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Attitudes A delectable Menu Food is one of our major attractions; at any time, any where, under any circumstances we can enjoy good food. The menu given below contains a number of items of food that are relished by certain societies. The same items, sometimes, cause nausea among certain other groups. If everything is given to you in a platter, what are the items you would like to taste?
Question: Why do you think that certain kinds of foods that are relished by certain groups, are not being considered good enough for consumption by some others? We asked this question at our seminars on mind control and the majority of the participants agreed that the main cause is ATTITUDES. Answer: The answers given by different groups differ. But most of them do not conform to accepted principles of logic. Some of them think it is the religion. What are attitudes? An attitude is a belief that you seldom question. Attitudes are based on values and are given to you either by your parents or by your teachers. Most of our attitudes come to us from our own environment: The mass media is the main vendor of attitudes. The main function of the advertising industry is to make you believe that certain products or services are necessary for you. You could enhance your levels of happiness by either purchasing, owning or using happy products. How do you classify attitudes? Attitudes can be classified in several ways: useful, harmful, dangerous, good and bad are a some ways of classifying them. A lot of other adjectives can be used. A Himalayan Task Recently Reuters News Agency reported that a blind man has conquered the Mount Everest, the highest point in the world. Can this story be useful to us for our analysis? Question No. 2: When you and I cannot move about in our own house, with our eyes blind-folded, how can a blind man PLAN, DECIDE, UNDERTAKE and successfully CONQUER the tallest mountain in the world? What is your answer? Question No. 3 Would you like to join a team that is planning to conquer the Mount Everest, next season? All the finances required will be made available to you free. If your answer is No, before saying that no please jot down the reasons why you cannot join. After that, you might be able to analyze whether you can justify them. Can your reasons be really justified? Or, is your list a statement of wrong, unquestioned or untested beliefs? If you would like to say Yes, please analyze the reasons. That was about the positive side of attitudes. We sometimes, make decisions based on assumptions or beliefs, which we have not tested. We follow or emulate others without doing our own thinking, just to satisfy our cravings In some of the backward societies, we sometimes observe the syndrome now known as can’t and don’t have. That means that they do not have the resources or the contacts or the knowledge necessary to move up, and therefore they cannot move up the social ladder. The difference is the way of looking at, or we can call it an attitude of mind. The blind man who conquered the Mount Everest is a good example. Can attitudes be changed? Yes. It is possible to change the attitudes of any person. Our research in this field and our seminars to change the attitudes of people at all levels have confirmed that It is possible to change he attitudes of people. How? Brain washing. In recent years brain washing has become very popular. Religious groups, terrorist organizations, political parties and even some state sector organizations resort to brain washing and use this technology to get conformation from certain types of individuals. How it is done, differs from one organization to the other. Change the environment: If your friend is refusing to eat dog meat because she has a pet dog in her home, will she taste dog meat if she goes to Korea and work in a restaurant that serves dog meat. The probability that she might taste it is very high. Environment is the main factor that contributes to help you change your attitudes. Change life objectives: If you decide today that you must be a billionaire within the next five years, it is absolutely necessary that you should evaluate your attitudes towards work, leisure, entertainment and even sleeping. Your attitudes regarding food and even exercises should be evaluated with the objective of finding out more time for your future plans. Training: All educational institutes while planning a new course of studies determines the attitudinal and behavioral changes that are expected of the students. The main objective of education is to change attitudinal and behavioral patters. If you follow a course of studies either in Karate or in Meditation, it involves certain changes in your attitudes without which you cannot master the subject. Mass media: When you watch television, listen to radio or read books, magazines and news papers, you expose yourself to the points of view of others, things that happen in and around you or in their environments. Some publications explicitly state their objectives, which normally includes changing the attitudes of their readers. It is rather difficult these days to save ourselves from the advertising campaigns which are designed to change the attitudes of the general public. One of the main objective of this project is also to help you change your attitudes. Emotions: Emotions generated as a result of our associations with the environment in which you live people,events, things or concepts can change our attitudes. When a young person falls in love with some one for the first time, his or her set of attitudes is completely transformed. So is anger, hatred or even envy. Personal Experience: Individuals gather new experiences every second. A simple experience such as an accident or even personal sickness such as heart surgery could change the attitudes of a person. The new experience that the people have acquired after the tsunami wave in the Indian Ocean have helped most of the people to acquire different types of attitudes. Age: People change their attitudes towards life when they gather experience in the university of life. Cultivating useful and positive attitudes is a must for a person who is planning to be successful, healthy and happy. The attitudes of people change when they age. Cultivating useful attitudes An attitude is a belief, and if you want to cultivate a new attitude it should be something that you should be able to believe and are comfortable with. It should be done with a clear understanding of what you need. If you are planning to cultivate a new attitude, what is the best way to start? The first step is to identify an attitude which you are planning to cultivate. Commit it to writing or use an icon to remind you about your new attitude and place it in a location that you cannot miss it on a regular basis. The reason is that it should be your supreme objective and you should be conscious of it throughout. Do whatever you can to remind you about the new attitude, without allowing it to be forgotten. It is reported that Kathy Freeman, the Australian Olympic Gold Medalist at Sydney Olympics, was requested by her mother to write the following sentence several times every day.“I will be the greatest athlete in the world.” When you see your new resolution constantly it will get into the subconscious mind and will automatically guide your behavioral patterns. Justify it: The basic truth is that you cannot be happy, unless you are healthy. Acquiring a new attitude Now let us look at the process of acquiring a new attitude. The new attitude: Health is supreme If you are successful in getting this belief transformed as an attitude, it will result in substantial changes in your behavioral patterns. In this case, the expected changes are, that you will:
Conclusion It is high time that you should take stock of all your attitudes that prevent you from moving towards success or to the perceived state of your kingdom of happiness. It will be useful to look at the following . Among the most under privileged groups, there are the people who dare take certain decisions which you and I cannot even believe. Cultivating a new attitude or a change in an attitude is a change that will be registered in the subconscious mind. It will also change your behavioral patters.. Unless you change your attitude about happiness, it is rather difficult to reach that Kingdom of Happiness ¨ |
