[Neurons] 2024 Neurons #28 WHY READ INSPIRING THE HEART?

[Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

2024 Neurons #28

July 8, 2024 

A Summer Reading List #3

 

   WHY YOU NEED TO READ

INSPIRING THE HEART

 

While you might think that the title itself, Inspiring the Heart, is enough
of a reason why (and it is),  there are many other reasons for why I think
you need to read this book.  The key principle within this book is that
inspiring the heart is an inside-out process. Yes, we do find external
things and experiences inspiring, but that's only because deep inside
you-you decide to inspire your heart with them.  You do that as a
meaning-making who creates your sense of reality from the interpretations
that you make.  This means that, ultimately, what mostly inspires your heart
are the quality meanings which you generate.  Now, give that, the question
is: Do you know how to do that?  If so, how good are you at doing that? 

 

Yes, what is outside influences.  But the deeper truth is that outside
influences get inside because you take those influences in and use them.
Nothing is innately inspiring, inspiration is an inside-out strategy.  It's
something you have to learn how to do. 

 

While you are the meaning-maker in your life, that's not enough.  For the
richest quality of life possible, you have to create high quality meanings
which touch your heart and spirit.  If what you are inside ultimately
governs your life, then knowing how to inspire your heart's highest meanings
will determine your vitality, well-being, aliveness, humanity, vision,
integrity, joy, productivity and much, much more.

 

Maslow pointed out that what truly inspires are the being-values of our
higher nature.  It's from your higher nature of being that you are fully
alive and fully human.  You are alive to meaning, knowledge, beauty, order,
contribution, excellence, justice, etc.  Here you come alive to the mystery
of life itself, to the beauty of life, and to the possibilities within you.
You become alive to the hidden potentials within every person you meet.
When you are alive in these ways, your hear twill be inspired. 

 

I have written Inspiring the Heart to tell the story of how this inner
aliveness works, how you can experience this inspiration for yourself, and
how you can become a bearer of the light-someone who inspires the hearts of
others.

In terms of inspiration and motivation, your energy, vitality, and passion
all come from your heart or spirit.  What is inside that needs inspiration?
Answer-your need to be who and what you are, and can be.  These being-needs
and values are valuable in and of themselves.  Well, they are if you see
them as such.  That's where your meaning-making skills come in. 

 

What this means is that you become more alive when you appreciate the
B-values and endow them with quality meanings.  That will generate lots of
inner vitality, robust intentions, and a sense of purpose in life. Today
there is tremendous need for good news, for hope, for optimism-for
inspiration. The strange thing is, however, we have a raging bad news and
fear industry-the news media.  Research shows that the more hours a person
watches TV, the more paranoid the person and the more he will think the
world is more dangerous than it is. 

 

Transcending What's Typically Unhelpful 

If you ask, "What is the biggest problem with self-help books?"  My answer
is actually pretty simple.  The problem is that people confuse learning and
knowing with doing.  They read but then move on with their lives without
taking different actions.  That's due to a particular delusion-they think
that "know" is doing.   Assuming that knowing automatically means you are
doing and doing well is a wrong-headed assumption.

 

Each chapter ends with a Heart Pondering section.  It's offered to invite
you to do something immediate about what you learn.  The purpose?  So you
become an inspirational person to yourself and then an inspirational leader
to others.

 

 

 

To find the PDF file of the book, it is on The Shop:

              https://www.neurosemantics.com/shop/page/4/ 




 

 

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Executive Director, ISNS

738 Beaver Lodge

Grand Jct., CO. 81505 USA

meta at acsol.net

 

 



 

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