Happened last night.
There come moments when I am too lazy to leave the house, even for the necessary things. For example, buy yourself something to eat. And in such cases, I call my friend (who lives several floors below) so that after work he will go to the store and buy something for me. Like a courier with delivery. He is a kind person, even too much, so he rarely refuses.
Well, yesterday, I finished the last food and recruited him to grab me some dumplings. And liquor.
I am a person who leads a healthy lifestyle, do not think anything like that. I add liqueur to tea - it strengthens the immune system, improves metabolism, warms, and, as a bonus, improves mood. I use it strictly for medical purposes! Therefore, it ends quickly.
But that's not the point.
My friend, as always, called me a lazy brute and agreed to buy everything. And then begins why I called the story that way.
Firstly, I believe that a house is for that and a house, so that you can walk, in whatever clothes you want.
Try on the costume of Adam from the Garden of Eden, or Vasya's homeless person, lying on a bench in a royal pose (the second option impresses me more with its spontaneity and rebelliousness) And it's hard to convince me that worn-out pants with holes in the back and a shirt without half buttons is not comfortable and fashionable , but makes the neighbors awkward. On the street and work, I go out as a decent person. This is the main thing.
And secondly, the pasta, eaten earlier, began a revolt in the stomach, trying to break out ahead of time. And the stomach turned out to be a weak defender. So I went to the emergency room for such situations. To a white friend.
And I feel that I have sat down in detail, for long thoughts about the universal secrets and questions of the universe. Five minutes later, the doorbell rang. Well, of course, what else could I expect.
When you don't need it, everything happens the way you least want it. I call a friend on the phone that right now I can't get out. “Then you will go down then” - he answers me. Well, damn it, it's too lazy to go down, with the same success I could have reached the store. He doesn't want to wait for me either, of course. I say to leave it at the garbage chute. I doubt that in the next fifteen minutes someone will try to throw out their garbage. On that and decided. I'll give the money back later.
Reflecting on the occurrence of black holes and gravitational singularity, I finally finished my dirty business and pulled on my pants, slipped shoes and scratched my navel, left the apartment.
A girl comes out of the other at the same time. Young and quite pretty. I knew that an aunt of about forty years old lived there, crossed a couple of times at the entrance and the elevator, and this is probably her daughter. Looks like going to the party.
I awkwardly try to smooth my hair, disheveled as if squirrels were copulating in it, using all the postures of the Kama Sutra, but I cannot comb the uncombed. The girl contemptuously cast a glance at my leaky pants, screaming “what a creepy devil lives here?” She went on to the elevators, and I stayed at the garbage chute. He took from the side what he ordered, swearing that a friend could have put everything in a bag, but oh well. Now we will eat and I will continue to heal for medical purposes.
I turn around and see a girl with an empty juice bottle or something like that. She probably remembered that she hadn't thrown her out while waiting for the elevator. I, trying to defuse the situation a little, smile stupidly.
She looks at me warily, puts her bottle in her purse and, almost backing away, goes back to the elevators. It is difficult to imagine what was going on in her head at that moment. Someone got off, rummaging around behind the trash, takes out dumplings and some booze (the bottle is dark, so it seemed to her anyway that I found an unfinished container) and grins happily at her.
Now I don't even know how to behave if I meet again. And what will she tell her mom about me)
Throughout life, within each person there is a struggle between the desire to do something, the desire for success and well-being, and the complete opposite - inaction, unwillingness to do anything at all. The latter results from low motivation. Psychologists say that if a person does not want to do anything even in situations where it is necessary, then he has weak willpower. In life, this phenomenon is called laziness. In order to understand how to deal with laziness, you need to clearly understand what this concept means from the point of view of psychology and what laziness means in a global sense.
In this science, laziness is considered as an integral part. Most often, this trait is described from the negative side, noting that laziness is a person's unwillingness to work, to increase the effectiveness of his work. Such people prefer to relax, have fun and do whatever, just not to do what is necessary. The main reason for this behavior, according to psychologists, is the absence or misunderstanding of the goal, weak motivation or its complete absence.
