Flourishing Life Society

Personal Development

BY: T. Franklin Murphy | February 2019

What is a Human Growth?

To flourish, we must progress, not stagnating in the present. We must establish a pattern of improving mind, spirit and body.

A Flourishing Life Article link. A Quiet Life of Desperation

FLS Link: Correlations-Life is complicated, without pure guidelines to follow. We get lost with inflexible dogma instead of flexible openness to the complexity.

Acceptance of Self. Giving ourself kindness. A Flourishing Life Society Article Link

We protect our lives from the showering of unpleasant experience through our minds and action.

A Dark Past. A Bright Present

FLS link. Self-Sabotage: We hurt ourselves. We sabotage healthy endeavors to escape the discomfort of change, settling back into our self-made prisons of stagnation.

Internal Link: Achieving our potential...Healthy growth depends on supportive environments. As adults, we must create an environment that provides nutrients and protection.

Shortcuts to happiness may escape pain; but the temporary relief often has a high cost of long-term trouble.

Seizing the day is a joyful acceptance and a timeless honoring of the preciousness of life. Seizing the day creates a joyful connection to living.

Link: A healthy mind utilizes many states of excitement and rest. We must find a balance that pushes us to work but also finds time to recover.

We get stuck in an existential funk, searching for meaning. Life may not readily appear meaningful; but we can give life meaning.