Making the Self Better Means Making the World Better

You simply cannot separate the two. Your emotional well being, physical health, and personal attractiveness depend on how you feel about others. Every time you regard someone as valuable, you make your life better, and every time you disrespect or ignore someone, you devalue your experience of life. Contributing positive energy to the Web of Emotion – in very small doses, just by feeling the inherent value of other people – will improve your self-value, physical health, and personal attractiveness, and make your experience of life purposeful.

But you can't just “think positively” to influence the Web and escape its negative effects. Thoughts aren't transmitted through the Web, emotions are. You have to feel in your heart that everyone is a valuable person, worthy of respect and appreciation and that most everyone is capable of love and compassion. (Appreciate that the vast majority of the people you see would share their last bit of water with a desperate child in a desert.) This choice to appreciate the value of other people invokes your core value, a basic-humanity connection with the world that provides you with an enduring sense of purpose.

Consistently enhancing the self by contributing value to the Web of Emotion takes quite a bit of reconditioning. You are already so conditioned by the negative effects of the Web that it pretty much controls your daily stream of unconscious emotions, which, in turn, controls most of your thoughts – all the ones that run on automatic pilot. And that is how the day so easily does you in.