In Post COMBATING BAD HABITS WITH THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM, SOLUTION TO PROCRASTINATION, we presented a 3-phase process to combat cases of procrastination and a concrete case that serves as a general model to solve practically all procrastination situations that are generated as a habit. The WALK-RWD System makes it easier for us to meet that Inner Need that generates the habit of procrastination, which in turn allows us to break the Vicious Circle of Negative Habits, and specifically the psycho-dependent one of Procrastination.
Now, in this post we will use a method to deal with procrastination as an effect generated by problems of the emotional type; we have called this method Emotional Self-Liberation by Autosuggestibility (Post AUTOLIBERATION OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS THROUGH SELF-SUGGESTIBILITY).
We have already pointed out that procrastination is not simply postponing an action or activity to the next day, but postponing it with pain. That is, if we postpone a commitment with someone or with ourselves for another occasion and it does not cause us any pain, it is because we know that we are postponing it in a natural way and that later we will carry it out. Procrastination is putting things off at the cost of pain because we are emotionally unable to do them, even though we know and want to carry them out. That pain is emotional.
We have also pointed out that in essence, procrastination is not a matter of inefficiency, unproductivity or performance. In other words, in order to solve it, it is not necessary to apply some time management and administration program or project, or to apply new strategies to control or supervise productive activities. The essence of the problem of procrastination is the proper control and management of our emotions.
In essence, procrastination is an emotional pain for not doing the things we should do.
We have also mentioned that procrastination is related to bad habits (negative habits) and addictions, and fundamentally with the activities that we do not do because we postpone them indefinitely due to the fact that it represents a lot of effort to do them.
I am not going to repeat what I have mentioned in previous posts on this topic, however, I will specifically underline that it is essential to keep in mind that regardless of the area in which we place it for attention, we will invariably have to channel considerable efforts to identify the harmful (detrimental) emotion(s) that are negatively influencing the individual to postpone their activities.
Quickly, I would like to record the definitions given on this word to have a complete clarity on this emotional problem.
Procrastination, from the Latin procrastinare, which comes from pro, ahead (from gr. pro: ahead, before, instead of, anteriority or primacy in space or time), and crastinus, referring to the future time, from cras: tomorrow). It is the postponement or postponement of an action or activity; it is the habit of delaying the performance of activities or circumstances that should be attended to in a certain place and at a certain time, and which are deferred by substituting pretexts or procrastination; it is to stop performing an activity in order to perform it at another time or under different circumstances.
Procrastination: Action and result of delaying or postponing the performance of an activity, action or thing.
Procrastinate: To stop performing an activity by postponing it for later or another day, week, month or year.
As we have already mentioned, procrastination can be a symptom of bad habits or negative emotions. In this post we will propose concrete solutions to procrastination using the WALK-RWD system to eliminate procrastination generated by negative emotions.
We have already commented (Post EMOTIONS AND THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM) that emotions are reactions of the body, physical and mental, to stimuli coming from the external environment that disturb its balance, being able to be pleasant or unpleasant. Without exception, when they manifest themselves, they have repercussions in all parts of the being, to a greater or lesser extent; but something very significant (important) about them is that they can become the cause of various diseases.
The emotions are generated by a flow of force of the nervous type, out of the normal. The soul stability of the being is exceeded by this overflowing flow.
Both the physical and mental parts of the organism are disturbed (altered) and the whole organism begins to try to re-establish its lost nervous equilibrium. Up to here, the above mentioned applies to the emotions in general, to those of any type; but, as we said before, the emotions can be pleasant, with the qualifier of positive, and unpleasant or negative.
The unpleasant or negative emotions are: sadness, boredom, pessimism, pessimism, nostalgia, jealousy, hatred, anger, fear, terror, guilt, weariness, disillusionment, hopelessness, disappointment, despair, melancholy, grief, affliction, despondency, discouragement, discouragement, apathy, longing, loneliness, annoyance, disgust, annoyance, anger, tedium, irritation, repugnance, aversion, disgust, weariness, listlessness, indifference, indolence, abhorrence, harassment, annoyance, getting angry, angered, impatience, exasperation, indignation, offense, displeasure, frustration, anguish, etc.
