Human behavior is a set of habits in one way or another to respond to the current situation. If desired, you can adjust your behavior by changing the habitual manner of perceiving circumstances. In this difficult matter, man will be helped by his will and volitional regulation of behavior. The latter is a conscious regulation of activity, forcing a person to overcome internal and external obstacles. Will is one of the important components of our psyche, inextricably linked with cognitive and emotional processes.
Simple moves
Any actions can be attributed to one of two groups:
- Involuntary actions. Expression of various kinds of emotions, such as delight, fear, anger, surprise. Under these emotions, in a state of affect, a person performs certain actions. These actions are unplanned and have an impulsive nature.
- Arbitrary actions. A person acts consciously, pursues certain goals, sets himself the tasks that can ensure its achievement, thinks through their order. All the actions performed, committed consciously and purposefully, are derived from the will of man.
Volitional actions also fall into two categories: simple and complex.
The simple are those in which a person clearly knows what and how to do it, he has a clear idea of the tasks and goals ahead. In fact, a motivated person commits actions automatically.
Complex volitional actions go through certain stages:
- goal setting;
- a conscious desire to achieve it;
- identification of a number of opportunities to achieve the goal;
- the emergence of motives that affirm or exclude these opportunities;
- decision making (choice of possibility);
- implementation of the decision;
- overcoming external obstacles and difficulties, various obstacles. This process lasts until the goal is reached.
Managing yourself
Emotional-volitional regulation of human behavior and activity is to control. Any movement, word, deed causes a number of emotional reactions. It is not difficult to guess that they can be of a different nature: positive or negative. Negative emotions reduce activity, destroy motives and instill uncertainty and fear. It is here that you will need strong will. The will is needed when making a decision, which often complicates uncontrolled emotions. Intemperance in this respect testifies to the complex, contradictory inner world of man. It is these people who first of all need to train their willpower.
Overcoming obstacles requires volitional efforts. This is a special state of neuropsychic tension. It mobilizes the physical and intellectual abilities of man.
What characterizes a person as a possessor of strong will? To answer this question, we can distinguish the following qualities:
- firmness of intent and determination;
- adequacy and awareness of actions;
- overcoming fears;
- independence in the implementation of choice and decision.
Training and development
In order to develop willpower, you need to do the following:
- find your incentive. What will keep you on the chosen path will motivate you. If you want to lose weight, think about how beautiful you will look in the tight sexy dress that you have long dreamed of trying on. You will become more
attractive for men and self-confident; - meditate. The more often and longer you practice it, the stronger will be your will. The fact is that in this way you train your mind to resist treacherous thoughts ("may not be necessary?", "Maybe it's time to finish?").
- stick to one goal. Try to concentrate your energy on completing those things that you are going to do.
The more achievements, the more determined you become and the strength of your will increases.