Not the least role in the formation of laziness as a character trait is played by the surrounding social environment. It is not uncommon for the media to promote inaction if the action does not bring any benefit. But laziness also has a positive characteristic - if the body is overworked and requires rest, then such laziness plays a protective function and saves a person's vital energy.
Symptoms:
- Apathy.
- Prostration.
- Depression.
- A series of failures.
There are many types of laziness. All of them relate to one side or another of human life, but most often there are physical and laziness as a result. The latter implies a conflict of human desires and its capabilities, that is, the requests are huge, but there are no opportunities for their implementation. This type is most typical for modern society, in which few people know how to deal with laziness.
How is laziness different from procrastination?
The difference between the two is significant, although for many, laziness and procrastination are synonymous. As already mentioned, laziness is unwillingness to do something for various reasons. Procrastination is the postponement of affairs and responsibilities indefinitely. The reason may be a phone call, a desire to eat, checking mail and surfing on social networks, etc.
That is, a person seems to be going to devote a certain amount of time to performing his duties, but he, all the time, is distracted by something. As a result, a lot of time is wasted. Laziness and procrastination differ from each other in that in the second case, a person is going to do something, but does not do it and at the same time does not stay idle. There is an appearance of activity, but no result.
The danger of this condition is that the procrastinator, who has made it through the work and understands that the deadlines are running out, will work tirelessly without sleep and rest, and will reproach himself for not having done everything before. The body in such a situation is under stress and energy deficit, which negatively affects the state of the nervous system. It is necessary to fight this phenomenon through self-education.
What does human laziness lead to?
The consequences of laziness can be dire, up to the loss of a job or dismissal from the university, loss of a family and condemnation from loved ones. After all, initially a person does not think about what laziness can do to a person, but realizes this after a while, when, often, it is already too late. But the main thing is the realization that you have wasted so much time, and you could have already achieved a lot.
How to deal with laziness and apathy?
There are several ways to overcome laziness and apathy in yourself:
- Start chatting with colleagues.
- Do not communicate with people who are pessimistic and see the world only in shades of gray.
- Get rid of old and unnecessary things that are in reserve.
- Diversify your leisure time.
- Set goals and achieve them.
- Go in for sports. It has been noticed that when laziness and mental fatigue comes on, there is nothing better than getting up and doing a few physical exercises.
- Reward yourself for victories.
How to deal with laziness to study?
The fight against laziness at school age should begin with identifying the causes of its occurrence. This is often stress caused by learning disabilities. For your efforts to succeed:
- understand the cause of stress and, if possible, remove it;
- master the techniques of quick calming;
- lead a healthy lifestyle;
- organize your time correctly;
- learn to distribute attention;
- choose a hobby.
How to overcome laziness and start playing sports?
Laziness is the first reason people don't play sports. These tips for those who are wondering how to overcome laziness and play sports:
- set a goal and develop a plan to achieve it, follow it rigorously;
- use the carrot-and-stick method - achieved any, even the smallest, result - reward yourself;
- lie in complete silence for an hour a day;
- overcome laziness in other areas of your life;
- learn to believe in yourself and not give in to difficulties;
- look at things realistically, without overestimating your capabilities and without setting unattainable goals;
- take a contrast shower, which invigorates in the morning and tones the body and skin.
Fighting laziness - Orthodoxy
In Orthodoxy, laziness and despondency are considered not just a vice, but one of them. According to the clergy, this is a disease of the soul, when you do not want to do anything and the whole world becomes not nice. Soul and body are weakening. It is proposed to fight this vice by singing psalms, reading prayers, attending services, that is, directing all forces to strengthening the spirit. Any business must start with God's blessing and be patient.
If you do not know how to overcome laziness in yourself and all of the above methods have failed, because laziness has already become a part of life, and perhaps it is a symptom of some disease, then it would be correct to consult a specialist. In some cases, a heart-to-heart conversation is enough, and sometimes there is a need to resort to taking medications.
Nothing undermines human health like idleness. The number of problems a person has associated with his health is directly related to how and how much he works. Of course, as in any business, it is important to adhere to the golden mean in your work. But now, we will not talk about how important it is not to overwork, and how important it is to rest, but about how harmful it is to sit back. Although, a few words about the rest will be said.
