5. RESULTADOS
5.2. Beneficios que se obtienen de la Terapia Asistida con Perros
Action Exercises:
Identify the areas of your life where you feel the happiest and the most in control.
Identify the areas of your life where you feel controlled by other people or factors.
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Identify those areas in your life where there is a gap between your current levels of accomplishment and what you would really like to achieve.
Identify the most pressing needs you have today that are not being fulfilled.
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Identify those activities that give you the greatest feeling of personal happiness, your “peak experiences”
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Identify those areas in life where you feel the most discontented.
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Define “happiness” for yourself. What does it mean? What would have to happen for you to feel truly happy?
Tracyism
The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth
of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
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Session Sixteen Self-Discipline and Personal Health
Action Exercises:
Idealize with regard to your health: If you could wave a magic wand and make your health perfect in every way, how would it be different from today?
Resolve to make the rest of your life the best of your life; what is the first thing you should change or do?
Get a complete medical examination and ask your doctor for advice on how to enjoy superb levels of physical health. Set a date.
Determine your ideal weight and set it as a goal. Use the goal-setting process you learned in Session Four to make a plan to achieve it and keep it there for life. What is your ideal weight?
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Use mindstorming (described in Session Four) and write out a list of at least 20 answers to the question:
“What can I do every day to enjoy superb levels of health and energy?”
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Review the health habits and research discussed in this chapter and give yourself a grade of 1-10 on how well you are practicing them. (1 being low - 10 being the highest)
Decide on one specific action that you are going to take immediately to ensure that you live to be age 80, 90, and beyond.
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Never say anything about yourself that you do not want to come true.
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Session Seventeen Self-Discipline and Physical Fitness
Action Exercises:
Today is the day! Make a decision that you are going to achieve the best physical condition of your life, and take action immediately. Write that commitment here:
Get a complete medical examination so that you know your condition and your limits before you begin.
Set a date.
Start walking 30 minutes each day, preferably first thing in the morning, or if not in the morning, right after work. What route will you take tomorrow?
Join a gym or health club, pay for a year, and make an appointment with yourself to work out five times a week, 60 minutes each time. What gym will you join?
Hire a personal trainer and have him/her guide you through an exercise program that includes aerobics and strength and flexibility exercises each week. Write down the name of a possible personal trainer here:
Invest in a treadmill, a LifeCycle, or an elliptical machine and put it in front of your television so you can exercise as part of your home and family life. What machine would you like to get?
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Start gradually and work up slowly, resolving to exercise for several weeks before you notice a major difference. Be patient, persistent, and determined. Write down that commitment here:
Tracyism
If what you are doing is not moving you toward your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.
M Y C O M M I T M E N T T O B E I N G P A T I E N T , P E R S I S T E N T , A N D D E T E R M I N E D I N M Y T R A I N I N G A N D
E X E R C I S E P R O G R A M
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Session Eighteen Self-Discipline and Marriage
Action Exercises:
What is the most important single action you could take, right now, to increase the love and harmony in your marriage or relationship?
What disciplines or practices could you develop that would improve the quality of your marriage for the other person?
Identify one behavior you could engage in that would improve your communications in your marriage?
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Sit down with your spouse and ask him/her for ideas on what you should do more of, less of, start, or stop doing. What did he/she say?
Identify the two qualities that you most admire in your partner.
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Identify the areas where you and your partner are the most compatible.
Identify the most important values that you and your partner share.
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Communication is a skill that you can learn. It is like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can
rapidly improve your communication in every part of your life.
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Session Nineteen Self-Discipline and Children
Action Exercises:
What two qualities would you like your children to identify with you by observing your behavior?
What two qualities would you like most to instill in your children, and how could you achieve this?
If you were an excellent role model for your children, how would your behaviors be different, starting today?
What mistakes have your children made that you should forgive and forget about, starting immediately?
What actions are you going to take immediately to spend more time with your children?
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What actions could you take to instill the quality of truthfulness in your children?
How could you encourage and reward your children so that they practice greater self-discipline, self-control, and self-mastery?
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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded
as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
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Session Twenty Self-Discipline and Friendship
Action Exercises:
Make a list of your most important friends in your work and personal life.
Identify the first things you could do in every meeting or encounter to make the other person feel important.
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Resolve to make each person feel more valuable and worthwhile because he/she spoke to you. How can you do this?
Practice non-judgmentalism in all your relationships. Always assume the best of intentions on the part of others. How can you become less judgmental?
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Imagine that each person you meet has only a short time to live, and you are the only person who knows.
How would you treat him/her differently?
Find something about each person that is impressive to you, and tell the other person how impressed you are. Who will you start with?
Imagine that there is a hidden camera and microphone recording every interaction you have with other people. How would you behave differently?
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Healthy relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
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Session Twenty-One Self-Discipline and Peace of Mind
Action Exercises:
Take the forgiveness test: Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy? Why is forgiveness a good policy?
Identify the people in your past life who you feel have hurt you in any way, and make a decision today to forgive them and let go of those negative feelings. Whom do you need to forgive?
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Find reasons not to justify your negative emotions of blame or anger, and, instead, use your intelligence to accept responsibility. What negative emotions do you need to take responsibility for?
Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and resolve to let go of any thoughts or emotions that disturb you in any way. What thoughts and emotions can you let go of?
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Begin today to read something spiritual and uplifting each morning before you begin your day.
What materials/books could you read?
From now on, refuse to take things personally. Ask yourself how much it will matter five years from today.
Write down that commitment here:
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A N D N O T T A K E T H I N G S P E R S O N A L L Y.
Tracyism
Whatever you dwell on in your conscious mind grows in your experience.
Practice the Buddhist method of detachment from money and material things and refuse to become upset or worried about anything. What should you stop worrying about immediately?
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