WE BECOME WHAT WE DO“Because we always have control over
doing component of our behavior, if we markedly change that component, we cannot avoid changing thinking, feeling, and physiological components as well.” William Glasser, _Take Effective Control of Your Life_
Dr. Roberto Assagioli called this technique of controlling what we do “acting as if” . . .
“If we are sad or depressed, it is difficult, if not impossible, to become cheerful or serene through a direct act of will. It IS within our power to smooth our forehead, lift our head, smile, and speak words of harmony, optimism, confidence, and joy.
“The use of this technology will actually change our emotional state. Little by little, and sometimes rapidly, emotional state will follow, adapt itself to, and match attitude and external behavior.” Roberto Assagioli, _The Act of Will_
The great acting coach Constantin Stanislavsky called aligned principles simply “the method.”
What almost unimaginable, and transcendent, freedom we have. Act as we want to be, and we will become it. We do not have to be slaves to our emotions, our psychological barbs, our internal weather. We just need to imagine how we want to be and then put it into ACTION.
WHISTLING IN THE DARK
Our emotions are chemicals. (For more about emotions and chemicals, read Candace Pert’s _Molecules of Emotion_.) Whistling in dark, acting confident when we are scared, changes our emotions. Our chemical self changes and we have chemicals of confidence. We are confident!
No longer just acting part.
Let’s all become actors today. Who will you be?
BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY
A queen in your court? Don that invisible crown and wave your imaginary scepter at life, commanding not cowering. Start now, Your Highness. Oh, so high.
