The seventh principle is ‘having a purpose in life’. Older people living in a Blue Zone enjoy their life, and each day brings them a new impulse. In each Blue Zone, some leitmotiv exists which expresses this optimistic view on life: ‘Pura Vida’ in Nicoya Peninsula, ‘Akent’annos’, which means ‘may you live up to a hundred years old’ in Ogliastra; ‘Ikigai’ which includes an intense feeling of happiness, and has a positive connotation towards a goal, in Okinawa; whereas, in Ikaria, being communist does not contradict being religious. The belief in the existence of a superior being is particularly strong among the centenarians, who see it as the main reason for their exceptional longevity.
Longevity Blue Zones 