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The 3 pillars of balance in personal growth

The 3 pillars of balance in personal growth

March 20, 2024

Throughout history and geography, you can find a myriad of psychological, philosophical, sociological and religious currents that they have tried to offer answers to the existential questions of life that as individuals endowed with intelligence we have been able to pose.

When someone immerses himself in the study of any discipline of the previously mentioned, he is usually surprised by examples of thought that, looking contemporary to our questions, have in most cases hundreds, if not thousands of years old. For curious minds, devoid of prejudices, it will not be a difficult task to enter into the diverse sources of wisdom that have tried, with greater or lesser success, to solve these questions in an effective way.


Being able to establish associative links between those last foundations of said currents, we can find a series of pillars of wisdom that have served as the basis for offering answers yesterday and today .

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To know, to accept, to overcome

In this effort to find the least common divisor of personal equilibrium, we have been able to identify three basic aspects that are repeated over and over again in various techniques and trends that could be summarized in the phrase of St. Augustine: "Know yourself, accept yourself, overcome yourself".

In conventional cognitive behavioral therapies, we find how a base of beliefs or thoughts, not always conscious for the individual, activate, maintain or direct their behaviors, being necessary for the return to normality, to go through a series of treatment phases which would consist mainly of:


1. Evaluation

Identify the causal factors of behavior through a previous exploration with different types of evaluation tools .

2. Intervention

Employment of Cognitive and behavioral modification techniques , aimed at the recovery of normal levels of behavior in reference to the general scale.

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3. Follow up

Periodic review of the achievement of the objectives of the intervention and proposals for improvement .

Principles of personal growth from Coaching

In the much-maligned and often poorly treated Coaching technique, according to the model CAR by John Whitmore , three basic principles are recognized for its operation that would be summarized in the initials of said acronym.


1. Consciousness

It would be formed by an objective part, coming from the possibilities that our own senses offer us . What would come to be the personal hardware. And a subjective part, stemming from the system of beliefs, values, learning history and other sociocultural influences acquired, that modify our interpretations about everyday reality. It would correspond with the personal "software".

2. Self-belief

As a fundamental basis for the successful development of the technique, we work on the idea that the individual possesses all the personal resources necessary to overcome the difficulties that they are presented, understanding that their role in this story is not that of the end itself, but that of the means to achieve it.

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3. Responsibility

Once the previous steps of knowledge and acceptance have been internalized, the protagonist of the coaching process assumes responsibility for action, committing himself to the execution of new processes that may give rise to new solutions. In short, leave the famous comfort zone and face the path of overcoming .

The keys to personal development according to ACT

Finishing this review, we would find the known therapies of third generation, and specifically the ACT or Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. As its name suggests, this type of therapy renounces the old cognitive behavioral efforts to fight against one's own personal nature, finding the key to development and well-being in:

The acceptation

Acceptance, prior self-knowledge, can be seen as a necessary tool to overcome deviations from the norm in terms of thoughts, feelings and behaviors , incorporating certain nuances of an emotional nature with respect to the predecessor techniques.

Commitment

The commitment, as a personal desire to star in the change according to the characteristics and values ​​of our own personal nature .

Find the psychological balance

As you can see, there are multiple ways of approaching a situation, the same problem, of facing a challenge.But if we make an effort of observation, it is not difficult to find those bases or common pillars that sustain the personal balance.

UPAD Psychology and Coaching are aware of this and we like to go to all kinds of sources of knowledge to implement our work methodology and offer our users all the tools at our disposal for their performance, welfare and personal satisfaction .


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