Self-Realization And Its Benefits

This paper is a reflection paper; it is mainly composed of what we have learnt. In my case it is about what I have learnt on the three cause books. In this paper I would cite my reactions, analysis of the experiences learnt and feelings. It is more personal as compared to other assignment.

There are several personal and interpersonal benefits of gratitude.  Whereas gratefulness has a long history according to most theologians and philosophers, it was not until the 21^st century that the field of psychology started to give gratitude its most required and deserved  practical relevance to our daily lives. Dr. Emmons is the person behind the scientific advancement of gratitude. In its simplest definitions, gratitude is a helpful or positive answer to a benefit. But their interconnected outcome arrives at well beyond those linked to politeness. It is of great importance the research done and evaluated by Dr. Emmons portrays that gratitude improves physical and emotional health, as well as fosters good relationship and develops communities. The emotional side of gratitude includes consciousness of a positive advantage that is developed from an outside source and is not usually deserved or earned. Self opening to the experience of gratitude and with intent expressing it to other people benefit everyone around you, (Adam and Francesca, 2010).

I would say that I am morally elevated. Through the great work of Dr. Emmons I got to learn the way of improving my mood. Whenever am bored or my moods are low, it is through the thought of gratitude makes me come back to my normal joyful thoughts. It is through the good thought of gratitude that I endeavor to keep a positive health which involves positive living; psychological health and having much sleep that makes me stay grateful for life and all that is around me.

I have understood that experience and expression of gratefulness or gratitude by an individual tends to motivates others to show gratitude to others too hence having a virtuous sequence in progress, it also brings in a reciprocal behavior. This makes it very easy to live amongst your friends, neighbors and family.

            The effect of self realization and its benefits would be ultimately aided by the supreme aim of my personal life. Gratitude can make someone have a sense of belonging; through gratitude of an individual gets the feeling of belonging to a society. When an individual does not show gratitude to fellow humans the end result is the same as no one would like to be associated with that kind of person hence the person will be lonely in that place. While someone who has gratitude to others in the society will be missed at one single point whenever not there, hence the feeling of connection to others in the community.  

            I have learnt that through gratitude a person can increase performance at work place. There is a connection between the gratitude and cognitive functioning, in that when someone is grateful to others they develop their abilities and in the work place their ability to work is developed on the positive side. Their skills at the workplace increase because of the positive attributes they get from fiends they show gratitude to. Some of the listed 10 characteristics that distinguish determination are as follows. The ten are building the community, stewardship, foresight, healing awareness, empathy, conceptualization, listening, empathy and commitment to the growth of people. Unfortunately, his inference is based entirely on what he gleaned from reading Dr. Emmons book.

            Self realization is driven into someone’s inner self through what happens after you have been grateful, gratitude gives you the energy to move through everyday life and also to gives you high state of alertness in the way things are done around you. An individual becomes more alert to what is taking place around and about him, it’s the way you show gratitude that makes you alert because you want to know what has just happened in your close environment. The last thing is determination, gratitude emphasizes on determination. The effect of being grateful is the zeal for determination on the things we do.

Self realization makes an individual have great ideas when leading an organization and these ideas include the following; the best attribute of leadership is listening. A leader who has gratitude you would have deep commitment to listen carefully to others. Listening is also including getting in touch with an individual’s own inner voice and seeking to understand one’s body, mind and spirit are communicating. Listening, together with normal periods of suggestion, is necessary to the growth of the servant leader. For instance in the case of the John Hopkins Corporation where the manager has a lot of gratitude, gave a listening ear for over two hours and after that he made what he got from the meeting into practice and the company made some improvement in production and profits.

The benefit of self realization can take any form including recognizing emotions and self recognition and in others is it is brought by intelligence and alertness which is the effect of gratitude in most cases. It also involves the person knowing the way emotions unfold and why that is so. According to Dr. Emmons emotional at the very center of human being lies emotional intelligence. This is to say that the people who are capable of regulation of their emotions, then they can successfully create environments filled with fairness and trust. Findings by Lester and Bower show that the perceptions of the leaders trust in their subordinates are positively related to their job satisfaction and performance. When subordinates feel they are trusted, they will go beyond their call of duty and work harder while at the same time are more satisfied with their jobs. While a verbal comment always considers the sentiments, a written note will be of great value in comparison. This is evident that gratitude plays a big role in our daily lives.

When you ready A Path with Heart, answers all questions apart from those that must be experienced. The writer gives a very strong advice, and articulates, humor, patience, intelligence and wise.  In the book the author starts with his own personal experience just to show emphasis, he goes further to include the basis of vipassana meditation and then leads you step by step slowly into the deepest issues of personal meditation and what a spiritual seeker must do or face. What I find most interesting both hi presentation is that he provides moderate, practical advice on our daily life activities, minute by minute explanation on what to do to investigate, commit to, following the right path.

