Category: Humanity

We’ve lost our Humanity when the support is gone from our friendship.

We are most helpful as we listen in a non-judgmental way when a friend needs to talk.

Friendship is among the most valuable positions in our lives particularly when we need to unburden ourselves. Being able to get our inner thoughts out and hear non-emotional objective feed-back from a trusted friend is a priceless gift. In the book such a process is noted as an exercise in getting to know our real selves.

The act of exposing ourselves and inviting friends to bare witness is essential for change to take place. The act of bringing friends into the process fulfills the requirements of honesty, integrity and humility as a foundation as stated on page 50.

“We demonstrate honesty when we are willing to expose exactly what is going on with us. We demonstrate integrity when we make no excuses or rationalizations for what we know to be true. And we show humility when we take responsibility for what we know to be true”.

Exercises:
What secrets have we kept that we feel would be too embarrassing to relate to a close friend? How would I feel after relating this if the friend said it didn’t seem all that bad?
These concepts are expressed in Stage 5 of the book.

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When do we know we’ve lost our humanity?

When the support is gone from our friendship.

We are most helpful when we listen in a non-judgmental way when a friend needs to talk.

Friendship is among the most valuable possessions in our lives particularly when we need to unburden ourselves. Being able to get our inner thoughts out and hear non-emotional objective feed-back from a trusted friend is a priceless gift. In the book such a process is noted as an exercise in getting to know our real selves which is greatly enhanced when we are free to express our vulnerability.

The act of exposing ourselves and inviting friends to bare witness is essential for change to take place. The act of bringing friends into the process fulfills the requirements of honesty, integrity and humility as a foundation as stated on page 50. “We demonstrate honesty when we are willing to expose exactly what is going on with us. We demonstrate integrity when we make no excuses or rationalizations for what we know to be true. And we show humility when we take responsibility for what we know to be true”.

Exercises:
What secrets have we kept that we feel would be too embarrassing to relate to a close friend? How would I feel after relating this if the friend said it didn’t seem all that bad?

These concepts are expressed in Stage 5 of the book.

For more information on the concepts and methods of self-examination, please visit our web site reinventionenterprises.com or to acquire the book go to reinventionenterprises.com/the-process-book/.
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When the commitment is gone from our endeavor.

We are most valued when we demonstrate that we can be trusted.

When I express my commitment to act in a particular way, others expect that I mean what I say and trust me to follow through. Making a firm decision to accomplish an objective and actually doing it is a habit of most successful people. If I feel uncertain that I have the resolve to finish a task, I am not likely to voice a commitment.

The discussion of making a decision to do what it takes to make change in my life is expressed in Stage 3 of the book. An excerpt from page 24 talks about the enormity of the task upon which I am about to embark.

“I am not simply looking for some modest improvements, tweaking around the edges, or identifying some mistakes that were made unwittingly. The process described here involves radical rethinking about how I rationalize and defend my closely held understandings and how I interpret my behavior patterns”.

Exercises:
Am I really willing to undertake radical trans formative change. Am I truly committed to completing this task when it becomes much more difficult than what I expected.

These concepts are expressed in Stage 3 of the book.

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When the authenticity is gone from our commentary.

We are most believable when what we say is straight forward and not embellished.

This idea expressed is similar to a statement I heard from a friend many years ago. I noted in my book the need to separate the fact from fiction in our lives. The fiction is what is referred to as “social camouflage” and fact is our true identity.

“Just once I want to go to the masked ball, dressed only as myself, so no one will recognize me”.

In the past I often talked about authenticity but knew little of what it really was nor how to apply it in my life. Before I came to understand the great peace that exists in honesty, I felt compelled to portray myself as something I was not. The stress this caused was a real burden that I brought on myself without the awareness of what I was doing.

Exercises:

What image do I try to show others in order to control what they think about me? What are my inner-most feelings about the accuracy of this image?

These concepts are expressed in Stage 2 of the book.

For more information on the concepts and methods of self-examination, please visit our web site reinventionentperprises.com or to acquire the book go to reinventionenterprises.com/the-process-book/.