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This course has made me see things more realistically. What can we do about things in which we cannot change. I believe we must reframe our reactions to things; in other words, what better way can I change this or what tools can I use to assist me? This course has helped me to see how this can be done, and effective ways in which to go about doing it. In relation to my personal belief system, the course teaches how to use your belief in a more positive essence. Just because I may have a strong conviction on or about something, does not mean that I should not be open to hear another's beliefs. We all have something in which we believe in be it religious faith or just faith without being religious. Meeting in the middle on things that we may disagree on is a good way to have an open conversation.
This course has given me a more humanistic view of fellow human beings. This is not to say that I did not before have compassion for other human’s beings; rather to say that my understanding of people and what they may be experiencing within their lives has changed some. We judge people everyday based on things such as appearance, speech and the like. If we look at things with a bit more empathy we can truly say that we can or have walked a mile in someone else's shoes. Many times sympathy takes control when really empathy should take hold. Personally, I implement new learning's into my everyday life. I learned to not be so quick to make a hasty decision and that actually hearing someone is different from just listening to them. Carl Rogers said this and I believe it has deep bearings within this course; "An assumption unusual in psychology today is that the subjective human being has an important value which is