RECIPE FOR HIGHER HEALTH

• Be passionate about your life and the experiences you fill it with.
• Remain open to as much input as possible.
• Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices.
• Don't censor incoming data through denial.
• Examine other points of view as if they were your own.
• Take possession of everything in your life. Be self-sufficient.
• Work on psychological blocks like shame and guilt -- they falsely color your reality.
• Free yourself emotionally -- to be emotionally resilient is the best defense against growing rigid.
• Harbor no secrets -- they create dark places in the psyche.
• Be willing to redefine yourself every day.
• Don't regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt.
• The mind and body are connected in a feedback loop, and it will operate automatically without any awareness, much less self-awareness. Someone in a coma is an extreme example of the automatic nature of the body's feedback loop being monitored by the brain's automatic mechanisms. The feedback changes when you add awareness, which is why it is better to be awake than in a coma. The best way to participate in the feedback loop, however, is through self-awareness. In that state you tune into your body and lead your brain's responses in a positive way.