When someone reaches optimal levels of mental and physical health, what then? Is there something beyond that?

Answer 1

How about achieving optimal levels of harmony with others? Now that personal perfection is complete, rest of the world would need some saving as well.


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Answer 2

Yes. Here are two logical choices.
1) You can focus on your spiritual growth through meditation and learning about this.
2) If you're not into that, helping others reach their optimal mental and physical levels could be a satisfying option.

Whichever way you choose, there is always something beyond what you have accomplished, to apply yourself .
It is only a matter of what you choose to reach for next.

Answer 3

According to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, we first need the basics of water, and to keep the body at balance, then we can focus on need to be secured and accepted by others. Only when the lowest is aquired, can we hope for self realization, or when we are at our optimal levels of mental and physical health. So, the answer, according to Maslow, is no, there is not any thing beyond that level. However, u can only attain it by following the ones below it, not skipping, as i may have found the hard way.

Answer 4

As long as you're happy, why do you even need "optimal levels of mental and physical health". If we worry too much about tomorrow, we'll miss out on today. If we reflect to much on the past, our minds will forget to remember today. So, I would say find your happy medium.

It is good to challenge yourself, for the old saying,"The Devil rides an idle horse"(the horse being an analogy to the mind)isn't all just a saying. Idle minds are 25% more likely to get anxiety, depression, and other mind-related illnesses.

So, if we just challenge ourselves,keep fit in mind and body, we'll be alright. We don't necessarily need to be the top of the top, or creme al la creme, as long as we are content with oursleves.

Answer 5

You'd first have to define what that optimal level is - but then you'd really have to know what the optimal potential of that individual really is!

Since your body is not a good guide upon which to align this question, since it has a very narrow width in which it can operate, that really isn't a good measurement at all. You'd have to wait it out for mechanical bodies to be developed which had less wearing parts than meat bodies to truly give this question credence.

Answer 6

The optimal level is different for everyone.

For a sprinter it would power in the legs (mainly quadriceps)

For a boxer it would be upper body strength




It's the same for mental health.

It would be sharpness for a stockbroker and understanding of self for a theologian


So there's no such thing as perfect, only the pursuit of it.
That’s what great people do.

It's like the end of the rainbow!!!!!!!!!

Answer 7

There is always something beyond optimal. Once the mind and body are in order, you can focus on the inner life, the soul, the spiritual - call it what you will. It's what makes us enjoy smelling the flowers, instead of mindlessly eating them as other animals do.

Answer 8

The reason people strive for optimal levels of mental and physical health is so that they can enjoy happy, healthy lives without the impediment of unhealth. Once you have reached optimal levels, you can downshift into maintaining and focus your attention on other things in your life. You should get healthy to live, not live to get healthy. If working on yourself to attain perfect health is so much a part of your daily life that once you have accomplished it you no longer know what to do with yourself, you need to take a step back because you have developed an obsession.

Answer 9

you don't ever really reach it...

nobody is "normal". that's just a setting on the washer. and besides, you're always going to learn, whether it be how to fix a blender or how to use a walker. so you can't ever really be perfect, mentally.

also, it depends what you mean by optimal. because everyone would argue that there are pros and cons to any physical state.

the answer is what you make it. but most would say that your health declines from there and eventually you'll die.

Answer 10

There is a "higher" consciousness. One can reach a point where they separate the levels of consciousness. Where the unconscious and the subconscious stop influencing the conscious. Without proper education, however, one may misinterpret this state of being with that of a God-like or spiritual sense of "things" and then believe they spoke to "God" which is actually the Conscience in it's separate state. It's one of those, "you had to be there" to really "see" what I have tried to describe.