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Mastery
OVERVIEW
The Seven Life Areas will help you answer the single most important question you can ask yourself: “How do I live a good life?”
When you master every area of your life, you create alignment, achievement, and purpose.
You attain self-mastery by examining all seven areas, developing what is out of balance, and integrating them into a meaningful life.
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What is Self-Mastery?
Know yourself
Mastery is your ability to embody the full range of human experience. It begins by examining each area of your life to see where you stand. As you develop what you’ve neglected, you get to know yourself.
Find your gift
As you bring each life area into balance, your gift naturally reveals itself. This is your unique way to contribute to the world. To live your own life and no one else’s is the most rewarding thing you’ll ever do.
Serve the world
Service lies at the heart of integration. Manifesting your gift into the world brings lasting fulfillment. By serving the greater whole, you create a life of alignment, achievement, and purpose.
Why does life feel out of balance?
Few people ever reach their full potential. What prevents them from flourishing are the external and internal pressures of the world, forcing them to cultivate certain areas at the cost of others.
Some build successful careers that feel utterly meaningless. Others nurture their family lives at the cost of their health. Still others create endlessly, yet lack the structure to bring their work into the world.
Creating harmony across every dimension of your life is no easy task. With few positive role models and institutions that suppress human wholeness, achieving true balance requires a new way to look at life.
What is Life Integration?
We live in a fractured culture designed to distract us. Because the outside world will constantly pull you off course, you must actively define your own direction. That starts by taking full responsibility for your life.
Integration begins with self-awareness. We are multifaceted beings, yet our default modes of operating are often unconscious. Only when you see where you stand can you begin to develop the neglected areas of your life.
Small changes compound as you cultivate each area. Elevating one domain will naturally lift others. As each area comes into balance, your purpose emerges. This allows you to live from the core of who you are.
7 Life Areas
Examine every area. Develop what is out of balance.
Integrate to achieve self-mastery.
Three Pillars of Self-Mastery
Relationships · Heart · Spirit
The inner world: the depth of connection with people and nature, the capacity to feel and create, and connection with what is sacred.
When your life is in alignment, you’ll discover your gift. Knowing who you are will guide you in the right direction, while a lack of self-knowledge results in a life that’s not your own.
Body · Mind · Matter
The outer world: health and vitality, clarity and knowledge through thought, and both access to and an abundance of resources.
When you live with achievement, you’ll actualize your gift. Developing your capabilities enables you to create in the world, while a lack of skill results in unfulfilled potential.
Service
Purpose lies at the intersection of alignment and achievement. Manifesting your gift into the world is what creates lasting fulfillment.
A life with purpose moves beyond the individual. Because human existence is interconnected, honoring the relationship between self and world is where meaning is found.
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Common Questions
The 7 Life Areas are Body, Relationships, Mind, Heart, Matter, Spirit, and Service. The 7LA framework forms a comprehensive map for personal development. The ultimate goal is self-mastery, which creates a life of alignment, achievement, and purpose.
A life area is a dimension of lived experience that requires investment of energy and can be developed through practice. Body and Relationships, Mind and Heart, and Matter and Spirit specifically train skills and capacities, while Service creates integration between them.
The very first step to self-mastery is self-awareness. You must examine each of the seven areas of your life to see where you currently stand. Acknowledging which domains you have neglected allows you to make small, incremental changes toward overall life balance.
You restore balance by identifying which of the Seven Life Areas you have neglected. Because our primary modes of operating are often unconscious, the first step is self-awareness. By making small improvements in a neglected area, life integration becomes possible.
In the 7LA framework, cultivating your Relationships, Heart, and Spirit creates alignment. Developing the areas of Body, Mind, and Matter produces achievement. You find your life purpose at the intersection of these two forces. Alignment reveals your unique gift, while achievement helps you actualize it.
Your true calling reveals itself after you commit to the journey of self-mastery. By consistently investing in each area of your life, you realize the end-goal of self-improvement, which is to be of service. Your unique gift—your dharma or eco-niche—is the innate ability of your soul that allows you to serve the world.
