Living fully, an important decision

Living fully is possible thanks to valuing what we have, with everything we have experienced and with who we are.. Now, the art of feeling fulfilled also enables us to be entrepreneurs, explorers of better paths by feeling enabled by experience, self-love and personal security. Few psychological states are as enriching as they are powerful.

The poet T. S Elliot said that the plenitude that the human heart craves is always available. However, we do not see it. Even more, we do not know how to reach that dimension because in many cases we fail to understand a key aspect: fullness flows in us only when we empty ourselves.

We talk about letting go of anxiety about not having certain things, to realize that we have more than we think.. Turn off the fear of losing certain dimensions, people or objects to discover that sometimes you are better off without many of those realities. Plenitude is, after all, an awakening and, above all, an awareness of who we are in order to live with greater balance.

It is often said that this dimension arrives at a certain stage of our life cycle, which is a product of maturity.. In recent years, attention has been paid to that decade between 50 and 60 when human beings supposedly reach a higher degree of psychological well-being. Well, it must be said that when it comes to age, nothing is absolute.

Each one reaches that summit of personal development and fulfillment in their day and at their time, sooner or later. Others, however, never reach that peak. Let’s see more data about it.

Live fully, live in balance and personal satisfaction

Living fully is not a state. It is not reaching that peak of Abraham Maslow’s pyramid of needs, the place where self-realization resides, and thinking that everything ends there, that we have achieved happiness. In reality, living fully is actually a process: being part of the movement of life, feeling strong and capable of what may come.

Therefore, we are not facing a dimension of personal development that is easy to achieve or conquer. What’s more, there is a constant interest in the social sciences to understand how people face these developments in such complex times. Social psychology wants to understand, more than ever, what our internal resources are to achieve well-being.

Thus, Princeton University psychologist Daniel Kahneman often says that much of this research has a curious problem: People do not know how to define exactly what happiness is.. However, in a study that he carried out himself, and that he published in the journal Science under the title Would we be happier if we were rich? He demonstrated something very interesting that, apparently, most of us are clear about.

In this work, Dr. Kahneman made us see that, on average, people know that money does not buy happiness. And we also know that happiness is not the same as personal fulfillment. Actually, Something that most of us aspire to is precisely this last dimension.: to feel full, fulfilled, in balance with ourselves and our own life.

What are the keys to living fully?

Living fully is the opposite of living in emptiness.. This last state is experienced when discouragement, anguish, fear and the feeling of loneliness grow. It is clear that, in some way, we will always be dealing with these psychological realities; However, the person who works to the fullest extent of it daily is better able to handle these situations.

Therefore, let’s see how to achieve and develop this dimension.

You are not what you do, you are what you carry inside you

We rarely ask ourselves this question: “What do we carry in our being?” Often, we tend to define ourselves by what we do or what we have experienced (I am a nurse, I am a mechanic…). Howeverto live fully we would do well to become aware of what we carry in our personality and that defines us:
I am passion, I am hope, optimism, I am determination, I carry with me my compassion as a nurse, I carry my love for my family, I carry satisfaction for who I am and what I have achieved…

Feel present in the here and now with all its possibilities

Living fully is not a state, it is rather a process and above all an attitude. It is being very clear about what we carry inside us and, with this, making the most of the present, here and now.
If we have passion, let’s connect with our reality to enjoy it. Likewise, if we carry affection, let’s take care of our loved ones, let’s connect with our loved ones in the present moment. If our interior is defined by curiosity, learning and experience, let’s take advantage of every second to continue experiencing and feeling life.

As we see, it is about achieving harmony between what we are and what is around us. Living fully is not regretting what we lack or suffering for what we have left.. It is feeling capable of accepting what cannot be changed, having the courage to transform what can be changed and continuing to progress without losing that personal balance.

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