What is Elevated Living

What is Elevated Living

A lot of millionaires we know today didn’t have an easy start. They started their journeys because they wanted to get something, they wanted to get money or fame. However, along the way, they realized that it’s not about the status or the money or the fame. They realized that success is about having an impact and making a positive change.

“The definition of “billionaire” should really be re-defined to “people who’ve made and continue making an impact on billions”. By impacting billions of people, by default, you become a billionaire.

Billionaires of the world

Elevated living is, therefore, a state of operation. It is about the way you operate with everything.

Elevated living is about how you can renunciation to serve a bigger cause than yourself. Whether it’s your money, time, energy, real renunciation is about how you can re-invest these things to do something more.

By doing this, by serving something bigger than ourselves, we gain elevated consciousness, and, in the end, it goes back to us too.

The 4 areas we need to have elevated living:

1. Intention Intention is the first seed we plant before any activity. It is the beginning.

Your intention must be elevated because by focussing on service, you’ll always have your “big break”. Turn your “I”s into “Them”.

But if your intention is focussed on society’s definition of success (money, fame, awards, etc.), you’ll never be satisfied. You’ll feel broken. And even if you do achieve this definition of success, you won’t feel satisfied.

It doesn’t matter how much or how little you have to offer, if your intention in the first place is to serve, you’ll give all of yourself.

2. Awareness Awareness is about knowing which environments devolve and which evolve your consciousness.

This is important because in order for your seed (intention) to really grow, you need to put it in an environment with enough sunlight, water, oxygen and nutrients. If the environment is too acidic or toxic, it’ll just die. “A negative mind will never lead to a positive life”.

To be aware is to be aware of your habits. What do you spend time on? Which spaces do you spend time in? (Spaces carry energy.) Who do you spend time with? (The memories you make with people will last a long time.)

3. Attention 70-80% of successful people have a mindful practice which they do consistently. We still live in our minds. By practicing mindfulness, we create a filtration system for our mind and consciousness. Not only are we calming and cleansing our minds, but we are also purifying and restoring balance.

Practicing Mindfulness Meditation

Some benefits of meditation (an excellent example of a mindful practice):

● increased capacity for empathy and compassion; decreased capacity for envy and competition

● enhanced REM sleep

● boost melatonin levels (happiness levels rise)

● deeper self-awareness

● better focus

● less tendency to burn out

● less tendency to stress out

Try to meditate 10-20 minutes per day. Slowly build it up.

 4. Action

Mahatma Gandhi once said “Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony”.

We all need internal and external success. By having both, we can build a meaningful life for ourselves and have the most impact on others.

If we only have external success (money, fame, power, etc.) and this becomes volatile, then internally, our state becomes volatile too. But if we are internally satisfied and successful, then it will project outwards.

My main takeaway(s):

You really have to be aware of who you are, what you stand for and apply it to life (whether personal or professional) in order for you to know how to serve a higher purpose. And this must be reiterated, this must be a constant self-reminder.

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