Expanding Our Horizons

      "It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."               Abraham Maslow

     The only tool most of us think we have, or at least trust, is our intellect. And we think we must, or at least trust above all else, an adversarial approach in all our relationships. Clearly our intellect is often hijacked by subconscious & conscious fears. See: http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/2014/02/current-bad-behavior-past-trauma-empathy.html and http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/2013/07/collaborative-instead-of-adversarial.html

     But we have multiple intelligences. Is it not reasonable to make use of as many of them as possible, as often as possible? Would this approach not create greater balance & quality of life? Would it not allow us to think, and thrive, outside the proverbial, claustrophobic box?

     See: http://mindfulnessforeveryone.blogspot.ca/2013/06/353-monash-university-opening-minds.html

     and: http://mindfulnessforeveryone.blogspot.ca/2012/03/88-avoidance-approach-dichotomy.html

Tomas Meijer, National Geographic   http://photography.nationalgeographic.com