Any of these can be the origin of procrastination.
The different meanings of the word – calling procrastination by different names – define what we will have to face, so I will allow myself to delve a little deeper into the psychological aspects that provoke this behavior in human beings, which is called in different ways: disinterest, laziness, idleness, indolence, indolence, laziness, discouragement, inactivity, tediousness, idleness, indifference, discouragement, negligence, irresponsibility, idleness, laziness, apathy, listlessness, abulia, discouragement, indecision, pusillanimity, tiredness, idleness, mollicism, somnolence, idleness, laziness, annoyance, inability, prostration, decay, depression, overwhelm, hopelessness, neurosis, sadness, etc. All these manifestations – with emotional origins – lead the respective person to procrastination. Unfortunately, all these forms, to a greater or lesser degree, fall into procrastination; but we do not have in most cases to fight against all of them, maybe one or two. Some of them are attitudes of postponement or delaying that have a pathological cause, also obsessive, anxiety or emotional disturbance.
We have already mentioned some of the ways used to point out and designate procrastination: “They are temporary states of mind”; “They are negative emotional states that restrict positive attitudes”; “Procrastination is the sum of states of mind of insecurity, laziness, inability, frustration and boredom”; “Procrastination is a state of depression and anxiety”; “Procrastination is synonymous with aversion to perform a task”; “Procrastination is the result of stress”.
Notwithstanding this multitude of variants in human behavior, which are unavoidable truths, they all stem from an emotional problem.
Let’s assume that the individual who procrastinates must lead himself to a better management of negative emotions. And as we have pointed out on several occasions, the biggest problem that arises in the phenomenon of Procrastination is to identify the emotional cause for which one has the attitude of postponing all activities, all the time, as much as possible. But once identified that causality, the application of the procedure that we have pointed out, is more comfortable and effective (Post AUTOLIBERATION OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS THROUGH SELF-SUGGESTIBILITY).
Now, procrastination is a clear symptom of an emotional disorder, it is not the disorder itself, but the manifestation that something does not work well and that makes us feel bad, so we respond in that way, that is, doing nothing.
We must work intensely to locate that unsatisfied need or that discomfort that we bring inside.
When we procrastinate eventually, we must understand that the human condition can, as a healthy or normal response, postpone the attention of any activity for a peremptory time, without being qualified as abnormal. However, when we do it repeatedly (chronic manifestation) it probably means the presence of a symptom of some emotional or psychological disorder.
Regardless of the negative emotion that manifests itself, it is possible that the psychological disorder is personality, depression, self-doubt, trauma, loss of a loved one, irrational behaviors, irrational psychopathies, psychosis, anguish, neurosis, panic and phobias, fear of failure, anxiety, catastrophic sensations, stress, fear of ridicule, etc.
The following is the method of emotional self-liberation through auto-suggestion.
STEP 1. DETERMINATION OF THE NEGATIVE EMOTION.
Let us keep in mind that the knowledge of the emotion is the psychological element that allows us to initiate our own liberation.
STEP 2.-CONSTRUCTION OF LIBERATING PHRASES.
The construction of a positive sentence is the most powerful rational verbal resource of the method.
STEP 3.-WALKING. APPLICATION OF THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM.
Walking is the most effective and direct structural mechanism to send to the unconscious the verbal message to achieve self-control and free ourselves from the negative emotion.
STEP 4.-PARTICIPATION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS.
The unconscious is the agent to perform the healing sublimation.
Each person must try it on his own following the whole procedure indicated in Post AUTOLIBERATION OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS THROUGH SELF-SUGGESTIBILITY.
With this process let us set out to work on our own procrastination, and observe that the method works effectively; always keeping in mind that walking is a resource that the genie of the lamp, our individual unconscious, uses as “obedience (attention) in the fulfillment of a desire” to eliminate all our ills (Future Post THERE IS NOT ANYTHING THAT A GOOD WALK WILL NOT CORRECT).