Salutations, my name is Moses, I ask you to consider this paraphrase from Walt Whitman’s preface to Leaves Grass, “re-examine all you have been told and dismiss whatever insults your own soul.”
As a teacher my response to this re-examination of self is to focus on empowering participants through the fortification of physical, mental, emotional and behavioral performance gaps in order to achieve balance, while optimizing desired outcomes from the associated activities.
We have all been indoctrinated from a very young age by family and extended family, friends, social and socioeconomic groups, religious and local communities. It is from these environments which we have formed our beliefs, ethics, morality, personal observances and in turn formulated our thoughts which have then in turn become our reality, demonstrated behaviors and actions.
Unfortunately, we all struggle with negative thoughts and thinking. These negative thoughts block the balance and harmony within an individual as well as their natural manifestation abilities. Current research shows us that of the eighty-thousand thoughts the average person has each day, around eighty-percent of them are negative.
These negative thoughts, attitudes, behaviors, belief systems and exercises in futility have no practical application in any individual’s aspirations, daily life, chosen lifestyle activities or finding the best version of themselves. Most of us are mired deeply in what the ancient Greeks, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle’s intellectual contemplation were to come to be known in the 19th century as “akrasia”. This is a state of mind in which an individual acts against their own better judgment through weakness of will power.
The only way I have discovered to emerge from this state of mind is through self-transformative learning, which is a rational, critical, cognitive process that requires thinking, reflection, questioning and a thorough examination of individual assumptions and core beliefs.
For any of us to achieve our individual desired outcomes, manifestations and reality, we must first transform ourselves with positive constructive thoughts and attitudes, sustainable lifestyle behaviors, continuously seeking a steady transformation towards self-cultivation, self-improvement, self-care, self-management and self-actualization in becoming the best version of ourselves essentially becoming the change we wish to see in the world.
What I have discovered is that there is a one-hundred percent (100%) direct correlation between mind and matter, thought and object; physically shifting from the intangible to the tangible, from a concept towards a reality and from the unmanifested towards the manifested thereby having your current reality surrounding you here and now, thus, being in the present moment.
“We as teachers and lifelong learners must continually improve each other’s understanding that both teacher and adult learner alike, that regardless of our prior education, experience, certification, licensing or authority, that none of us can accurately predict the exact level of success that any learner’s efforts, strategies, methodologies, philosophies or behavioral choices may produce” – Moses Goldfeld
Salutations, my name is Moses, I ask you to consider this paraphrase from Walt Whitman’s preface to Leaves Grass, “re-examine all you have been told and dismiss whatever insults your own soul.”