Mental Happiness and Body Wellness
Be happy to Heal.
Self-healing begins when you are wise and happy. Mental
happiness and body wellness are interrelated. If you are happy, your body will
heal faster. It’s just that simple.
But happiness is not easy to come by, especially when your
mind is not prepared to receive it. The mind needs wisdom to create happiness
thoughts to stimulate the brain cells to produce chemicals that make one happy.
Genuine human happiness comes from human thoughts that are the components of
human personality. Therefore, understanding personality development may throw
some light on why you are happy or unhappy.
According to the famous psychologist Erik Erikson, your personality has evolved through
several decades of changes and experiences, resulting in who and what you have
now become. Therefore, profound wisdom is to understand how those changes in your life have
occurred and shaped your personality, and how adapting
yourself to those changes now may still benefit you in the long run. According
to Erik Erikson, there are eight life stages. through which we may
have gone through to become who and what we are right now. These eight
psychosocial development stages are as follows:
Trust and Mistrust
In this first stage, from birth to age one, we
may experience and develop trust or mistrust that affects how we feel about the benevolence of the
world around us.
Do you always have low trust or mistrust in
others?
In the toddler stage, we begin to develop our
self-trust, which leads to independence. With self-trust, we begin to
learn how to walk. In this stage, however, we may also develop self-doubt that
leads to shame later in life. This may be the underlying cause of failing to
take risks in later life, missing some golden opportunities to improve our lives,
and thus making us feel unhappy and unfulfilled.
Are you always self-confident?
Creativity and Guilt
In preschool years, we begin to exercise our minds to
acquire initiative and express creativity. The capability to express freely our initiative and creativity helps us
develop the playful and positive side of our nature. Under restraint, on the
other hand, we may develop guilt, lack of self-confidence, and inability to get
close to others.
Are you always creative and imaginative?
Industry and Inferiority
From age five to eleven, we experience fulfillment in
accomplishment or disappointment in failure. This is often a result of
acquiring our society’s work ethics. We begin to believe in our abilities and
feel motivated to work hard. On the other hand, if we become lazy, we develop
poor work habits that may adversely affect our careers later in life.
Are you always puttering from one job to
another, always procrastinating and never meeting deadlines?
Identity and Diffusion
In adolescent, we begin to explore ourselves, finding out
who we are and what we want out of life. We may channel our energy into a field
we love, and derive pleasure from seeing what we have accomplished. This growth
in our sense of self determines whether or not we have an “identity crisis.”
Are you always in search for a purpose in life?
Intimacy and Withdrawal
In early adulthood, we develop intimacy, which is a quality
of an individual, and not the couple. The ability to develop and maintain a
long-term relationship is an asset. However, many of us may experience
difficulty in achieving closeness with others, or even maintaining a
long-lasting relationship, resulting in inner loneliness that causes us to
doubt even our own remarkable accomplishments in life.
Is your life worthwhile when it comes to
relationships?
Compassion and Selfishness
In middle age, we become more connected to future
generations, as evidenced by being parents, mentors, and supervisors. However,
we may also become self-focusing, alienating ourselves from the next
generation, and thus creating the “generation gap.”
Do you spend much time focusing on your own
needs, instead of those of others?
Ego and Despair
In old age, by letting go of the ego, we accept both our
successes and failures, and thus have a healthy perspective on life. However,
we may also look back at our own past experiences and the world in general with
disdain and regret, and thus we become despaired and unhappy.
Do you think you already have a fulfilled life?
If you wish to be a happier individual, read my book: Be A Better and Happier You With Tao Wisdom. This
132-page book explains the essentials of human wisdom, which bring about human
goodness, resulting in human happiness. Be happy to heal.
Stephen Lau
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