Being Point

Tag: redemption

  • New, Improved World Is A Possibility From The End Of The World As We Know It

    “The end of the world as we know it” doesn’t necessarily mean the end of the world. How possible is it to have a new, improved, better world take the place of the world as you knew it?

    Mail this week from our readers suggests that redemption through learning from change – including difficulty – allows for a potentially better world. One person mentioned his father’s heart attack and how it inspired him to take better care of himself. Others mentioned seeing what seems and feels like an unusually high amount of turmoil in the world and believing that it is growing pains for a move into a higher state of being for humankind. Many wrote with hope that things were changing – albeit painfully – for the better.

    What “ends of the world as you knew it” have rocked your world by ending the way things have been, but changed for the better? If it were within your power, what changes in the world as you know it would you engineer? Are you ever influenced by “end of the world” thinking? What kinds of protections, if any, do you deploy when “end of the world” is mentioned?

  • Regaining Integrity After a Fall

    One of our Connecticut Study Haller’s wrote:

    “I’m wondering if you can address how one regains one’s integrity after a fall? Making amends? Undoing damage? Coming clean with others?”

    “What are some examples of people who reclaimed their integrity and of those who didn’t? Integrity offsets? How big is your integrity footprint?”

    A way to start answering these great questions is to know that integrity requires self-examination and self-honesty. Conduct a thorough analysis of a situation from both your own and the other’s point of view.

    Be a contrarian and reverse your strongly-held positions and, for a moment, assume that their opposites are true. Try on how it feels to be on the receiving end of what others may view as your lack of integrity.

    Based on the results of your analysis, you can formulate a plan of action to compensate, in all appropriate ways, those whom your breach of integrity has harmed. Amends, and perhaps redemption, can then be possible.