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As human beings, we have within us pains, emotions and sensations that accompany us most of the time and are part of our daily lives.

However, the rhythm of life that we maintain today has displaced us from the gaze that is placed on us, that is, the knowledge of oneself.

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The importance of understanding our inner life

Sometimes we dream, we fantasize and we are intrigued by the reason for everything in life, but... Do we stop to observe what it is that touches us? It seems that we love and fear our inner life at the same time, that is, to our emotions.

At other times questions about the essence come to us: Why am I like this? Why is this happening to me? And other doubts that overwhelm our thoughts and spin around in our heads during the day or sometimes before sleeping, when everything is silent; they are thoughts that somehow disturb us and remain constant, as if they wanted to tell us something. Faced with these experiences, we remain on an “automatic pilot”

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perceiving very little of what triggers our discomfort in the face of the circumstances we live day by day.

For this reason, we can be sensitive to the environment to a greater extent than others, in turn allowing the appearance of a vulnerability that somehow way shapes our behavior and our particular way of understanding the world, on some occasions from centered or slightly exaggerated postures.

They are historical and cultural constructions, they can be learned by our parents or they can be transmitted to us through events of daily life, during our history, which configure cultural learning and social.

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Self-sabotage processes

The fact is that during this journey we learn to solve the difficulties that arise, in effective or ineffective ways. Sometimes we punish ourselves and judge our own behaviors by doubting them and pointing them out; therefore, we make decisions hurting ourselves, being little compassionate with ourselves and thinking that we are not competent or simply that we are not enough or little loved. This leads to behaviors of isolation, and sometimes even to dysfunctional activities related to drug use (such as alcohol consumption), or behavioral addictions such as pathological gambling.

These strategies are neither good nor bad, but some of them do cause us discomfort and generate greater wear and tear than others, presenting within the different areas in which we develop (such as in the workplace, in relationships or in living with relatives or other people), limiting our resources to deal with those emotions or situations, making it difficult to make decisions and generating stress, emotional distress, poor tolerance for frustration, depression, anxiety, among other problems. These behaviors or ways of behaving are automatic, it is the way in which we have learned to respond to the world.

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Identifying the root of the problem

Although these situations are not a big problem and the resources available to deal with the situations are everyday, are reflected in our daily lives, causing effects that impact our lives emotionally and behavioral. In this sense, it is important to clarify that the difficulties and problems cannot be generalized: even if two people are going through the same situation, very surely the particularity of their cases are different, as was their life story, experiences and learning, whether they live in the same country or share the same roof.

For this reason, it is important to analyze the particularity of the situation and all the causal problems that cause the difficulty to be maintained and generated in the person, in their family, community, work environment or in society. In this way, clinical psychology, and especially psychotherapy, seeks identify these reasons that allow the person to understand the reason for their situations and discomfort, from an empathetic, humanized and non-judgmental process, which allows you to take action and strengthen your resources to face difficulties in a way effective, generating coping strategies and adaptive behaviors to their environment and particular situation, processing their emotions and strengthening their quality of life.

“Discomfort resists being changed, but the best way is to acknowledge its existence. Once consciousness is present, it is time to start the transformation process.

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