1. When we get used to doing things in a particular manner, we tend to believe that it is the right way or even the only way to go about the business of life.
2. We even get stuck on the kind of responses which we consider appropriate, which at best lead to amusing situations or at worst to a lot of tension.
3. One of the simplest ways of understanding how encrusted your paradigm has become is to observe your attitude and responses to people who have social norms and habits that are different from your own.
4. The stupider you find your attitude and responses, the graver your symptoms of mental hardening and lack of flexibility.
5. People with stuck and hardened approaches have a tendency to generalise almost impulsively, as they feel a compulsive need to impose their order on everything around.
6. Stuck paradigms also condition people into drawing conclusions based on their own logic rather than being receptive to life and its impulses.
7. If you tend to react to suggestions which call for a change in your attitudes with rationalisations, buts and ifs, then in all likelihood you have a blocked paradigm.
8. A little introspection will show that by shutting out suggestions and ideas, you are not only denying yourself the benefit of being open to change, but you are also being arrogant by trifling with the sense of integrity of other persons.
9. The urge to come down heavily on mistakes is another symptom of mental ossification, and this approach is destructive of initiative in oneself as well as in others.
10. Negative fixations, obsessive hatred, rigidly held beliefs, inflexible attitudes, inability to accommodate others, self-centredness are all symptoms of a closed paradigm, which cause a lot of tension and internal stress for the owner.
11. The ability to let go of anger, rigid beliefs and regrets helps us to cultivate positive energy and resourcefulness, otherwise we can end up feeling drained at a time when we need to feel charged with energy.
2. We even get stuck on the kind of responses which we consider appropriate, which at best lead to amusing situations or at worst to a lot of tension.
3. One of the simplest ways of understanding how encrusted your paradigm has become is to observe your attitude and responses to people who have social norms and habits that are different from your own.
4. The stupider you find your attitude and responses, the graver your symptoms of mental hardening and lack of flexibility.
5. People with stuck and hardened approaches have a tendency to generalise almost impulsively, as they feel a compulsive need to impose their order on everything around.
6. Stuck paradigms also condition people into drawing conclusions based on their own logic rather than being receptive to life and its impulses.
7. If you tend to react to suggestions which call for a change in your attitudes with rationalisations, buts and ifs, then in all likelihood you have a blocked paradigm.
8. A little introspection will show that by shutting out suggestions and ideas, you are not only denying yourself the benefit of being open to change, but you are also being arrogant by trifling with the sense of integrity of other persons.
9. The urge to come down heavily on mistakes is another symptom of mental ossification, and this approach is destructive of initiative in oneself as well as in others.
10. Negative fixations, obsessive hatred, rigidly held beliefs, inflexible attitudes, inability to accommodate others, self-centredness are all symptoms of a closed paradigm, which cause a lot of tension and internal stress for the owner.
11. The ability to let go of anger, rigid beliefs and regrets helps us to cultivate positive energy and resourcefulness, otherwise we can end up feeling drained at a time when we need to feel charged with energy.