2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Will is a set of human characteristics that allows you to form goals and make efforts to achieve them. During the implementation of the volitional act, a person experiences neuropsychic stress
In order to define the topic, I will begin by proving the existence of will from the opposite. Examples when for some reason we are deprived of will.
Forcible deprivation of will
During my student days, I practiced hypnosis. It turned out that this is not something subject to the elect, but an ordinary student, with some curiosity and practice, can easily master this method of influence. I’ll make a reservation right away that I didn’t treat anyone, but had a suggestive effect on my fellow students and all volunteers.
There is a second stage of hypnotic sleep, during which you can make targeted suggestions to the person. If they do not disagree with his values, he follows your instructions. I instructed my classmate to go to the next building and find out what time it was, return and inform everyone in the room. After coming out of hypnotic sleep (this is a separate procedure), she stood and said that she had slept well. And I went to the next building, then came back and told me and the audience what time it was. When asked why she did not ask what time it was with the people in the room, she found it difficult to answer.
In those ten minutes, she was deprived of her will. She was robotic in the sense that she followed someone else's directive. This example clearly shows what the lack of manifestation of their will looks like. It is with the help of will that we regulate our behavior, control it.
Mental illness
Certain types of mental illness can take away our will. For example, with certain types of paroxysm (Paroxysm is an intensification of any painful seizure to the highest degree - Ed.), The patient cannot close his eyes at the request of the doctor, but can only when he goes to bed. A person has retained only basic reflexes in his memory, but he consciously cannot control his body.
Manic states are when a certain idea (or a set of ideas) takes over a person so much that he loses criticism and throws all his strength into its implementation. These ideas are often fantastic and crazy. For example, to plant a palm grove in the Kiev region for growing bananas. And here for me a person is deprived of his will, as he is seized by a disease.
Will is a set of human characteristics that allow you to form goals and make efforts to achieve them. During the implementation of the volitional act, a person experiences neuropsychic stress
In a complex act of will, four stages can be distinguished:
1. Feeling of lack and scarcity. I want to do something. A preliminary goal is outlined.
2. Battle for resources. There are many desires and motives inside. They are fighting for supremacy.
3. Making decisions.
4. Implementation of the solution.
We can look at this with a simple example: losing weight to improve health. Imagine that you went to a therapist and he diagnosed high blood pressure. He told what dangers await you if you do not change your lifestyle.
An intention begins to ripen inside you, a desire - I want to be healthy or to be cured. This is the first step. In the evening, meeting with friends. You will go to a restaurant, have a glass of wine and have a delicious meal. Perhaps take a dessert with a cup of coffee. Everything that the doctor did not recommend to you. Then go or not? How to give up the usual pleasant communication? And how to sit and not take anything, but only drink water? Such an internal dialogue called the struggle of motives is the second stage.
And so you tell yourself - health is very important! It's my goal. I will go to her. In the evening you meet with friends, tell them about going to the doctor and ask for their support.
Then choose those products that the doctor recommended for you. And this is how you act all the time. This is the implementation of the decision - the fourth stage of the volitional act.
"Willpower lies not only in the ability to fulfill one's desires, but also in the ability to suppress some of them, subordinating some of them to others and any of them - tasks and goals to which personal desires must be subordinated," psychologist Sergei once said Leonidovich Rubinstein
Successful people know how to manage their desires. In such a way that they subordinate them to their goals and values. But if a homo mechanicum is born in your imagination, then we are talking about a completely different type of person. Jesus, Thomas Aquinas, Socrates, Galileo, Leonardo da Vinci and many historical figures lived this way. We can not only serve our desires, but also control them.
What can weakness of will manifest in?
Negative attitude towards their deeds. The thought that whatever I do will be bad (for them) deprives them of the strength and desire to act.
Stubbornness. Many see stubbornness as strength. But they confuse stubbornness with persistence. Stubbornness is filled with an inherently destructive force of opposition. Most often, a stubborn person is associated with the word "no".
"Stubbornness differs from persistence in its objective groundlessness," Rubinstein wrote.
Exposure to influence and suggestibility prevent a person from moving towards his goals, rather he is inclined to implement other people's tasks, thereby losing his uniqueness and subjectivity.
Indecision is divided into two types. First: it is difficult to make decisions and a person gets stuck, like Burdianov's donkey, which died between two haystacks. The second type of indecision is when a person does not know how to fight for his decision.
What to do to develop strong willpower?
1. Accustom yourself to effort. Take your phone to play or read. Make a choice towards reading. Try to do this without violence. 1-2-3-10 minutes if reading is difficult for you.
2. Bring the task to completion. Train on easy tasks. If you want to accustom yourself to exercise - do it regularly, as many exercises as planned. Train your neurons and form the connections that are responsible for persistence.
3. If you made breakdowns - do not scold or blame yourself. It is helpful to acknowledge the failure and move on to the task at hand.
4. Think about the main thing. Keep your goals and values in focus. Use them as a beacon to your dream.
In conclusion, I will say that for some unknown reason the topic of will has been neglected and neglected in our country. In the United States, university courses are devoted to this. I recommend paying attention to the development of will in the upbringing of children and self-education of adults.
Cribble, crabble, boom
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