The 8 Kinds of Smart are already within each us! It's part of our nature as human beings. However, as you've discovered from your SmartProfile™ not all of the intelligences are equally developed.
As I mentioned in the introduction to the SmartProfile™ Information & Management Center some of your intelligences are strong and highly developed. Others are emerging. While still others are in various states of latency or are simply asleep!
But again, the good news is that any underdeveloped intelligence can be enhanced, improved, and otherwise strengthened. The following set of exercises are designed to help you "awaken" your less developed intelligences and help grow those intelligence areas that need some help.
INSTRUCTIONS
During the coming week experiment with the follow set of exercises. The goal of these exercises is:
1) To help you become more aware of how much NatureSmart is part of your everyday life,
2) To increase your comfort level for working with this intelligence, and
3) To help you build your NatureSmart capacities.
The exercises are designed to help you understand the NatureSmart capacities which are already inside you just waiting to be awakened. Do each exercise once a day.
Enjoy this. It's not a difficult as it may seem, in fact, it's really quite fun!.
EXERCISE 1:
During a break, go out of doors and immerse yourself in some natural setting. Allow yourself to fully be in this place. Look around and take in the whole scene. See how many different natural patterns you can discern.
EXERCISE 2:
Spend some time with an animal. Allow yourself to really get to know this fellow creature’s habits and mannerisms. Imagine it has human qualities—What is it thinking? Feeling? Wanting? If you could have a conversation with this creature, what would you discuss?
EXERCISE 3:
Go for a walk in nature. Focus on the impact of the environment on the five senses, your emotions, your thoughts, or your spiritual awareness. What gets evoked? As you walk, ask “What's here that I’ve been missing?” Turn it into an awareness game.
EXERCISE 4:
Plant something that requires little or no care, such as trees, flowers, or grass. Start a “flora journal” and record the changes you observe over time and your feelings about what you have planted.
EXERCISE 5:
Go to a zoo. Notice the categories into which the animals are grouped. If you had to group certain animals, using different categories, what would they be? What name would you give the new grouping?
EXERCISE 6:
Choose an animal or plant that represents characteristics similar to you or ones you wish you had. When you’re struggling with solving a problem, imagine that you are this animal or plant. Pretend it has human characteristics. Ask yourself what would it do in this situation
Reflection on the Week of NatureSmart Explorations
[Focus your thoughts on the past week and your work
with your NatureSmart through the exercises. Type your
reflections in the boxes provided, then click the "print button"
at the bottom of the page too save your work.]
1. As I think back over the week, what stands out in my mind from the NatureSmart explorations I’ve been doing?
2. What did I find most interesting about working with NatureSmart this week? What was surprising? What made me laugh? What disturbed me?
3. What new discoveries did I make about myself and my NatureSmart potentials this week? What benefits have I experienced from working with NatureSmart?
4. What can I do to make NatureSmart a regular part of my daily life? How can I use it on the job? At home with my family? In my personal life?
5. My next steps for continuing to work with NatureSmart are:
