Brady The Complete Being

Finding and Loving the Real You
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-61599-918-7
Verlag: Loving Healing Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, 156 Seiten

Reihe: Spiritual Dimensions

Like many people, I used to spend a good deal of my time fantasizing about the life I wish I had. Caught in the mindset of 'I could never do that,' 'why can't I be more like so and so,' and 'nothing is ever going to change', I felt my dreams slipping away. But one simple question, why not?, changed my life forever. This phrase challenged to take control of my life and start driving towards the me I always hoped I could be.
The Complete Being: Finding and Loving the Real You will help you realize your own hopes and dreams. This book contains the wealth of my own personal journey to contentment in easy to adapt exercises that you can use to identify and strive towards your own life ambitions. You will regain control of your own destiny by applying these simple yet thought-provoking exercises in the mental, spiritual, emotional, and physical aspects of your life.
What People are Saying About The Complete Being
'The main point I saw in this work, and one I thought was outstanding, is that we are all individuals, unique and that one set formula may not work for everyone. I believe that is what makes her work different than other self-help books.'
--Shirley Johnson, Midwest Book Review
'I found myself submersed in this book, discovering it a true source of encouragement, that however overwhelming life becomes, we should stay aware of what we want, never forgetting where we come from or what our dreams are.'
--Tracy Jane-Newton, An Alternative View
'The Complete Being is meant to aid you in the further exploration of your wants, needs, and desires as well as your hopes and dreams. It is a very suitable guide for those painful first steps toward selfknowledge.'
--Robert Rich, PhD, author of Cancer: A Personal Challenge By Tami Brady
Psychology / SELF-HELP
The Spiritual Dimensions Series
Series Editor: Robert Rich, Ph.D.
More info: www.LovingHealing.com

