Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Psychology of laziness

In the dictionary laziness is described as unwilling to work or to do any other activity. In the Bible it is one of the seven deadly sins. One man have said that laziness leads ahead all the humanity. Everybody describes laziness as a fault, but i want to describe advantages and disadvantages of it and some reasons. So let's talk about psychology of laziness.
The rush is the biggest illness nowadays. Everybody is rushing everytime and everywhere. People do not have time enough for themselves. The East and West countries are propogating laziness. Psychologists insist, that we must be lazy, at least for a little bit doing yoga, meditation or any other activity. That would be like "active laziness". By the way, Lithunia is among few countries in Europe, that have a very big part of workaholics. So that makes us think that we should be lazy wisely: not too much and not too less.
In other way, laziness can be an illness itself. There are some specific symptoms related to laziness: lack of concentration, body ache, fatigue, difficulty of falling asleep and in performing daily routine. That could been seen some changes in appetite as well.
Everything is OK, unless laziness becomes an addiction. There are three laziness as addiction symptoms:
1. Depression
2. Chain smokers
3. Sleeps much more than the average person most days of week.
Psychologists think that the best remedy would be staying busy with planned activities, self motivation and trying to live differently: practising more exercises and being on a diet. Laziness can be exercised in endocrine disorders, cardiovascular and digestive illnesses, increased nervousness or anemia.
Laziness can spread very fast, because if one person feels lazy, so other people will feel like that soon too. Sometimes laziness can be result from fatigue or hard work.
Another reason of laziness can be pessimism. The best remedy for laziness is work. If it is extremely hard to learn to enjoy working.
We must be lazy a little bit, but not become an addict of it and do nothing just staying in bed, eating and drinking.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Queue psychology

Everybody knows what is it to stand in a queue. Usually that makes people nervous, angry and agressive. What to do to avoid being irritated staying in a line? Not to go ever to a shop? The answer is no. My advice would be - if people are in a hurry, then try to do shopping in a smaller shop. If a person is not in a hurry, but it makes him/ her annoyed even to think about a queue - he/she should go to a shop with a bunch of friends and to make an amusing and fun time of it. And finally, if it still makes you nervous to stand in a queue - think about a poor cashier - she/he must work all day and listen to people complains. She or he may feel much worse than you. Let's be humane and respect each other.

My profession is psychology

All the time I wanted to study psychology, because this profession involves many subjects and if you are in this area, you can work everywhere: in schools, hospitals, prisons, in business area - everywhere. Psychology is very interesting, because it is a study about human itself, not only how it thinks, or behaves, but also how it is going to think or do based on this mind or other circumstances. The most interesting thing is that people behave not only because of their minds, but because of their anatomy, their nerves as well. This is neuropsychology. I am interested in this area, although I think I would like to see me working in clinical psychology area. This psychology involves studies about human memory, sleep and the specialists consult people. The most interesting area is sleep for me - why do people sleep? why they do not fall out from their beds at night? what causes imsomnia and other sleeping disorders? what is happening in people bodies during the sleep?Psychology is a study that you all the time can find out something new. The progress never stops and the specialists "invents" many new ideas about humans every day.

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence describes an ability, capacity, or skill to perceive, assess, and manage the emotions of one's self, of others, and of groups. It shows how do you get along with other people. Usually it is measured with EQ tests. I have tried to evaluate my EQ and I found it difficult, because I though the test would be much shorter and much easier. I think tests can show a lot, but not all the truth, so you should not believe everything, what you read.
Highly intelligent people may lack the social skills that are associated with high emotional intelligence. I have read about savants, people who have incredibly high IQ and can show unbelievable mathematical skills, but usually they have low EQ and they find it very difficult to communicate with other people or finding new friends.

Emotional literacy is an ability to label specific feelings in yourself and others and being able to discuss emotions and communicate clearly and directly with other people. It means being able to talk about emotions without getting overly emotional or denying them. Emotional literacy is not using ‘I feel...’ statements to offer opinions, ideas and so on.

Emotional need is a craving that, when satisfied, leaves you feeling happy and, when unsatisfied, leaves you feeling frustrating. There are thousands of emotional needs, but I will try to tell you only few important needs. So a person must feel: free, respected, valuated, loved, worthy, admired and so on. Mostly there are some basic feeling words that describe feeling in one or another way. So here are the examples: accepted - rejected, proud - embarassed, supported - unsupported, accepted - dismissed and so on. Each person has different feeling words.

All in all, I would like to say, that emotional intelligence is the ability to understand your own emotions and those of people around you. It is relevant to communacating well with other people, although every human must understand another and try to help each other in any way, because otherwise it will be difficult to live for everyone.