What is a psychological resource?

Health (physical and psychological)

A healthy human body, which receives the required amount of rest and food, and also expends its internal sexuality and energy in the required amount - these are the internal resources of a person, on which most of the success in life depends.

The psychological component (mental processes and its functions) are also regarded as fundamental resources. The internal components of the personality psyche are erudition and erudition, imaginative and abstract thinking, intelligence, the ability to use information, the ability to analyze and synthesize, attention, quick switching from one object to another, will and imagination.

Internal human resources

Today I would like to focus on those internal human resources that are inalienable; It is these internal forces that often determine a person’s success in life.

You probably already guess what internal resources I’m talking about. This is, first of all: health, intelligence, positive thinking, high self-esteem, the ability to behave calmly in critical situations.

Why is it important to develop these internal components in the first place? The answer is obvious: we can only fully control ourselves. Of course, we have some degree of control over the situation and environment outside of us, but you understand perfectly well that this control is very illusory.

In this regard, I really like the following analogy. The main idea of the Russian Style martial arts school is that all available objects can become a person’s weapon against an attacker: an umbrella, a credit card, a briefcase; and the most important weapon, of course, remains the human body itself and its ability to use these objects for its protection.

In the same way, a person’s inner strengths become his “weapons” on the thorny path to success. Let's look at all the components separately.

Health and physical strength

First of all, you and I live in the objective world of physical reality. Yes, we can use the power of our subconscious; Yes, we can use the law of attraction, but ultimately it is our body that does the actual work. That is why it must be healthy.

Only a healthy body can help us realize all our plans; only a healthy body is a source of pleasant physical and emotional sensations.

I've written before about how exercise can help us find a path to success. However, today I would like to add one more factor to everything that has been said.

In an extreme, critical situation, all you have left is your body and its internal strength. The disaster scenario can be anything (shipwreck; you can get lost in the taiga, you can lose all your money for life and work, you can be left without a passport in a foreign country and much more)…

Of course, we all hope that this doesn't happen to us (and God willing), but it doesn't hurt to have a backup plan. If a man has physical strength and health, then he can always earn his living by becoming a laborer (for a certain period of time). If a woman is physically attractive, she can always use her beauty to secure accommodation (and not only through the provision of intimate services, although this cannot be ruled out).

In an extreme situation, the body is your key to salvation, it will help you survive, which means you have the “last word”, which can be the first on the path to success that you choose after overcoming the crisis.

Therefore, today begin to develop this inner resource of yours, train your body. How much is your body worth today? How much would you like it to cost? (I'm not kidding, these are quite serious questions).

Intelligence

Any professional knowledge you have, no matter what field it belongs to, is your “property” that you can sell if necessary. Ordinarily, you might not think that certain knowledge can help you overcome a crisis.

Imagine that you are in a financially difficult situation. What to do? If you play the piano professionally, then for some time you can earn your living by taking music lessons. Do you know a foreign language? – Tutors are always needed. Are higher mathematics, metal resistance and similar disciplines your strong point? – there will always be students who are too lazy to do calculations, and who will gladly pay you for saving them from this need.

I'm not suggesting that you specifically start studying a discipline taking into account a possible "adverse situation" in the future. No, I suggest you spend your free time more productively. Give up the TV, take up some hobby and try to develop your skills to a professional level.

By devoting just half an hour a day to developing one ability (for example, learning a foreign language), you can reach heights you never dreamed of. Give it a try. If you prove otherwise, I will delete these lines.

Positive thinking

Positive thinking is the connecting link that allows you to combine and use all other internal human resources. If you do not believe in successfully solving a problem, then you are subconsciously refusing to use all your innate mechanisms and acquired knowledge.

It's very simple, if you refuse to believe that there is a way out of the current situation, then you will never find it. A person is not inclined to look for what he does not believe in. Therefore, your brain will simply never begin to take actions in the direction of “go there, I don’t know where, bring that, I don’t know what.”

If success in life is what you really want to experience, then you should try to give up limiting beliefs and learn to believe in the possibility of achieving your life plans and goals.

Before I started this blog, I read several articles and one guide on this topic. The thoughts and ideas expressed in the articles seemed very realistic to me, so I formed the conviction that I could implement my plans. I set myself the task of not giving up for 1 year (for me this is the first such long-term test). And, as you can see, I succeed quite well.

Positive thinking is necessary in a situation of failure (when everything goes as planned, any person thinks positively)... Any failure can cause one of two thoughts to appear:

1) Everything is useless, there is no way out, nothing will work out...; 2) It didn’t work, you need to look for another way, the solution must still exist...;

What thought dominates your mind? Think about this question, maybe it's time to change something?

Self-esteem

A vital concept even in a normal situation, in a critical situation self-esteem comes to the fore and plays a key role. If your self-esteem is at the required (high enough) level, then you will not associate failure with the fact that you are an insufficiently developed and successful person.

Yes, you made a mistake, made the wrong decision, did not show enough perseverance, but your self-esteem should not suffer from this. Failure is the moment when you need to re-evaluate the effectiveness of your actions, not yourself.

This is interesting: How to awaken the giant within yourself?

You need to learn to treat self-esteem as a constant - it is the foundation on which you build the building of your success. Feel the difference in the statements: “I am stupid” and “I did a stupid thing.” Anyone, even the most successful person, can commit a stupid act. To recognize oneself as a “fool” means to agree that all actions in the future will be stupid. Is this true? Most likely no.

From today, begin to transfer your assessments from YOUR LOVED SELF to your IMPERFECT ACTIONS. You will soon notice the difference...

A person’s internal resources are “always with you”

Everything changes in life: market trends change, political systems, heads of state, oil and gold prices change. Today you own a fortune, and tomorrow you can lose everything... everything, but not yourself.

Become your own most valuable investment, receive income in the form of a percentage of your abilities and internal qualities. In the event of a crisis, not a single bank will provide you with such guarantees of security as you can create yourself if your internal resources have real weight.

This is interesting: How to change your life for the better

Don't hide behind the price of your car, your apartment, your lifestyle. How much are you worth on your own?

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Emotions and positive thinking

Various emotional states are inexhaustible resources. Internal moods can set the rhythm of both the physical body and the psyche as a whole. In this case, the resources are both a feeling of favorable emotions, such as joy, happiness, fun, peace, and a feeling of grief, sadness, anger, rage. But each emotion must have a creative function. For example, rage and anger in defending one’s rights can set personal boundaries and will not allow the opponent to violate them. But rage aimed at destroying (moral or psychological) another person already has a destructive function.

A creative perspective will allow you to develop the ability for positive thinking, which very often becomes an assistant in resolving many problems and troubles in life.

Psychological resources

F.E. Vasilyuk (1984), dividing the concepts of stress, frustration, conflict and crisis, substantiates four categorical fields corresponding to life worlds - vitality (see below), activity, consciousness and will. In our opinion, it is convenient to attribute resources for coping with extreme situations to these categorical fields. Accordingly, it is possible to divide the techniques often used in the process of rehabilitation and psychotherapy, depending on what coping resources they are aimed at maintaining. Many techniques of bodily psychotherapy (for example, E.S. Mazur, 2003), focusing techniques (Yu. Gendlin, 2000) are aimed at maintaining vitality - interest, desire, activity. Their main goal is to awaken in a person the desire to live, to cope with the situation, in order to then rely on this desire and interest when working with traumatic experiences. Reliance on activity during rehabilitation implies an emphasis on a person’s activity in overcoming difficulties, on his desire to act and win. “Try to do this” - this technique is often used not only in behavioral psychotherapy, but also in cognitive, art therapy, body psychotherapy, and Gestalt therapy. Finally, consciousness includes an understanding of how and why I act in a given situation, choice, and coordination of conflicting motives. This categorical field includes some techniques of psychoanalysis, existential psychotherapy, and humanistic psychotherapy. Work in this field is an attempt to realize that emotion, affect, guilt, experience is a certain phenomenon that has its own causes and consequences. Then they stop clouding everything around (such as the phenomenon of “invasion” of memories, feelings of guilt, fear), and further rehabilitation or psychotherapeutic work is possible. As an illustration, we can recall the common technique of situational reconstruction (for example, S. Maddi, 1997, 1998) - the event is viewed from an expanded perspective, its causes and possible consequences are considered and analyzed, which leads to a reassessment of the threat and negativity of the event itself, its role in life the person as a whole.

