THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE ACCORDING TO THE HOLISTIC VISION

 Dear readers and friends,

Today I present to you a vision of the human experience according to the holistic theory, different but of great help for understanding ourselves. Even if it might not seem like a coaching job, in reality the same considerations made for the other articles always apply. These articles stimulate self-understanding, acceptance, change where you can and above all love yourself. As in every Life Coaching context we are examining, there are only small explanations and many questions. Finding these answers is our task, discovering ourselves to then improve ourselves and loving ourselves for who we are is the ultimate goal.

According to the holistic school of thought, there are five ways we experience life. When we are engaged in the process of growth in life, we are committed to growing in spirit, identity, self-awareness, and self-regulation. 

When we give voice to the problems we perceive we have and these problems are always emotional in nature: we may be worried about something that will happen in the future, we may feel depressed or anxious about our life.

Looking at things from different angles helps us discover the role we play in our lives. The “five major levels of human experience” offer a simple framework for analyzing and breaking down people's problems by inviting us to reflect and consider how our problems affect us on five different levels:

• SPIRITUAL
• WILLING
• RATIONAL
• EMOTIONAL
• PHYSICIST

SPIRITUAL

Many people are not comfortable using this word if they do not adhere to something spiritual, but the word spiritual in this context is understood as secular. 

The things we internalize about our identity reside at the spiritual core of ourselves.

 If we adopt the negative and harmful labels assigned to us by ourselves or others, we bury them deeply in our spirituality of self. 

What lies within our spiritual self is what impacts our confidence and self-esteem.

WILLING

Volition represents the choices we make based on our emotional and spiritual well-being. 

Our volitional decisions are our responses to who we believe we are: so if we believe we are limited, our behaviors will become limited. People who carry deeply negative beliefs into the spiritual part of their lives behave in ways that punish them in some way: they act solitary and stop socializing, they stop talking to people, and they stop laughing. They may also engage in self-destructive habits involving food, drugs, and even self-harm.

RATIONAL

Our logic is what determines the choices we make because our logic symbolizes the quality of the thoughts we have. The quality of thoughts governs our emotional state and our emotional reactions.

 The rational is what constitutes the nuance within emotional responses to similar circumstances: not everyone who is depressed because they have just lost their job turns to binge eating or starvation, or turns to alcohol or social confinement . 

People can go through the same emotional problems even in the same circumstances as someone else, but they have completely different volitional responses to their situation due to their logic.

EMOTIONAL

While there will be someone who can't understand or identify what emotions they are feeling, our emotional states are what we are (usually) most aware of and are usually why we feel bad. The problem is that many of us are not aware that we cannot afford to have emotions as conditions in our lives, that is, we cannot afford to label ourselves as having an emotional condition.

Why?

Because emotions are based only on thought, not on facts, and unlike many physical conditions, they are under our control. Although for most people negative emotions seem impossible to eliminate, they have the potential to be as fleeting and temporary as happiness and gratification in our lives.

PHYSICIST

Physical problems can trigger emotional conditions: People who go through serious, life-changing health problems usually become emotionally devastated by the impact their physical health has had on their life. They may no longer be able to do the things they used to or enjoy life as they once did, so they become depressed, sad, anxious, stressed, angry and frustrated.

So, in conclusion, the five main levels of human experience are an excellent starting point to get to know ourselves better if examined with real introspection. As many shamans say, we need to pay attention to everything that surrounds us and how we react and interact with it. Feeling ourselves and stopping to listen to the signals that our self sends us are an excellent job to regain our personal power.

As usual, I invite you to leave your mark in the comments.