Our team recently met an emergency room physician at one of our wellness previews that was the embodiment of one of my favorite scriptural verses.  That verse is, “You shall love the Lord thy God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.”  This physician had the experience of being ill to the brink of death and then learning to live herself fully by properly balancing three levels of her being as outlined in the verse above.

Loving God with all your heart and soul means living inner values like being true to yourself, being-honest, having integrity, and having self-respect while valuing the same in other people.

Loving God with all your mind means growing and using your intelligence to seek the truth even when the truth hurts and even when knowing and affirming the truth costs you a great deal in terms of personal, material or social gain or profit.

Loving God with all your strength means living the outer values like appreciating and taking care of your healthy body, like acquiring adequate material resources, and by building supportive physical and social environments with all your strength.

In short, loving God means loving yourself.  When you love yourself enough to live fully, you are doing what is necessary to lengthen your days and to achieve prosperity while doing it.