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Purpose!A philosophical role within our life that has real and lasting impact upon our physical and mental well-being. Purpose is one of those neglected topics, especially with regard to the healing of mental health symptoms.
What is purpose?Purpose is your sense of resolve or determination to achieve an outcome or objective. Purpose is a healthy method of distraction to focus your mental energy on something external to yourself. In other words, it removes your focus from internal mental self-chatter.
Wrap it all up and purpose equals a framework of goals toward which to dedicate finite attention and effort. Just like a compass offers direction so too does purpose.
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As a life aim, a purpose generates continual goals and targets for efforts to be devoted. A purpose provides a bedrock foundation that allows a person to be more resilient to obstacles, stress, and strain. Purpose is a central, self-organizing life aim that organizes and stimulates goals, manages behaviors, and provides a sense of meaning.
Let's be honest. Every sufferer of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) could do with less internal chatter and more external focus. Right?
When you awake with purpose, you're not wondering what you're going to do with yourself for the day, as you already know. A recent study of 7,100 participants demonstrated that the more purpose you have, the happier you are, and it seems the longer you live.
Purpose is directly linked to a healthy mind, healthy body and healthy aging. With PTSD, purpose can mean the difference between life or death when symptoms are severe.
PTSD has a definitive focus to consistently attack a person's purpose.That is to say, the diagnosis contains several symptoms with the direct result of destroying one's mental and/or physical functioning. With PTSD, purpose is more important than ever within your life.
You may now be questioning whether purpose can factually impact PTSD. Don't doubt yourself; this is a common-sense question that you should be asking. Interestingly, an empirically valid treatment used for trauma called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which is a form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, encompasses purpose as part of its core.
A little PTSD fact. PTSD is just a name. It has no scientific validation beyond creating a box (diagnosis) that holds specific contents (symptoms) that are recognized as phenomena, which occur in similarly affected people. PTSD, like all mental health diagnoses, is fundamentally philosophical -- a theoretical structure designed to serve those suffering from a core set of symptoms. What that means is there is no scientific evidence to support diagnostic structure. Symptoms are real, but we create diagnostic structures to serve a purpose, which is to define something in order to identify the very best treatments for a range of sufferers.
We can see, looking at the symptoms used for diagnostic purposes, that PTSD has a directly negative affect on one's sense of purpose. However, identifying and pursuing a positive purpose within one's life then becomes a strategy for combating such symptoms. What this means for every PTSD sufferer is that purpose has the ability to positively change negative symptoms for possibly life-changing effects.
We all love examples. Picture two famous basketball stars. One retires by choice based on planning, and one is retired due to injury. Both athletes define their purpose in life as surrounding their sport. The planned retiree has established a media career in basketball for himself, able to celebrate his career and the sport in spite of retirement. The injured retiree had no such planning in place and now finds herself distant from the team, passed by and no longer useful due to injury. She turns to gambling, drinking, drugs -- all negative distractions -- loses her partner, home, everything she had enjoyed.
It isn't that the injured player lost her purpose. Instead, she lost sight of it, clouded by negative symptoms. She could coach, manage players, or otherwise remain in touch with her passion. There are many opportunities for her in basketball, even still at the professional level. She hit a period where she lost her focus, and it consumed her, causing her to seek new distractions that were harmful and served no productive or invigorating purpose in her life.
PTSD is no different. You have a life, job, relationship, everything you wanted: then you're struck with PTSD, and you may lose some, or all, of these things. Negative symptoms may cloud your present, yet finding and accepting your purpose again can help you remove the negativity and get back on track with your life. You limit the negative self talk and expend your energy by placing your focus on external tasks. In other words, you begin doing, not thinking about doing.
Find purpose again. Finding purpose can change everything with your PTSD symptoms. Whilst it does not solve PTSD, purpose can resolve several symptoms you're negatively affected by in your present life, such as avoidance, intrusive thoughts, mood and arousal. Remember, purpose encompasses your goals, achievements, behavior and more.
Purpose generates motivated behavior, stimulates behavioral consistency and psychological flexibility, fosters efficient use of your mind body resources and provides a higher level of cognitive processing.
Everyone has purpose. Some may acknowledge their purpose more than others, some may not know their purpose. Some may have multiple purposes that they follow in their life. Religion is a purpose that many embrace, to live a life being the best version of themselves they can be within a religious paradigm. For those who embrace religion, they're often people who have multiple purposes. Many have extolled the well-studied benefits of gardening, which gives gardeners a definitive purpose to foster flowers or edible plants, and it provides a simple and hands-on structure for spending energy investing in something over time. Still others find solace in volunteering at soup kitchens or visiting with the elderly.
Do you know your purpose?
Put purpose back into your life.Don't create stress; that is not purpose. Purpose is not things you can't do. Purpose is passion, things that make you happy, things that are achievable and within your circumstance. You may need to try new things in your present to find future purposes.
We all have something we do well. What is that for you?
Age is not a barrier. The link between purpose and mortality does not come with a specific age. There is no age limit to finding one's purpose. A life with lost purpose at 60 can become a purposeful life again.
