We all know that every day a person should eat, drink and sleep. But this is not all. There are also ideal needs, implying something much more than the banal maintenance of the functioning of the body.
The importance of the intangible aspects of life
An indicator can serve as the culture of the East, in which spiritual needs are placed no lower than physical ones. It is wrong to say: "Man has a soul." In fact, this spirit has a body, which it gains at the next stage of its path.
Self-awareness is formed in childhood. Many children are taught to wash, clean their room, study well at school, but they miss one important nuance. The younger generation is not endowed with the ability to understand their own emotions. Sometimes it even happens that teenagers are lost in their feelings, they don’t know how to perceive themselves or the world in a particular situation. They say about them: "quiet children."
But, as a rule, such individuals survive their infantile period much later, when they are already expected to have adult meaningful behavior. And all because they were not explained how to realize their ideal needs.
Ways to improve
As long as a person feels that in his soul there are a lot of cabinets with skeletons, he will not be able to enjoy even the most luxurious in material terms of life. The need for self-knowledge is an ideal need, the satisfaction of which provides peace and a positive state of mind.
A well-known fact in psychology: a person’s moral state is closely related to his self-esteem. Each person wants to feel special, unique, able to do what others cannot. This is not narcissism and not bragging, but a normal necessity when it does not go beyond adequate limits.
Each of us has something special.
The need for self-fulfillment relates to ideal needs. People who are unable to achieve something claim that if they got what they wanted, they would be at the peak of bliss. When a certain thing is in the zone of our imagination, everything is really so. But, becoming commonplace, the acquisition will lose its novelty.
When you reach your goals step by step, you understand that, in essence, it is not the crossing points that are important, but the route itself. Most people go to work with more or less good wages. So what if the job is not pleasant? You can survive for some time. Only sooner or later will patience end.
Everything is much more interesting.
Ideal needs are more than existence to feed oneself and provide shelter. Man has learned to make good use of the resources of the earth. And, in fact, not so much is needed to provide your body with energy and normal conditions.
When everything is settled in the material plane, spiritual needs arise. Some people turn to the gods, and for others, the shrine is the whole world around. Devoting yourself to love this miracle is much more sublime and interesting than just cruising in a vicious circle of consumerism and exhaustion of vital forces for deceiving, imposed goals.
Cultural needs are a craving for beauty and a desire to expand one's own erudition. After all, human wealth is not only in bank accounts, but also in his own head. The best investment is a contribution to yourself.
Each person by nature has certain talents. Their development also implies ideal needs. Examples: enrollment in creative circles, language learning. Such classes can be conducted for a specific purpose. But, in the end, getting pleasure is also a pretty good reason. The time spent with joy was not wasted. The most important thing is to strive to find balance in everything. Including between spirituality and the material world.
Life in society
Communicating with other people is crucial. Closing up in himself, an individual may ask such a question: “What is the point of talking on all these meaningless topics? After all, there is no real benefit in this. ” Nevertheless, a person may still have a thirst for contact with others, but feel awkward due to the inability to explain its cause.
Ideal needs imply recognition from others. When we fall into the circle of people who understand us, have similar interests, are ready to listen to or tell our own secrets, we feel good, joyful, and enjoy contact with the world. Man is created for life in society, so the need to communicate with oneself, one way or another, occurs periodically.
Excessive extremes
A sad picture is observed among individuals who deny their ideal needs. For example, a person in childhood was offended, not understood, rejected. This is quite common. Then youthful fears and complexes prevent the person from developing normally. And so the man assured himself that no one should be trusted, and that you need to live only for yourself.
It’s wonderful that there are enough resources around, there are plenty of ways to occupy yourself, even in solitude. Nothing complicated, but not useful. It is extremely difficult to enjoy such a life. As they say, who does not risk, he does not drink champagne. And such a social diet is similar to a diet consisting of salt and bread. Yes, of course, you don’t need to read recipes for communicating with people, to figure out how to beautifully arrange your activities and to distinguish yourself, but the taste from life is lost, and it eventually turns into a banal existence.
Open your soul
Most people are in their vacuum for long. After the wounds are healed after the last fall, a natural desire arises to take off again. In order to protect yourself from moral injuries, you need to learn how to organically combine the world of emotions and pure mind.
We are not taught this at school. There are books on these topics, but only those who realized the need for it, felt that full life means satisfying ideal needs. You need to learn how to get pleasure from both tasty food and from a conversation, both from a comfortable sofa and from an interesting book. Banal consumerism eventually bothers, there is a desire to touch something divine.
In addition, man himself can become closer to the Almighty in the process of creation. Creating interesting projects, works of art, organizing events, making the world around us better, we ourselves will flourish before our eyes, reaping the blessed fruits of our own activities. It is only necessary to open your heart and soul, stepping towards all that is new.