SELF AS THE CENTRE OF ALL

INTERACTIONS
THE INTEGRATED INDIVIDUAL
THE INTEGARTED INDIVIDUAL
A person with integrated self has all the four parts
of his being- physical, cognitive, emotional and
spiritual-in perfect harmony with one another.


PHYSICAL
An integrated individual possesses a healthy regard for
his body and lives according to the natural principles of
healthy living.
He does not flog his body to meet the needs of other
dimensions.
He is aware as to what contributes to his physical health
and what does not.
He take nutritious and healthy food , does exercise,
yoga, walking, swimming etc to maintain the physical
tone: take sufficient rest, sleep etc.
Hence his body is capable of taking very hard work
when needed without succumbing
EMOTIONAL
He understands the need for an emotionally fulfilling life and
hence invests a lot in his relationships with his family,
friends , relatives, neighbourhood and colleagues at the work
place.
He understands that one gets from others on the emotional
plane what one gives to them, hence he treat everyone with
lot of love, respect and understanding.
This enables him to forge very enriching and life affirming
relationships with the members of his family, relatives,
friends and colleagues.
Their love, loyalty and support toward these relations
generate an equivalent amount of love, loyalty and support
from the other side.
This generates a secure source of continuous emotional
fulfillment and happiness in their lives.


COGNITIVE
An integrated individual understands some
fundamental secrets of happiness and success at the
cognitive level.
He knows that there is a basic difference between need
and greed.
Needs can be fulfilled but greed cannot be fulfilled
because.
Greed is a sign of a feeling of lack in the self while
need is genuine and easily met.
Greed demands more and more without the desire ever
getting satisfied whereas needs is met very easily the
moment the desire object is gained.
CONTD .
Greed is like a moral black hole which sucks the
entire being ( sum total of all the four dimensions
of a persons life) of the individual within itself and
yet remains as hungry as it always was.
By the time being has been sucked in all that
remains is a life in ruins ( in extreme cases) as may
happen to Chronic workaholics, criminals and law
breakers.


FACTS ON THE COGNITIVE LEVEL
An integrated individual understands the differences
between intrinsic and instrumental values of an
object on one hand and symbolic value on the other.
Intrinsic and instrumental value satisfy a real need
a symbolic value is the status symbol, an aspirational
function of a product or service that caters to a want
Want- it is lack of something with in the self
Hence for eg: craving for status symbols is a symptom
of a deeper malaise afflicting the self
CONTD.
These use brands that give them quality products
and services and don not bother too much about
the aspirational values that may or may not be
embedded in those brands for others.

These people not bothered of the rat race and
henceforth they save a lot of mental energy, which
allows them to refocus this surplus energy for
achieving the tasks that are dear to their hearts.
CONTD.
They too require material wards but only at certain level
that helps them to maintain excellent lifestyle on the
material plane.

But fulfilling their work goals inspires them more than
material awards

These people become as an outstanding performer and
leader within their organization
FEATURES OF AN INTEGRATED INDIVIDUAL AT
THE COGNITIVE LEVEL
He keeps updating himself and strengthening his
technical competence due to innate interest in the work
that he does.- makes him an outstanding professional
in a technical sense.
Why ?
because his sum total of his strengths (BEING ),
interests and innate talents flows into his doing ( the
work or profession that he has chosen)
The rewards associated with the work(HAVINGS) in
terms of promotions, monetary rewards, name, fame,
respect etc comes to him because of his outstanding
work quality.

HEALTHY PROCESS
UNHEALTHY PROCESS
SPIRITUAL
An integrated individual who is spiritually integrated too feels
intimately connected to his community, his work team, his
organization, his society, the world at large and ultimately the
environment depending upon the level of spiritual integration.

Even at the initial stages of spiritual integration he/ she show
signs of these strong bonds to their workplace, colleagues,
organization, community etc.

He realizes that by strengthening the whole, the parts
become stronger too. Eg; watering the root of a tree.

Such individuals are always inspired by grand visions and
has an uncanny way of inspiring others. Their enthusiasm are
infectious.

Always look at the potential or upside of the people, teams
and organizations that they work with and tirelessly encourage
and help them to achieve the same.