[Neurons] 2022 Neurons #25 ATTITUDES --- WHAT ARE THEY?

[Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

2022 Neurons #25

June 20, 2022

Super-charging Your Attitude #1

 

ATTITUDES  - WHAT ARE THEY?

 

Attitudes, we all have them, but what are they really?  Are we talking about
beliefs?  Could they be values?  Do they comprise our identities?  Perhaps
they are temperaments, and people are born with them, they are genetic.  Nor
does the dictionary provide much help:

"A position of the body or manner of carrying oneself, a state of mind or a
feeling, disposition, an orientation, from Latin, faculty."

 

>From all of this we can conclude that the word attitude is itself a systemic
term designing simultaneously a disposition of all of your innate capacities
to operate.  It is not a static, linear, or merely one component of
personality.  It involves every aspect of being a person-how you think,
feel, intend, speak, act, and relate.  And, of course, as you are orienting
all of these faculties, or powers, in a certain way, it shows up in
physiology and even in your neurology.  And when it becomes "the way you
carry yourself," then we can see an attitude in her actions and behaviors or
in his talk and gestures.

 

What is an attitude?  It is a multiple meta-level phenomenon.  It involves
both your primary state and your meta-states.  Your attitude begins with
your first-level thinking as you represent something, then it is enriched by
numerous higher meta-levels of believing, intending, imagining, emoting,
etc., and all of that is simultaneously grounded in your body and your
movements.

 

When you think about it, an attitude is a pretty amazing phenomenon.  Even
though an attitude is pretty stable, it is comprised of variables which we
usually consider fluid and changeable.  After all, thoughts and feelings
come and go all day long as do our intentions and movements, but attitudes
endure.  If there's anything truly distinctive about attitudes, it is that
they are pretty stable and dependable.  What attitude would you like to
develop and program into your meta-mind?  What attitude have you had enough
of and are ready to let it go?

                                                                  Cheerful
Grumpy                    Proactive               Procrastinating

                                                                  Optimistic
Pessimistic               Hopeful                       Despairing

                                                                  Charming
Annoying                 Loving                          Hateful

                                                                  Persistent
Quitter                     Patient
Impatient

                                                                  Playful
Serious                     Dedicated                   Non-committal 

              

An attitude provides a summary of your style of being who you are and how
you move through the world.  What's your style?  What style isn't working
for you and which is?  An attitude is developed as you choose how you think
and feel about something and then you repeat it so often that it becomes an
automatic program within you.

 

Actually, it is the stability of attitudes that often deceive us into
thinking that they may be sourced in temperament and/or inherent in
neurology.  But, of course, they are not. They are learned.  Sure, we will
differ from each other in our tendencies toward one attitude versus another,
optimism versus pessimism for example.  Yet because attitudes can and do
change, they are not innate.

           Have you always had the same attitude toward everything?

           Have you never changed your attitude toward someone or
something?  

 

Certainly the stability of attitudes can mean that you have always sustained
a single attitude toward a single thing.  That's possible.  It is also
possible, in fact, probable that you have completely changed several
attitudes.  Reflect back on your childhood or teenage years and see how many
attitudes you have changed is the process of growing up.  Consider things
that you once thought were stupid, something you would never do, something
you could not even imagine doing and now you do.

 

A true and deep attitude change will not merely be an old or childhood
beliefs that has changed. It will be much deeper.  Your very orientation in
life has changed.  I recall instances in grade school wherein the very idea
of getting up in front of the class and speaking struck me as the very last
thing I would ever want to do on Planet Earth.  A teacher once said, "Why
you could grow up and become a public speaker."  I must have been in the
fourth or fifth grade.  That's when I seriously began questioning whether
she was qualified to be a teacher!  And now look at me.  My current attitude
is, "It's such a privilege and honor to speak to a group." 

 

In nearly every aspect of life, what makes the most difference is attitude.
Employers are constantly asking for a good or a better attitude from
employees.  Parents frequently talk to their teens about their attitude.
Therapists and coaches not infrequently give feedback regarding a person's
attitude and that the person needs to shape it up and/or change it.  Where
in your everyday life do you need to super-charge your attitude?  What's
your attitude about work, exercise, budgeting, selling, cleaning, or a
thousand other things?  

 

Now given the importance of attitude, this series of articles will look at
the Neuro-Semantics of an Attitude and how you can opt for and develop the
attitudes that will bring out your best and unleash your inmost potentials.

 

 

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Executive Director, ISNS

P.O. Box 8

Clifton COLORADO   81520  USA

meta at acsol.net

 

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