The search for psychological resources and reliance on these resources, as a rule, is a key point both in self-regulation (see below) and in rehabilitation in extreme conditions. If a person is convinced of his ability to control what is happening, is ready to act actively and overcome difficulties, and these beliefs remain unshakable in extreme conditions, he only needs to rely on these psychological resources. If (much more often) this is not the case, a painstaking search for psychological resources is necessary that will allow you to restore and maintain confidence and self-control. However, there is a second option for self-regulation - when relying not on psychological resources, but through existence itself. The individual accepts his responsibility for what is happening and what will happen - and the relationship between the motivational and semantic sphere of the individual - self-regulation is addressed. Acting in extreme conditions, despite experiences, a person changes and forms his own beliefs and dispositions.

VITALISM (Latin vitalis - living, vital) is a movement in biology that advocates the presence in representatives of the living world of special intangible factors that determine the specificity of this world and its qualitative difference from the inanimate. Vitalism originates from ancient animism. Elements of vitalism were contained in Plato’s philosophical teaching about the immortal soul, in Aristotle’s thought about the presence of special internal purposeful causes in living organisms. The system of vitalism was most fully expounded by the German embryologist G. Driesch (late 19th - early 20th centuries). The methodological basis of his vitalism was the “machine theory of life.” From the standpoint of the latter, it was difficult to explain the discovered facts of the regulation of developmental processes, the ability of individual cells at the earliest stages of division of a fertilized egg to develop into a full-fledged organism, regeneration phenomena, etc. Mechanistic ideas about the nature of cell division and the interconnection of cells in a multicellular organism did not make it possible to explain the essence of regeneration processes and the regulatory nature of development processes. These processes constituted, according to Drish, the essence of the phenomena of life. But this essence is determined, according to Driesch, by the so-called. “entelechy”, a factor “containing a goal”. This factor, being immaterial and operating outside of space and time, creates the spatial organization of living things and determines its expediency. The existence of intangible and unknowable factors in living things that determine its qualitative difference from non-living things was also recognized by other representatives of vitalism. (I. Reinke, R. Français, etc.). Vitalism is characterized by the absolutization of the qualitative uniqueness of living things, the denial of the role of chemical and physical laws in it, and a negative attitude towards those biological theories and concepts that provide a materialistic explanation for the phenomena of life. For example, Driesch actively opposed Darwin's evolutionary theory and G. Mendel's concept of heredity. Vital needs are needs determined by biological origin. Vitality I - (Vitality “I”) is a type of self-consciousness: consciousness of the psychophysical unity of one’s own personality.

EMOTIONAL REGULATION is a person’s spontaneous and conscious use of various techniques and technologies that helps to normalize or adjust his emotional state as needed.

Character

Character refers to not only those traits that are highly moral and attractive to society as a whole, but also those that help an individual move toward achieving certain results. For example, anger and irritability are not very welcome in society, but thanks to them a person will always be able to stand up for himself in a difficult situation. That is why such traits are also resources. The internal resources of the individual, consisting of character, of course, must be close to the ideals of society. It is worth remembering that all character traits must manifest themselves at the right time and in the right place, in which case they will only benefit the person himself and those around him.

Basic rules of self-regulation

Where can you get the strength to get out of your stupor and effectively continue your day? Basic rules of self-regulation will help with this.

1st rule. Monitor your condition

When indignation arises, we ask ourselves: why, for what, what bothers me, what is it about?

There will likely be a flood of responses, some of which you may not like. The first step for future self-analysis has been taken. Unprocessed residual emotions from the past come to the surface. Something that can later be analyzed with a specialist and something worth saying goodbye to so as not to react so painfully in the future.

The second step for self-analysis is to change the emotions that make you uncomfortable, such as anger, resentment, guilt. “Centered” breathing, which will saturate your brain with oxygen, will help you cope with this. When not enough oxygen reaches the brain, your reactions may become inadequate, let alone self-regulation and calmness.

“Centered breathing” does not require preparation - you can breathe in any place and position.

Breathe to the count of 4x4. As you inhale, count: 1, 2, 3, 4, as you exhale – 1, 2, 3, 4. Add a little awareness: inhale with your stomach, exhale with your mouth (if possible). We've sorted out the emotions, let's move on to the sensations in the body.

2nd rule. Conduct a dialogue with the body

Whatever the situation, we react with our body. Either “butterflies are fluttering” in the stomach, or the teeth are clenched in anger, or the fists are clenched from aggression - these are muscle spasms. And it depends only on us whether the bodily reaction will be painful and become a habit, or whether we and the body will come to an agreement. Such monitoring can be done by scanning your body.

As soon as we react emotionally to the situation, the body immediately turns on. To prevent further symptoms from occurring, it is very important to learn to read your body's reactions. As soon as we become aware of the reaction, we use a word to describe what we feel: pinching, trembling, squeezing, cutting, etc. We scanned our body, gave a name to the sensations - and acted according to the algorithm: situation → emotion → breathing → scanning → breathing.

We expand our capabilities and connect our imagination. We breathe using the 4x4 centered breathing technique. We remember that we are developing new resource-based behavioral patterns and transform breathing into directed breathing. We mentally direct the exhalation precisely to the part of the body where we felt discomfort. This way we relieve tension in the muscles. We inhale - we think about calmness (happiness, love, strength, etc.) and count: 1, 2, 3, 4. We exhale - we count (1, 2, 3, 4) and mentally direct the exhalation to the disturbing area of the body, as if blowing out anger, fear, resentment or anything that prevents us from being calm.

3rd rule. Hear your healthy “I want”

A healthy “I want” balances between our childhood whims and an adult attitude towards “I can”. It’s like “I want” to sleep very much in the morning, but “I can” get up on time, since the fulfillment of my plans for the day depends on my timeliness. Or I “want” to spend today as I please, but “I can” postpone this desire until the weekend. Sometimes a woman has an irresistible “I want” to wear a crimson blouse with green peas to a business meeting. What to do about it? Just negotiate. “I can” wear raspberry and green polka dots, but underwear. Then the integral ego will not suffer and the mood will not deteriorate due to the fact that you have to limit yourself in something.

4th rule. Stop playing rescuer

Each of us has the ability to empathize, so we can feel the same as others and respond to other people's opinions. As a result, we get drawn into disputes and conflicts, forget about our goals, succumb to manipulation and try to pity, save, and please everyone. The outside world can take over our attention, and we will spend our own strength, energy and time on solving other people’s issues, on internal strong experiences. I'm talking about unhealthy inclusion. Of course, it is important to help others, but only in such a way that this help does not become a burden for you.

Often our energy and strength are absorbed by our thoughts, experiences, disputes, and confrontations. Even if we lie on the couch or sit in front of the computer all day, the thought processes and emotions stuck in the body can drain our well to the bottom. Then in the evening we lose all our strength and think only about how to sleep. Or maybe stop letting others take advantage of you? It's time to learn how to save your strength!

