Dar forma al corazón: salud, afectividad, educación

Understanding health as a salutogenic process, meaning in life is shown as an essential element for a healthy development, making possible the exercise of our capacity to face and overcome the different situations of life. Education is directly linked to health by allowing us to discover the world as valuable and full of meaning. This healthy vision is related to the conceptions of the world and is intoned at every moment (affective tonality) and all the experiences of the person are conditioned by it. Every act of feeling is an original way of accepting things in their weight, in their relevance, in their meaning and value, which is to say, in their capacity to reach us, to attract us and to motivate us. Therefore, being human does not only imply the capacity to think in the right way, but also the capacity to feel in the right way. The orientation of our existence is rooted in the exercise of feeling, not as emotionalism or introspective psychologism but in shaping the heart, refining conscience by being in contact with the highest values to awaken the deepest strata of our being. And to do this we must develop a method, that is, an orderly sequence of actions: experiencing, evaluating, choosing.