There are many articles devoted to getting rid of laziness. However, recent research suggests that laziness is a protective function of the psyche. Existential psychotherapist Alfried Langle discovers the reasons for the condemned behavior and doubts that laziness must be overcome.
We are not talking about laziness if a person constantly sits on the Internet or in front of a TV screen. This is already an addiction, a completely different concept. Laziness is unwillingness to do something for no apparent reason.
According to recent studies, laziness is our denial of the rules of behavior, goals and objectives, moral stereotypes and lifestyle in general, which are forcibly imposed on us.
We are constantly busy with relationships with the world, with other people, with the future. For the correct construction of life, it is very important to be sometimes busy with yourself, your inner world. Everyone should go their own way. So, the Chinese have the concept of "wei woo" - existence "for oneself" or "for the sake of one's" I ". Therefore, modern laziness is nothing more than a life for oneself, protection from external prescriptions that prevent one from being oneself.
In the subconscious, we divide all things according to the principle of "like-dislike" and react in accordance with the result. We give up some things or put them off for later in favor of more interesting activities.
Psychologist Alfried Langele in the book "Understand what life expects of me" says: "Laziness is a way to get through an unfavorable time. I remember a student who turned to me for help, because she considered herself very lazy and was burdened by it. Laziness was the worst. it turned out that, under pressure from her parents, the girl studied for many years what she was not interested in. And when she began to work in her specialty, she had a nervous breakdown. Her Person (the spiritual component of her personality) and her life were moving behind her, as if behind a screen. So she, without realizing it, answered two most important questions for a person. The first: is there anything in what I am doing? valuable for me, does life give me what I feel as good? Second: does what I have to do correspond to my essence? This helped her to preserve herself, wait out the “winter” of her being and live to the “thaw”."
Laziness gives us time to be ourselves and think about the need to do something. Time goes on, deadlines are shortened, and under this pressure, the motivation for completing the task is gradually increasing. As the deadline for the completion of the work approaches, we increasingly ask the question "Do I really need it?", "What will happen if I do not do this?", "How to stop being lazy?" These questions help us understand the true significance of this task for us and the consequences of not completing it. And if we do not start doing this work, it means that "now something else is more important to me".