5th rule. Be “here and now”

Have you ever noticed how quickly time passes? Before you have time to call, hold a meeting or go into a store, you realize with horror that an hour or two has passed. What's wrong with your time? It runs away from you because you are in an altered state - you are not in reality, but in your thoughts (with your head in the clouds). You have no sense of presence. You don't feel how cold or warm, hard or soft stools, loud or quiet sounds. But you can be brought back to reality by smelling the aroma of a colleague's coffee or hearing loud music from a passing car.

Remember that time is your main resource. Come up with signals that will help you return to reality. For some, a conscious switch of activities is enough to do this; for others, they set a signal on their phone every two hours; for others, the compositions in their headphones alternate from melodic to invigorating. Whatever it is, the signals should remind you that you are “here and now” - drawing, reading, eating, looking at a new collection in a boutique, or simply daydreaming.

Don't lose touch with reality, take care of your time resource!

Skills, abilities, experience

A skill is something that a person has learned to do, and a skill is the automation of a skill. Thanks to this, a person can benefit the people around him. In this way, the internal resource that lies in skill is manifested.

Experience, processed and experienced, is an important human resource. Everything that a person was able to realize and feel is already experience, and in the future the person can consciously use it in similar situations to overcome any difficulties.

Personal resources as an integral characteristic of personality

The concept of “resources” is used in various studies related to the study of mental reality. In recent years, the resource approach, which originated in humanistic psychology, has become widespread in psychology, within which an important place has been occupied by the study of the constructive principle of the individual, which allows one to overcome difficult life situations.

E. Fromm identified three psychological categories, designated as human resources in overcoming difficult life situations:

— hope is what ensures readiness to face the future, self-development and vision of its prospects, which contributes to life and growth;

- rational faith - awareness of the existence of many opportunities and the need to discover and use these opportunities in time;

- mental strength (courage) - the ability to resist attempts to jeopardize hope and faith and destroy them, turning them into naked optimism or irrational faith, “the ability to say “no” when the whole world wants to hear “yes” [14].

In modern psychology, the content of the concept of “resources” is developed within the framework of the development of the theory of psychological stress. V.A. Bodrov defines it as follows: “Resources are those physical and spiritual capabilities of a person, the mobilization of which ensures the implementation of his program and methods (strategies) of behavior to prevent or relieve stress” [3, p. 115-116].

K. Muzdybaev defines resources as means of livelihood, opportunities for people and society; like everything that a person uses to satisfy the requirements of the environment; as life values that form a real potential for coping with adverse life events.

N.E. Vodopyanova gives the following definition of resources: these are “internal and external variables that contribute to psychological stability in stressful situations; these are emotional, motivational-volitional, cognitive and behavioral constructs that a person actualizes to adapt to stressful work and life situations”, these are “the means (tools) used by him to transform interaction with a stressful situation [5, p. 290].

There are two classes of resources: personal and environmental (in other words, psychological and social). Personal resources (psychological, professional, physical) represent the skills and abilities of a person; environmental resources reflect the individual’s availability of help (instrumental, moral, emotional) in the social environment (from family members, friends, colleagues) and material support for the life of people who have experienced stress or in stressful conditions [4; eleven].

In the resource concept of stress by S. Hobfoll, resources are defined as what is significant for a person and helps him adapt in difficult life situations. Within the framework of the resource approach, various types of resources, both environmental and personal, are considered. S. Hobfoll classifies resources as: material objects (income, home, transport, clothing, object fetishes) and intangible objects (desires, goals); external (social support, family, friends, work, social status) and internal intrapersonal variables (self-esteem, professional skills, optimism, self-control, life values, belief system, etc.); mental and physical states; volitional, emotional and energetic characteristics that are necessary (directly or indirectly) for survival or preservation of health in difficult life situations or serve as means of achieving personally significant goals. One of the foundations of the resource approach is the principle of “conservation” of resources, which presupposes a person’s ability to receive, preserve, restore, multiply and redistribute resources in accordance with their own values. Through this distribution of resources, a person has the opportunity to adapt to a variable range of living environment conditions. In the concept of S. Hobfoll, the loss of resources is considered as the primary mechanism that triggers stress reactions. When resource loss occurs, other resources serve the function of limiting the instrumental, psychological, and social impact of the situation. The loss of internal and external resources entails a loss of subjective well-being, is experienced as a state of psychological stress, and negatively affects the individual’s health [12].

A.G. Maklakov introduces the concept of “personal adaptation potential,” which is meaningfully revealed within the framework of the concept of adaptation. The author considers the ability to adapt to be both an individual and personal property of a person, considers it as a process and as a property of a self-regulating system, consisting in the ability to adapt to changing external conditions. The psychological characteristics of a person, the most significant for the regulation of mental activity and the adaptation process itself, constitute his personal adaptation potential, which includes: neuropsychic stability, the level of development of which ensures tolerance to stress; self-esteem of the individual, which is the basis of self-regulation and influences the degree of adequacy of perception of the conditions of activity and one’s capabilities; a sense of social support, which determines a sense of self-worth; level of personality conflict; experience of social communication [9].

What is clear is that different resources play different roles in a person's adaptation and coping with difficult life events. L.V. Kulikov considers active motivation to overcome, attitude to stress as an opportunity to gain personal experience and the possibility of personal growth to be the most studied personal resources; strength of self-concept, self-respect, self-esteem, sense of self-worth, “self-sufficiency”; active life attitude; positivity and rationality of thinking; emotional-volitional qualities; physical resources - health status and attitude towards it as a value [6].

Most of the listed qualities with the characteristics of a psychologically healthy personality, identified by I.V. Dubrovina: self-sufficiency, a person’s interest in life, freedom of thought and initiative, passion for any area of scientific and practical activity, activity and independence, responsibility and ability to take risks, self-confidence and respect for others, discernment in the means of achieving a goal, the ability to be strong feelings and experiences, awareness of one’s individuality and joyful surprise at the uniqueness of all the people around him, creativity in various spheres of life and activity [13].

To denote the basic individual characteristic, the core of personality, D.A. Leontiev introduces the concept of “personal potential.” The effects of personal potential are designated in psychology by such concepts as will, ego strength, internal support, locus of control, action orientation, etc. [7].

Most accurately, according to D.A. Leontyev, the content of the concept of “personal potential” corresponds to the concept of “hardiness” introduced by S. Maddi (1998), which is defined not as a personal quality, but as a system of attitudes and beliefs, to a certain extent amenable to formation and development, as a basic characteristic of personality , which mediates the impact on her consciousness and behavior of all sorts of favorable and unfavorable circumstances, from somatic problems and diseases to social conditions. Resilience is defined by the author as an integrative personality characteristic responsible for the individual’s success in overcoming life’s difficulties. Hardiness implies a person's psychological vitality and enhanced effectiveness, being an indicator of a person's mental health.

In S. Muddy’s interpretation, resilience includes three relatively autonomous components:

- involvement in the process of life - the conviction that participation in what is happening gives the maximum chance of finding something worthwhile and interesting for the individual. The basis of engagement is self-confidence - a person’s perception of his ability to act successfully in a given situation (self-efficacy);

- confidence in the controllability of significant events in one’s life and the willingness to control them - the conviction that struggle allows one to influence the outcome of what is happening. The level of control is influenced by the style of thinking (an individual way of explaining the causes of events);

- accepting the challenge of life - a person’s conviction that all the events that happen to him contribute to his development through the acquisition of experience. Accepting a challenge (risk) is a person’s attitude towards the fundamental possibility of change [8].

Domestic research also identifies types of human resources that meaningfully reveal the content of the concept of “resilience.” Thus, as important information and instrumental resources of a person, L.V. Kulikov designates: the ability to control the situation; using methods or means to achieve the desired goal; ability to adapt, readiness for self-change, interactive techniques for changing oneself and the surrounding situation, activity to transform the situation of interaction between the individual and a stressful situation; ability for cognitive structuring and understanding of the situation; material resources – a high level of material income and material conditions, life safety, stability of wages, hygienic factors of life [6].

