Monday, October 31, 2011

Change and Improvement - A Psychological View

Change in a person is natural. Every living person is subject to change, no matter how much the person tries to stay the same. Change is influenced from many incidents occuring in the individuals life and often it comes from unconsciousness of the person. Change is part of nature and very important for development of the society.

We, as individuals, find it really easy to bring certain changes in us that can bring distraught to others, but when it comes to seeing the similar changes in them, it brings us the same feeling.
Change, all in all, is healthy for social animals. Its our duty that we accept the things that go well with us and reject the ones that don’t go as well. Rejection is simply on the matter of fact that there is something better that lies ahead, better than what we were with, or something that will improve the way we live, rather than change. This kind of change from our perspective is called improvement.

Improvement and change are poles apart in the psychological world. Improvement is something that a human being does from inside which benefits him/her and brings change from the outside which is a dependant factor; whereas change is altogether different, as change done from the interior can have good effects, but on the whole it affects the mind adversely. That leads to negative change from the outside, unlike improvement which brings positive change. This negative change from the outside can be seen in a dire perspective by the person who has a communicative exchange with the person who has undergone this negative change.
We, as social animals, need to understand this difference between negative change and positive change, brought about by their respective internal factors. It normally occurs that we ‘change’ rather than ‘improve’; no doubt, change at times can bring quick results when compared to improvement, but its adverse effects are equally as devastating when looked upon in the long-term view.

Change can also deteriorate, as a contradictory reaction. Unlike negative change brought about from internal change, this is interior change itself that can go totally wrong and cause overwhelming negativity in exterior change. Change, when not well controlled, or change when undertaken by a psychologically weak mind, can cause deterioration. When man is unable or impotent in controlling change, that is, when man has no control over his psychological self and undergoes change, the results can be devastating and the overall exterior change can drop alarmingly to take his psychology to near zero, or mostly minus zero.

The above factors can however be controlled by administration by another social being with a strong mind.