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==Inquiry on Attention== | ==Inquiry on Attention== | ||
What is your priority in your life? Where do you place your attention and focus? | What is your priority in your life? Where do you place your attention and focus? | ||
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Developing [[Self Awareness]] does not happen automatically through reading books or mental concepts. It is through specific activities and feeling experiences that we are able to increase our power of observation. It is the power of observation or witnessing, that gives us the personal power to change our core beliefs (when we are made aware of them) that may be destructive or create blockages to connect with our inner spirit. | Developing [[Self Awareness]] does not happen automatically through reading books or mental concepts. It is through specific activities and feeling experiences that we are able to increase our power of observation. It is the power of observation or witnessing, that gives us the personal power to change our core beliefs (when we are made aware of them) that may be destructive or create blockages to connect with our inner spirit. | ||
How do your thoughts and words impact how you feel? | * How do your thoughts and words impact how you feel? | ||
* How do your instinctual desires unconsciously drive your behaviors? | |||
How do your instinctual desires unconsciously drive your behaviors? | * How do hidden core beliefs affect your day to day happiness? | ||
How do hidden core beliefs affect your day to day happiness? | |||
Do an inventory of personal thoughts and identify them as Inferior or Superior**, or as love thoughts or fear thoughts. Make a choice right now which thoughts you want to own and those you want to discard. As a goal use the above spiritual self-centering model to keep your mind balanced and stay in centered loving and neutral thoughts. How long can you stay there in the center? Make it a goal to improve your ability to stay within the essence and energy of the keywords that maintain your spiritual center. Bring yourself back to center with breath, and applying neutral association to circumstances when you fall out of inner balance. | Do an inventory of personal thoughts and identify them as Inferior or Superior**, or as love thoughts or fear thoughts. Make a choice right now which thoughts you want to own and those you want to discard. As a goal use the above spiritual self-centering model to keep your mind balanced and stay in centered loving and neutral thoughts. How long can you stay there in the center? Make it a goal to improve your ability to stay within the essence and energy of the keywords that maintain your spiritual center. Bring yourself back to center with breath, and applying neutral association to circumstances when you fall out of inner balance. | ||
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* Motivations | * Motivations | ||
* Perceptions | * Perceptions | ||
* Beliefs | * Beliefs | ||
* Actions | |||
The three major motivation problems to overcome in the Buddhist tradition are greed, anger and delusion. If these constitute much of your motivation then your perceptions, beliefs and actions can be twisted. This may be a helpful model to help with understanding ourselves better as well as the motivation of others around us. | The three major motivation problems to overcome in the Buddhist tradition are greed, anger and delusion. If these constitute much of your motivation then your perceptions, beliefs and actions can be twisted. This may be a helpful model to help with understanding ourselves better as well as the motivation of others around us. | ||
==Personal Integrity== | |||
[[Personal Integrity]] is the quality of being truthful and honest with yourself and others, of intentionally aligning personal behaviors and actions to be congruently aligned with your own [[Personal Value System]], moral principles, and ethics. It generally requires personal choice and commitment to align ourselves to stay consistent with personal values and [[Virtue Based Ethics|ethical standards]], so that when we speak we mean what we say. | |||
==Building Self Esteem== | ==Building Self Esteem== | ||