Do you believe that minor adjustments to your life can lead to major changes, either positive or negative?

Question

For example, would adding a 20 minute walk to your schedule each day improve your health? Or deciding to be nicer to your husband, wife, or significant other? Or deciding to sleep all day and never exercise? Or deciding to go to clubs every weekend and lead a wild life? Or, what would be your example?

Answer 1

"Its the little foxes who spoil the grapevine ".. proverbs

Big foxes approach a grapevine and eat the grapes, new grapes re-grow. however, baby foxes were too small to reach the grapes, so they knaw and chew at the vine..the vine was ruined - the new grapes never can re-grow.


WTF ?? it means the thing which spoil a great production ( life ) are little things.

Answer 2

Yes... I do believe that a minor adjustment will lead me to a major change and, of course, I prefer the positive ones.

1) If I stop smoking, I'd be healthier, live longer and save the money that were meant to buy cigs.

2) If I only finish my work ahead of schedule than finishing them on time, I'd probably be more productive and, well, impressive.

I think those are just little things that are not impossible to do. But somehow I wonder if I'd become boring though... or I'd be bored if I change. lol... I don't know. I'm confused now lol.

Answer 3

Physical change will, of course, result in a reciprocal physical reaction. If what one wants to address is only physical, then some physical change designed to address what one wants to change will result in some change.... whether or not one sees such a resultant change as "major" is relative to oneself, isn't it?

If, however, what one desires to change is an attitude, or a pattern of behavior that is harmful to oneself, then attempting a physical solution will prove ineffective. This is the reason behavioral treatment of criminals results in redivistic behavior [or resuming the same patterns of negativity after release] near 70%.

The "reason" for any harmful pattern of activity is to "punish" oneself... or in some cases, to punish others as a substitute for oneself. Sound weird? Of course it seems this way because the MIND does not follow intellectual reasoning. The reason most do not know this is that the field of mental health is fairly well ignorant of the MIND realm, and how it operates.

For "major" changes in ones life, there's nothing like a really good catharsis. Or, the discovery of some deeply repressed misperception from within ones MIND. The problem is, less than 5% of those in mental health today can routinely effect this. The causal behind the need to punish oneself is always hidden and non-conscious. The way to change is to remove the motivation for such action... and this requires the discovery of the hidden causal that vents its negative energy in your negative behavior.

My example is a smoker who needs to discover the reason he/she needs to do that which is harmful. This would require first admitting that one is doing something that is harmful, and to do this one must first learn to love oneself... and this is quite difficult for most people to do. The "key" to change is always tied to something within ones MIND. And that which is "causing" one harm will naturally surface eventually, unless the habitual denial of it is too strong. At this juncture, where that which is repressed is "ready" to surface, and the habitual denial of it by ones MIND prevents this surfacing... a conflict between ones MIND and ones Apapsyche [or Operational Energy of ones Soul] occurs, and it's at this point where professional help is truly needed.
A good question to ask a prospective therapist is: what is the difference between the brain and the MIND?

Good luck in finding someone who knows. Peace.

Answer 4

I think so. I started not being a cinical punk and I have seen great results, little by little over the last decade. Remember, your personality is jsut the sum of your behaviors. If you can change some of your ebhaviors, you can change your personality.

Answer 5

yes, i very much believe that minor adjustments can lead to major change because every little thing adds up in the end.

Answer 6

yes.

i stopped Pepsi

i stopped eating at evening

i stopped cursing

i stopped chocolate

result: i look better, feel better.

*silly example*

but no, really... i believe that it's the little things in life that make big changes.

Answer 7

Yes, especially with diet.

Answer 8

Uh, yea! Are you kidding?