity.

[Loreena]

@Leo Gura plz pin this post. It's a beautiful post.