Articles and blogs about midlife crisis and the symptoms of midlife crisis are flooding the Internet landscape. Studies show that less than 10% of persons in the United States has experienced psychological crisis due to their age or aging, documented in a research study on a large scale in 1999. Male and female crises are not common, despite overstatement of media that surround the use of these terms.
I prefer to use the term midlife transition, which is empowerment, while the term midlife crisis is dis-empowering.I know that the issue of transition well because I have experienced many times, because they are the majority condemned mediados.Sin embargo, it is important to realize that a crisis and transition include change.
Crisis, change and transition
The crisis is an unstable situation of distress or difficulty (online dictionary).
The change refers to an event which occurs when something in our life ends or is replaced by another event, or way of doing something.Change is external;situational, such as loss of employment or an episodic divorcio.Es and succeeded.
The transition is a psychological gradual reorientation we experience as we try to adapt to the internal cambio.Es; happens inside of us.
A different view
Dr. Fred Horowitz, a specialist in the development of the middle-aged, says crisis median age is a "cultural history that is made up."
William Bridges, an expert on transitions, said that the more accurate to use when describing the process spanning all those condemned to mid term transition, not crisis.
His research shows that there are three phases of transition:
1 Go final, losing, install them - let go of old patterns and ser.Se ways is a stage where works with loss.
2. The Argentina - old has disappeared and the new form is not fully integrated.It's like the "gap" that a trapeze artist experiences when you release a Trapeze and still has not captured the following.
3. The new beginning - intermediate time out or the "gap" I mean the anterior.Estás in a place where you can recreate yourself and create a new future for yourself.
In the gap
It is well known that the Chinese character for crisis also represents an opportunity.It is how there have been transitions many in my life me.Un case in point was my divorcio.A though that was a major transition in my life, never saw as a crisis.
I was on the other "big" transitions in the vida.Por example, I was in the "gap", mentioned above, when I completed my Ph.d. in 1995 to 48 years of edad.Experimenté a certain fear and anxiety about what to do in continuation. now I face a "blank canvas". what the hell I'm going to do now?
How to deal with midlife transitions
1 Allow you to "be" - to be in the workspace do not know, however, relying on things unfold and willingness to share. stuff always training, no matter what drama we add to our lives.
2 Complete the leftovers of the past - be responsible for the things left undone or majority; drop resentments, regrets and remorse.
3 Practicing the art of "feel" - exercise, is nature, meditation, breathing, the yoga offering simple but practical ways of ser.encontrar something that works for you.
4 Find help from a professional as a trainer, Advisor, the therapist.
5. Join a support group.
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