Positive psychotherapy is a popular and universally accepted method of psychological influence, in which there are two directions - scientific and everyday. In order not to bore you with an abundance of terms, let us turn to a simpler, everyday version. Pezeshkin's ideas, the founder of this method, are so simple and understandable that any person can easily realize them, why they are so popular in different branches, including positive family psychotherapy.
Principles of positive psychotherapy
At the heart of the method of positive psychotherapy lie only three principles, each of which corresponds to some of the parts of the technique.
- The principle of hope. This principle is a positive approach to seeing and highlighting the potential capabilities and abilities of a person.
- The principle of balance. This principle is designed to analyze the characteristics of man and harmonize all the actual abilities of man.
- The principle of self-help. This principle includes a special strategy for adaptation and harmonization of the individual, which is involved not only in the course of therapy, but should also help a person in his later life solve problems independently.
Short-term positive psychotherapy is unique in that it considers any problem as a way of solving the problem and combines the centuries-old wisdom of Eastern philosophy and the practical approach of the West.
Positive psychotherapy - approval
The most important thing that gives us positive psychotherapy is the idea of what a person's life should be. Happiness is seen not in the absence of problems, but in the ability to cope with them. Consider the assertions of this method:
- An important idea of positive psychotherapy is that the basic abilities of a person are knowledge and love. They are interrelated, and the level of the second always depends on the level of one. Hence derives a significant statement that each person is kind by nature.
- The method of positive psychotherapy is based on the statement - every person from birth is gifted with everything that he needs for happiness. Everyone is capable of endlessly growing spiritually and developing physically, and the only thing that is important is to find inside this inner source, which lies in the development of talents and abilities. It is in determining your mission through self-discovery and realizing yourself that life satisfaction is seen.
- The positive approach is universal, it is suitable for absolutely any person from any country and religion. A specialist who works in this way should have a broad knowledge of the field of culture, because in this case they are all equal and all are worthy of respect. This approach puts the main emphasis not on the difference between people, but on their similarities. This method recognizes the body, spirit, soul, the integrity of this in every person.
- This approach does not put emphasis on the disease or problems, here in the center - the opportunities of each person, which are the way to solve all the difficulties.
- Thanks to the third principle - the principle of self-help - a person after the course is able not only to maintain an internal harmonious state, but also to help relatives and relatives.
- Another important aspect of the method is the training of a person to influence his own future actions of the present. It is the recognition of personal responsibility for everything that happens in life, and therefore to change the fate you just need to start acting.
- The most important position of positive psychotherapy is the statement that it is necessary to take pleasure from what is, and not from what could be, but it did not happen. The method teaches to accept yourself and your life as they are, and helps to make them better.
The peculiarity of this method is that it is adapted not only for counseling, but also for training and even business.