在日常生活中寻找意义
For the past eight years, we at Holstee have been exploring what it means to live a meaningful life. We’ve done our homework, diving into ancient philosophy, studying positive psychology, and staying on top of the latest research from modern science. While we are far from having all the answers, we have learned a lot. Here are three learnings that have really stuck with us:
1) 痛苦是不可避免的，苦难是一种选择
Our favorite example of this comes from Viktor Frankl. In his book “Man’s Search for Meaning,” he describes the experience of arriving at a concentration camp in Nazi Germany. He is immediately stripped of everything he has, his hair is shaved, and he is left to stand in a room of similarly affected people — some strangers, others he’d known all his life. It is at that moment that Frankl has the realization that even though everything — his possessions, his family, his dignity — had been taken away from him, he still had the power choose how he would react to the situation in front of him. This is an extreme example, but it shows how in our lives, things might happen that were not in our plans and are out of our control. But the way we react to them is always our choice.
2) 内在价值 FTW
名利双收或追求外表光鲜并没有错--这些外在价值都可以从做完全健康的事情中产生。这里需要记住的是，社会有一种赞美我们外在价值的倾向。当这种情况发生时，往往是以牺牲我们的内在价值为代价的，或者说是以牺牲那些促使我们成长、成为更好的人以及找到真正持久的幸福的价值为代价的。因此，如果你的外在价值成为你的主要动力，这可能是一个信号，让你检查一下自己，重新平衡你的优先事项。
3) 专注于重要的事情
现在，我们比以往任何时候都更难也更有价值将注意力集中到我们想要的地方。我们凭直觉就知道，应该把更多的时间放在对我们真正重要的事情上，而减少那些看似紧急的事情。但现实情况是，我们生活在一个以通知为导向、重视即时满足感的文化中，这使得专注于重要的事情变得超级困难，但并非不可能。这需要一种愿望和定期的练习。
将这些知识付诸行动并不是终点，而是我们与霍尔斯特社区共同踏上的终身旅程。欢迎您加入我们。
迈克尔-拉德帕瓦尔（Michael Radparvar）是Holstee 公司的联合创始人，2009 年，他们公司的《宣言》一经推出就受到了病毒式的追捧。现在，Holstee 通过可操作的指南、鼓舞人心的艺术、精心策划的内容和志同道合的社区，帮助有意识的人（比如你！）过上更有意义的生活。通过我们的月度会员制，我们探索了受到正念科学、积极心理学和古代哲学启发的 12 个主题。
迈克尔和他在 Holstee 的团队最近与 1Hotels 合作创建了 "有意义的会议"（Meaningful Meetings），这是一项新推出的以正念为基础的计划，旨在改变我们对待会议的方式。
