The age of a modern person is estimated by passport data, by state of health, by social achievements and by attitude. The psychological age depends on how well a person is adapted to the world, to life, to his past and future. This is a matter of subjective assessment of one’s inner emotions in the surrounding reality. It happens that a person feels much younger than his own years. Although in an age of avalanche-like flow of information, even adolescents live under the burden of extra knowledge, complicating the natural development of the individual.
The psychological age directly depends on whether a person considers the past years to be productive from his point of view. That is why family people feel more in line with their biological and passport time. After all, before their eyes their children. This is with the advent of grandchildren, for some reason, contrary to logic, they feel much younger than they really are. Numerous studies have proven this. According to their results, the older a person, the more years he discards according to his attitude.
However, emotional development is a highly individual sphere. Moreover, psychologists often see the discrepancy between the biological clock and the spiritual state of the machinations of the unconscious. If in the distant past there was an event on which a person was obsessed, then his psychological age will be intensified to accumulate. The past will always be more important than the future. Old age, it is characterized by an experience in the details of what cannot be returned, cannot be changed. This is a murderous recognition of helplessness, which can be defeated by building new plans, albeit short-term or less important, but necessarily concerning the future.
A man walking, stomping, shuffling to new achievements, remains awake, friendly, has a young psychological age. There is no time to pay attention to the grievances of nature, because there is so much unknown ahead that needs to be understood, understood, studied, which was previously inaccessible.
To make a self-assessment of the psychological age, you need to determine the level of your life activity, appearance, state of mind and interests. This is the first four-point chart.
According to the following algorithm, take into account intelligence, social status and level of personal growth. Only three points, the scheme is suitable for people with high ambitions.
In any case of the questions analyzed, the psychological age will depend on how a person sees himself at each point of the test, fully realized or with a margin of potential. The main thing when thinking is not to rely on the opinions of others, phrases accidentally abandoned by them, or on attitudes accepted in society. For example, retirement years, the birth of children, grandchildren, divorces, marriages.
A separate topic about retirees. How teachers and nurses manage to add up to several thousand a year for travel in civilized countries is an economic mystery for us. But their sense of self is categorically different from the hopelessness of our grandfathers and grandmothers. I had to see the happy wrinkled faces of old Germans and English in the mountains of Cyprus. It was a lesson in genuine joy.
My psychological age is not burdened by pessimism and despair. Psychologists advise to meditate with your own image. Introduce yourself, having fun, smiling, rejoicing. Experience confirms that making plans for the future, however, has a healing effect for the soul and body. It must be remembered that alcohol, nicotine, caffeine is nothing. In comparison, natural seratonin and dosed adrenaline are much more pleasant to feel in your own body. Therefore, an exceptionally healthy lifestyle is a reliable barrier to psychological old age.