Resolving Ambivalence: Making Choices for a Fulfilling Life
Explore the concept of ambivalence and decision-making, understand the pros and cons of ambivalence, learn strategies to resolve ambivalence, overcome excuses and delay tactics, and envision potential life outcomes based on changing or not changing. Take steps to confront fears, change negative beliefs, and build confidence for a more empowered life.
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Life in One Year
Ambivalence - defined Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone. The prefix ambi means both; the suffix valence derives from the Latin for vigor and refers to the attraction or aversion felt toward something. Someone can feel a positive or negative valence. Or both. As long as ambivalence remains unconscious it remains in control. We can get along quite happily with it until the moment of a decision looms, at which point we employ one of three strategies to cope with the unpleasant, conflicted sensation. We 1) procrastinate, putting off the moment of commitment, or we somehow 2) persuade ourselves that we really do believe one side or another, even if doing so involves a degree of self-deception and distortion of the evidence, or most subtly, we displace our need for certainty to something else.
Ambivalence decidophobia The difficulty in life is making the choice.
Ambivalence Pros Cons You never have to give up anything. You never get to experience anything fully It is an easy way out of some tough choices.
Resolving Ambivalence 1. Discover what s really stopping you from making a change. 2. Understand your ambivalence. 3. Change negative beliefs and thought patterns. 4. Confront your fears. 5. Change self-defeating behaviours. 6. Create a plan and put it into practice. 7. Build confidence and resilience. Change feels risky and stability feels safe.
Excuses and delay tactics In general, what excuses do you make for not making the changes you want in your life... Now isn t the right time because It s not actually that important to change because ! .. makes it impossible for me to change right now. Caution: Self-limiting beliefs can quickly become self-fulfilling prophecies.
LIFE IN ONE YEAR IF I DONT CHANGE How will you feel? What areas of your life may have got worse? What kind of things will you be saying to yourself?
LIFE IN ONE YEAR IF I DO CHANGE How will you feel? What areas of your life may have got better? What kind of things will you be saying to yourself?
