How To Make Life Easy

Science excels at technological advancements and convenience but falls short in offering guidance on how to live life. Scientific studies on happiness provide goals but don't offer concrete steps to achieve them, focusing on population-based solutions rather than individual needs.

The difference between easy and hard boils down to knowledge. If you know how to do something, it's easy; if you don't, it's hard. This principle applies even to objectively difficult things like addiction management, which can become easier with the right knowledge and techniques.

Motivation and willpower act as compensations for Tamas (inertia) and Rajas (activity). However, relying too heavily on them is not sustainable for an easy life. Motivation is wanting the mind to do something, and willpower is forcing the mind to do something, but satas is about balance, the mind isnt sluggish and its not overly excited. Willpower drains our cognitive energy.

Cultivating a Sattvic state involves diet, exercise, and avoiding psychoactive substances. Eating light, nutritious foods, and engaging in mind-body practices like yoga that force you to focus the mind help to create balance. Avoiding psychoactive substances keeps the mind in a healthy and more balanced state.

To make life easy, be willing to live a hard life today by cultivating balance in the body and mind through intentional choices. The more difficulty we embrace, the easier our lives become. As we become more balanced and tranquil something magical happens. The body and mind listen.