How Understanding
Motivation and Emotion Can Help you Become
Healthier
Understanding motivation and emotion are linked can be the key
factor in helping yourself transform your life into making
lifestyle choices that will allow you to become healthier. If
you know that how you feel about something is going to affect
how successful you are at it, then you can try and stop
yourself from thinking negatively about what you have to do, or
what you have to give up, and concentrate instead on the
positive side of what you will achieve.
For example, if you are told by your doctor that you must lose
weight, understanding motivation and emotion will allow you to
realize that if you concentrate your thought processes on how
much you weigh every day and stress about every pound not lost,
if you think about all the things you love to eat and drink
which are now denied to you, then you are not likely to keep to
the healthy eating plan your doctor wants you to follow. Read
up so that your understanding of motivation and emotion is
better, and follow any exercises it gives you to turn your
negative thoughts into positive ones.
Instead of thinking about what you’re not allowed to eat and
depriving yourself of all candy, motivate yourself by allowing
yourself a small bar of candy at your weekly weigh-in if you
have lost weight. That’s a good reward as it allows you a
little of what you’re no longer supposed to have as part of
your normal diet, but at the same time, it lets you feel as if
it’s not quite 100% off limits. This is a perfect example of
how understanding motivation and emotion can help you to
accomplish a healthier lifestyle without feeling as if you are
being denied any of the things that you really enjoy, because
it’s the deprivation of these things that can create the
destructive emotions that would sabotage your best efforts.
Someone who has an addiction could also benefit from
understanding motivation and emotion in action. Although the
reward for abstaining from the substance or other addictive
process can’t be connected to this, a suitable reward in shape
of something else that’s enjoyed can be used instead.
In both the case of stopping an addiction, and starting
healthier living practices, using an understanding of
motivation and emotion can also work in a group environment.
This doesn’t work for everyone as some people are more
successful on their own, but many people find that a group
dynamic helps them to get adrenalin going and improving their
motivation for continuing something, and so they feel better
about doing it, and it goes better until the practice of having
to eat healthier, or exercise regularly, or not smoke or inject
is not so much a thought process, but more of a subconscious
habit that no longer requires any understanding of motivation
and emotion at all!
The creation of a good habit could be the goal that you are
really looking for when you start out with your lifestyle
change. Using an understanding motivation and emotion process
can really help you get the momentum going in the early days
and weeks when doing the things recommended to stop the
unhealthy habits is especially difficult as you continue to
dwell on what you’re missing instead of what you’re gaining. At
first reading to get an understanding motivation and emotion
may seem more technical than you’d like, but once you
understand the basic principle of how you feel about something
affects how successful you are likely to be because it affects
how much effort you put into it, you’re well on your way to
achieving your goal.
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