The first thing you need to know is that the human Soul is responsible for the physical health of a person. This is the first and most important thing that you need to know and understand when it comes to your physical condition. By the way, if we are talking about health in general, it will not be superfluous to remind you that your spirit is responsible for your mental health. But that's it, just a reminder.
Considering the fact that, for the most part, a person today, when talking about health, means physical health, therefore we will consider it through his physical condition.
Our body is not such a dull and primitive mechanism as it might seem at first glance. For example, how do you feel about your computer? I am sure that you treat him with care and respect. It cannot be otherwise, because you paid so much money for it. You received your body free of charge, that is, for free, perhaps that is why you tend to underestimate it as something worthy and requiring not only respect, but also care.
A few words about your body... At first glance, it may seem that the body is a simple mechanism by which a person not only incarnates himself into reality, but also acquires the ability to embody something on his own. But this is only at first glance. And of course it is, but it's not that simple. The fact is that the one who created our body, and created it by a far from stupid comrade, took into account all our carelessness, and stupidity, and immoderation, and ignorance and, alas, but also underdevelopment.
If all this had not been taken into account when creating our body, then most likely we would not have lasted for a long time in it.
Well, judge for yourself. What would prevent us from eating endlessly, or endlessly drinking? What would stop us from endless sleep or endless sex? What would stop us from working endlessly? Yes, nothing would have bothered us. Give us only freedom and we are ready to endlessly engage in some nonsense that at some point carried us away.
It is for this reason, because of our inability to correlate our desires, our needs with our capabilities and with real necessity, the creator of our body has built in it the so-called fuses.
The impact on these fuses is carried out with the help of our soul. In other words, our emotions cut in these same fuses. Though. To be honest, it would be correct to say - they have to cut it in. Sometimes things are different.
Our emotions- this is one of the main indicators of how we perceive this or that reality. If reality suits us, then we experience positive emotions, if reality does not suit us with something, then the emotions we experience are negative. Depending on the emotions, the soul gives one or another command to the body and the body responds accordingly to this command.
True, sometimes we disable our fuses. For example, alcohol or cigarettes. With the help of these light narcotic substances, we distort the information entering the brain, due to which a reaction to what is happening occurs.
You can observe this for yourself. Do an experiment. Ask someone to visit. When everyone is drinking, you do not drink. In two hours you will understand what I am talking about. Of course, it will be difficult for you to be near these people, but science requires these sacrifices from you.
See what a drunk man is capable of. See how much he can eat in one go. Is a sober person capable of such a thing? Of course not.
This was just a small example of how you can incapacitate your body for a while. But even here it will take its body. If a person has not yet completely destroyed his mechanism, then a very unhealthy state awaits him the next day. A normal, healthy person, already in the process of all this disgrace, should be vomited. But even an abnormal, but not too neglected person should feel sick the next day after drinking, he should have a very bad headache.
In general, the question arises, why does a person behave in this way? It's simple. Do you remember where I started my article?
I began by stating that "Nothing undermines human health like idleness." Alas, this is the main reason for all our problems related to our physical health.
It is idleness that torments our soul. It can be said in another way. Nothing torments our soul more than idleness.
All that our body is designed for is sleep and work. Nothing more. As primitive as it sounds, it is a fact. A person must work, and when he gets tired, then sleep. As soon as a person stops sleeping, he must immediately start working.
Rest is nothing more than a change in the type of activity, or rather, a change of job.
Remember the last time you were sick. Only when the order WORK - DREAM was violated.
Everything else that is out of this order, for example, food and so on, such as shopping, cinemas, restaurants, traveling to different countries, sunbathing on the beach, evening at a disco, picnic on the side of the road, and so on, so on, so on. does not apply to sleep or work - a violation of the normal functioning of the body.
It only seems to you that work is not capable of giving pleasure. Work can be a great pleasure, no less than, for example, sex. But just as a drug addict cannot imagine his existence without a dose, an alcoholic without a glass, a smoker without a cigarette, so you tend to find pleasure in anything, depending on your addictions, but not in work.
It's just that the pleasure one gets from work is of a slightly different order. Higher than the pleasure of sitting in front of the TV for many hours and simultaneously devouring everything that is left in the refrigerator after the past holidays.
