Sabtu, 05 November 2011

Faith: The Invisible Life Coach

By Linda Rendjuvyak


Maslow's hierarchy of needs

There are times when we are at our lowest and turn out to be frantically in need of all of the right answers. Even how much we try to think straight, we are just so overwhelmed by our problems that we allow it to just fade us away from our capability of being a thinking being. We succumb to the problems of despair when we have nothing supporting us.

We lose belief in ourselves. We require someone or something to bring us out of the dark, lest we yield to death. When all else fail, we're held by one last effort to preserve our sanity. An entity we can not even see or touch or hear, we call it faith - the invisible life coach.

We are determined by numerous things to be able to live quietly and in harmony of ourselves and with others. According to Maslow, a theorist during the 2nd World War stated that there are levels of motivation that drives a man to be productive and optimistic.

Humans start with the basic Physiological requirements like food and shelter, then seeks safety with socialization, then seeks love and belonging from the social group, then proceeds with self esteem security from the outcome of the previous three items, then reaches the peak of beneficial human thinking which is self-actualization, being able to integrate all of the areas of needs into the self.

It's true that man has a way to gather these requirements and actually make it his basis for self contentment, but one major flaw in this is the possibility of a deficiency in getting all these which results to a breakdown of the whole hierarchy of needs and puts the person back in the shadows of gloom.

Although the first 5 needs are ever gift for the individual to gather and integrate, it needs a binding base and a holding top layer. Whenever the hierarchical needs fall apart, the person can still keep a thin but resilient layer to work his way back up, and when he is able to rebuild till self-actualization, he is able to hold it in place with the same layer.

This is where faith comes in. A strong belief in the unseen and believing that it'll keep sanity in place is something more than self-actualization as it goes beyond normal human thinking and tangible comprehension.

The souls alternate type of fuel

We have learned to rise above the ashes time and time again. Other people might have failed and allowed themselves to be ruined totally. But till we're breathing, we have the capability to turn things around and hurl ourselves back into wellness.

We're given a mind to think of what to do, a heart to keep us strong against pessimistic events, and a body to perform the essential actions. The soul will be the collective being of our mind, body, and heart. It can still exist with a lack of the other, and is seated in the mind.

This altered existing entity no one sees drives each one of us to simply exist. We don't see, hear, hold, or comprehend it, but we know it's there. We know that each of our souls need its own determination, and it needs a fuel which is ethereal to suit the ethereal life of our spirits.

Faith, among all other people is the belief that we could hang on to when the material world fails us. Faith is the food to our soul to keep our most basic existence in place, might it be with something, a deity, or any other unseen object. It participates in our everyday living just like a life coach, only this time; it's invisible, yet stronger than any other life coach that we might come across.




About the Author:


Related Posts by Categories

Tips
Health




0 komentar:

Posting Komentar