Friday, February 24, 2006
How Are Your Beliefs Affecting Your Life?
In the 1960’s when cigarette smoking was still prevalent in the U.S. a priest offended his superior when he meekly asked, “May I smoke while praying? He probably would have received a more positive response if he’d made a small change in his request, asking instead, May I pray while I am smoking?”
Such is the power of context. As you start your new year, set a powerfully positive context. How will you choose to look at your glass of 2006? Half full or half empty?
Virginia Satir once said: "We connect through our similarities. We grow through our differences.” If we weren't so similar, we wouldn't be able to talk to each other. If we weren't so different, we wouldn't have anything to talk about.
To get a clearer picture of your beliefs, take the Implicit Association Test.
(http://www.yale.edu/implicit)
It measures unconscious bias.
Researchers Dr. Anthony Greenwald of the University of Washington and Dr. Mahzarin Banaji of Yale developed it.
Want a more positive, resilient way of looking at the world? Here’s some great follow-up by reading (each book is the best of its kind in its category) …
Emotions Revealed
(http://sayitbetter.com/store/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=ER&Category_Code=T2F ) ,
Influence
(http://sayitbetter.com/store/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=IS&Category_Code=T2F)
Learned Optimism
(http://sayitbetter.com/store/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=LO&Category_Code=T2F)
Vital Lies, Simple Truths: The Psychology of Self-Deception
(http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-0684831074-6).
Here’s a timely excerpt form Vital Lies, “Self-deception operates both at the level of the individual mind, and in the collective awareness of the group. To belong to a group of any sort, the tacit price of membership is to agree not to notice one's felling of uneasiness and misgivings, and certainly not to question anything that challenges the group's way of doing things.
The price for the group in this arrangement is that dissent, even healthy dissent, is stifled. [There is a] lesson for those who want to break through the cocoons of silence that keep vital truths for the collective awareness. It is the courage to seek the truth and to speak it that can save us from the narcotic of self-deception. And each of us has access to some bit of truth that needs to be spoken.
It is a paradox of our time that those with power are too comfortable to notice the pain of those who suffer, and those who suffer have no power.
Read more (http://www.centerchange.org/store/review.asp?id=70)
Such is the power of context. As you start your new year, set a powerfully positive context. How will you choose to look at your glass of 2006? Half full or half empty?
Virginia Satir once said: "We connect through our similarities. We grow through our differences.” If we weren't so similar, we wouldn't be able to talk to each other. If we weren't so different, we wouldn't have anything to talk about.
To get a clearer picture of your beliefs, take the Implicit Association Test.
(http://www.yale.edu/implicit)
It measures unconscious bias.
Researchers Dr. Anthony Greenwald of the University of Washington and Dr. Mahzarin Banaji of Yale developed it.
Want a more positive, resilient way of looking at the world? Here’s some great follow-up by reading (each book is the best of its kind in its category) …
Emotions Revealed
(http://sayitbetter.com/store/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=ER&Category_Code=T2F ) ,
Influence
(http://sayitbetter.com/store/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=IS&Category_Code=T2F)
Learned Optimism
(http://sayitbetter.com/store/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=LO&Category_Code=T2F)
Vital Lies, Simple Truths: The Psychology of Self-Deception
(http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-0684831074-6).
Here’s a timely excerpt form Vital Lies, “Self-deception operates both at the level of the individual mind, and in the collective awareness of the group. To belong to a group of any sort, the tacit price of membership is to agree not to notice one's felling of uneasiness and misgivings, and certainly not to question anything that challenges the group's way of doing things.
The price for the group in this arrangement is that dissent, even healthy dissent, is stifled. [There is a] lesson for those who want to break through the cocoons of silence that keep vital truths for the collective awareness. It is the courage to seek the truth and to speak it that can save us from the narcotic of self-deception. And each of us has access to some bit of truth that needs to be spoken.
It is a paradox of our time that those with power are too comfortable to notice the pain of those who suffer, and those who suffer have no power.
Read more (http://www.centerchange.org/store/review.asp?id=70)
