How to make friends with willpower

Willpower is often associated with coercion, duty and struggle with oneself. Therefore, it is logical that such a violent attitude can cause resistance.

Anyone can learn to slow down through meditative and mindfulness practices.

Read aloud: WILL, FREEDOM.

Anyone can learn to slow down through meditative and mindfulness practices.

Anyone can learn to slow down through meditative and mindfulness practices.

Anyone can learn to slow down through meditative and mindfulness practices.

Due to reflex behavior, our brain spends less energy, so it does not need to look for new response options, it is much easier to refer to similar situations in memory. And there is nothing wrong with such an economical approach, if it does not become the only norm of life.

Anyone can learn to slow down through meditative and mindfulness practices.

For example, parents can offer the child to eat, and then there will be a reward in the form of watching a cartoon or the opportunity to play a game on a tablet. Perhaps the child does not want to eat, but it is important for parents to fulfill their parental duty - to feed the child.

As a result, a habit is formed to live so that others are satisfied, and over time it becomes a learned and habitual behavior. In such people, the willpower is aimed at taking into account the interests of other people and receiving approval for their behavior.

Anyone can learn to slow down through meditative and mindfulness practices.

Perform daily while taking a shower;
Feel the temperature of the water with your body;

Anyone can learn to slow down through meditative and mindfulness practices.

Anyone can learn to slow down through meditative and mindfulness practices.

Perform daily while taking a shower;
Feel the temperature of the water with your body;
Consciously observe how water flows down your body;
Pay attention to bodily sensations in different parts of the body;

And this is already about care and a conscious life, which can be reached through the skill of slowing down.

Anyone can learn to slow down through meditative and mindfulness practices.

Anyone can learn to slow down through meditative and mindfulness practices.

Perform daily while taking a shower;
Feel the temperature of the water with your body;
Consciously observe how water flows down your body;
Pay attention to bodily sensations in different parts of the body;
Change the temperature of the water slightly and observe the bodily sensations, how your body reacts in different areas;
If extraneous thoughts arise, then smoothly shift your attention back to your breathing. Over time, this technique will become easier and more familiar to you.
If extraneous thoughts arise, then smoothly shift your attention back to your breathing. Over time, this technique will become easier and more familiar to you.

Perform daily while taking a shower;
Feel the temperature of the water with your body;
Consciously observe how water flows down your body;
Pay attention to bodily sensations in different parts of the body;
Change the temperature of the water slightly and observe the bodily sensations, how your body reacts in different areas;
If extraneous thoughts arise, then smoothly shift your attention back to your breathing. Over time, this technique will become easier and more familiar to you.

Willpower is about freedom from reflexive and habitual reactions that lead to habitual results.

Anyone can learn to slow down through meditative and mindfulness practices.

And take into account that no matter how things turned out in childhood and no matter what methods of upbringing parents used, in adult life everyone makes a choice: to live life reflexively or consciously. For this, it is important to study yourself and your inner world, your reactions, desires, peculiarities, unconscious processes, and learn your understanding of happiness. How can working with a psychologist help.