Rec­og­nize: Sub­chap­ter III.

Healthy Habits

Health is a qual­i­ty we typ­i­cal­ly do not con­sid­er unless we feel ill. Yet, we believe that for human­i­ty to begin shift­ing con­scious­ness we will first need to rec­og­nize how we can be more pro-active in liv­ing healthy lives.

Eat­ing bal­anced meals made with unprocessed ingre­di­ents and get­ting the prop­er amount of sleep cre­ates a sol­id base­line for well­be­ing. Then we can advance even fur­ther by being mind­ful, shar­ing our thoughts and feel­ings, employ­ing empa­thy, chan­nel­ing com­pas­sion, and being kind in how we inter­act with each oth­er and our environment.

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Recognize Healthy Habits

Recognize Which Choices We Have

We are free by nature. Be free to assert your own iden­ti­ty. Be equal­ly free to resist the def­i­n­i­tions oth­ers might make of you.

The dif­fer­ence between what Isa­iah Berlin termed neg­a­tive lib­er­ty (how oth­ers might lim­it your actions) and pos­i­tive lib­er­ty (free­dom to exceed lim­its from with­in) helps to define what is meant by the term freedom.

In all indi­vid­ual and col­lec­tive instances, it is vital that we declare our free­dom to live accord­ing to the truths derived from our intu­ition. Fear of reproach will bind us into sit­u­a­tions of false free­dom. This fear will fool us into think­ing we have options that might not be viable at all. Instead, imag­ine a com­mu­ni­ty built upon val­ues of the courage to speak your mind. Where no one con­trols the dia­logue. Where the dia­logue is open. Where one is allowed to present a ver­sion of one­self unen­cum­bered by the expec­ta­tions and bias­es of others.

Accord­ing to Mari­am Tha­los, Dean of Phi­los­o­phy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ten­nessee, “True free­dom is fun­da­men­tal­ly about self-fash­ion­ing: you are free when you act out of your self-con­cep­tion, even (or espe­cial­ly) when doing so defies what oth­ers think you are capa­ble of.”32

Being true to one­self is a mat­ter of authen­tic self-expres­sion. The options we are pre­sent­ed with can cre­ate arti­fi­cial bound­aries. Rather, the choice to estab­lish iden­ti­ty based on one’s intu­ition and knowl­edge-of-self is what will res­onate most strongly.

Sketch of Isi­ah Berlin, Arturo Espinosa, 2012

As a species, if we are to rise to the chal­lenge of cre­at­ing a world in which every­one feels their inher­ent val­ue, it is manda­to­ry for every­one to expe­ri­ence the free­dom to devel­op the gifts of their true nature as inim­itable mem­bers of a lim­it­less community.

Hein­rich Welz
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