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brady, Tami

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Mental Aspects
     “Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.” —William James, The Principles of Psychology (1890) What exactly are mental aspects?
The best way to think of the mental aspects of your life is as the training, knowledge, or resources that you need to achieve your objectives. The specific intellectual elements required by you depend upon your situation. For instance, you may want to gain education or instruction to succeed in your job, career, or calling. Alternatively, you may feel compelled to explore deeper into your religious philosophy or may require additional information to help improve your emotional or bodily health. Thus, the precise intellectual ingredients you need will depend entirely upon your distinct purpose. In your life now, you have a certain assortment of skills and expertise. This mixture includes various things you learned in school, from your parents, with your peers, and from your own experiences. If you are happy and content with your life you have just the right combination of traits for your situation. However, if you find that you are stuck in a job that you hate, can't get a promotion at work, feel that your life is in a rut, or just want to make changes in your academic level, then you may need to modify or change your current situation to better suit your needs. Simply put, you have to exercise these skills to create healthier ones to suit your life and your aspirations. It is important to note that education does not necessarily have to come from formal learning situations, from a professor, or from reading books. Training may take both formal and informal forms. Knowledge may be gained from a master, from a peer, or even from a child. Data may be gained from a book, heard from another, learned through your own personal experiences, or be acquired while watching someone else. In this way, the specific type and method of your mental aspect exercise is not as important as how that individualized mix of know-how relates directly to your distinctive needs and desires. In other words, you need to find the right tool for the right job.       How do mental aspects affect daily life?
For much of human history, people have lived in small communities in which one single culture and way of thinking prevailed. Although this condition continues even to modern day, mostly in rural towns and villages, it is probably best illustrated to you as the life your parents or grandparents might have led. Had you been born into this type of life, most of the knowledge you would have needed would have been learned directly from your parents. In the not-so-distant past, sons were trained to undertake the work of their fathers. Thus, if you were male and your father was a farmer, he would have taught you to be a farmer. If your father was a shopkeeper, he would have trained you to run the family business. Similarly, in the past, daughters were normally trained by their mothers. Thus, if you were a girl, you would have learned to assist the male household head, manage the household chores, and take care of the family's childcare needs. Included within these lessons, for both sexes, would have been embedded information about proper behaviour, ideal lifestyles, and correct viewpoints. These ideas would have been further reinforced by the like actions of other members within your immediate peer group who would have lived nearly identical lifestyles to your parents. In this way, had you been born in such a traditional culture, almost all of the intellectual characteristics you would have gained would have come from an informal teaching situation through watching and doing. Since most of the people in your hometown would have held similar values and lived in like situations to your own, you wouldn't really have needed to seek out new information. Life circumstances wouldn't really have changed enough from one generation to the next to warrant such efforts. In this way, all of the know-how you would have needed to undertake your job, raise a family, and live happily in your world would have already been given to you through your parental and societal teachings. Moreover, this information would have been presented in a very personalized way so that you would have easily been able to comprehend, directly relate, and replicate in your daily life. On the whole, you would have been fairly content with your daily existence despite the normal hardships, traumas, and tragedies associated with living life. Since the overall makeup of the population would have been fairly homogenous, additional instruction or new skills wouldn't really have been needed to compensate for the presence of novel concepts or innovative notions. In fact, such things would have invited potential confusion and chaos. Such complications would have required guidance and tools not already built into your communal learning system, thus, making this conventional system inadequate to the needs of yourself and other people within your culture. To protect against such concerns, you and other members of the group would have tended to quickly extinguish any novel ideas or innovative concepts that you came into contact with. This action would have ranged from the correction of an unruly child to induce proper behaviour through the segregation and exclusion of individuals who acted or thought differently from the norm to the violent attack of people with alternative viewpoints and lifestyles (including renunciation of the potential wisdom of these individuals and ultimately war). Unfortunately, these reactions would have been more out of fear of traumatic upheaval than the realities of such situations. Yes, innovation can create change and confusion. Change sometimes makes standard ways of learning inadequate requiring alternative education. However, this new data could also potentially benefit both you as an individual and your culture as a whole. For instance, the introduction of inventive farming methods may make crops more productive and less susceptible to disease. Likewise, new details about basic home safety as well as alternative views on food preparation and preservation methods may make lives more enjoyable, more comfortable and, less dangerous. New ideas may also create a brand new outlook on an old situation. For instance, you may have thought of a nearby mountain as merely a pretty view. However, to another culture, this same mountain may be seen as a good source of minerals or a great place to ski. In having had contact with these alternative mountain interpretations, you may be able to use this new information to make new types of goods from the raw materials or start a healthy fitness activity alternative through skiing. Thus, change isn't always good, but by the same token it isn't always entirely bad either. Instead of living in the traditional world of the past, however, you live in a modern global society. You may not want to replicate your parents' exact career and lifestyle choices. If you want to become an architect, you are going to need a bit different instruction than your father the farmer or your homemaker mother can provide. However, just because the training you require to become an architect is different than the knowledge of your parents does not mean that your skills are somehow superior (or inferior) to your parent's wisdom. This parental information simply may not be able to give you all of the tools you'll need to become a happy and successful architect. If, however, you want to become a farmer or a homemaker and live in the exact same circumstances as your parents, then this parental training may be more applicable to your needs. Thus, the right type of education (formal and informal) is specific to the required task. In this way, instruction that aids your personal aims is appropriate while information that does not help your aspirations may not be as suitable. Therefore, since your parental instruction often does not fit your individualized situation, you may need to look for alternate guidance. While undertaking this task, you'll have to learn new ways of undertaking tasks, be open to alternative interpretations, and perhaps even discover different ways of living. As you gain these new opportunities, often in formal learning situations, you may also come into daily contact with people with other occupations, cultures, personalities, and skills. To better communicate, understand, and interact with these individuals, you may need to learn a little about how other people live, what types of jobs they do, what they value, and the ways in which they interpret the world around them. From these experiences, you will realize that others have differing opinions and interpretations of what jobs are important, how life should be lived, and the ways in which the world can be explained. Like your parents' wisdom, the education of these other individuals is also not automatically superior or inferior to yours. Again, some forms of learning may be more desirable in certain situations (when helping your goals) and not so helpful in others instances (when these resources hinder your aims). Once again, if you happen to be in the exact same situation as this individual, then their form of training may also help you in your objectives. Since your world is such a mix of differing possibilities concerning career,...