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Ethics Box - March 2008

Imagination tune up (LINK)

March 24th 2008 23:46

Here's another exercise for you. View the image and let the imagination take over. Take in the words and imagine growing better and better in everyway.
Imagination Tune Up:

Every moment in everyway, I am getting better and better in everyway

I CAN DO IT!

There is also the power of "holy indifference" we can pray for to guard us against the suprises in living experiences. It helps us know we can react better no matter what someone says or does in a surprising way - good or bad.

Here is a secret of "understanding yourself" and understanding others. Reconstruct a "friendly imagination" A "friendly imagination" has power. It has power to raise you up and others will seem to think you have some deep insights over the great tragicomedy of life.
Know that time is a healer. Know that you can come up to the plate that you can reach into the moments full of life.

A "friendly imagination" generates new insights. It can also generate emotions within us favorable to all we meet. It can generate a powerful driving force to wish others well being and that well being become like a bee flying from flower to flower. Others will experience a favorable emotion towards us. In this way a reciprocal benevolence can transform everything in its path.

But this "friendly imagination" must be geniune. It can not be a put on. Few things are more repellent as the perception of false emotion and in using others for selfish gains. An accomplished actor can not act "as if", but must for the moment really feel the emotion to be portrayed. In the process we are overhauled in our own thinking in relations to others. Something better than ever surfaces. Somewhere along the line, we are transformed too.
We move into the full potential of who we are and our personality and character grows better too - sometimes without even knowing it.

View the banner above again and just take in for awhile each day. Take it in before going into an important meeting or even before going home to your spouse and family.

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Tap the power of imagination (LINK)

March 21st 2008 22:41

This follows our last post about a "friendly imagination".

The imagination is a powerful gift. It is a creative tool you can use in many ways for yourself and others. Children have a great insight into this power and use it in play and story telling. As adults we tend to neglect it. We could use it in a "friendly imagination" way just observing others in those quiet waiting times in dentist or doctor's office or in our commuting back and forth from work on the transit system. You can use it prior to a major sales call or meeting to just relax into the possible sequence of events. The imagination can be supplied with plenty of material and background triggers. The imagination is primarily reproductive and therefore it must have something to reproduce. A person developing a "friendly imagination" must have an awareness of what affects other people and also police what affects oneself. Being aware of the triggers, makes it easier to add a positive spin to most anything. The habit of attention, observation, concentration must be cultivated so that the imagination can draw , either to reproduce or to recreate.

The imagination can not be totally set free to do imagine anything it wants. The will has to step in to sort out the good and the bad images. No one can tell what image will appear and the will has to police the operation. The moment one relaxes just a bit, the imagination goes off on its own. A certain power of control has to be exercised. Images can affect our personality in both a good and bad way. If we take in a wrong image, we do our personalities harm. For example, if one spouse is watching another spouses wandering glances, they could create a mountain of harmful images. Emotions start playing a part.
If one is happy, bouyant, joyful then the imagination presents pleasant images and vice versa. When one is down or feeling depressed, it is good mental health exercise , to fill the mind with uplifting images. One can develop a clever use of the imagination in the process.

The contribution of imagination to personality is tremendous. Good speakers know this. A good conversationalist can communicate a vivid picture in words to listeners. The personality reaps benefits from this in many ways on both ends of the conversation. It provides a way for us to understand others. People do not like each other if they fail to understand each other. It takes an imagination to evaluate themselves too with a listening ear. The secret of understanding others may well be called a "friendly imagination". The ability to reconstruct something of the interior of a person's life, their secrets, their terrors, is indirect proportion to imaginative power. People become kindly when they are treated kindly. Human nature has a way of rising to the occasion and we tend to like and even love people who make us rise. We can supply a kind of personality atmosphere to people we are just meeting. It is surprising how much they become what we expect them to be.

Our study of a "friendly imagination" will continue with the next post.

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A friendly imagination (LINK)

March 13th 2008 23:18

Imagine you and me and what we can do together for the common good
In exploring personality and character, the imagination plays a very important part. Of all the four internal senses, imagination seems to have most to do with personality. Imagination is the faculty that gives us life and color, variety and resource not only in our mental life but in the operation of divine influences. Even our abstract thoughts depend on our imagination. Low intelligence is often the basis of a dull imagination. The good thing about imagination, is that you can stimulate and grow it. In fact it is sometime said that the large part of the science of mental hygiene is connected with the management of the imagination.

Imagination is the power or re-presenting to the mind in a concrete way, things that already have been perceived by the senses. The sense organ picks up records of light and sound and translates it into a nerve stimulation and this nerve stimulation is passed on to the cortex of the brain where it leaves a record. The record remains in out subconscious level until we wish to hve it back and the imagination is the power that brings it back. Most people seem to have what is called a visual imagination. We can recall images of mental pictures of things. Others have what is called an auditory imagination recalling things by the sounds fo things imagined. Listening to music can develop an auditory imagination. Still others have what is called a kinesthetic imagination based on motion and particularly muscular motion. Such a person, imagining a train, will feel the swaying, the jarring, the ryythm of the train ride. Nearly everyone has some of each. A blind person from birth will never have a visual imagination - a deaf person will never have an auditory imagination. Most of us have a mixed type with one perhaps stronger than the others.

Imagination can play games in sleep and in between in a matter of degrees. However, imagination has two primary functions. The imagination can be reproductive of past events or it can be creative where it builds something new out of the parts of previous sensations or events. The ceative function is not purely creative but can build new things out of the things on record. Disney created imaginative cartoons this way.

A secondary function of the imagination is to serve the intellect in its acquiring the use of ideas as they say inquiring minds need to know or imagine this or that. The imagination belongs primarily to body rather than the soul as a recording machine. The imagination can only produce images and only images. The intellect produces the ideas. The two things, image and idea, however, though different are always together. Thus the the intellect is powerfully aided by an active and vivid imagination. This makes a tremendous difference in personality with the old saying applying - just imagine walking in their shoes for awhile.

Great inventors must have vivid imagination. Atletes can use a repetitive imagination to hone their skills. In pursuit of the supernatural , saints can imagine what is possible to achieve in this life by imagining all that God can do.

( We will continue exploring the imagination in the next post - the imagination can develop a good personality and we will explore what the "listening ear" can accomplish in terms of a "friendly imagination" that links us to others in good ways.

By Ray Tapajna from notes taken from a college course by Father McQuade - using my imagination to plug it into the present. See other articles and sites at Tapart News and Art that Talks

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