Tapsearch Com EditorHabits can be habitual
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.
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.
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