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For those who are tired of controlling their diet, calories consumed, and physical activity. For those who have lost faith in diets and the help of various specialists. However, he...
What we're exploring: What are the two sides of the balance sheet?
What's new: How can we take care of our lives?
What we will learn: How to maintain a balance between the two sides?
1. The key to the art of balance is learning to keep the person's center of gravity directly above the support. So in life, the art of maintaining balance is to ensure that the value of our life (center of gravity) is the most important and is directly above the source of life (support) (Author).
2. Two areas of balance. It is widely believed that many areas in a person's life need to be balanced (balanced) for his happiness. But in reality, there are only two areas that need to be balanced. Basically, in Western society, the balance is disturbed only between two sides - between concern for material consumption and concern for one's life. In scientific articles, it is usually divided into two other sides. One refers to the satisfaction of physiological needs, and the other to the psychological needs of a person. This division is arbitrary and is usually used for convenience in scientific studies of human physiology or psychology. In our study, this division will prevent us from understanding how it is possible to balance two inseparable and interconnected parts of one whole, a person with his individual needs [1]. For a person to satisfy his individual material needs, he needs to know them, and only then will he have the opportunity to show the care he needs. Not a single person can live without this, so we will place concern for material needs on one side.
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3. Material needs. Every person, regardless of his country, culture, and environment, constantly needs food, clothing, and shelter. This is what he works for. He spends the money he earns on buying food, and clothing and paying for utilities, and if he does not have his own home, he also pays for rent. None of the sane people would argue that caring for material needs is not necessary for anyone and that this is so-called selfishness. But what do we put on the second side? The culture of the Western world imposes on people a single ideal that encourages people to maximize consumption when they purchase food, clothing, housing, and services. Of course, materialism includes many more consumer goods and all kinds of services, but they are not vitally necessary. Then what can be attributed to the concept of necessary needs?
4. What is the need? To find out which consumer goods and services are needed and which are not, we turn to materialism expert Tim Kasser.
• "Need – in the sense in which this word is used in this book [Kasser T., ed., author] – is not only what a person wants, but also what is necessary for his survival, development, and optimal functioning in the surrounding world" (Kasser T. 2015) [2].
When this culture imposes a single ideal, it pays attention to "what a person wants" without considering whether his desire is vital. Therefore, in this case, she is generally silent about equilibrium. Consequently, Western culture cannot offer us what may lie on the other side. She generally cannot know what might be on the other side (fr. 12.3). But as we found out in Chapter 12 of the book, on the second side can be located the most valuable thing that a person has, this is his health, on which the quality of life and life itself depend" (fr. 12. 11; 13. 19) Therefore, in the beginning it would be good to know what life is so that you can take proper care of it.
