The first step to Being Alive is being born into a physical body.
The second step to being alive is to make conscious choices.
Making conscious mental choices is a pre-requisite for being alive.
Not making choices leads to a slow & lingering death.
The third step to being alive is feeling emotional experiences.
With the experience of emotional feeling, life really becomes alive.
Being alive requires my being physically awake, mentally alert & emotionally aware.
Being physically awake is the first dimension of being alive.
Being mentally alert adds another dimension to being alive.
Being emotionally aware, whilst mentally alert & physically awake, is being three dimensionally alive.
Being Spiritually Alive is an even deeper experience.