At the same time, D.A. Leontiev notes, all the mentioned concepts, being directly related to personal potential, describe only its individual facets. Personal potential is not so much basic personal traits and attitudes as it is features of a complex systemic organization of the personality as a whole, based on a complex scheme of mediation. Personal potential is an integral characteristic of the level of personal maturity, manifested in the self-determination of the individual. One of the specific forms of manifestation of personal potential is a person’s overcoming unfavorable conditions for its development through the use of self-determination based on personal potential [7].

I'M IN. Malykhina points to the advisability of identifying a personal (belonging to the individual in the phenomenal and noumenal sense) preventive resource, rather than a personal one (belonging to the individual only in the phenomenal, social sense). Personal (individual) preventive resource is considered as a complex of individual abilities, the implementation of which allows maintaining a balance of adaptation-compensatory mechanisms. The well-functioning operation of this complex ensures the mental, somatic and social well-being of a person and, in accordance with the orientation of the individual, creates conditions for him to discover his unique identity and subsequent self-realization [10].

L.A. Aleksandrova suggests considering resilience in the context of coping with life’s difficulties as an individual’s ability to transform unfavorable circumstances of their development, which underlies coping behavior [1].

E.P. Belinskaya notes that modern psychological approaches to the problem of overcoming difficult life situations consider coping as a dynamic process, the course of which is determined not only by the characteristics of the situation itself and the personal characteristics of the subject, but by their interaction, which consists in the formation of a complex cognitive assessment, including both the subject’s interpretation situation, and his ideas about himself in it [2]. In this context, the personal meaning of a situation when a person is able to perceive life’s difficulties as opportunities takes on special significance.

As one of the components of resilience, L.A. Alexandrova defines the personal resources allocated by S. Maddi, which at the level of implementation are provided with developed coping strategies. The second component is the meaning that predetermines the vector of this vitality and human life as a whole. As a separate component of L.A.’s resilience. Aleksandrova identifies humanistic ethics, which sets the criteria for choosing meaning, ways to achieve it and solve life problems.

Thus, despite the approaches to understanding resources existing in psychological science and the results of research on personal resources, the concept itself as a psychological category seems insufficiently developed. The content characteristics of personal resources must be considered as a system. A systematic approach opens up the possibility of studying mental reality in the system of interaction “person – living environment”, taking into account the complex of determinants, the source of which is the reality of a particular person, presented in the content of real activity, in the personality itself, in the reality experienced here and now. The interaction between a person and the living environment occurs in specific life situations and is a trigger for certain personal resources. Personal resources are manifested in the interaction of a person and the living environment as a continuous process of spatio-temporal “deployment” of a person, represented in the content and direction of activity in real life situations, ensuring compliance of the lifestyle with the image of the world changing in the process of life activity through the transformation of the value-semantic subsystem of the individual.

Thus, personal resources can be presented as a system of a person’s abilities to eliminate contradictions between the individual and the living environment, to overcome unfavorable life circumstances through the transformation of the value-semantic dimension of the personality, setting its direction and creating the basis for self-realization. Otherwise, personal resources act as a systemic, integral characteristic of the individual, allowing one to overcome difficult life situations, actualizing and manifesting itself in the processes of self-determination of the individual. A current direction in the study of personal resources is the study of their psychological structure, functioning mechanisms, dynamic characteristics, as well as the development of research methods that are adequate to the content of the mental reality being studied.

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Self-esteem and identification

Identity is what we identify and identify with. The last characteristic can be professional, social-role, or gender. It is also an internal resource that allows us to perform those functions and responsibilities that we consciously accept. Self-esteem plays an important role in a person’s life and the correct use of this resource. We can say that it is a real assessment of one’s position in society and one’s attitude towards oneself that allows one to weigh one’s own actions and failures, draw conclusions and continue to achieve one’s life goals.

Resources can be • renewable or not. Non-renewable resources include time and partly health. • external (money, time) and internal (health, energy)

There are two classes of resources

Personal resources (psychological, professional, physical) represent the skills and abilities of a person,

Environmental resources reflect the individual’s availability of help (instrumental, moral, emotional) in the social environment (from family members, friends, colleagues

Using resources Resources can be spent or invested, you can accumulate them on your own and honestly, you can at the expense of others.

Waste is the inappropriate use of resources, expenditure, destruction of resources.

A contribution is the use of resources aimed at achieving a specific result (optionally, the restoration of this or another resource).

Resource state (or - to be in resource) - the presence of physical, mental and spiritual strength and energy to solve upcoming tasks.

Types of resource states

The main types of resource are physical, psychological, personal and spiritual resource.

A physically resourceful state is a well-slept, rested, physically alert person.

Psychologically, a resource state is a state of confidence, a cheerful mood, when a person feels vitality and energy, and the ability to complete a task. A person is in spirit or not, believes in himself or is convinced that nothing will work out for him, a maestro is depressed or in the arms of an inspired muse - all these are different descriptions of the presence or absence of a psychological resource.

How to pump up your own resource

When they want to help a person, they try to increase his resource state; when they want to hinder him, they try to take him out of his resource state.

There are many ways: • Hot water bottle . Warm your soul - with sincere intonations, warm words, gratitude. • Warmer . Invigorate - with your own cheerfulness, lively intonations, energetic formulations, faith in success. If necessary, warm up: “Why are you seated?! Work!". Adults who remember what duty is should be reminded of their high duty. Sometimes it’s to scare, make you angry, or use high-tone negative emotions. • Toilet . Help to speak out, free yourself from fears or other disturbing experiences. • Golden mirror . Increase self-confidence: praise and compliments. “You’re great”, “You look great!”, “You will succeed!” • Business support . Help you master the necessary skills: explain it clearly, support you in your first attempts, celebrate your successes.

- The role of the Dreamer, the role of the Realist and the role of the Critic. In this strategy, only the beginning is given: we always start with the Dreamer, by turning off internal criticism and launching a free flight of fantasy. The Dreamer must produce material that will be processed by the Critic and the Realist,

When thinking through your new projects, use this strategy: first, allow yourself to dream freely, assuming that everything is working out, that you have unlimited time, money, that all people are meeting you halfway, luck is on your side... - dreaming is useful. When you have dreamed and created a project that inspires you, turn on the realist: think, as a man of action, what steps can and should be taken to implement this project. Where to get time, money, material resources, which people can and should be involved - all the details and details. For now, don’t think about difficulties and possible failures, just describe step by step how you will do all this and achieve everything. Tell us several ways and ways, determine dates and deadlines, name your first steps. Great! And when you understand what it might look like in reality, take a critical look at your project: think about where there may be failures and errors, where you need to “spread the straws,” what difficulties you need to think about again. A critic is not a critic; treat your project positively.

— Flow state (inspiration)

According to Csikszentmihalyi, there is a list of several features of activity that contribute to the experience of a flow state: Clear goals (distinguishable expectations and rules). Concentration and focus of attention - a high degree of concentration on a limited area of attention (a person engaged in an activity has the ability to concentrate on it and immerse himself deeply in it). Loss of sense of self-awareness—merging action and awareness. Distorted perception of time. Direct and immediate feedback (successes and failures in the activity are obvious so that behavior can be changed as needed). Balance between the level of the subject’s abilities and the complexity of the task (the activity is not too easy or difficult for the subject). A feeling of complete control over a situation or activity. The activity itself is perceived as a reward, so it is carried out effortlessly.

