Three (New Age) Approaches to Living

We live in an age of excess information, fractured attention, and borrowed beliefs. Old structures are cracking, but the human operating system hasn’t changed much in a few thousand years.

We still have a body, a mind, and a sensing, meaning-making awareness moving through space and time.

So instead of more rules, doctrines, or productivity hacks, I return to three principles that quietly organise everything else.

Not commandments.

Not laws.

Operating instructions.

1. Live With Love

Strip religion back to its bones and you’ll find the same core message repeating itself in different languages, rituals, and stories:

treat life as sacred.

In Christian doctrine, “love thy neighbour” is not sentimental advice - it’s a structural instruction.

When you live with love, you naturally reduce harm.

You soften judgment.

You act with consideration.

You create harmony instead of friction.

Love here isn’t romance or emotional indulgence. It’s compassionate intelligence.

It’s patience when it would be easier to react.

It’s restraint when ego wants dominance.

It’s choosing coherence over chaos.

Living with love aligns you with others, but it also aligns you with yourself.

It governs how you speak, how you touch, how you earn, how you consume, how you disagree. It becomes a filter through which all action passes.

You don’t need ten commandments when one principle keeps you oriented.

2. Practice Pure Thinking

Reality does not arrive neutral.

It is interpreted.

Everything you experience is filtered through your senses, your nervous system, your past conditioning, and the internal dialogue running in the background like a low-grade radio signal.

That signal - the quality and content of your thoughts - shapes your emotions, your behaviour, and eventually your body.

I work with a simple discipline:

assume your thoughts have sound.

As if everyone around you could hear them.

This mental rule cleans house quickly.

It reduces silent judgment, compulsive comparison, and the mental gossip we excuse because “it’s only in my head.”

When thoughts are treated as audible, they become intentional.

Pure thinking doesn’t mean forced positivity.

It means honesty without cruelty.

It means observing a thought before identifying with it.

It means choosing clarity over distortion.

When thoughts are clean, emotions stabilise.

When emotions stabilise, actions become deliberate.

When actions are deliberate, life feels less chaotic.

This rule naturally feeds back into the first: loving thought produces loving action.

3. Be Aweh (Aware)

To be aweh is to be here.

Not rehearsing the past.

Not forecasting catastrophe or fantasy.

Not hijacked by unconscious loops.

Awareness is full sensory presence; noticing where you are, what you feel, what you hear, what your body is doing right now.

It’s the difference between living life and thinking about life while missing it.

When awareness drops, physiology follows. Breath shortens.

Muscles tense.

The nervous system slips into stress.

Thought accelerates.

Dysfunction snowballs.

Thoughts influence emotions.

Emotions influence biochemistry.

Biochemistry influences cellular behaviour.

So if you want to change the body, you must begin with awareness of the mind.

This is where ancient language meets modern biology.

The “all-seeing eye” is not mystical fantasy - it’s meta-awareness.

The ability to observe thought, emotion, and sensation without being swallowed by them.

When head (thinking), heart (feeling), and gut (instinct) are aligned, something stabilises.

You experience coherence.

Call it higher self.

Call it consciousness.

Call it God, source, or intelligent order.

Names don’t matter.

Alignment does.

Integration

These rules are not separate.

Love informs thinking.

Thinking supports awareness.

Awareness sustains love.

Together they pull you out of unconscious reaction and into conscious participation.

Not perfection.

Not enlightenment theatre.

Just a cleaner, steadier way of being human in a noisy world.

Old wisdom, practiced deliberately, becomes radical again.

And in this age, that might be the most rebellious act of all.