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The second half of life puts you in the captain’s seat to steer your life as you see fit. At first it may feel intimidating because there is no set path to follow, but the more you lean into the feeling of being liberated from your subconscious conditioning the more awake you will be to your surroundings.

Entering the second half of life requires being aware and more attuned to your surroundings, your activities and your relationships. It can be spurred by encountering hardship, which then causes you to pay deeper attention to what is causing you to feel unsettled while going through the first half of life. This bout of discomfort opens an opportunity for deep contemplation and mindfulness that can ignite our emotional intelligence to spur a radical transformation within ourselves.

Welcome to another week of the Secret of Aging With Grace and Wisdom Series!

Part IIB: How We Live Today – The First Half of Life will talk about the force of creativity.

You may be familiar with it. It’s that feeling of curiosity, excitement and fun that was so easily invoked when we were children. As we get older, our creative sides tend to get hushed as the will to survive and fit in with society becomes a louder force in our lives.

Last week you were introduced to the two phases of life, this week we’ll talk more in depth about the first half of our life.

Part II is split up into two sections that will talk about how we live today and outline what forces inform the first half of our life.

We’ll examine Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to speak on the three (3) forces that guide us through our lives: (1) Instincts, (2) Our conditioning, and (3) Creativity.

As human beings, we have to travel through two phases of life. In the first half, we learn to survive in the world based on what others expect of us, and so, most of us “sleepwalk” through life, prisoners of our subconscious conditioning or pre-programming. In the second half, we break through this conditioning, “awaken,” and learn to see the world anew with wisdom.