Projít úzkou branou: Psychologie omezení | přednáška, diskuze, povídání

In our lives, we must be able to create enough and deal with a shortage. Both allow us to live well. We can do something for it. But we are no longer so clear that we are not supposed to wait for fate to take us what we need to learn to deal with it. We should train it. This is called fasting, deliberate restrictions, voluntary modesty. It changes us to psychological level - we build new competences, change self -concept, we find more important attitudes. It also changes us at the spiritual level: to come to what is essential, we have to learn to walk through a narrow gate - to put down the baggage of pleasant helpers in front of it and reduce the fake security. It's not pleasant, so we don't. Only then can we stretch through that narrow gate - when we go with empty hands.

The psychology of "enlargement" as the ability to build knowledge, gaining new and enrichment of life should add similarly useful psychology of "shrinking" on our travels - such as the ability to reduce, simplicity and understanding why even little is enough.