How to Find Zero

Challenge your conceptions and read on because finding and recognizing Zero is your key to happiness.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Things You’ll Need:

• pen
• paper

1. Ask yourself, "What is zero to me?"
   
   Record your answer before continuing.
2. What did you write?
   
   A symbol; a number perhaps; a person of poor quality; a marking used for measurements?
3. Your opinion of zero greatly defines how you respond or react; how you cope and heal. It defines humbleness and greatness; insecurity and selfishness.
4. Merriam-Webster defines zero as being the arithmetical symbol 0 denoting the absence of all magnitude or quantity; an insignificant person or thing : nonentity; a state of total absence or neutrality; the lowest point.
   
   Dictionary.com states zero as, being, naught; nothing or the lowest point or degree.
   
   Note key words such as "nothing", "lowest", "insignificant", "nonentity", "absence". Although there may be alternate meanings, the general theme illustrated with these adjectives is negative or pessimistic.
5. Alternatively, zero is said to be "the point of departure in reckoning; specifically: the point from which the graduation of a scale begins", this being a more optimistic or positive assessment possibly.
6. Dissecting these values helps us to better understand and form a more accurate mental vision of our topic.
   
   Start by noting that zero is not without value; it is not "nothing".
   
   Nothing, is in fact more accurately described as "null". Null has no binding force; it is truly without value. Example, an experienced computer software programmer would not enter a 0 to dictate no value because zero has value. To produce a true valueless equation, null is used.
7. Zero is the origin of measurement i.e. the line or point from which all divisions of a scale are measured in either a positive or negative direction.
   
   Zero is the perfect balancing point. Balance is essential for happiness.
8. Every encounter that you experience in life has value, whether positive or negative. By assigning experiences with numbers, both positive and negative you can reckon matters based upon individual experiences, daily life, ongoing experiences, personal and business relationships etc.
9. Where there is love there is hate; happiness, sorrow; progression, digression. We live a naturally, perfectly balanced existence. Where the problems lie is with our creation of excess, leading to imbalance.
10. Imaging throwing a ball in zero gravity. With very little strength or effort, that ball with continue on its path for a very long duration of time.
11. Now imagine throwing that same ball in our atmosphere. It may go up but it will come down. It may bounce but will quickly lay motionless. A balance to some degree but imbalance is its demise.
12. Keep a daily journal and for every emotion, action, occurrence, etc. designate a corresponding number on your scale of positives and negatives. Did you begin at a 5? a -1?
    
    Then keep a running balance, calculating as you go for each occurrence. You decide how and when to total.
    
    Use these numbers to define where you are at any juncture.
13. Your numbers will soon offer great insight to the imbalances in your life.
    
    You will learn to dictate your experiences and to make them be what it is that you require to find your Zero, i.e. your balance.
    
    Your personal insight will mature as you learn to reposition ideals and expectations.
    
    By continually documenting, associating, evaluating and meditating you can be a Zero and you can be truly happy.