Irritation, nervousness, dissatisfaction - this is the state of mind after such holidays.
And it's not about the holidays. But the whole point is in excess. You can't sit around for a long time. Our body is not adapted to sit back for a long time. Our tasks are somewhat different. It was for these other tasks that our body was created.
Weekends and holidays destroy our bodies by forcing us to sit back for more than one day.
If a person is idle for more than one day, then the body receives a command from the heart that something is going wrong. With its irritation, its dissatisfaction, its nervousness, the soul commands the body to stop.
The body cannot otherwise stop a person from his actions, but through its physical ailment. It will raise the temperature, it will give a slight complication to the arms and legs, it will put a person to bed with a diagnosis of a cold.
A person has time to lie down and think about what he did wrong. And there is no need to look for the cause in epidemics. The epidemic is secondary. Human behavior itself is primary.
You can drink, you can smoke, you can eat, you can do anything. I do not urge you to give up discos, get-togethers with friends and other things. No. All I urge you to do now is not to violate the basic principle of your physical health. Everything, and discos, and evenings with friends, and holidays, and so on, all this exclusively in the intervals between your sleep and your work.
How do you manage to do this - I do not know. This is an individual matter and everyone will have their own.
And the last thing.
Each person, everyone, should have something that would not allow him to stop it for a single day. You understand?
How can I best explain this to you? Well, you can easily not do your job for several days. So? The past weekend showed it. And I'm talking about a job that will not allow you to quit it and will require daily execution. Daily.
Well, it's like a mother and her newborn baby. The mother cannot say that she takes a month off and leaves for Cyprus, first to celebrate Catholic Christmas, and then Orthodox, and let the child lie in bed and sleep for now.
This is how you should have such a thing that you cannot but do daily ... But it has to be work. Work, not a simple pastime.
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Happened last night.
There come moments when I am too lazy to leave the house, even for the necessary things. For example, buy yourself something to eat. And in such cases, I call my friend (who lives several floors below) so that after work he will go to the store and buy something for me. Like a courier with delivery. He is a kind person, even too much, so he rarely refuses.
Well, yesterday, I finished the last food and recruited him to grab me some dumplings. And liquor.
I am a person who leads a healthy lifestyle, do not think anything like that. I add liqueur to tea - it strengthens the immune system, improves metabolism, warms, and, as a bonus, improves mood. I use it strictly for medical purposes! Therefore, it ends quickly.
But that's not the point.
My friend, as always, called me a lazy brute and agreed to buy everything. And then begins why I called the story that way.
Firstly, I believe that a house is for that and a house, so that you can walk, in whatever clothes you want.
Try on the costume of Adam from the Garden of Eden, or Vasya's homeless person, lying on a bench in a royal pose (the second option impresses me more with its spontaneity and rebelliousness) And it's hard to convince me that worn-out pants with holes in the back and a shirt without half buttons is not comfortable and fashionable , but makes the neighbors awkward. On the street and work, I go out as a decent person. This is the main thing.
And secondly, the pasta, eaten earlier, began a revolt in the stomach, trying to break out ahead of time. And the stomach turned out to be a weak defender. So I went to the emergency room for such situations. To a white friend.
And I feel that I have sat down in detail, for long thoughts about the universal secrets and questions of the universe. Five minutes later, the doorbell rang. Well, of course, what else could I expect.
When you don't need it, everything happens the way you least want it. I call a friend on the phone that right now I can't get out. "Then you will go down then" - he answers me. Well, damn it, it's too lazy to go down, with the same success I could have reached the store. He doesn't want to wait for me either, of course. I say to leave it at the garbage chute. I doubt that in the next fifteen minutes someone will try to throw out their garbage. On that and decided. I'll give the money back later.
Reflecting on the occurrence of black holes and gravitational singularity, I finally finished my dirty business and pulled on my pants, slipped shoes and scratched my navel, left the apartment.
A girl comes out of the other at the same time. Young and quite pretty. I knew that an aunt of about forty years old lived there, crossed a couple of times at the entrance and the elevator, and this is probably her daughter. Looks like going to the party.
