Human Life Cycles

Question: What does “life cycle psychology” mean? Which are the human life stages?

Answer:

It is clear to everyone that life has a course with a beginning, a middle, and an end. The psychology of life cycle is a branch of psychology that tries to relate the place where an individual is in the course of his/her life with the kind of issues that the person is facing and with the kind of resources s/he will have available to face those issues. And, eventually, the kind of disturbance s/he could develop in case s/he fails to cope successfully with those issues.

From a theoretical point of view, the concept of stages of life comes from the thinking of developmental scientists. This concept not only involves the idea that there are different phases in life, but emphasizes the belief that any phase builds upon the previous ones. In the same way a boy can’t learn how to divide or multiply without first knowing how to add or subtract, the fact of forming adult relationships outside of the family of origin is problematic for a person who never had acceptable relationships at home.

When understood in this manner, the concept of stages of life is a very powerful one. For instance, this means that, in diagnosing a patient’s disturbance, the life cycle psychologist will attempt to determine at what stage the individual failed to meet the task of that phase of life. The person’s poor performance in the stages that follow can then be understood in terms of the lack of the required preparation for that stage. Thus life cycle psychology is in favor of using therapy as an attempt to correct the deficits created by the unsuccessful completion of a previous stage in life.

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Voice

I am nursing my broken heart,
Leaving everything apart.

I did everything to please him,
But nothing could appease him.

I admit that I have broken promises,
But none of them were intentional misses.

But destiny had a plan,
To put our love in a can.

I die to hear his voice,
But am afraid he might
Have made another choice……..

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Past

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The shadows dissipating

moving slowly out of my mind

Yet I find I am still in misery

and escape I can not find.

Oh the memories, haunting memories

will they ever cease to be?

I am running, ever running

and the past is chasing me…………….

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change begins with choice

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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. James Allen

CHANGE BEGINS WITH CHOICE by Jim Rohn

Any day we wish; we can discipline ourselves to change it all. Any day we wish; we can open the book that will open our mind to new knowledge. Any day we wish; we can start a new activity. Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change. We can do it immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year.

We can also do nothing. We can pretend rather than perform. And if the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labor, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make. But while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause. As Shakespeare uniquely observed, “The fault is not in the stars, but in ourselves.”

We created our circumstances by our past choices. We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better choices beginning today. Those who are in search of the good life do not need more answers or more time to think things over to reach better conclusions. They need the truth. They need the whole truth. And they need nothing but the truth.

We cannot allow our errors in judgment, repeated every day, to lead us down the wrong path.

We must keep coming back to those basics that make the biggest difference in how our life works out. And then we must make the very choices that will bring life, happiness and joy into our daily lives.

And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing to make changes in their life – If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

You have the ability to totally transform every area in your life – and it all begins with your very own power of choice.

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Motivate self help

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Motivation Self Help
Motivation self help — will you find it in a book, will you find it in a seminar, will you find it anywhere? Do you really know what motivation is?

Motivation is the mental power that gets you off the couch and makes you bust a move. Motivation is the power that arouses you to action towards your dream goal. Motivation self help is what you need to do if you find yourself sorely lacking in the motivation department.

Some people seem to be blessed with more motivation than they know what to do with. Others are so badly lacking that they resemble a member of the sloth family rather than the human family. If you look in the mirror and see a sloth, and don’t like what you see, you’ve come to the right place.

Motivation Some things you just don’t need self help to motivate yourself with. A normal person doesn’t need help to feed themselves. Usually you don’t need to be motivated to enjoy some pleasure in life.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek. – Mario Andretti

Motivation at a very low level is called a ‘drive’. The very lowest ‘drives’ are the ‘drives’ for food, shelter, and clothing.
•When you are hungry — you are motivated to eat.
•When you are naked & cold — you are motivated to find clothing.
•When faced with hostile nature — you are motivated to find shelter. Motivation Self help is interested in what drives you to your goal — toward success. Or perhaps just to get you off the couch!

Within or without
Humans are a very diverse bunch. And what motivates one person may not motivate another. However, there are two kinds two kinds of motivation:
•From the inside
•From the outside

Motivation from the inside is when people are driven to do something because it feels good, they think it is important, or that it is morally significant. Motivation self help finds its home here on the inside.

Motivation from the outside is when people are driven to do something because of incentives that come from others – good grades, money, a vacation, a prize and so on.

Motivations / Drives

Steven Reiss, Ph.D. has come up with a list of 16 drives that seem to be common to most people. They are:
•CURIOSITY: A thirst for knowledge. —–
•ACCEPTANCE: Coping with criticism. —–
•ORDER: Getting things in place. —–
•PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: Physical fitness is very Important. —–
•HONOR: Being a highly principled and loyal person. —–
•POWER: Seeking leadership roles. —–
•INDEPENDENCE: Self-reliance is essential to happiness. —–
•SOCIAL CONTACT: I am a fun-loving person. —–
•FAMILY: My children come first. —–
•STATUS: Significance through ownership. —–
•IDEALISM: Being very concerned with social causes. —–
•VENGEANCE: Get back at those who insult or offend. —–
•ROMANCE: Spending a lot of time pursuing or having sex. —–
•EATING: Eating and fantasizing about food. —–
•SAVING: Keeping things. —–
•TRANQUILITY: Peace and calm before anything else. —–

But what do you do when none of these things move you? What if you are stuck in a rut? How do you get going?

Motivation, or a lack of it, exists totally in your mind it is the result of your thoughts and nothing else. To the results you experience from a lack of motivation you absolutely must change your thoughts. The fastest and most effective way to change your thoughts is by using affirmations. Affirmations combined with brainwave entrainment —

Entrainment will put your mind into a receptive state and affirmations will inject highly motivating thoughts into your subconscious mind. The result will be motivation from the inside out. Do you want real motivation? Do you want your life back again?

Take the plunge — try affirmations with entrainment.
Enjoy radical success by finding unending motivation.

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