Techniques often used in the process

rehabilitation and psychotherapy

F.E. Vasilyuk (1984), dividing the concepts of stress, frustration, conflict and crisis, substantiates four categorical fields corresponding to life worlds - vitality, activity, consciousness and will. In our opinion, it is convenient to attribute resources for coping with extreme situations to these categorical fields. Accordingly, it is possible to divide the techniques often used in the process of rehabilitation and psychotherapy, depending on what coping resources they are aimed at maintaining. Many techniques of bodily psychotherapy (for example, E.S. Mazur, 2003), focusing techniques (Yu. Gendlin, 2000) are aimed at maintaining vitality - interest, desire, activity. Their main goal is to awaken in a person the desire to live, to cope with the situation, in order to then rely on this desire and interest when working with traumatic experiences. Reliance on activity during rehabilitation implies an emphasis on a person’s activity in overcoming difficulties, on his desire to act and win. “Try to do this” - this technique is often used not only in behavioral psychotherapy, but also in cognitive, art therapy, body psychotherapy, and Gestalt therapy. Finally, consciousness includes an understanding of how and why I act in a given situation, choice, and coordination of conflicting motives. This categorical field includes some techniques of psychoanalysis, existential psychotherapy, and humanistic psychotherapy. Work in this field is an attempt to realize that emotion, affect, guilt, experience is a certain phenomenon that has its own causes and consequences. Then they stop clouding everything around (such as the phenomenon of “invasion” of memories, feelings of guilt, fear), and further rehabilitation or psychotherapeutic work is possible. As an illustration, we can recall the common technique of situational reconstruction (for example, S. Maddi, 1997, 1998) - the event is viewed from an expanded perspective, its causes and possible consequences are considered and analyzed, which leads to a reassessment of the threat and negativity of the event itself, its role in life the person as a whole.

The search for psychological resources and reliance on these resources, as a rule, is a key point in both self-regulation and rehabilitation in extreme conditions.

? How specifically to search, how to self-regulate?

If a person is convinced of his ability to control what is happening, is ready to act actively and overcome difficulties, and these beliefs remain unshakable in extreme conditions, he only needs to rely on these psychological resources. If (much more often) this is not the case, a painstaking search for psychological resources is necessary that will allow you to restore and maintain confidence and self-control.

However, there is a second option for self-regulation - when relying not on psychological resources, but through existence itself. The individual accepts his responsibility for what is happening and what will happen - and the relationship between the motivational and semantic sphere of the individual - self-regulation is addressed. Acting in extreme conditions, despite experiences, a person changes and forms his own beliefs and dispositions.

The concept of "resources"

used in various studies related to the study of mental reality. the resource approach has become widespread in psychology , within which the study of the constructive principle of personality, which allows one to overcome difficult life situations, has taken an important place.

E. Fromm identified three psychological categories, designated as human resources in overcoming difficult life situations:

— hope is what ensures readiness to face the future, self-development and vision of its prospects, which contributes to life and growth;

- rational faith - awareness of the existence of many opportunities and the need to discover and use these opportunities in time;

V.A. Bodrov defines it as follows: “Resources are those physical and spiritual capabilities of a person, the mobilization of which ensures the implementation of his program and methods (strategies) of behavior to prevent or relieve stress”

N.E. Vodopyanova gives the following definition of resources: these are “internal and external variables that contribute to psychological stability in stressful situations; these are emotional, motivational-volitional, cognitive and behavioral constructs that a person actualizes to adapt to stressful work and life situations”, these are “the means (tools) used by him to transform interaction with a stressful situation

In the resource concept of stress by S. Hobfoll, resources are defined as what is significant for a person and helps him adapt in difficult life situations. Within the framework of the resource approach, various types of resources, both environmental and personal, are considered. S. Hobfoll classifies resources as: material objects (income, home, transport, clothing, object fetishes) and intangible objects (desires, goals); external (social support, family, friends, work, social status) and internal intrapersonal variables (self-esteem, professional skills, optimism, self-control, life values, belief system, etc.); mental and physical states; volitional, emotional and energetic characteristics that are necessary (directly or indirectly) for survival or preservation of health in difficult life situations or serve as means of achieving personally significant goals. One of the foundations of the resource approach is the principle of “conservation” of resources, which presupposes a person’s ability to receive, preserve, restore, multiply and redistribute resources in accordance with their own values. Through this distribution of resources, a person has the opportunity to adapt to a variable range of living environment conditions. In the concept of S. Hobfoll, the loss of resources is considered as the primary mechanism that triggers stress reactions. When resource loss occurs, other resources serve the function of limiting the instrumental, psychological, and social impact of the situation. The loss of internal and external resources entails a loss of subjective well-being, is experienced as a state of psychological stress, and negatively affects the health of the individual.

L.V. Kulikov considers active motivation to overcome, attitude to stress as an opportunity to gain personal experience and the possibility of personal growth to be the most studied personal resources; strength of self-concept, self-respect, self-esteem, sense of self-worth, “self-sufficiency”; active life attitude; positivity and rationality of thinking; emotional-volitional qualities; physical resources - health status and attitude towards it as a value

I.V. Dubrovina : self-sufficiency, a person’s interest in life, freedom of thought and initiative, passion for any area of scientific and practical activity, activity and independence, responsibility and ability to take risks, self-confidence and respect for others, discernment in the means of achieving a goal, the ability to be strong feelings and experiences, awareness of one’s individuality and joyful surprise at the uniqueness of all the people around him, creativity in various spheres of life and activity

D.A. Leontiev introduces the concept of “personal potential”. The effects of personal potential are designated in psychology by such concepts as will, ego strength, internal support, locus of control, action orientation, etc.

In S. Muddy’s interpretation, resilience includes three relatively autonomous components:

L.V. Kulikov means: the ability to control the situation; using methods or means to achieve the desired goal; ability to adapt, readiness for self-change, interactive techniques for changing oneself and the surrounding situation, activity to transform the situation of interaction between the individual and a stressful situation; ability for cognitive structuring and understanding of the situation

Personal resources can be presented as a system of a person’s abilities to eliminate contradictions between the individual and the living environment, to overcome unfavorable life circumstances through the transformation of the value-semantic dimension of the personality, setting its direction and creating the basis for self-realization.

A current direction in the study of personal resources is the study of their psychological structure, functioning mechanisms, dynamic characteristics, as well as the development of research methods that are adequate to the content of the mental reality being studied.

NLP technique “Resource anchoring”.

As described in the previous article, the Psychological Technique “Fixing Thoughts,” the power of thoughts that take over you is often associated with “anchors.” And before you start performing this technique, it is important for me to tell you what anchors are.

Each of us has a personal story, rich in various emotional states. To reproduce them, a person sometimes needs a trigger - some association in the present, which retrieves from memory the state in which you can be at some point. Such a stimulus, which is associated with a physiological state and triggers it, is called an anchor in psychotherapeutic slang.

Anchors are anything that triggers an emotional state, but we don't notice it. Anchors arise in two ways (almost always).

First, through repetition. If you encounter repeated instances where red is associated with danger, this association becomes reinforced. It's a simple lesson: red means danger.

Secondly (and much more important), the anchor can be established the first time if the emotion is strong and the timing is right. Repetition is only required when there is no emotional involvement. Think back to a time when you were in school (a strong anchor in itself) and find something interesting and exciting that you learned easily. Notice how easy it was to learn something interesting and exciting. Those facts that were of little interest to you required repeated repetitions. The less emotionally involved you are, the more repetition you need to reinforce the association.

Usually the anchors are external. The alarm clock rings and it's time to get up. This is an auditory anchor. A red traffic light means stop. A nod of the head means “yes.” These are visual anchors. And the smell of fresh bread can, as if by magic, take you back to childhood, when you first felt this unique aroma. By the way, this natural way of connecting experiences, through which we give meaning to our actions, is often “played” by advertisers, dividing the brand name as an anchor for a certain type of product.

Words can also act as anchors. So, the word “test” is an anchor for many, and people feel anxious and lose the ability to choose the best solution.

