Essay On Destructive Lifestyles

1027 Words5 Pages
The positive energy is needed so that learning wouldn’t be seen as a Herculean task, a task that will generate negative energy; negative energy can create defensiveness and sabotage learning process. This process holds ‘true’ for other habits, in games, academics, at home, at work place etc. BEHAVIOURAL ANCHORS. Habits or human behavior is influenced by environmental responses. How do you feel when you hear a subject like mathematics? Why do you think children classes’ are designed to look nice and colorful? Why do you think places like party, zoo etc create a good feeling in the mind of a child? These places serve as an anchor. It brings forth nice memory and positive emotions. Anchors could include time, place, persons, etc. Anchors are…show more content…
Unlearning or learning an intentional behavior takes time. There is also the temptation to self-sabotage the process with patterns that can make others build defensiveness or out rightly repulse our intention to help them through that phase of their life. Some people who engage in destructive lifestyles feel helpless; some of them have gone through tough circumstances. While one cannot objectively justify engaging in a destructive lifestyle because of life’s circumstance, anyone in such a lifestyle needs our love and help. Let us reinstate that connectedness of our community, let’s connect with them emotionally and mentally, above all, help them find and express their path. IS THIS ENOUGH? While growing up, I can remember a book my father always consulted anytime I or my siblings got ill. The book is called ‘Where there is no doctor’. We only visited the clinic when the sickness was serious or there is persistence in the sickness. If there is another name I will call this piece of material, it will be ‘Where there is no therapist’, because of its richness and depth. Whether you are a parent, educator or guardian, this is a valuable material for
Open Document