Our basic attitude shapes how we think, speak, and act. When heart and mind work together as equals, we develop an attitude that fosters wellbeing. Our relations deepen, connections strengthen, and success in the world grows. It’s the art of living well.
Exercise one: Reviewing your attitude
- Consider your attitude in all the settings of our life settings
- Are you pleased with your attitude? Does it include your heart?
- If there’s difference between how you’d like to be and how you are, why is this so.
- What stops you from being the way you’d like to be?
Exercise two: Considering gratitude
- Do you think there’s a connection between gratitude and the heart’s love? Why /why not?
- Think of the people involved in getting a favorite manufactured item to you.
- Allow a feeling of gratefulness to grow.
- Notice a feeling of wanting to give back.
- Explore your channels for giving back.
Quotations
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
— William James
Everything can be taken away but one thing: the last of human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
— Viktor E. Frankl
“If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.
— Meister Eckhart