Personality Paper

Personality
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PERSONALITY
Introduction
Personality covers several characteristics that are found within a person. The psychology of personality views the patterns of feelings, behavior and thoughts that enables a person to be unique. In addition, as personality occurs from within a person, it keeps consistency throughout life. There are different theories that explain distinctive aspects of personality. Some of the theories explain the development of personality, while other focus on the differences of individuals in personality (Funder, 2012). These theories are generated from different general perspectives from the theorists. The theories are helpful in personal evaluation, interpretation of personality development, as well as building self- awareness. There would be a personal evaluation of personality in the perspective of Positive psychology as well as that of humanistic- existential.
The perspective of positive psychology shows the importance of living positively. The individuals who have not looked into it refer to it as New Age-y or pop psychology. The exact theory explaining positive psychology was defined by Martin Seligman as well as Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in the year nineteen ninety eight. The theory views all the features of the psychology of a person. Before the existence of this perspective, psychology was always based on the negative things that affected people and where the lives of people have gone wrong, as well as the results of the negativity. Fortunately, the positive psychology covers about people’s happiness and the ways in which they should achieve inner happiness, as well as the well-being of individuals (Compton & Hoffman, 2013).
The positive psychology was developed through evaluation of the people who live a happy life. The report of the evaluation showed that these people lived a simpler life free from all the ailments that are caused by stress. This evaluation, which is done by the positive psychology practitioners, helps them to learn the things that keep these people positive so that they may help other individuals in gaining the same state of happiness. Being brought up from a poor background and without adequate level of education, I always had low self-esteem, undermined myself even where effort was evident. This caused so much grief inside and there was no effort of putting enthusiasm in anything. Being unhappy was the order of the day as there was no reason for rejoicing. The kind of life I lived was full of questions that contained blames and bitterness, as there was not any sign of positivity in life. After, attending several counseling sessions, realization came that everyone needs to put an effort of viewing the most positive side of every situation.
One of the basic aspects of positive psychology is positive thinking. People may surround themselves with a wonderful lifestyle and jovial people that may seemingly lead to a path of happiness, but the truth remains that their feelings are governed by what their heads think about. Positive thinking may assist an individual to wash out any potential or existing negative self-talk. This theory is very accurate in personal experience, deciding to shun the negative situations from your mind help to keep positive thinking and gives the momentum to carry on in the very thing that may have brought about negativity. This has helped me keep off stress and low self-esteem that I once had in younger years of ignorance. In addition, the things that are not worth thinking about should be avoided so that the mind is not overloaded with frustrations. There is usually a strong conviction that the things whose solution cannot be found as at that specific moment are better left for their time.
Talking negatively about oneself may completely create a barrier in positive thinking. As the theory explains about the way negative thinking pulls down people’s mind, this sounds realistic and so familiar. In negative thinking, there is a sense of insecurity when undergoing the experience as well as indecisive and apologetic behavior. This may create room for more problems related to stress. Before learning on how to live positively, I always viewed myself a looser and a person who cannot emerge to anything, harboring bitterness of how unfair life can become. I would always the negative things out of any situation regardless of the positivity in it. Actually, there are occasions where only negative points occurred and no matter the effort, the positive ones were impossible to see. In addition, I would personalize almost all the negative things and assume that bad situation crossed my path because of being unlucky. When negative things happened, there was personal blame that they happened because of personal failure or cause. This is a very traumatizing situation that an individual can engage in, and that is the reason why positive thinking is very helpful. Taking things easy, even in the middle of a tragedy is the best medicine for healthy people. Positive thinking helps to avoid illnesses that could otherwise be dangerous. Such diseases as depression are complicated as it comes with both mental and physical elements. Being a positive thinker enable an ind...