20 Ways to Feel ALIVE!!!!!! Unless you are the second coming of Jesus Christ (if you are, please comment!) It’s impossible not to feel a bit down sometimes. Here are 20 quick ways to revive yourself and get back that “on top of the world” feeling. Stick your body out of a sunroof while the car is driving I can tell you first-hand this one is a lot of fun. If you don’t have a sunroof, a window works just as well. Speeds of 40 mph+ make the experience much more invigorating. Go experience natureBeing outside just feels right.Destroy something Take out some frustrations on an inanimate object like the printer in ‘Office Space’ Dance! Bonus Reader-Suggested Ways Swim in a cold lake, beach or riverI never feel more alive than when I get out after a cold swim and my heart is pumping to keep my body warm. How do you make that feeling permanent? Step 1: Figure out what it is that makes you feel dead and cut it out of your life. Thinking Within Paradoxes.
I read a few years ago somewhere that a hallmark of a genius is being able to hold opposites together and transcend them. This stuck with me and over time I tried to make sense of it, because at first it was a very confusing concept. With some luck this concept began to make sense thanks to a random assortment of other things I read over the years following my discovery of this tidbit. This train of thought has now become one of my favorite things to ponder. I feel it has taught me the dangers of holding onto apparent absolutes. Wave-particle duality is the concept that all matter and energy exhibits both wave-like and particle-like properties. You are nothing. They both hold some truth and meaning. Now I’d like to tie this line of thinking into another one….the concept and realization of knowing nothing, yet knowing everything.
You know nothing, You know everything. This is why always being open to being wrong can be so powerful. Knowing nothing lets us flow into everything. High Existence. 18 Thought-Provoking Questions. The Defining Question Of Your Life. Is there a cause you would die for? Something that, if it was successful, would change the world in an enormous, seemingly magical way?
Something that goes far beyond you as an individual, the importance of which dwarfs your existence…if any thing can, in fact, do that? Something that gives you the chills every time you ponder it, share it with friends, or even distantly entertain the thought? If there is one sensation that is more electrifying than those chills, it is the feeling of dedicating the entirety of your being to that cause.
That bliss of choosing a single path and pouring everything into the endeavor. Whether it be educating the young, studying the cosmos, splashing art over the grey walls of the world or asking people questions that appeal to their sense of wonder — there is something out there for which you are uniquely equipped. Please, for your own sake, and for the sake of the world, FIND THIS ONE THING! You will get the feeling that something strange is going on.