I awkwardly try to smooth my hair, disheveled as if squirrels were copulating in it, using all the postures of the Kama Sutra, but I cannot comb the uncombed. The girl looked contemptuously at my holey pants with a look screaming "what a creepy devil lives here" She went on to the elevators, and I stayed at the garbage chute. He took from the side what he ordered, swearing that a friend could have put everything in a bag, but oh well. Now we will eat and I will continue to heal for medical purposes.
I turn around and see a girl with an empty juice bottle or something like that. She probably remembered that she hadn't thrown her out while waiting for the elevator. I, trying to defuse the situation a little, smile stupidly.
She looks at me warily, puts her bottle in her purse and, almost backing away, goes back to the elevators. It is difficult to imagine what was going on in her head at that moment. Someone got off, rummaging around behind the trash, takes out dumplings and some booze (the bottle is dark, so it seemed to her anyway that I found an unfinished container) and grins happily at her.
Now I don't even know how to behave if I meet again. And what will she tell her mom about me)
Cessation of activity always leads to lethargy,
and after lethargy comes decrepitude.
Apuleius
Why do you think we often choose the wrong universities, teams, jobs? Why are we unlucky in our careers and personal lives? Why do we choose the wrong partners so often? Why do we live so badly?
Our laziness is to blame for everything! Yes, imagine, if you think about it, it is in her that the cause of all our troubles.
Laziness actually means avoiding difficulties and problem situations.
Alfred Adler.
We are too lazy to change something, look for, strain, work, go to the other end of the city, study, clean up after ourselves, take care of our body and health. We are looking for places where we could do nothing and receive high wages for this, rest on our laurels and successfully stop in our development. We are too lazy to work and strain, and we are looking for fairy princes and princesses who can provide us with everything we need. Then we suffer all our lives with these “royalty”, endure their cruelty, selfishness, tyranny and other shortcomings, but we never want to lose, because we would have to think and act on our own. And we are too lazy to do it!
We are too lazy to wash our dishes and take out the trash, wash my husband's socks and go to the store. And we quarrel with him, because he also does not want to do any of this. He's too lazy to do it after work! We quarrel and part with our loved ones in the hope of finally finding a workaholic, but again we run into a chronic lazy person who does not crawl away from the computer and can only eat Chinese noodles, just not to get a job.
There are no miracles. A lazy person who avoids difficulties and problems rarely achieves anything in life.
He habitually looks for excuses and consolations in order to shift the blame for his trivial laziness to circumstances, people, the state, a lunar eclipse or global warming, so long as he is not torn away from his usual, relaxing life cycles. He is even ready to do low-paid and routine work, as long as he is not forced to be active.
Laziness explains our inertia and unpreparedness for the novelty of attitudes and actions that prevent us from moving forward and achieving goals.
Inertia(from Lat. inertia - immobility, inactivity) is a concept used in psychophysiology to denote low mobility of the nervous system.
Instead of working on our figure and engaging in self-education and improving our qualifications, we prefer to call all men "svo ...", women - "du ...", and bosses "fools" who do not know how to appreciate us. We often allow ourselves to do vile and bad actions, because honest actions take effort.
By doing nothing, people learn to do wrong. Unknown author
A lazy and inert person falls into such sticky networks of dependence on his own idleness that he himself does not notice how he is losing his best features. Sometimes turning into a real moral monster.
Husband and wife lived in the same village - the bummer Tyuni and the bum Uri. Tyuny and Uri did nothing for days, only sleep. They were even too lazy to boil their tea and get up to drink water. They had a donkey, but it was fed by Tyuny's parents. After the death of Tyuni's parents, the couple continued to live the same way. The villagers decided to teach the lazy people a lesson: to bury them alive so that they do not set a bad example for the youth. The idlers were put on a cart, covered with an old, worn carpet and taken to the cemetery. On the way from the scorching sun, Uri felt bad, and she threw off the carpet, and when the cart drove up to the cemetery, Tyuni and Uri began to moan and groan. At this time, a horseman appeared at the gates of the cemetery and asked:
- Where are you taking these people?
