Resource: Where To Find It And How To Replenish It

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

The concept of "resource" is used in many areas, but in the context of psychological well-being, the meaning of this word for many remains a mystery, largely because it has become a slang term.

In a broad sense, a resource in psychology means a certain amount of vital energy and mental strength, or rather the ratio of this energy, in which the amount of energy received from internal and external sources of energy exceeds the amount spent on solving everyday tasks and problems.

If a person has a stable "channel" that feeds his strength, something that brings him joy, realization and supports his self-esteem, while there are no dizzying shocks, then we can say that this person is "in the resource." His energy is enough to adapt to a constantly changing reality, to solve problems and assimilate his experience without significant losses.

The simplest, and most difficult at the same time, is to provide oneself with such a channel capable of replenishing and restoring (and in the narrow sense of the word, this channel is understood as a resource).

Simple methods here are:

1. A good sleep is one that restores strength, everyone will have their own duration, but on average it is 8 hours a day

2. A balanced diet - a lack of vitamins, trace elements and building substances for cells can imperceptibly, but very significantly undermine strength at the physiological level

3. Adequate work schedule - in any job, even the most beloved or the highest paid, it is necessary to take breaks, both daily and long in the form of vacations and changes in activities

4. The presence of stable satisfying partnerships / family / friendships - the form of these relationships can be any, it is important that they satisfy both participants in the relationship, without distorting the relationship unilaterally, when one participant exclusively gives his time and attention, the other exclusively accepts

5. Adequacy of support from others - these may be specific people, there may be a more generalized feeling that what you are doing - someone needs: clients, relatives, children, blog subscribers

6. Ability to find time for enjoyable activities. At this point, it is important to be honest with yourself - for someone it is reading a book and going to the opera, but for someone watching a series and a bag of sweet food nearby. Sometimes, as if I did not want to correspond to a more "sublime" image of myself, it should be admitted that the series under the blanket specifically restores me to more social events

7. The ability to be alone, the right to personal space and silence - and not even so much a right as the regular practice of being in silence without sensory noises - gadgets, media and contacts with others, our psyche is unnecessarily overloaded with informational garbage, and we cannot refuse it at all seems possible in the modern world, but it is necessary to give the body a break

8. Periodic experience of success - regardless of the scale of this success, you need to remind yourself that despite the difficulties and urgent tasks, there are areas in which you are great, maintaining the positivity of the self-concept

It seems that these are very obvious sources of surges of strength, but the difficulty lies in having them all, from each point - the more sources will feed the internal reserves of a person, the less significant and depleting will be the unexpected depletion of one of them.

Well, in order for the resources to become more, you need, no matter how trite it sounds, to pay attention to this and spend time on your own recovery. It can be difficult, for example, to stop working for wear and tear and observe the habit of going to bed on time; it is difficult in limited financial conditions to admit the idea that money spent on a burning "Wishlist" will not be wasted, but will satisfy the need for pleasure and replenish energy, due to which financial conditions can be improved; it is difficult to abandon an outdated relationship that is not satisfying and does not bring support.

But the fact is that in the absence of replenishment of mental strength, sooner or later they dry up and then pulling yourself out of the crisis turns out to be much more difficult than prophylactically maintaining the sources of your strength viable.