Often the anchors are very pleasant, such as a favorite song, old photographs, the smell of perfume, “special” words from a loved one or the tone of his voice. And every time you perceive them, you have certain sensations, feelings, thoughts, images and states. And every time this happens, the association strengthens.

Besides, most nice anchors are also useful. They form habits without which we could not function.

In exceptional cases, an external stimulus may include a very strong negative state - a phobia. For example, people who suffer from claustrophobia once established a very strong anchor between being in a confined space and a state of panic, and now they constantly reproduce this association.

Since we ourselves create anchors that strengthen our fears that have not been reassessed, we can be hostage to ourselves. We just have to remember that we can choose the associations we want to anchor.

Imagine what your life could be like if you could turn on the creative state at will?...Therefore, you can take some life situation that seems most difficult and incomprehensible to you, and decide in advance what physiological state you would like have in this situation. Keep in mind that for any unpleasant situation you can always create a new association, and therefore a new reaction using anchors.

In short, this is done in two stages: first you choose the desired emotional state, and then associate it with an anchor (stimulus), so that you can call it at will at any time. For this purpose, for example, people in sports use talismans or perform ritual movements.

Below I will provide an NLP technique for transferring positive emotional resources from a past experience into a present situation in which you would like to have access to them. This will expand your emotional choices. After all, as Aldous Huxley said: “Experience is not what happened to us, it is what you do with what happened to you.”

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NLP Technique “Anchoring Resources”.

Sit comfortably in a chair or armchair. Relax.

Think about a specific situation in which you would like to be different, feel differently, or respond differently.

Now choose an emotional state from the many that you have experienced in your life... which you would most like to have access to in this situation...

This can be any resource state: confidence...courage...perseverance...creativity...whatever most comes to mind as the most suitable. When it becomes clear to you what resource you need, begin to look for that specific incident in your life when you experienced this state. As you note the examples that come to mind, choose the one that seems most intense and clear to you.

If you have already chosen a resource, but you find it difficult to remember the time when you experienced it, imagine some person you know, or even a fictional character from a book or movie, who would have this quality or state. If you were him, what would it be like to experience this resource? Remember that although the person may not exist, your feelings are real, and that is what is taken into account.

When you have already remembered a specific case - real or fictional - you will choose anchors that will reproduce these resources when you want them.

This could be a kinesthetic anchor - some feeling that can be associated with the resources you have chosen. For example, a specific touch of the thumb to the index finger or clenching of a fist.

Or an auditory anchor - a word or phrase that you say to yourself. It doesn't matter what word or phrase you choose, as long as it resonates with how you feel...The way you say it and the tone of voice you use will be as powerful as the words and phrases themselves. Make them distinctive and memorable. For example, if confidence is a resource state that you want to anchor, then you could say to yourself, “I feel more and more confident,” or simply, “Confidence!” using a confident tone of voice.

Or maybe it will be a visual anchor - an image or symbol of the desired state. For example, you might remember something you saw when you really felt confident.

It is important that the anchor be unique and not part of everyday behavior. Be also prudent and choose as an anchor something that you can do unnoticed and was adequate in behavior.

Now the instructions are as follows: touch or reproduce your anchor (touch some part of the body, or say a word, or imagine a picture) and remember the resource state you have envisioned. Stay in it, feel it well and immerse yourself in this resource state, while touching your anchor or saying a word or reproducing a picture. Then, let yourself go (stop reproducing the picture or saying the word). Re-immerse yourself in the situation that you want to replace (that sad or unpleasant situation). Stay in it. Then touch your body anchor (or say that “magic” word for you again or imagine that resource picture) and watch how your sensations, your states and your feelings change. They will change, changing your reaction to this negative situation. Anchors need to be secured, so do this procedure until you are in a fully resourced state when you play your anchor.

After a while, if you continue to use the anchor, you will notice that it will have a strong impact on your perception of reality. After all, the triggers that previously made you feel bad will now become resourceful for you.

Now you can use these anchors to invoke your resource state whenever you want. Keep your result in mind and use it.

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The term “energy”, used among magicians, esotericists, bioenergeticists and others, is too vague and poorly understood. So much so that the very use of the word “energy” has recently simply discredited itself. Let's try to understand this difficult issue.

To begin with, let us clearly divide “energy” into “external” and “internal” in relation to a person. We know that “internal energy” can be accumulated, spent and made to circulate. “Internal energy” is also capable of transforming into “external” and vice versa.

Let's imagine a battery to which a current-carrying circuit (like a wire :) is connected. Due to electrochemical reactions inside the battery, a potential difference arises at its poles, which leads to the emergence of an electric current in the circuit. In this case, the current flows through the circuit in which the battery itself is included. As a result of the flow of current in the wire, an electromagnetic field arises in external space, the strength of which depends on the strength of the current flowing through the conductor. If another conductor appears in the area of action of the field, and the field changes potential (or the conductor changes its position in the field), then an electric current will arise in the second conductor, provided that its circuit is also closed. The only caveat is that the condition for the occurrence of current in the second conductor is the variability of the initial field, and the induced current will also be variable. But let us assume for a moment, for ease of explanation, that the mere presence of a constant field leads to the appearance of a direct current in the second conductor. Then, if you connect a discharged battery to the second conductor, it will begin to charge, i.e. electrochemical reactions will begin to occur in it. And so, we see three different “energies” - the energy of a charged battery, the energy of a current running along a wire, and the energy of a field. All these energies are different, but tightly interconnected.

About the same thing happens to a person’s vital energy. Man is a walking electrochemical laboratory that produces complex chemical elements and consumes them itself! First of all, we are talking about hormones and neurotransmitters - serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine and others. Their production and consumption are clearly regulated by the internal routine of the body. These substances have the properties of “internal energy” - they are produced, accumulated and spent, which in general is the process of “circulation of internal vital energy”. Moreover, these processes occur slightly differently for different people. Some people produce hormones slowly, accumulate them for a long time, and spend them quickly. For others, on the contrary, a small waste of hormones leads to a sudden production of new ones in even greater quantities. Someone produced as much as they spent (in a simplified version). Moreover, here we can draw a parallel with three conventional types of people - “acceptors”, “donors” and “translators”. For example – sex. Some people accumulate “sexual energy” for a long time in order to “dream at least a little,” while others need the exact opposite. It's all about the mentioned hormone production algorithm - “how many hormones do you need to spend to produce new ones?” Each organism solves this problem in its own way. Also, this algorithm for one person can change over time, it can move from one “category of vital energies” to another. Also, special exercises performed by a person “here and now” can slightly adjust the production of certain hormones.

If with “internal energy” it is more or less clear, then with “external” it is not so simple. The fact is, in my opinion, that science has not yet come to a clear concept of the “energy” field surrounding the human body (well, there is no such equipment yet!) Some attribute these fields to “torsion” ones, others use other, ancient ones , terms, but in general everything is unclear. Let us simply call this field “external vital”. The relationship between the strength of the “external vital field” and the “internal energy” is obvious, namely, as we have assumed, with the hormonal background of a person. Strong flows of “internal energy” (read – circulation of hormones and neurotransmitters) are capable of generating “external vital fields”. These fields, as in the example with the battery, are capable of remotely influencing another person, triggering that person’s internal chemical processes to release (consume) his own hormones. This is how the exchange of “vital energy” occurs - internal through external.

The human hormonal system is a complex and finely balanced structure, which has several “degrees of protection”. For example, initially a person cannot influence the production of his hormones at will. Otherwise, this would lead to a complete collapse of the body, everything would be disrupted, the body would simply die. However, by engaging in “spiritual practices”, a person gradually, step by step, learns to influence his hormonal system directly, i.e. through expression of will. The system simply does not give up and in every possible way prevents such “manual” control. But a person is persistent and can achieve the most unexpected results, for example, the state of “nirvana”, which is the result of a direct impact on the so-called “pleasure center” located in the brain and stimulated by the hormone dopamine. Usually, any living creature needs to do “something useful for the body” in order to get its share of pleasure (the so-called reward system). A direct impact on the pleasure center, say with a small electrical impulse, leads to the fact that the experimental rat dies, completely refusing food.

