Action | The Way To Overcoming Subjective Helplessness

How is y'all doing HIVERS?

The fact that Subjective Helplessness is subjective and not objective, a way of perceiving oneself, in relation to the world, means that there is hope for those already afflicted by the psychological state.

Overcoming this pernicious mental illness will always have a tremendous impact on one's life. In this update, lets us take a look at how to go about it and what role action plays in the curing of this attitude.

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Wrong interpretation of one's failures, misgivings, and sufferings is one of the things that makes overcoming the attitude difficult for many. The interpretation is as a result of one assuming that one has rather a personal defect that subjects them to the failures and sufferings.

However, it should be noted, suffering and failure are part of the myriad experiences we all experience as we continue with the process.

A fact many are ignorant about is the fact that those who to the world come off as great most of the time experience the most acute of sufferings compared to the mediocre who amount rather to nothing in the course of their existence.

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Taking a look at Goethe who is one of the prominent figures in history, many focus only on his great achievements. Lacking an understanding that he too was human and times were not always right, his overall persona was shaped as much by the lows he had to undergo as by the incredible heights he achieved. As he once stated:

I may well say that in my seventy-five years I have not known four weeks of actual ease.
Goethe

Johann though unlike a subjectively helpless individual, never took his struggles as an implication that he was any less capable than others. He understood that this life is a process, which will always be filled with challenges, and struggles, hence one's role is to always strive to overcome them, as he stated:

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
Goethe

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Many philosophers and thinkers have noted time after time that no matter what stage in life one is at, problems, sufferings, and failures will always be experiences we all have to face while we are in this world.

The thinkers also observed that in each and every one of us, there exists an immense inner power, which when fully realized, one can overcome even the greatest of suffering.

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The sad reality though as is noted by the psychologist William James his essay titled The Energies of Men, is that many people never even scratch the surface of their potential, going through life completely oblivious of the great inner powers.

Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake…the human individual thus lives usually far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use. He energizes below his maximum, and he behaves below his optimum…in every conceivable way, his life is contracted like the field of vision of a hysteric subject — but with less excuse, for the poor hysteric is diseased, while in the rest of us it is only a [long-established] habit — the habit of inferiority to our full self.
William James

What many fail to realize is that in these hidden potentials lies the power to enable one in overcoming the pernicious ailment.

The only way one can tap into these energies that we all possess and use them to rid oneself of subjective helplessness being through action.

By taking risks and facing one's fears it becomes apparent that one is far less helpless than previously assumed.

But the thing about action is that there will always be challenges, failures will be inevitable the same applies to setbacks and disappointments.

What one should keep in mind though is that the occurrences of these things are not signs that one is powerless or inadequate than others.

A fulfilling life is found not in avoiding struggles and hardships of our reality but by continually confronting and striving to overcome them.

Using Nietzsche writings in Thus Spoke Zarathustra to summarize:

And life confided the secret to me: behold, it said, I am that which must always overcome itself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

There we go people, apparently, we are more capable than we give ourselves credit.

I will see you in my next update!

Stay magical!

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