In considering the spiritual life, an individual must make sure that the path we take is connected to with our hearts, this according to the author and a Buddhist monk known as Kornfield. This was in the early 1974 long before it came into being popular in the 1990s; Kornfield has been doing his teaching to western countries how to integrate the Easter teachings into their daily lives.  The reason why this book is so helpful to our daily lives is because he uses everyday metaphors to explain the indescribable teachings of spiritual transformation (Kornfiel, 1993). For instance, he opens by the single seat lesson taught o him by his inspired teacher. Looking at its literal meaning sitting in the center of an empty room and not being moved or swayed by all those who are around you and the drama that accompanies, on a spiritual context it would mean sticking with a single belief among all of the possible happenings. Inwardly it would mean the determination to stick to that belief throughout even when doubts and difficulties arise until there is true clarity and understanding of what is taking place.  The same could be attributing to this book it is very good self help spiritual book that can only lead to greater personal understanding and clarity.

According to me this book by A Path with Heart, I am confidence that the book will help in giving practical on how an individual can live a spiritual life and amazing mysterious metaphors of super-normal circumstances. There are various pages within the book that talk directly of “gems” that speaks of the different personal experience and struggles, it also show great sense of humor and with compassion. One of the elements that have attracted me to Buddhism is the relativism of lack of dogmatism and superstition. The fundamental lessons are down-to-earth, practical, and completely acceptable to a person who believes in science more than any other thing. Still, many Buddhists consider in re-embodiment, and Kornfield explains some attractive far out understanding involving, for instance, angelic beings, reincarnation, and intuitive powers.

The role of love in self realization is that which make an improvement on the quality of our lives.  But yet a big number of people do not know how much self realization can contribute to the quality of our daily lives. Love helps each one of us to achieve self realization. According to Dean (1998), he shows that the real pandemic in contemporary culture is not only substantial heart disease but also what he terms as spiritual heart disease:  isolation, loneliness, depression and alienation. He portrays how the defenses that we also take to be protecting us from emotional pain are over and over again the same that in point of fact heightens our pain and pressure our survival. Dr. Ornish summarizes eight passageways to healing and intimacy that have equipped a thoughtful difference in his life and this book has helped change the life of millions of others in changing suffering into joy, unhappiness into happiness.

When you take a close look and review the book it gives the best stress management to having a healthy heart.  Ornish now persevere that the for the most part powerful influences on health are intimacy and love. The founder of the Protective Medicine Research Institute says he knows of no other aspects not diet, not exercise, not smoking, not genetics, not stress, not surgery, not drugs, that has such a major effect on our incidence of illness, quality of life, and untimely death resulting from all causes.'' After supporting the healing role of love and intimacy we find that love contributes greatly towards self realization in all human beings. Ornish looks at inward and explains his own passage to openness. He uses these self eye-openers with the discussion of love and intimacy facilitating strategies. He goes further to presents a usual work out in communication skills and for a short time discusses the assessment of human being having touch, the practice of contemplation, the sense of promise, and the responsibility of spiritual practices and psychiatric therapy in building of the sense of self with the intention of is a precondition to achieving relationship.

The healing power of love is greatly explained by Dr. Ornish illustrate that intimacy and relationship could be the best way that we live and evaluate our lives. He adds that how simple choices are in life are of great importance in our life and can be a powerful change in our well being and health and suggested stages that could be followed to reserve heart diseases and live a healthier  and much better life.

“The Legend of the Sathya Sai Baba” in literal English means “the master of good name”. The reason why I chose this story is because it is profound in that in the story Buber gives a comprehensive, sensitive and intuitive vivid description of Hasidism.  It is an eye opener; the story is not only a collection of stories on how modern Hasidism started but also acts as a clarification of demystify the deep mystery about Judaism. It gives reflection of recent history. The language used is poetic and teaches on how to be a good writer and also give you the ability to the think critical in order to understand it. When you read this book there is some life experience that an individual gains through inspiring stories that brings the change in humans.

Self acknowledgement is the event that an individual comes to think about their personal being, the realization from the view of the continuing hunt of humans for comfort, which is highly independent of their purpose. The main lesson that I have learnt over the duration of my course has brought me an eye opener, the main thing that can change for us is who we are and what could be destroy our abilities to that we run into a comparative scenario.

            When a person has realized him or herself, there is how he or she acts in the society. In the society leadership is usually looked at as a significant variable that affects the community. Whereas the notion has been studied at length, there is still a lot to be discovered in relation to how leadership is affecting variables like organization performance, culture and climate. According to Hawkins (2006) he explained that a servant and a leader is that servants aspire to serve and taking up leadership as a result of serving.  Leadership is defined as a person who rules, inspires or guides others. For one to be considered as a servant, the person must lead in a way that shows service to other by developing them and also giving their complete attention to their work mates and those they serve.