P.S.

By the way, “dream hacking” is also nothing more than “hacking” of one’s own hormonal system. Interestingly, the term “inner alchemy” also has the word “chemistry” at its root. In this vein, the world-wide effect of the “enlightened guru dying of cancer” becomes more understandable. Hormones are no joke; sudden movements are contraindicated. All sorts of “loosening of the assemblage point” are from the same “opera”.

And here's another thing... Morpheus was right

Psychology training on Resources

Lesson #21: My resources.

Target:

Familiarity with resource capabilities in difficult situations.

Tasks:

Plan:

Lesson program:

1. Greeting “My actions are my expressions of mood.”

Goal: create a working atmosphere by speaking about your condition.

The presenter invites the participants to get ready for work. To do this, he asks each participant to imagine what movement he would associate himself with.

Instructions: Express your mood or state in action. This can be any gesture or a set of movements that may be similar to the movements of animals or any mechanisms. And then explain what and how you think is reflected in the action. For example: “I depicted a movement similar to the movement of a turtle, because that’s how I feel today: sluggish, slow and sleepy.”

2. Discussion “Are resources just “external building blocks”?”

Goal: through a joint discussion, identify the definition of a personal resource and specify the concept.

The facilitator begins the lesson by clarifying the concept of “resource”. He can write down answer options on the board.

Instructions: As in previous lessons, today we will start by finding out what this mysterious concept of “resource” is. After all, what we are doing here is not a geographical search for natural resources. How do you think this concept can be connected with a person, with his personality?

Explanation.

The presence of certain resources, potentials, and opportunities expands the field of activity of an individual, making significant goals in life more achievable. Resources, as it were, subjectively increase a person’s value in the eyes of others and in his own opinion of himself, making him stronger, more significant and productive. When we make a judgment about another person, we take into account not only his current situation, but also potential opportunities and resources, since reserves and resources are, in a certain sense, the significant capital of each individual [2].

Resources are divided into social and personal, in other words, external and internal.
External resources
are material values, social statuses (roles) and social connections that provide support for society and help a person from the outside.
Internal resources
are a person’s mental personal potential, character and skills that help from the inside. However, the division into external and internal resources is quite arbitrary. Those and other resources are closely related, and with the loss of external resources, the loss of internal resources gradually occurs. Reliable external resources ensure the safety of internal resources, but only if these internal resources already exist. Sometimes a person receives external resources without yet having internal ones, and this is like only external decoration that can crumble at any moment.

The greater the already acquired internal resources, the higher a person’s ability to restore external resources in the event of loss, the greater his resistance to the environment, the stronger his subjectivity, will, ego integration, locus of control, self-awareness and self-efficacy, stress resistance while maintaining the integrity of the individual. It is important to understand that the strongest internal resources do not replace external ones, but they allow you to exist for some time without external resources, restore them from scratch, build them up in any situation and ensure super-adaptation, resisting the environment alone.

A person cannot exist on internal resources alone for a long time; he must find a suitable environment and enter into mutual exchange with it, provide with its help all his needs, from the lowest to the highest, otherwise after some time the internal potential will be exhausted. That is why, ideally, a person should constantly take care of maintaining and increasing these and other resources, and the stronger his internal resources, the easier it is to increase external ones. And the more he himself increased external resources, the stronger he became inside.

To understand the problem of resources, one must realize how dynamic this process is, how much it is in motion. You cannot accumulate resources once and gain power forever. Resources require constant interaction with the environment, constant development and renewal. By giving away external resources and not acquiring others in return, a person weakens his external position, which cannot but affect his autonomy, no matter how strong he once was.

You can interact not with specific individuals, but with a cultural social layer, reading books and comprehending art, you can lead a fairly secluded lifestyle, engaging in creativity addressed to descendants, but this is also social interaction, and sometimes very intense, more intense than superficial parties , but outside society there are no sources of energy. By treating the world around us with hostility or without interest, a person very quickly exhausts himself. Love, passion, delight, curiosity, inspiration, admiration, amazement, interest, sympathy, attraction, craving, search, desire, desire, thirst - all these are ways to connect to new sources of energy.

3. Exercise “What new things will I discover for myself?”

Goal: identifying and specifying ways to replenish internal resources.

The presenter invites the participants to divide into teams, each of which will schematically depict on sheet A3 their methods of replenishing internal strength.

Instructions: Now we will divide into teams, each of which will receive a large sheet of paper and a set of visual aids. The task of each team within 15 minutes is to depict ways that help you replenish your internal strength. Afterwards, each team will have the opportunity to present their options.

The presenter can write down options on the board (flipchart).

4. Warm-up “Options for expressing thoughts.”

Goal: to switch attention in order to prevent fatigue, to invigorate with physical activity.

Participants sit in a circle. One has a ball, a simple phrase is given, which is then consistently supplemented with sentences that are logical in content. With each throw of the ball there is a new sentence(s).

Instructions: Let's distract the child's attention a little and play a game with the ball. Now in a circle I will give one person a ball, which he can pass to any participant, but at the same time voicing the beginning of a sentence, which must be completed by the participant who caught the ball. The ball is thrown not in a circle, but randomly. It may be that at some point, the recipient of the ball finds himself in a difficult situation, the game begins with a different phrase.

5. Exercise “Calm, just calm.”

Purpose: a relaxation procedure, during which participants turn to their internal resources; Relieving psycho-emotional tension, muscle relaxation, increasing self-confidence.

The presenter invites participants to listen to the text for relaxation. During the process, if technical capabilities allow, you can turn on calm music that best suits the presentation of this picture. The text should be read in a quiet and calm voice, making periodic pauses for better presentation.

Instructions: Choose the most comfortable body position. Close your eyes and take deep breaths several times, beginning to relax (pause 20 seconds). Allow your breathing to flow naturally, in a calm, relaxed rhythm. Your belly rises as high as possible when you inhale and falls as low as possible when you exhale. It seems that you are breathing from your stomach, not from your chest (pause 15 seconds). Your breathing will now become slow and regular (pause 30 seconds). Now focus on the parts of your body that I will mention and release any tension you feel in them. First the head, face and neck (pause 20 seconds). Relax your shoulders and arms (pause 20 seconds). Torso (pause 15 seconds). Upper legs (pause 15 seconds). Now the lower legs and feet (pause 15 seconds). Now you feel comfortable and wonderfully relaxed in your body (pause 15 seconds).

Imagine that you are standing at the foot of a huge mountain. You are surrounded by stone giants on all sides. Maybe it's the Pamirs, Tibet or the Himalayas. Somewhere in the heights, lost in the clouds, the icy peaks of the mountains float. How wonderful it must be up there! You wish you were there. And you don't have to reach the top by climbing difficult and dangerous steep slopes, because you... can fly. Look up: a dark moving cross is clearly visible against the sky.

This is an eagle soaring over the rocks... A moment - and you yourself become this eagle. Having spread your mighty wings, you easily catch the elastic currents of air and glide freely in them... You see torn, ragged clouds floating below you... Far below - toy groves, tiny houses in the valleys, miniature people... Your keen eye is able to discern the smallest details the picture unfolding before you. Take a closer look at it. Take a closer look...

You hear the soft whistle of the wind and the sharp cries of small birds flying past. You feel the coolness and gentle elasticity of the air that holds you high. What a wonderful feeling of free flight, independence and strength! Enjoy it...

