Course

Lesson 5: I´ll do my best…

Choose your thoughts:

1. Take conscience of some automatic thoughts that live frequently in your mind and  causes limits towards yours personal growth.
2. Write down or better describe, those thoughts that are a mist in your mind. Only 15 words.
3. Analyze and think over the causes.

For example: they usually begin as: “I can not…”, “Never…”, “I am useless», “I am clumsy”. They affect in a negative way. Now turn them into positive and write them in a positive way: (YES I can, YES I will do it, YES I am able…).

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LEARNING THOROUGHLY

• To apply your intelligence to cope for a personal crisis, it is -for Köhler- perception of the relations between situations.  Ortega thinks that beliefs are a legacy over what is real. And  not all beliefs are true.

Now you need clarity. Ortega says: «Man is not his body, which is a thing, neither a soul, which is also a thing, a subtle thing; man it is not absolutly a thing, but a drama: his own life. And it is a drama, because human life it is about how a being that we call  I, that is our individual person and consists in a bunch of projects  to become, of aspirations, in a life program, fights for realization in strange element that we call circunstance».

• I have not any psychology of Fight.
• Psychology is for Carpintero «the science which explains the biography of life»…Maybe you have not needed to fight up to now. And it surprises me. Maybe life has run quite easily for you. It is your first hit of forge?
• Yes, I think so. At least, ever before I have never suffered so much. Do not laugh at me. And do not consider me as  a person spoilt by Fortune. It has cost me quite a lot  to educate myself and to find a job, and independent living, but I have not suffer.
  I have not experience in enduring.
• Well, you are now starting to learn thoroughly. Séneca says that you do not learn at the school, but at Life.

Exercises

Choose your thoughts:

1. Take conscience of some automatic thoughts that live frequently in your mind and that are a limit in your way towards personal growth.
2. Write down or better describe, those thoughts that are as mist on your mind. Only 15 words.
3. Analyze and think over the causes. For example: they usually begin as: “I can not…”, “Never…”, “I am useless», “I am clumsy”. They determine in a negative way. Now turn them and write in a positive way: (YES I can, YES I will do it, YES I am able…).

Maximum time: 25 minutes

EVERY DAY IN FRONT OF THE MIRROR AND UNTIL THE NEXT WEEK, TRY TO REPEAT A POSITIVE THOUGHT ANYONE YOU MAY CHOOSE (for example: «I will do it…’, ‘I can do it…’, ‘I am on the way…’). SEE YOU ON LESSON 6.