A person can not always give an account of his feelings and internal states. And the people around him, and even more so, will not be able to immediately understand the complex plexus of emotions that a person experiences. But can someone understand a person, give him advice and suggest how to proceed? Yes, such a person is called a qualified psychotherapist. What methods of analysis are used by specialists to determine the internal state of a person?
External surveillance
One of the most effective and affordable methods of analysis is observation. According to the external manifestations of excitement, joy, anger or aggression, even a layman can roughly imagine how a person feels. A person who rejoices, smiles, laughs and speaks in a raised voice. A person in depression will be sad, and his speech will be quiet and tragic. From these two examples it can be understood that people are guided by the visual component and the person’s voice. By gestures, looks, facial expressions and intonations, you can understand how a person is configured and how his mood is changing. This analysis is the simplest, but not the most reliable. A person who knows about his emotionality can intentionally deceive others. For example, wear a mask of joy at a time when it is very sad. Or to behave quite relaxed when a storm rises inside. It is difficult to master your feelings and their manifestations, but you can. Therefore, it is impossible to trust unconditionally an external analysis of the state.
Internal surveillance
Want to understand how you feel now? The internal state can be analyzed using internal observation. You need to focus and be aware of how you feel and what exactly made you feel it. Realizing his feelings and emotions, a person will be able to better understand himself. Even if you are not able to say exactly what and how you are causing a violent reaction, you can still better understand yourself. This will help you get rid of bad habits that are associated with strong emotionality. For example, a person who cannot overcome her anger should begin to control her emotions. With passions, a person who will be aware of his feelings will begin to calm down. He will understand that he is at his limit and there will be an explosion further if emotions are not released now. The technique of awareness helps to control not only negative, but also positive manifestations of feelings. For example, a girl who was presented with a car yesterday can curb her emotions and start working, rather than thinking about a new vehicle that is standing under the window.
Conversation
The internal state can be determined in the process of a frank conversation. Any psychotherapist does this. He offers the client to talk about the problem, to talk about what has accumulated inside, about his feelings. The specialist in the session is engaged not only in evaluating the words of the client, but also in evaluating the external manifestations of internal states. Not all people can be honest with outsiders. Even those persons who independently came to the therapist can slightly embellish reality. Therefore, you can never completely trust the words. You need to look at the non-verbal signs that the body gives. It is not so difficult to understand from them whether a person is telling the truth or is hiding something. The voice is also a powerful tool that helps determine the internal state of a person. A calm tone speaks of a person’s confidence, while a weak aspiration tells of self-doubt and a fear of saying something superfluous.
Business analysis
To notice a change in the internal state is very difficult even for the person himself. To learn about your own desires and feelings, you need to use the technique of analysis of your creative activity. Take any fruit of your creation. It can be a picture, sculpture, embroidery or knitting. Analyze the object or take it to a specialist for analysis. In form, color, style of execution, you can say a lot about what a person experiences when he creates. A person is defenseless at the moment when she spills out her potential, creating unique objects of DPI. Based on creative inspiration, or rather, the result of activity, it is possible to understand that a person is excited, afraid of something or cannot let go of his past.
You are not engaged in applied activities? You can analyze not only those objects that are easy to hold in your hands. You can analyze music, manuscript and even your sporting achievements.
Behavior analysis
How to determine the internal state of a person? A behavior analysis technique helps to do this. You need to think about the reasons that prompted the person to this or that action. A person, committing any actions, is always aware of them. Even those actions that a person does when drunk are well thought out. For example, a girl who loves her boyfriend will never cheat, even if she gets drunk at a party. And that lady who is in mental turmoil can easily go on treason. Therefore, always think about what prompted you to perform this or that action. The investigation does not always clearly indicate the cause. The same people can achieve different goals through the same method. For example, one person will go to work as a designer in order to earn a living, and another person will be engaged in creative activities in order to realize his potential.
Introspection
Do you know how to report your impulses? Internal observation will not help you fully understand the state of the inner world if you do not analyze the results of the feelings you received. A person should know his likes and dislikes well. A person should be aware of what she likes and what annoys her. Such awareness helps a person to know himself better and be restrained always and everywhere. Composure is a good trait that is sometimes confused with arrogance. In order not to become a doll that is devoid of emotions, a person must dose them through so that they are expressed externally. Introspection allows a person not to be an open book in which you can read all thoughts by the external expression of feelings and emotions.
The advantages of the method of introspection is that a person independently understands his soul. But no expert knows your inner self better than you do.
Questioning
Thinking about how to find out the inner state of the soul? You can go through a survey. A simple questionnaire will give you a reason for your own thoughts. To find the answer, you need to correctly formulate the question. And not all people have the unique ability to talk to themselves. For those individuals who do not know how to do this, universal questionnaires have been developed. This method is good for the reason that each person can understand the questions differently. Explanations and clarifications to the questions are not given. Each person interprets them in their own way and the answers in two people coincide only partially. You can evaluate your internal condition yourself, or you can contact a specialist. Correctly interpreting the questionnaire result is not so difficult, but you need to be relatively impartial. Therefore, if you do not want to go to a therapist, ask a friend of yours to honestly read the answers to the questions and make a conclusion about your inner well-being.
Testing
Work with the internal state can be carried out using tests. This method of analysis is less effective than a questionnaire. Tests do not give freedom of creative expression. A person can only briefly answer clearly posed questions. With this form of verification, you can only superficially assess the condition of a person. It will be impossible to delve into the mental torment that torment the individual.
Why, then, use such an ineffective method of analysis? Sometimes you have to check a large number of people at once. And in this case, testing can bear fruit. It will help to identify individuals with a weak psyche, who then will additionally have to check the internal state by other methods of analysis. For example, such mental health tests are often carried out in schools or in large organizations where staff work involves frequent stressful situations.
Biographical
Reflection of the internal state can be found in the biography of a person. What is this analysis method? To get the best result, you need to collect data on mental anguish experienced by the person’s parents, as well as grandparents. Similar conditions can be found in people's diaries, if any. Well, or you can make descriptions of the mental torment of ancestors according to their memories. After this, the person who is being tested should think about whether the personal inner experiences coincide with the experiences of the parents. Scenario theory suggests that children often repeat the lives of their parents, and at each particular stage of existence, internal states and mental anguish and other torment are also repeated.
Permanent accounting method
What is the patient’s internal state, the specialist may not immediately determine. A complete history is needed in order to better understand personality problems. Human internal states tend to recur. Therefore, it is not surprising that a person who is worried and panic today about a report will be in the same condition before the next report. Everyone needs to keep a diary of their experiences in order to quickly improve their well-being if necessary. Sometimes it seems that problems in life cannot be solved. But scrolling through the diary, you understand that the problems of the past month, which at that time also seemed insoluble, today seem like a trifle.