Week 6 Being Fully Present “Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.” --Hafiz

Who Are You?

What Do You Want?

Why Are You Here?

I feel most loving/loved when...

I feel most overwhelmed/stressed when...

I am most at peace/most joyful when...

I am most grateful for...

I commit to destroying...

I commit to creating...

My definition of health is...

Set Point + Conditions of Living + Voluntary Activities Happiness = Set Point + Conditions of Living + Voluntary Activities Set Point--brain mechanisms that interprets events. Conditions of Living--random events, genes. Voluntary Activities--things we do everyday.

Happiness = Set Point + Conditions of Living + Voluntary Activities Set Point--brain mechanisms that interprets events Conditions of Living--random events, genes, Voluntary Activities--things we do everyday Happiness = 40% + 10% + 50% Meditation changes SET POINT.

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. “ --Maya Angelou

Time is not only measurement, Time is presence.

Loving Kindness Meditation “For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.” “Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference -- in our own lives and those of others.” ― Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness