The Healthy Management of Reality - Stanford University

To continue with the example: If our internal reality involves a greateramount of felt warmth and caring, we are more likely to share that feltwarmth and caring with others. We are more likely to become the kind ofperson who notices others and shows by our actions that we value those withwhom we work. Though each of our individual interactions may be a smallpart of our workplace, the combined effect of multiple contacts can amplifytheir impact. As the day progresses, the total amount of warmth and caringin our workplace will be greater or lesser depending on whether each of usfocuses on and passes on the warm greeting or the disdainful one. Bysculpting our internal reality, we will have begun to sculpt our externalreality.Small acts of managing our internal reality can lead to gradual improvementor deterioration of our external reality. Acts that improve our world are referred toin this book as "the healthy management of reality."The purpose of this book is to consider the possibilities and the implicationsof the concept of the healthy management of reality. We begin by laying out someof the basic ideas, illustrating each with an example. Then we examine how theseideas could be used in day-to-day life. We examine how they can first be testedwithin our own mind, within our internal reality. We then proceed to how theycould be practiced so that they affect our objective reality, that is, how we lead ourdaily lives.HMOR.July2005.Muñoz.doc 15