If you want to be persuasive and influential, then passion is going to be one of the great keys to getting everyone on board, motivated, and actively seeing to the work that you need them to do to help build your inspirational vision.
What every literature teacher wants is for students to experience the meaning—and also experience the sensory effects of the words in their connotations and music. This out loud approach is simple and it gets me further than I’ve been able to get with more traditional approaches. (Traditional? What could be more traditional than asking students to read literary texts out loud?)
Nature gave us the ability to heal ourselves. Conscious breathing and environmental conditioning are two tools that everyone can use to control their immune system, better their moods, and increase their energy. I believe that anyone can tap into these unconscious processes and eventually control their autonomic nervous system.
“...how vulnerable is the whole texture of facts in which we spend our daily life; it is always in danger of being perforated by single lies or torn to shreds by the organized lying of groups, nations, or classes...” Hannah Arendt, “Lying in Politics: Reflections on The Pentagon Papers.”
