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Well-being and energetical pendulum
Happiness is hard to maintain especially when your life's circumstances keep changing. It can be incredibly frustrating when you're trying to be happy but feel emotionally unbalanced.
In this post, we are going to introduce part 1 of our research on the Pendulum Theory that explains WHY we react the way we do to the circumstances of our lives. In this series, you'll learn to use life's circumstances in your favour and to create sustainable happiness.
The Two Sides of Happiness
Happiness has dual nature: corporeal (biological) and ideal (non-corporeal, spiritual). Meaning, happiness manifests itself at two levels: at a level of our body (corporeal) and at a level of our mind (ideal). The corporeal component of happiness refers to the comfort of our body: we feel healthy, secure and sated.
Our comfort zones define the borders of geographical and psychological space where stress and anxiety are minimized, things are familiar, basic desires are satisfied and we feel control over that.
The ideal component of happiness derives from an aim to expand our comfort zone through self-development and fulfilment of our dreams, which are shaped by our social and spiritual values. We feel happy when we do something meaningful, when we contribute to something bigger than we are, when we get social recognition and approval.
These two components – corporeal and ideal – complement each other and equally contribute to our overall happiness. Achieving happiness at these two levels relies on the same mechanism of a PENDULUM.
This mechanism works in the daily, weekly, monthly and annual cycles of our life.
How? Let us take a closer look at an example of corporeal (body) level of happiness first:
Sugar Fixes at the Office
Daily glucose-insulin pendulum determines our mood and productivity at work. When you are enjoying a big piece of a delicious cake on the occasion of your co-worker's birthday, the pendulum swings forth. The jump of blood glucose level provides your body with energy, you feel joy and radiate cheerfulness.
However, in a while, the pendulum swings back: you feel tired and annoyed. Your pancreas reacts by producing lots of insulin that reduces the blood glucose level. You are not effective at work anymore, you feel irritated by your co-workers and you just want to be in a better mood (and to swing that pendulum back). So the only thing on your mind is how to get that afternoon pick-me-up, usually an extra snack or a sugary drink.
Looming Project Deadlines
The same mechanism works in our social and spiritual lives. Let us call the two ends of the emotional pendulum “euphoria” and “anguish”. We all know what the stress of a close deadline for a project feels like. While working on an important project, you might deprive yourself of self-care or a social life. Eventually, you feel exhausted, desperate and burned out.
When that project is finally completed, the pendulum swings in opposite direction: you feel contentment, excitement and joy. So when you're under pressure of a deadline, the pendulum swings towards discomfort and stress; and then, when completed, your success swings the pendulum towards the positive end.
A Case of the 'Mondays'
How often do you dread Monday mornings? On Fridays, you're excited to start your weekend (pendulum swings towards “euphoria”). Then your excitement quickly dwindles on Sunday. When Monday morning comes, your pendulum swings towards the side of “anguish”.
It's natural to want the pendulum to loom closer to the positive side. But is it truly possible to make the pendulum freeze in place and feel pleasure and joy forever?
The answer: obviously, it is not.
Even if we want our pendulum to just stay within our comfort zone, we cannot. Why? For one simple reason: the existence of an unavoidable and inexorable force called CIRCUMSTANCE.
Even though the pendulum keeps swinging back and forth within the spectrum of our emotions, we can move happiness outside of the pendulum. We can experience continuous happiness, but it takes some work.
In this post, we present part 2 of our research on the pendulum theory. Even though it is impossible to stop your emotions from swinging back and forth, you can change the direction of the emotional pendulum in order to create continuous happiness. Here's HOW: expand your comfort zone.
Throughout our lives, we are facing many CIRCUMSTANCES that threaten and ruin our comfort zone. In an instant, our pendulum can swing from “Euphoria” towards “Anguish”. Being pulled out of our comfort zone by external circumstances, we feel desperate to get back there.
This happens all the time in the workplace. At your job, you've created habitual patterns for everyday tasks and have settled in the comfort zone of your environment. Even occasional stressors like your boss, coworkers, and some deadlines become familiar and predictable. Overtime, however, you become dependent on this flow and less adaptable to change.
Quite easily, your comfort zone can be ruined by circumstances like staff turnover, layoffs, and budget cuts. Soon enough you become anxious and fearful about your role and future at your workplace.
What can you do to survive and thrive with these changes? In order not to be pulled out of your comfort zone, you need to expand your comfort zone yourself.
It is widely believed that happiness is beyond the comfort zone, and to be happy you need to leave your comfort zone. This idea places happiness outside of our current possession and moves it to the end of a lifelong pursuit.
Do you think that is true?
No – with the Pendulum theory – we prove that, in order to be happy, you do NOT need to leave your comfort zone. For continuous (lasting) happiness, expansion is key.
To expand your comfort zone is to change the pendulum's direction. When you start expanding your comfort zone, you actually push the pendulum towards “Anguish” first. That is, when you learn something new, you expose yourself to restrictions and discomfort. At first you feel uncomfortable and anxious when faced with new challenges. Once your efforts bring you achievements and success, you get more comfortable and achieve new milestones - your pendulum swings back towards “Euphoria”. You are rewarded with positive emotions when you get promotion or start a new project, and bigger opportunities are yours!
When you are expanding your comfort zone, you are becoming independent of many external circumstances, you start controlling your life. A sense of control and progress are parts of Delivering Happiness' model that contribute to your continual happiness. These make up the ideal (non-corporeal) component of happiness.
Although you might be experiencing some temporary corporeal discomfort (sleeping not enough, working too hard, feeling tense, etc.), you are happy because you are aware of the fact that you're making efforts to live a more meaningful life. You learn to enjoy the process and overlook the difficulties. You learn to be happy along the way.
Here are three steps to sustain continuous happiness:
• Acquire self-knowledge: discover yourself, your talents and weaknesses.
• Formulate your dreams: draft a project or plan for your life.
• Expand your comfort zone: take action to fulfill your dreams.
So, go ahead! Dream, plan, learn, strive, achieve and be happy!
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