Change in attitude is one of the ways through which a person who has passed through this course and read the three books will act. Attitude is fundamental important if adequately taken care of in a leader. A proper understanding of the reflexes created by attitude exemplifies the major market trends and this envisions future capacity building in the organization. In addition to that, the inclusion of proper decision making system would improve consumer attitude towards proper prices, proper market capacities and response towards price changes. In view of the utilitarian, they look at penalty or a greater good for a big number of people. Utilitarian is known to be in support of morally up right actions is the act that results into most good. They believe in individuality in people and the society is a net product of the individual choices that people make (Stephen, 2011).

An individual particular leadership style that comes from gratitude is greatly influenced by the person’s interior value, and the assumptions and beliefs. The most efficient leaders incessantly learn from the people around them and build their style of leadership as needed to contain the changing situation and diversity. Potent leaders actually posses a combination of distinctiveness and moral values which in the long run defines the leadership philosophy. Leadership stresses on skills such as stewardship, awareness, growth, building the community and persuasion. Being grateful to other people is one of main things that people do to become a better leader in the society (Ruth 2005).

In real sense faith is necessary for self realization; It is of great importance to know that self awareness and emotional intelligence does not include merely being good, it is actually entails honestly face a person about a difficult situation and showing gratitude to others. It also includes managing feelings so that they are expressed effectively and appropriately. Emotional intelligence and self awareness skills allow individuals in the society or work place to work together towards a common goal. Emotional intelligence is dynamic and develops throughout an individual’s life, it is already learnt and goes on to expand as one go through life. With the experience at work place ones emotional intelligence continues to grow. As you live life, you turn out to be more skilled at honing your understanding and social skillfulness (Robert, 2008).

Leadership is actually a philosophy that puts emphasis on moral values and proposes leaders get required outcomes by focusing on and accomplishing the wants of others, this is the same case for other religions and philosophies, though not all. The core of leadership is having efficient ways to motivate and inspire others. An individual particular style of leadership is greatly influenced by the person’s interior value, and the assumptions and beliefs. The most efficient leaders incessantly learn from the people around them and build their style of leadership as needed to contain the changing situation and diversity. Potent leaders actually posses a combination of distinctiveness and moral values which in the long run defines the leadership philosophy. Leadership stresses on skills such as stewardship, awareness, growth, building the community and persuasion. These skills and attribute are important elements of most religious philosophies and the Utilitarian Universalist philosophies (Stephen, 2011).

When reflection on leadership the course has helped me realize that leadership is actually a philosophy that puts emphasis on moral values and proposes leaders get required outcomes by focusing on and accomplishing the wants of others, this is the same for other religions and philosophies, though not all. The core of leadership is having efficient ways to motivate and inspire others. An individual particular style of leadership is greatly influenced by the person’s interior value, and the assumptions and beliefs. The most efficient leaders incessantly learn from the people around them and build their style of leadership as needed to contain the changing situation and diversity. Potent leaders actually posses a combination of distinctiveness and moral values which in the long run defines the leadership philosophy (Ruth 2005).

Self respect and care is also very important for a leader. As a leader one should believe in himself or herself as much as he believes in the vision and mission of the organization. A philosophical leader attends to his mental, spiritual needs, emotional and physical needs (Hawkins, 2006).

A leader has a deep commitment to listen carefully to others. Listening is also including getting in touch with an individual’s own inner voice and seeking to understand one’s body, mind and spirit are communicating. Listening, together with normal periods of suggestion, is necessary to the growth of the servant leader. The most efficient leaders incessantly learn from the people around them and build their style of leadership as needed to contain the changing situation and diversity. Potent leaders actually posses a combination of distinctiveness and moral values which in the long run defines the leadership philosophy (Hawkins, 2006).

Leadership now reflecting what you have learned of self-realization, sustainability and well-being is through looking at our Emotional ability is a cultured capability pedestal on emotional intelligence that can lead to exceptional relations that will have a positive outcome on those around you. Understanding, which engages precisely interpretation the approaches of other and social skills, which allows for the clever management of those feelings, is at the peak of emotional capabilities (Ruth 2005). Our emotional intelligence is the key to our possible skills as physician. Being good at serving one’s patients is an emotional capability based on understanding. Trustworthiness is an ability that is based on self ruling. Both of these competencies are serious in serving to make one an outstanding the work mates.

In conclusion the reading and education has led to the development and growth of the human brain. It gives us the ability to know. Through this course and the reading of the three books I have learnt a lot that is life changing from being grateful in life and also showing others gratitude, to how love helps us develop our self realization and the book helps us know on  how make leadership reflection of self –realization, sustainability and well being. For instance, faith is necessary for self realization, It is of great importance to know that self awareness and emotional intelligence does not include merely being good, it is actually entails honestly face a person about a difficult situation and showing gratitude to others. I have learnt that self-realization helps us in self development and how we relate to other people around us.