5 Aspects That Promote A Spiritual Catastrophe

In Western society there is the search for a spirituality that does not make us feel adrift, but rather feel that our life is something that we can shape, but without feeling excessive guilt and responsibility in our actions.

Sometimes we look for a spiritual guide that makes our life more pleasant or flow, instead of questioning ourselves and suffering so much.

This search for spirituality is directly related to another concept that fills psychology offices: people want to feel good, at peace and be good with themselves. People seek psychological well-being.

The search for psychological well-being and spirituality

From psychology, some advice related to spirituality and psychological well-being can also be given, which not only have their roots inspired by ancestral and religious currents, but have also been validated by scientific psychology.

But this psychological and spiritual well-being is not something arbitrary or accidental that appears out of nowhere without our intervention. For its proper functioning , effort, commitment and dedication are required on our part.

Therefore, the search for psychological and spiritual well-being requires a commitment to deepen the process that can lead us to its achievement.

In this article we will deal with five aspects that dynamite all psychological and spiritual well-being, and that are widely treated and studied are:

• The envy
• Comparison with others
• The continuous evaluation of our life
• Idealization
• Catastrophic thinking

The envy

On many occasions we differentiate “healthy envy” from “bad envy”, although if we look for its definition we will obviously not find this difference.

Feeling momentary envy of a specific event will be normal, as long as we do not want to usurp the identity of the other person or wish them ill. But that this state is prolonged in time and intensity, maybe not so much …

Envy places us in a situation of uselessness, toxicity and sometimes aggressiveness.

Comparison with others

That we compare ourselves with others is an aspect that is instilled in us from a young age to seek success through competition, and in turn to seek “normality” in the criteria of society.

What they do not tell us with sufficient conviction is that each of us is unique in abilities, character and circumstances.

Therefore, making comparisons takes us away from our own reality, creates false myths and sometimes a deep sense of failure.

Obviously this leaves the door to envy, although our nature has never wanted to harbor that feeling.

If you think you should have a model or a reference for your life, you can establish it taking into account its congruence with your values, that it is adaptable to your circumstances and that it is really accessible.

Continuous evaluation of ourselves

Continuous evaluation of what we do and what others do leads to bitterness and neuroticism. It can lead us to judge others – a common habit of frustrated people.

We must try to live without analyzing everything, because life is not an equation to be solved, but a continuous sensation of experimentation and sensations.

Idealization

The idealization of people and situations is very common, it is usually done retrospectively and in the future.

The difference between setting goals and idealizing is quite clear: the first way of living focuses us on action, and the second, encourages cruelty with our past mistakes and the lack of realism about our future goals.

Catastrophic thinking

The opposite of idealistic thinking is catastrophic thinking. Contrary to what can be believed, both are present in the psychology of the same person simultaneously.

If we tend to idealize something and when we experience it our expectations are not satisfied, a feeling of lack of control and hopelessness can overwhelm us.

That is why we have to adjust our expectations to reality, knowing the latter as much as possible so as not to make ourselves false hopes and neither create unnecessary in our heads that do not conform to reality.

Enhanced psychological well-being, welcome spirituality

By avoiding these 5 factors we will reach a mental and therefore spiritual well-being, which can always be reinforced by practices such as meditation, mindfulness or other techniques that help us to be aware of our body and relax our mind.

It is about eliminating everything that disturbs us, that is not beautiful or useful, and that sometimes has taken place in the past.

By detecting these aspects in our mind we can try to minimize them, ignore the thoughts that hurt us, and pave the way to practices such as meditation.

Dramatizing your problems only makes them worse and these practices will always make us feel like beings with a real presence in the present and with their own light, capable of organizing themselves for life but above all, of achieving a well-being and a mental clarity in which all problems are see as something outside of us.