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Attaining a Humony Mindset
“Life isn’t about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.”
Your emotional and social states are closely tied together, for the emotional side of your life will be primarily (though not exclusively) created, developed, and troubled by your relationships with others.
Unable to notice true feelings as they occur leaves you at their mercy. A crucial difference exists between being caught up in a feeling and recognizing that a feeling is about to sweep you away. The latter is what Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, aptly calls “an emotional hijacking.”
As Goleman points out, emotional self-control, such as delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness, often leads to greater successes and outcomes.
Self-observation and continuous attention to your feelings, emotions, and thoughts are crucial to your self-development journey as you attain a Humony Mindset. Through these observations, you will identify your core strengths, areas for improvement, and techniques for greater self-control.
George Gurdjieff, an author and spiritual teacher of the early 20th Century, wrote, “Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that…
