4: The eight frames of life: Health. Is your lifestyle enhancing your health, or are you unwittingly planting seeds of your own demise? Do you have a comprehensive way of engaging your mind and body for health, or do you get around to it when you can? The Mandala Chart can help you address this challenge, and get positive results in the process. The key word for health is radiance. Radiant health shows brightness in your eyes, and an aura of light around your skin. It shines through in your laughter and in your step. Radiant health is attractive and contagious. Its energy is a sustaining force for life and vitality. The quality of radiance is easy to sense, but difficult to measure.
Health care is a burgeoning issue for people in all nations. There is more information today about health and wellness than anyone could possibly master in a lifetime. This is where the Mandala Chart can help you create your own customized vision of health. Of course with the Mandala Chart you are free to create and choose your own categories. 12: The 8 frames of life – Business. Of the eight fields of life, one that will occupy a significant portion of your time and energy is your job, career, or business. What career you pursue and how you engage with your work is one of the determining factors in the quality of your life and your legacy. While most people are concerned with the mechanics and features of their work, salary and benefits, customers and contracts, there is one question which should come first.
Are you engaged in your work with head, heart, and hands? According to research on employee engagement, fewer than 30% of employees may be actively engaged in their jobs. Naturally, they are the high performers. You may have observed disengagement in your co-workers. A life of quiet compromise If only 30% of employees are engaged in their work, what of the other 70%? Unfortunately, this leads to a situation in which both employer and employee remain disengaged in the workplace. Crossing the line The shift to positive engagement Raise your expectations. 21: The 8 frames of life: Finances. It is easy to understand the importance of finances in supporting and enriching the other areas of life. Finances occupy a significant portion of our time and energy. They are difficult to get right, both because of the discipline required, and because the rules keep changing. It is important to put finances into perspective, because if you place too much emphasis on money, it can make your life miserable.
Peter Drucker, one of the greatest thinkers on management and life/work balance of our time, said that of the people he knew whose main goal was to make money, without exception, they were all utterly miserable. Money should be part of the plan, a means to an end, not an end in itself. Playing the right game at the right level Wealth creation has many things in common with sports.
In business and in sports, if you want to be a player, it is critical that you select a game for which you have some natural talent. These 8 types are positioned on a Mandala-like matrix. Related Articles. 30: The 8 frames of life: Home. Home Sweet Home Considering the number of songs with home lyrics that long for home, are coming home, or are homeward bound, there is something deep in our psyche that tells us there is no place like home. Home is the 4th in the 8 Frames of Life of the Mandala Chart, Health, Business, Finance, Home, Society, Character, Study, Leisure, and a critical pillar for life-work balance. Yet, broken homes, dysfunctional families, domestic violence, and broken hearts are pandemic in our society, an outward reflection of an inner conflict. The Mandala Chart is a comprehensive compass for life, and provides helpful perspectives on themes surrounding our Home. Ecology in a Möbius Strip The Möbius Strip is a 3-dimensional seamless strip of paper turned in on itself, with only one surface.
The Möbius Strip has featured and fascinated people since its discovery in ancient times, and is a perennial symbol in topology and popular culture. Where do you call home? We are family Related Articles. 40: The 8 frames of life: Society. Defining your role and your mission What is your place in society? At one time, and still in many countries, this was a not a question which you were permitted to answer or control. Rather, it was a matter of birth, circumstance, good or bad fortune, and your place in society was largely determined by people and circumstances beyond your control.
Throughout history in various times and places, individuals and groups of people have raised this question, and asserted their right of self-determination, the right to determine their own role and mission in society. Now due to the momentum of such movements in the past, and the amazing impact of technology to connect people and facilitate communication, these questions are being raised widely around the world, not just in the traditional style of political movements, but in a brand new style of personal movements.
“No man is an island.” A new kind of nation How do you engage people on Social Media? Social Media Mandala Related Articles. 49: The eight frames of life: Personal. The Mandala Mirror In the Mandala view, it is in the Personal frame of life that you meet yourself and address your personal issues. This is a space for reflection, but of a particular kind, and this is where the Mandala Chart provides a unique perspective. We spend a lot of time interacting with the things and people outside of us. We need to spend some time as well exploring the world within. Reflection is deep thinking. Looking deep into the reflection, rather than just at the surface of the mirror. This is a space for clarity and insight, not for melancholy or self-importance.
You may think you know yourself pretty well by now, but ask yourself deeper questions concerning your mission and core message, and you will understand the need for deeper reflection to discover your living legacy. The Mandala Mirror is quite different from the mirror of Narcissus, the proud and self-admiring hunter of Greek mythology, who died for being unable to leave his own reflection in the water. 59: The 8 Frames of Life: Learning. Learning is for Life In the Mandala Chart, the 7th Frame of Life is Learning.
The problem that has plagued both students and educators from the beginning of time is that learning is hard to come by. It doesn’t seem to stick very well. Perhaps this is because learning is often imposed on us more or less by force. The lucky ones discover that learning is not for school; learning is for life. Learning by doing is the shortest route to retention. “Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.” In his book, Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell gives numerous examples of what he calls the 10,000-Hour Rule, for which he claims that the key to success in any field is largely a matter of extensive deliberate practice.
Clearly though, it is not just a matter of clocking in 10,000 hours, or we would all be geniuses in our field after just 5 years of work experience. Accelerated Learning Related Articles. 69: The 8 Frames of Life – Leisure. Children laugh between 300~400 times a day, whereas in adults the number drops to less than 20. What happened to them?! According to Dr. Madan Kataria, Founder of the Laughter Yoga Movement, adults need a reason to laugh, whereas children laugh for laughter’s sake, as the sun shines and water flows. One characteristic of children’s laughter is that it always come with active play. Perhaps adults laugh little because by comparison they are relatively sedentary.
In Aikido training we frequently laugh as we throw and and are thrown on the mat. The humor is not like slapstick comedy, as when somebody slips on a banana peel. Find something that you can engage with in such a way that it makes you laugh! Laughter is at the core of Leisure, the 8th Frame of Life in the Mandala Chart. Leisure is not just for weekends and holiday vacations. Write Your Wish List These can also make great starting points for conversations with a friend or partner. The Whole in the Part, the Part in the Whole.