Ethics Box - Exploring Personality and Character for sake of self-improvement

Tapsearch Com Editor and Artist Ray Tapajna with EthicsBox.com - studies Personality and Character for the sake of self-improvement. His mission is to probe ways for a new "Solidarity" for self, others and society under the guiding thought that each of us want to feel all together in one place at one time. It is also obvious that workers have no voice in the process of Globalization and Free Trade and hopefully the EthicsBox will prompt a change. See a posts about the "unnetted" at Bizarre Politics com and The Rationale com. Later we will get into the power of the spoken word and how all of us can improve ourselves in this discipline too. It is obvious workers have no voice in the process of Globalization and Free Trade.

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Ethics Box - September 2008

Habits are very intimate

September 15th 2008 17:18

This continues our exploration of character and personality for the sake of self-improvement by Ray Tapajna from his notes from course by Father McQuade, SJ, JCU - this post continues the study of habits.

The relationship between personality and habit is very intimate, but it is more so between character and habit. Related to character, habit should be a process of choosing good, the morally good, that is the very essence of character - we even find ourselves attracted to the homeless poet who demonstrates this over the successful author who doesn't

There is a moral quality that can be applied to habits. A good habit becomes a notable virtue. The bad habit takes us to the dark side of life. It may be even pleasurable for a time but we know what the negative end results will ultimately follow. A bad habit becomes a vice.

Forming a good character is not as easy as forming a good personality. We see many attractive personalities without good characters. Character is the inner disposition of the mind and heart towards the better things of life. It shows us more than anything else , we have to live with ourselves after the party is over. Bad habits affects the nerves and ruts in the nervous system and can contaminate the whole person.

Habits can become routine and hidden in the actions of the day as we live it. Habits can develope clever dodges that even affect our own mentality. However a good habit that becomes routine adds well-being and adds real delight in our lives while balancing out our personality.

Routines affect our social life too. We can exclude the elements that take us down with routines that truly free us up. We can all recall the quiet times we choose that brought us a good reflection of our actions that translated into the reality of the good things in life. Enlightenment can become a habit. Good habits opens many more doors than bad ones. A bad habit is like a bad part of a song that keep repeating over and over again.

In our next post we will study the formation of habits.

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Habits can be habitual

September 5th 2008 18:27

Continuing study of Personality and Character for the sake of Self-Improvement - by Ray Tapajna, Tapart News and Art Editor and based on notes from Father McQuade SJ JCU course

Habits in Personality and Character

We all have habits. We are creatures of habit. We are what are habits are. Habits play a big part in our personality and character for better or for worse. Habits are part of both our conscious and our sub-conscience state. It is habit that cares for the unconsciously right choices that thouroughly show up in a good person. We should have a clear idea about the power of habits in order to influence our personality and character in positive ways.

The general notion of habit is a fixed disposition to do a thing, and a facility in doing it, which is a result of numerous repititions of the action. Some are bad, some are indifferent, and some are good. Animals have habits too but human habits can be modified by the intellect and will in a rational manner. With this power to modified habits, human beings can use them for the sake of self-improvement and affect their personality and character.

Habits of thoughts can translate into habits of action. With our reasoning we can control our habits because new reasoned habits can replace habits we do not like or are a hindrance to a good personality and character. Every sensation and every experience leaves a record in the nervous system of a person. This record is made in the fibres of the brain as well as in the nerves of the whole system. The brain remains the control center. For example, music affects us in many ways. And playing a musical instrument , has the eyes reading the notes, the hands performing many actions with the sound controlled by the ears. All these functions create a disposition of the brain and senses where recall indexes what was the best way of doing it. As the musicians plays the instrument over and over again many of the functions become just natural responses without much effort. We can employ the effects of this order and apply it to all parts of life. Typing is another example where habit takes over control of the functions with very little mental adjustments as there were when we start learning to type. This order can be noted in all basic operations of every trade, profession and so forth.

We can also use this order to form habits of thought. We see this in people who pray the rosary or in a mantra of chanting a prayer or a song. Thus our habits , physical and intellectual , have a basis in our nervous system and being a physical thing, can be managed and controlled with great efficiency.

This encourages all of us that we can change the habits we do not like and enhance those we like for the sake of self-improvement in our personality and character.

In our next post, we will go further into what is possible to modifiy in our quest for self-improvement.