Abulia: When The Lack Of Movement And Energy Absorbed Affects Our Lives
What is apathy? Why can it end up affecting our lives in different aspects? Discover how to identify apathy and how to deal with it.
The abulia refers to a lack of will or initiative. In this article we develop some factors that favor its appearance and propose strategies to promote motivation and thus reverse this situation.
The abulia It is perceived as not having the necessary motivation to put resources into action in order to achieve some objective or carry out some task. Visibly, there is a slowing down of movements, although it is a term that refers to the difficulty of feeling and expressing one’s own will.
People usually express that they do not feel motivated, that They lack the desire to carry out a task or project. They may be projects that they are obliged to carry out or, equally, initiatives that they had decided on their own for which they do not find the necessary motivation despite said prior decision. When this lack of will or initiative appears, it is useful to ask if the following aspects are present in the person’s life:
The aspects that provide vitality, desire to live, have ceased to be present in his life. Sometimes this happens very gradually and the person does not become clearly aware that these aspects are no longer in their life.
The existence of overload of personal, professional, family and social demands. This overload usually becomes normal and the person needs time to clearly feel that he cannot lightly assume all daily responsibilities.
It has been a sudden and unexpected change and the person has lost hope that what he had planned will happen. Normally, in these situations, some type of grief is being experienced.
If the person feels that everything is fine in his life, that everything is going as it should, and yet, There is a concern that you do not know how to define or identify clearly which makes you feel uncomfortable.
Typically, the topics just mentioned are the anteroom of apathy, the background on which it is developed. Doing tasks for the sake of doing them does not sustainably cure the lack of initiative. It does make you live a life with meaning regarding yourself, within the social situation in which each person finds themselves.
How to deal with apathy?
Below we propose some ways to promote motivation that can stably keep people away from the abuli to:
Stay with what makes us feel vitality, even if briefly. It is a learning process to know what makes us feel vitality, deep motivation, beyond what is better known as increased energy, or joy, which are not sustained over time. For example, the vitality that a beautiful environment offers us has a greater impact on increasing our motivation than the well-being caused by buying something impulsively. The proposal goes in the direction of discovering how each person feels vitality and how to cultivate it.
Take an interest in the people with whom we feel comfortable, even when there is no apparent reason. People often think they know who they are comfortable with and who they are not comfortable with. However, when apathy appears, it creates the opportunity to question what is known. With the necessary process, we discover who with whom we feel as calm as activated and eager, and that this effect continues, even when we separate from that person. This effect, the people with whom it occurs, do not usually coincide, when apathy appears, with the ideas we initially had.
It takes time, lack of motivation It is a symptom that something important is missing. It is important to be aware that this type of issue requires a process – time and work – to modify.
In general, be Together with nature and in contact with works of art, our vitality increases Therefore, promoting habits around both is useful to regain motivation.
To finish this article we recommend being attentive when a person feels that apathy It may also be present in your life when you perceive that this form of suffering is being experienced by a loved one.
In its initial states the profound aspects of lack of motivation They will always be more easily accessible. Well, as we have seen, performing tasks without understanding the deep meaning of this lack of vitality only increases the symptoms.
The lists of aspects that are likely to be present in the life of a person with avolition and of ways of promote motivation They do not intend to be exhaustive but rather to offer some fundamental lines around which this suffering occurs and how to find a way out and stay away from it in a stable and lasting way.
