HOW DO YOU DEFINE A HEALTHY OUTLOOK ON LIFE?
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HOW DO YOU DEFINE A HEALTHY OUTLOOK ON LIFE?
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Setting daily goals and creating daily habits aligned to your values are key. These can include setting time aside to talk with your spouse or children, taking time to read daily, focusing on important work projects, etc.
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He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
– Nietzsche
Our mental health is as important as our physical health in achieving well-being and happiness in our lives.
However, we can all struggle with adversity and setbacks that can challenge our mental health and cause us to become depressed or anxious. Learning to cultivate positive mental health and to manage our mind despite whatever challenges come our way is crucial in coping and thriving in life. Drawing from the insights of positive psychology, I will be writing six positive mental health articles in The Irish Times that present practical principles you can apply in your life to build your resilience in the face of adversity. This first article looks at the important of creating purpose and meaning in your daily life.
Creating meaning in tough situations
In his book Man’s Search for Meaning psychotherapist Victor Frankl based his approach to helping people on his personal experiences of being a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp. Going through the horrendous experience with his fellow prisoners, he noticed that those who survived the longest tended to have a sense of purpose that helped them get through.
For some the purpose was to stay alive in the hope of returning home or being reunited with family or for others the purpose was to simply survive the experience in order to tell their story and to return to their former life. This sense of purpose gave these people an impetus to do what they could to survive the experience and translated into simple daily living goals such as getting a meal, keeping warm, do enough work not to irk the guards, etc. Those who had no such purpose and no such daily goals would quickly lose hope and succumb to despair and death.
In addition, Frankl noticed that those who survived could derive moments of daily meaning despite their very challenging circumstances whether these were connections with fellow prisoners, helping one another, learning something in spite of their situation, or even connecting with some more-sympathetic guards. Frankl described in his book how he would constantly think of his wife and his hope to see her again and this would give him consolation and the impetus to survive.
Discovering your life purpose
Research from positive psychology suggests that people who are the happiest tend to be goal focused or have a purpose in mind for their lives that is aligned with their deepest values and what is most important to them.
Taking time to understand what matters most to you and making sure that at least some of your day is focused on this is a great boost to your well-being and deep satisfaction. The reverse is also true – when you live many days out of touch with what really matters to you, your unhappiness will escalate and your sense of well-being will diminish. To help people get in touch with their deeper values, I often suggest the following exercise in my seminars: Take a moment to imagine a future celebratory life event where people are gathered to mark your contribution to the world (eg your retirement or a family event).
Now imagine that four key people in your life (such as your spouse, your child, a close friend or key work colleague) are giving speeches as to what they have most valued in you or what they are most proud of about you.
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