How does Psychological Flexibility help in dealing with life problems?
Psychological flexibility gives us the ability to adapt to change, it helps us to cope with problems that arise on a day to day basis. In order to allow psychological flexibility to prove beneficial to us we must never avoid problems. It should not matter what problems we face, we must confront them courageously. Avoidance is a detrimental coping mechanism as this encourages issues to build and as a result may cause resentment towards the problem and within ourselves. To ensure our life is enriched with happiness and success in Wealth, Health and Relationships we should not request a problem free life, we should instead ask for the ability and the strength to overcome our problems and face them head on with courage and perseverance.
Something that will benefit our ability to cope with changes and to assist us when facing obstacles is to have a life ‘Tool Box’ at our disposal. This ‘Tool box’ should have the appropriate coping techniques to deal with different situations that will require our attention, things like dealing with family, friends, work and health concerns. All these situations will require a different coping technique and the more tools we have, the more problems that can be fixed with greater ease and in a tidy manner. With the right tools at our disposal, we are in control of our own problems rather than the problem taking control of us. The major benefit that comes with having a wide range of capabilities is that we can target the symptoms of a problem rather than having to find a solution once the problem has already manifested out from under our control. Here, we must pose the question. Do you have enough life tools in your tool box? If not, then you have come to the right place.
