How To Maintain Psychological Balance?
Maintaining psychological balance means maintaining a certain stability with regard to mood, emotions and feelings. It also means reacting psychologically in moderation to various external stimuli, in a proportionate way and having some control over our impulses and instincts.
On the contrary, it is said that a person is unbalanced when he is too sensitive to external events and overreacts to them. A person who is psychologically unbalanced has a fragile and unstable affectivity.
The person who fails to maintain psychological balance can collapse in the face of any event. It will easily fall into discouragement, sadness or pessimism. On some occasions, the lack of balance comes, paradoxically, from an exaggerated balance.
This exaggerated balance reflects a more or less serious psychic anomaly. This is the case with people who have little or no feelings. They can be people without compassion, without ethical conscience, without shame, etc.
There are some cases where the lack of psychological balance is due to mental illness. In these cases, it will be necessary to fight it through an adequate treatment. However, often it is a personality issue. In such cases, it is a question of how to achieve a balanced personality.
Each person is a world with its own characteristics. It is not possible to set out in detail the way of being that would bring psychological balance to everyone. To achieve this, it is not necessary to change our way of being until a more or less standardized personality is configured in us.
To do so would then constitute an attack on our own identity. However, there are indeed a number of psychological factors that are the fundamental ingredients of a balanced personality, and without which a person would risk collapsing.
First of all, it is fundamental to succeed in knowing yourself. This can be achieved through an analysis of our skills and limitations. It is necessary to know what we are endowed with and what we are capable of doing, as well as what is difficult for us, if not impossible, due to our limitations in the physical or intellectual field.
Self-knowledge requires introspective analysis. It comes down to valuing our way of being and our abilities. Also necessary is an extrospective analysis, or in other words, a knowledge of ourselves through our works, through what we have been able to do so far.
These two types of analysis are difficult to conduct. Since we are our own judges, we set in motion defense and self-justification mechanisms that remove the objectivity of certain criteria. Therefore, we must also contrast this information with that of other people who deserve our trust.
Once we get closer to knowing ourselves, it is easier to establish a cohesive life plan that is achievable within our own possibilities. Thus, we can achieve a certain constancy in the face of adversities as well as be more sure of ourselves.
Imbalances often come from the fact that we are overwhelmed by our affectivity. We put too much heart into things, and don’t think hard enough. It is also not appropriate to become cold and overly rational beings.
We must try to achieve a balance between the rational and the emotional. This balance should allow us to approach problems and circumstances with realism and objectivity, without dramatizing them or ceasing to be ourselves, analyzing them with simplicity and naturalness.
Thus, taking care of certain social aspects can be of utmost importance. We must try to establish sufficiently broad and sincere social, family or romantic relationships, with an open, tolerant and flexible spirit.
Taking care of these social aspects helps to achieve a balanced personality that does not turn on itself or on others. Thus, it will be enriched, opening up to wider horizons.
Finally, work is also important. It is also detrimental to work too much than to devote oneself to a certain professional task, then trying to satisfy only superficial or simply material appetites. In both cases, it ends up generating a personality imbalance as well as a deep and serious psychological imbalance.
You may have lost your balance at some point in your life, but regaining it is not impossible. As we have just seen, to maintain psychological balance, we must know ourselves, establish a coherent life plan, take care of our social relationships, etc. This is the only way we can achieve this coveted psychological balance.
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