Set before everyone are ways, ways, and ways from which to choose. There are ways that lead to health and life and there are ways that lead to destruction and death. To choose a way that engenders meaning in livingness is the ultimate demonstration of love for oneself, others and God.

A way of being means a way of being authentic. There are different ways of being, even of being authentic. The hallmark of being authentic, rather than counterfeit, is health. Also a mark of authentic being is fulfillment. The focus here is on a way of being or lifestyle that when conscientiously embraced promotes "quality of life," not "standard of living." Many people who have a high standard of living have an inferior or a lack of quality of life.
The components of this way of being are:
1. Diet. A person is what he eats although he is more than that. Eat properly and with simplicity. The staple foods include: vegetables, small portions of red meat, maybe twice a week, and fish and chicken on the remaining days of the week. Eat nuts and fruits, small amounts of salt and sugar, not much or no alcohol and just say no to tobacco products.
2. Exercise. Walk two, three or four miles a day. This is the best kind or exercise a person can do. It is not necessary to horse around with gym equipment. You have never seen a horse riding a bicycle. However, gym exercise is better than no deliberate exercise at all. Fidgeting around or up and down has merit, as well as dancing. Wiggling your toes and fingers, tapping your feet, waving your arms and engaging in other childlike exercises that for the most part can be done in your home, some even while you are in bed, are valuable. Engaging creatively in sexual activites is a plus. In this regard, we can learn from observing the behavior of other animals' sexual engagement, maybe, a horse and his female partner, a picture that remains in my mind's eye from when I was a farm boy. Of course, human beings will do their thing lovingly. But maybe, other animals also behave lovingly while engaging in intimacy?
3. Spirituality. Spiritualiity is God-consciousness. Essentially it is a relationship with the Creator. God-man interrelatedness consists of a connectedness that is nourished by communication that includes: prayer, meditation, communion, contemplation, silence, listening, experiencing nature and surrender. These acts create the spiritual vibrations that deepen one's relationship with the Cosmos and the Creator.
Other nuances of these three components that are germane to this way of being are: serving, including self-serving; work, meaning any activity one engages in that produces something of value; play that is noncompetitive, for enjoyment; sharing stories; laughter, tactile contacts that may incude hugging and physical embracing another person; and singing. Singing, for that matter, music in general, is food for the soul as well as preventive and recovery medicine. Just about everything I have mentioned so far is to be engaged in daily. In the model prayer of Jesus, commonly referred to as, "The Lord's Prayer," the admoishment is: "Give us this day, our daily bread."
The way of being presented here is not goal-oriented nor advanced by striving. Goals and striving can interfere with this way of being which is process-attuned. The modus operandi of this way of being is "being in the flow," where there is freedom of the spirit.
I call this way of being the Mutuality Way of Being because it embodies the consciousness of the mind, body and soul that mutually foster heightening awareness, self-expression, creativeness, faith, love and self-transcendence in perpetual redemptive living that is like unto the abstraction of a spirial that in its continuous and perpendicular evolving returns to the point of its beginning at a higher level, in this case, of higher consciousness, than it was when last at that point. Ultimately, this way of being is eternity or eternity is in it in the eternal now.
Finally, I do not wish to convey the impression that this way of being is the only way of being which has merit or may be right for you. However, there is not any other ways of being that I can speak of as passionately and with the confidence that I can witness about as the Mutuality Way of Being. Indeed, it is my lifestyle and besides it has and continues to provide me with optimum health and fulfillment. What can I say? Wow! Hallelujah!

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