It is not difficult for you to reach any peak that is highest and inaccessible to others. Choose a convenient area for yourself and go down to it, so that from there, from an unattainable height, you can look at what remains there, far away, at the foot of the mountains... How small and insignificant the problems that trouble you seem from here! Evaluate whether they are worth the effort and stress you have experienced! The calmness bestowed by heights and levels gives you impartiality and the ability to delve into the essence of things, to understand and notice what was inaccessible there, in the bustle. From here, from above, it is easy for you to see ways to solve the issues that tormented you... With amazing clarity, the necessary steps and the right actions are realized... Pause.

Take off again and experience the amazing feeling of flying again. Let it be remembered by you for a long time... And now again be transported to yourself, standing at the foot of the mountain... Wave your hand goodbye to the eagle soaring in the sky, which made a new perception of the world available to you... Thank him...

You are here again in this room. You have returned here after your amazing journey...”

After reading, you can offer two options for work.

Option 1.

The facilitator invites participants to speak about their feelings and their condition. Someone can also tell what he saw.

Option 2.

The presenter can invite the group to take sheets of paper and visual aids, and depict what they saw while they were “flying.” It could be an abstract drawing that expresses emotions. Participants can then talk about their drawing and impressions.

You can find other visualization options in Appendix No. 3.

6. Exercise “I can do anything.”

Goal: search for available internal and external resources.

The facilitator invites participants to indicate on a piece of paper 10 of their qualities that help them cope with difficulties, as well as 10 external resources.

Instructions: Having talked about resources, I would like to understand how you independently evaluate your resource baggage. In order to determine its contents, it is necessary to find out for myself what I can fill this luggage with. To do this, I invite participants to write on pieces of paper 10 of their qualities that help me cope with difficulties, and 10 external resources, which can include not only some people, but also areas of activity.

7. Completion.

Purpose: closing the group, expressing gratitude of the participants to each other.

The leader closes the group's work.

Instructions: Our classes have come to an end. I think that much of what we found out, worked through and discovered for ourselves was useful for you and will be useful in the future. I would like to thank everyone for their active participation and involvement in the activity, since it was thanks to your active position that we were able to expand the horizons of our repertoire of behavior.

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Your psychologist. The work of a psychologist at school.

N.A. Karaseva

Resource Search Method

The method was developed and tested by Swedish scientists and social workers. Based on the use of a person’s internal resources and the resources of his social environment. It is good to use both in order to solve a child’s problem, correct his relationships with others, change behavioral stereotypes, and in working with parents in order to restore child-parent relationships, improve the situation in case of family troubles.

Based on this method, you can work with an unmotivated client. The essence of this method is as follows. The client is not asked to solve his problem together with a teacher or social worker now and immediately, using the help of a teacher or social worker, but is asked to think about how the life situation would look if the problem had already been solved. Then, based on his positive experience, the most preserved positive qualities of his personality, skills and habits, which, in general, can be called his internal resources, which you will learn about during the conversation with the client, a rehabilitation program for this client is built. In addition, in the process of working on the resource search method, you will have to find out his positive contacts with his immediate environment (relatives, friends, neighbors and colleagues). It may be necessary to search for partners for rehabilitation work with this client among public or government organizations (to which this client previously applied) in order to find out who else can provide this or that support to the client. We can call this external resources. Here it is only important to take into account what the client himself considers possible to use, what internal and external resources he can rely on to solve his problem. And our task is to help him realize these resources, find them in himself or near him. An activity that focuses on finding solutions, short-term therapy involves focusing on the life the client imagines for himself after the problem has been overcome. The clues leading to a solution to a problem are often found where the problem, unlike other situations, is not so acute. What will the client do in this case, what will he think about, what will he feel? Is it possible to extract something else from this, perhaps in a different connection? In other words, this method includes the desire to extract as much benefit as possible from what is workable, safe and, together with the client, to achieve at least small changes that can later be developed and found success. When working with dysfunctional families, specialists should always be on the lookout for resources and opportunities that compensate for deficiencies, because deficiencies can be indirectly influenced by being focused on finding resources. Deficiencies appear as the opposite of strengths; when the client feels secure, then he himself discovers what he lacks. Thus, working with a client using the method of searching for resources may look like this: in the center of the circle, the client can write down several sentences explaining what his life might look like in 5 years (in 3 years, in a year), and on the rays write down what the way he is going to achieve it. Before you begin a resourcing conversation, remember to spend a few minutes creating an atmosphere of trust with the client.

Working with resources in therapy and life

I am a psychologist, so I will talk about psychology and therapy. Although what I will say can be fully applied not only to psychology, but to our entire life in general.

Rule one: without a resource there is no effective therapy. I almost wrote that there is no therapy without a resource. Eat. Supportive, forming this very resource so that, having collected the required amount, one can proceed directly to working with the client’s request.

It’s just like in the cruel joke: “no legs, no cartoons!” It sounds unpleasant, but it's a fact. This means we need to accumulate resources. But before we start accumulating, we need to understand exactly what resources we need, how many of them we need and how many of them we have today.

Rule two: resource accumulation begins with determining the required quantity (how much is needed) and taking inventory of what is available (how much is there).

It seems like everyone is aware of what they have, so taking inventory of available resources should be fairly easy. In theory. In practice, everything looks completely different. There are not so many people who clearly know how much and what they have. And such clients are just a gift for a psychologist! It is a pleasure to work with them and they achieve results in therapy faster and more efficiently, spending less resources (time and money).

The rest have to spend time during therapy sessions taking inventory and drawing up a personal resource map . The process is not very fast, but it is very useful and gives excellent results not only in therapy, but also in personal life and at work.

Working with resources in therapy.

Step one. Setting a goal. Your goal is the request with which you came to the psychologist. It is not always clear and understandable, and sometimes it simply does not exist. Read more about this in the article “Psychological request for therapy.” This means that the psychologist helps you formulate it.

Step two. Based on the purpose (request), the necessary resources, their types and quantities are determined.

It may seem that we are talking about only two main resources: money and time. Yes, these are the main resources for therapy to take place; without them, nothing will happen. But in therapy itself, something completely different is important.

You may need resources such as: emotional support from family and friends, your physical fitness, positive emotions, hobbies, certain knowledge in specific areas, a safe space, self-confidence, etc. And you may not have some of these resources right now.

Step three. Where and how to get the necessary resources. At this stage, the channels available today and in the future for obtaining the necessary resources are determined.

Step four. How to keep and accumulate what you need. Working with resources is very much like accounting. You have income, but you also have expenses, for each item. After all, we not only receive, we also constantly spend our resources on everyday needs and requirements.

So, for therapy, what is important in finance is what is called profit: the difference between income and expenses. This is your resource for therapy! Accordingly, to increase profits, you can increase income, or you can reduce expenses, especially “unreasonable” ones from the point of view of our goal (request). You just need to do this wisely, since everything has reasonable limits.

Step five. Expansion of the personal resource map . There is such a psychological mechanism: if our life does not improve (subjectively), then it seems to us that it is getting worse. It's a paradox, but that's how it works.

Step six , and the most important. Determining readiness for deep psychological work. It seems that everything is simple, but in fact, this is the most difficult moment for both the client and the therapist.

It is at this stage that many clients leave therapy. Because they now have a lot of resources, they feel much better and the problem with which they came to the psychologist seems to them not so terrible and urgent.

Yes, a resource is a wonderful thing that makes our lives really better! But by itself it will not solve your problem. But it will give you the opportunity to work through it in therapy. And it is in this state that it makes sense to go into deep therapy and solve the most important and significant issues for you.

I hope these recommendations help you. If they are not enough or you are far from being in a resourceful state, I invite you to a consultation on formulating a request and working with resources and to the “RESOURCES +” training .

Internal human resources. Resource one: external attractiveness