Personal development: satisfaction, well-being and performance

If I pronounce the word psychology and then I make a brief pause, more than one usually goes through a myriad of complications derived from conception pathological that we all have in mind, based on the absence of mental health linked everlasting, as well as erroneously, to the field mentioned.

In a positive sense, that is, in the development of mental capacities that favor the proper functioning of our thoughts, feelings and behaviors, other recently coined terms are often used, such as the controversial concept of coaching, as if this technique did not have a close relationship with the fundamental objectives of psychology positive.

And it is that each of us has a machine, perhaps the most powerful of all, I would dare to say, of which fortunately or unfortunately we do not have the instruction manual on your functioning. We only start from the base of an eminently common hardware, whose software we develop throughout our lives. by acquiring vital experiences and learnings that ultimately determine our capabilities functional.

Beliefs: reality or science fiction?

There are numerous examples that can be extracted from the cinematographic context in this sense. Anyone worth his salt will remember how Will Smith contributed to developing his seduction skills to his clients in the movie of "Hitch". Or how Lionel Logue did the same at the time of overcoming the stuttering that caused Duke George of York, speaking in public in the film of "The king's speech".

Something less known to the general public in its version of the big screen, it can be "The peaceful Warrior" based on the autobiographical novel by Dan Milman, in which a mystic Nick Nolte, playing the "teacher" Socrátes, collaborated in Scott's apprenticeships Mechiowicz (Dan) to develop “the suspension of incessant mental dialogue, the abandonment of the ego and the experience of living fully in the moment Present".

Similarly, it is common to find popular belief based on the stability and permanence of certain psychological characteristics, perfectly exemplified in expressions such as "I am like this" or "I have always behaved in a this way". As if our interpretations, judgments or beliefs were determined by default, innately, in terms of "you have or you do not have", without addressing the possibility of development. Something that on the other hand, occurs with each new learning or experience that modifies our associations and neural connections. In itself, the very belief of psychological change already opens the door for it to happen itself.

To achieve these changes effectively, we find a series of necessary steps to be able to carry them out successfully. The first and perhaps most difficult of them would consist in learning to take ourselves less seriously, when considering ourselves as a reliable source of information. knowledge, since as a general rule, we are all subject to changes in our emotional states that affect our criteria of interpretation over time, being able to develop true atrocities in the form of belief, about ourselves or our capabilities.

Being able to frequently resist the opinions or beliefs of others with which we disagree, We find it more difficult to do the same with those that we ourselves develop, making good the maxim of "if I think about it, it will be because it is true".

Overcoming for personal development

Another fundamental step necessary to advance, would consist of the disposition to abandon our old and dysfunctional beliefs, such as the child who refuses to let go of his old toys with which he barely enjoy.

And it is not so much about analyzing the "why" or the veracity / falsity of our proposals, such as changing our analysis criteria for others based to a greater extent on the “why” or taking into account the utility / uselessness that certain thoughts provide us in a more practical sense, when it comes to achieving our goals exchange.

Overcoming this first phase of change involves initially developing the insecurity of those who thought they were walking on dry land and discovering themselves in marshy terrain. However, the illusion and motivation that the desired change brings them more than sufficiently justifies the initial state of uncertainty.

With UPAD Psychology and Coaching reaching new challenges is possible thanks to your personal development processes. The work of beliefs will be essential to confront with guarantees these new changes that allow the client to achieve high levels of satisfaction, well-being and performance.

"When nothing is certain, everything is possible" (Margaret Drabble).