“These people are idlers, we want to bury them so that they do not have a bad influence on our youth,” replied one of the peasants. “All the same, they have no bread to feed themselves, and in the end they will starve to death,” said another. The rider felt sorry for the lazy, and he said:
“You don’t have to bury them alive, I’ll give them wheat and they will live. Tyuny, hearing the rider's words, shouted:
- Is the wheat threshed or still needs to be threshed?
- Will he bake bread or not? - In turn, asked the lazy Uri.
- B-a-a, really such people are still found in this world ?! The rider exclaimed in surprise and galloped away.
Probably, none of us would like to be like the heroes of this Armenian parable. But damn it, how much we look like them, especially after a hard day at work!
Of course, the best excuse and explanation for our laziness is tiredness. Indeed, so many people work so hard during the day, relax so little during difficult work assignments, and do not take vacations and work on weekends, that the chronic fatigue syndrome that comes to them gives them every right to rest and justifies laziness. In this situation, laziness saves us from overstrain, gives our body the opportunity to recover. If we did not do this, then we would come to physical exhaustion and illness.
Fatigue- This is the body's normal response to physical, mental or intellectual stress, which takes place after a normal rest. In this connection, this condition does not require treatment.
Sometimes fatigue after rest does not go away, and then we are talking about illness. They call her asthenia or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
Asthenia(from the Greek astheneia - powerlessness, weakness) - abnormal, spontaneous weakness (lethargy), which occurs without physical or intellectual stress, continues for a long time and does not go away after rest. It occurs after routine work, excessive physical, mental or mental stress, with improper alternation of work and rest, systematic lack of sleep, adaptation to new climatic conditions, such as information neurosis, manager syndrome, white collar syndrome, leadership syndrome, etc.
Asthenia is often confused with another similar disease, of viral origin, covering hard workaholics and people with weakened immune systems.
- decreased tone;
- chronic cold
- migraine,
- joint pain;
- insomnia, irritability,
- memory impairment
- absent-mindedness,
- mood disorder, panic disorder,
- Hair falls out and fingerprints disappear.
“You can trace the psychological characteristics that serve as a favorable environment for the development of the disease. Women get sick more often than men, and young people get sick more often than older ones. The disease usually occurs in workaholics, very energetic, ambitious, responsible, but with a vulnerable nervous system. They want to feel better than everyone around them, to move mountains, to accomplish the impossible. They have raised the bar for their own capabilities. Such people strive to do everything that they have been instructed to do, and even more. They are usually active, businesslike, and successful, ”says Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Head of the Immunocorrection Laboratory of the State Scientific Center, Head of Research on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Professor N.G. Artsimovich.
Both asthenia and CFS are diseases that require treatment!
They have nothing to do with laziness arising from the simple desire of a person to avoid difficulties.
Very often, hiding behind imaginary diseases, a person tries to avoid some important decisions in his life or not do what seems problematic or uninteresting. Chronic diseases and eternal complaints, the search for non-existent symptoms and the treatment of fictitious diseases, on the one hand, attract increased attention to a person from others. On the other hand, they exclude his participation in active work. And if laziness is traditionally condemned in our society, then the disease serves for such lazy people as an incombustible security letter, justifying their inaction.
How long will man be able to play the difficult role of the painful sufferer? Imagine some sly ones exploiting other people's attention and avoiding work all their lives.
But just think, what is their life filled with? What are they doing, lying poor things, forced to diligently match their image? And the side effects of constant inactivity, physical inactivity and swallowing medications? And the sidelong glances of relatives, passionately wanting no longer the soonest 
recovery of a chronic patient, but ridding oneself of the yoke, even by way of his overwhelming departure to another world. Terrible, isn't it?
If fatigue after work goes away, and we are all lying on the couch out of habit and unable to force ourselves to do something, then we are talking about the most elementary laziness.
Laziness turns into chronic forms, enslaving and changing our psyche, attitude to life, reshaping our destiny and most directly influencing our happiness. Everything around seems to contribute to this: the softness of the pillows, the attractive power of the entertaining blue screen, the presence of banknotes.
We lie on the couch like the textbook Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, who once showed great promise, but never managed to overcome his inertia and laziness in order to do something wonderful in life. But remember
"For our laziness, we are punished not only by our failures, but also by the successes of others." Jules Renard