Four Ways to Cool Down Your Defensiveness

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September 14, 2022 a project of ServiceSpace In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. - Carl Rogers - Four Ways to Cool Down Your Defensiveness "Years ago, when I had my first media interview about my research on humility, the interviewer was curious whether studying humility actually made me any humbler. She asked me to poll my wife, to see how humble she perceived me to be. When I solicited my ranking from one to 10, my wife gave me a four." More in this post that shares four ways to counteract one's own tendency towards defensiveness. { read more } Be The Change For more inspiration, check out this article from Greater Good Magazine, "How Do You Know If You Are Actually Humble?" { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Seven Lessons Learned from Leaves Live a Life Worth Living Words Can Change Your Brain On the Road with Thomas Merton Consciousness as the Ground of Being 'New Day's Lyric': Amanda Gorman Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention ThanksBeing with Rumi DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 161,886 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More