Description
The Basis of Our Life Purposes
- We are Unconsciously Motivated to Experience Three Life Purposes:
1. To acquire competent survival skills—which can generate self-pride and similar self-definitions when pre dictable survival is accomplished.
2. To experience a life that has value—gauged by the amount of love we experience which occurs through contributing to the well-being of others (and self).
3. To experience a life that has quality—gauged by the amount of joy we experience and occurs through experiencing personal interests such as hobbies. - We gauge personal Happiness and Contentment through:
1. The type and intensity of our emotions (love, joy and ‘negative’ emotions).
2. Our self-definitions—how much we value ourselves compared to our past and other people.
3. The type and volume of the mental chatter in our mind (our monkey mind). - We use five ways to socially communicate. Our competency in doing this is reflected in our personality, character, moods, temperaments and attitudes:
We use our eyes, voice, body language, limbs and brain to socially communicate. However, when we feel socially stressed we either behave in ‘desirable ways’ or we demonstrate degrees of ‘extroverted’, ‘introvert ed’, ‘psychopathic’ or ‘depressed’ behaviours—which shape our emotional reality and influence our self definitions and mental cacophony. How we experience our social interactions will strongly contribute to our happiness and contentment. - We evolve our mental reality through experiencing six types of relationships:
1. Our relationships with inanimate nature
2. Our relationships with animals and plants
3. Our relationships with our physical body and those of others
4. Our relationships with our unconscious mind
5. Our psychic relationships with other living things
6. Our relationship with the cosmic-force which creates our consciousness
Consistently Achieving Life Purposes
This occurs through:
1. Balancing the three life purposes over time.
2. Evolving social competency in all types of social situations.
3. Blending the six relationships into one mental reality as often as possible each day.
Book Chapters:
Prologue
The prologue presents a clarifying synopsis that arrangers the diverse yet significant threads being combined in the chapters to clarify life purpose, meaning, reality, happiness and contentment.
Introduction
The introduction presents an example of a personal experience with Aboriginal Australians in the 1970s, that has helped shape my understanding as a biologist, of human life purpose and meaning.
Chapter 1. Happiness and Contentment
This chapter clarifies the understanding of the two emotions along with the big five dominating negative emotions—and their role in the mental states of happiness and contentment. It discusses techniques to dissolve negative emotions and negative states of mind while quietening the monkey mind).
Chapter 2. Gauges for Happiness and Contentment
Introduces the three gauges all people use to assess their happiness and contentment. It introduces the brain-mind networks of the Default Mode, Central Executive and Salient Networks and the relationship of the subcategory of Left-Right Brain Dominance theory to these networks. The chapter describes how these networks are involved with mental health, the mind states of happiness and contentment, and the sensation of a duality of mind. It discusses the yoking of this duality.
Chapter 3. Origins for Happiness and Contentment
This chapter introduces the origins of the mental states of happiness and contentment in hunter-gatherer societies and the refinements that have occurred with the evolution of writing systems such as the Védas, along with the yoga inspired overall purpose of human life as alluded to in the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali. It discusses the relationships between the four major types of politics and individual freedom, and traces the cultural transition that politics has had on the evolution of yoga from the Pre-classical to the Classical and then the Post-classical periods.
Chapter 4. Yoga Inspired Philosophy of Life Purpose
This chapter debates the underlying philosophy which uses the Sanskrit word ‘Yoga’ when compared with the other five Hindu religious metaphysical philosophies and applies this to the Sramanic traditions with specific reference to the Vratyas. It describes a Mystical Yoga Story of life purpose and meaning attributed to Pre-classical Yoga.
Chapter 5. Psychology and Happiness
Introduces concepts of happiness and modern psychology with a comprehensive explanation of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
Chapter 6. A Universal Model of Purposes
This chapter comprehensively describes the Universal Model of Purposes that all people consciously or unconsciously use in their day to day activities—Survivability, Life Quality and Value of Self. The chapter demonstrates how individuals can use these to get more out of their lives. It introduces the destructive ‘Blurr’ states of mind attributed to many of the very wealthy and those in poverty. It gives examples and discusses development in children, romance, and the family unit).
Chapter 7. Psychological Categories
This chapter discusses ‘attitude, mood states, personality, character and temperament’. It introduces the limitations to the Big Five Psychological Inventory attributed to D. W. Fiske and the influence of brain neurochemistry on mental health, linking diet, with internal toxic bacteria-fungal flora and immune competency.
Chapter 8. The Five Social Survival Personality Traits
This chapter introduces and discusses at depth the Five Social Survival Personality Traits, citing examples. It presents the 5 X 5 matrix of personality traits—’Desirable, Extroverted, Psychopathic, Introverted, Depressed traits’—with the modes of communication [eyes, voice, body language, limbs and brain]. It gives examples of relationships in families, business, romance, etc. Also it gives examples of the effects of autonomic nervous dysfunction shaping spinal orientation and body language linked to social communication. It discusses bipolar and other psychological mental illnesses that can be interpreted through the Five Social Survival Personality Traits.
Chapter 9. Concepts of Heaven, Spirit and Soul
This chapter discusses the spiritual philosophies of traditional Australian Aborigines, the Dreaming rituals, the spirit world and its influence on individual happiness and contentment. It also discusses in depth the concepts of :‘heaven-earth’, ‘soul’, ‘spirit’ from the perspective of the great religions, as well as science.
Chapter 10. Physical and Metaphysical Relationships
This chapter introduces the six relationships humans have in their lives—the three physical relationships: with inanimate nature, animal/plants and self/people—along with the three metaphysical relationships: with the unconscious mind, psychic [siddhi] connections to living things, and with the cosmic force that makes consciousness exist [an extension of Ishvara]. It links these to the samyama mental exercises described in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra.
Epilogue Sugarbag
This is a short story of an experience with a family of Aborigines that is intended to offset the complexity of the text and to remind people that a normal life has always provided happiness and contentment throughout human history.
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