Personal development 2
What is it ?
• Self-development completes my knowledge of the world.
• Primarily this implies to get a more clear view of myself.
• It is to know and understand the roles I play in everyday life and
softheartedly getting to know the person who is protected by my
defence and survival strategies.
• Deep in myself will find my essence and my indisputable value.
• Here I will find and use those good forces which help me grow.
• So I learn to create harmony, in myself and in the world.
Providing for needs
is basic in life. Physical needs like hunger and thirst are prioritized. Self-actualization will be the last one provided for because of more urgent basic needs. But self-understanding can ease life on all levels.
Self-programming
Experience of different situations in life will teach all mammals to remember what is safe and what could be dangerous. This mental ability will of course support survival. Man, as opposed to other animals, is capable of a more lively imagination, both of possible threats and of his ability to handle these.
This affects the human capacity for action.
Negative expectations
Lack of self-confidence and doubts about my own ability to handle the demands of life, along with my own image of a threatening world, will create negative anticipation of upcoming situations. This will undermine my capacity for productive action in the expected situation. If I afterwards disapprove of my efforts, my disbelief in myself will increase. In this way negative expectations will be amplified until next time I have to achieve something. So my next performance will again be less productive than it could have been. Very often this mental feed-back mechanism develops to a negative loop. In this way negative self-fullfilling prophecies are created.
Human growth and maturity
requires certain positive convictions and qualitys. We can learn to awaken them, to strengthen them and to act on them. This is called personal development!