Still unsure? Google Nick Vujicic, watch his videos on YouTube, and determine your current position in life with regard to your sense of purpose.
What is purpose?Purpose is your sense of resolve or determination to achieve an outcome or objective. Purpose is a healthy method of distraction to focus your mental energy on something external to yourself. In other words, it removes your focus from internal mental self-chatter.
Wrap it all up and purpose equals a framework of goals toward which to dedicate finite attention and effort. Just like a compass offers direction so too does purpose.
Link Removed explain purpose:
As a life aim, a purpose generates continual goals and targets for efforts to be devoted. A purpose provides a bedrock foundation that allows a person to be more resilient to obstacles, stress, and strain. Purpose is a central, self-organizing life aim that organizes and stimulates goals, manages behaviors, and provides a sense of meaning.
Let's be honest. Every sufferer of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) could do with less internal chatter and more external focus. Right?
When you awake with purpose, you're not wondering what you're going to do with yourself for the day, as you already know. A recent study of 7,100 participants demonstrated that the more purpose you have, the happier you are, and it seems the longer you live.
Purpose is directly linked to a healthy mind, healthy body and healthy aging. With PTSD, purpose can mean the difference between life or death when symptoms are severe.
PTSD has a definitive focus to consistently attack a person's purpose.That is to say, the diagnosis contains several symptoms with the direct result of destroying one's mental and/or physical functioning. With PTSD, purpose is more important than ever within your life.
You may now be questioning whether purpose can factually impact PTSD. Don't doubt yourself; this is a common-sense question that you should be asking. Interestingly, an empirically valid treatment used for trauma called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which is a form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, encompasses purpose as part of its core.
A little PTSD fact. PTSD is just a name. It has no scientific validation beyond creating a box (diagnosis) that holds specific contents (symptoms) that are recognized as phenomena, which occur in similarly affected people. PTSD, like all mental health diagnoses, is fundamentally philosophical -- a theoretical structure designed to serve those suffering from a core set of symptoms. What that means is there is no scientific evidence to support diagnostic structure. Symptoms are real, but we create diagnostic structures to serve a purpose, which is to define something in order to identify the very best treatments for a range of sufferers.
We can see, looking at the symptoms used for diagnostic purposes, that PTSD has a directly negative affect on one's sense of purpose. However, identifying and pursuing a positive purpose within one's life then becomes a strategy for combating such symptoms. What this means for every PTSD sufferer is that purpose has the ability to positively change negative symptoms for possibly life-changing effects.
We all love examples. Picture two famous basketball stars. One retires by choice based on planning, and one is retired due to injury. Both athletes define their purpose in life as surrounding their sport. The planned retiree has established a media career in basketball for himself, able to celebrate his career and the sport in spite of retirement. The injured retiree had no such planning in place and now finds herself distant from the team, passed by and no longer useful due to injury. She turns to gambling, drinking, drugs -- all negative distractions -- loses her partner, home, everything she had enjoyed.
It isn't that the injured player lost her purpose. Instead, she lost sight of it, clouded by negative symptoms. She could coach, manage players, or otherwise remain in touch with her passion. There are many opportunities for her in basketball, even still at the professional level. She hit a period where she lost her focus, and it consumed her, causing her to seek new distractions that were harmful and served no productive or invigorating purpose in her life.
PTSD is no different. You have a life, job, relationship, everything you wanted: then you're struck with PTSD, and you may lose some, or all, of these things. Negative symptoms may cloud your present, yet finding and accepting your purpose again can help you remove the negativity and get back on track with your life. You limit the negative self talk and expend your energy by placing your focus on external tasks. In other words, you begin doing, not thinking about doing.
Find purpose again. Finding purpose can change everything with your PTSD symptoms. Whilst it does not solve PTSD, purpose can resolve several symptoms you're negatively affected by in your present life, such as avoidance, intrusive thoughts, mood and arousal. Remember, purpose encompasses your goals, achievements, behavior and more.
Purpose generates motivated behavior, stimulates behavioral consistency and psychological flexibility, fosters efficient use of your mind body resources and provides a higher level of cognitive processing.
Everyone has purpose. Some may acknowledge their purpose more than others, some may not know their purpose. Some may have multiple purposes that they follow in their life. Religion is a purpose that many embrace, to live a life being the best version of themselves they can be within a religious paradigm. For those who embrace religion, they're often people who have multiple purposes. Many have extolled the well-studied benefits of gardening, which gives gardeners a definitive purpose to foster flowers or edible plants, and it provides a simple and hands-on structure for spending energy investing in something over time. Still others find solace in volunteering at soup kitchens or visiting with the elderly.
Do you know your purpose?
Put purpose back into your life.Don't create stress; that is not purpose. Purpose is not things you can't do. Purpose is passion, things that make you happy, things that are achievable and within your circumstance. You may need to try new things in your present to find future purposes.
We all have something we do well. What is that for you?
Age is not a barrier. The link between purpose and mortality does not come with a specific age. There is no age limit to finding one's purpose. A life with lost purpose at 60 can become a purposeful life again.
Still unsure? Google Nick Vujicic, watch his videos on YouTube, and determine your current position in life with regard to your sense of purpose.