The main criteria for self-realization of a person are spiritual and material values. Since the birth in the child, the foundations of his future are beginning to form. The atmosphere in the family, the surrounding situation, all this has a direct impact on the formation of values .
Every day the material aspects in life become more significant, pushing emotions, feelings and experiences to the background. The environment sometimes just does not give a choice, as everyone tries to look "like a picture," while living in a nice apartment and have a bank account. In pursuit of these benefits, a person completely forgets about the most important thing about being in the heart and soul. Not finding harmony to achieve happiness is simply impossible, since there are millions of examples of successful, but unhappy people.
How to achieve unity?
To get a complete set of material and spiritual values you need to decide what is of great importance to you, and what is absolutely not necessary in life.
In psychology, there is a fairly easy exercise that will help to lay out the spiritual and material values of a person and clearly clarify the problems of self-realization. For him you need to take a sheet of paper and honestly answer such questions:
- Imagine that life will be interrupted after 15 years. Think about what you want to do during this time? What would you like to receive after the expiry date?
- Now reduce the time to 5 years. What new would you want to do, and what would you stop doing?
- The minimum period of life is only one year. How best to live it? What to leave behind?
- The most sad. You are no more. What is written in the section of your obituary? Who were you?
Now carefully read what you have written and draw the appropriate conclusions.
The difference between spiritual values and material
Emotions and feelings do not decrease in proportion to the number of people who own them, in contrast to material goods. Spiritual values do not resemble material ones in that they do not disappear upon absorption, but become a part of a person's inner world, thereby enriching him.