5 Factors That Fuel A Spiritual Catastrophe

In Western society we are looking for a spirituality that does not make us feel adrift, but that gives us the feeling that our life is something we can shape, without burdening ourselves with too much responsibility or guilt for our actions.

Sometimes we seek spiritual guidance to make our life more enjoyable instead of questioning ourselves and suffering so much.

This search for spirituality is directly linked to another concept that pushes people to crowd the waiting rooms of psychologists: people want to feel good, at peace with themselves and with others. People seek psychological well-being.

The search for psychological well-being and spirituality

Psychology can give some advice related to spirituality and psychological well-being, in fact these concepts not only feed ancestral and religious currents of thought, but are also valid for scientific psychology.

This psychological and spiritual well-being, however, is not something arbitrary or random that comes from nowhere without the possibility of our intervention. For well-being to work, a lot of effort, commitment and dedication are required on our part.

Consequently, the pursuit of psychological and spiritual well-being requires a compromise to be deepened in the process that leads us to achieve it.

In this article, we will talk about the five aspects that cause a spiritual and psychological catastrophe, extensively covered and studied in the field of psychology:

• Envy
• Comparison with others
• The continuous evaluation of our life
• The idealization
• Pessimistic thinking

Envy

On many occasions, we distinguish “healthy” envy from “unhealthy” envy, although looking for the definition, we would not find this difference.

Feeling momentary envy in the face of a concrete fact is normal, unless you want to usurp the identity of the other person or wish him harm. If this condition continues over time and becomes more intense, then it may no longer be so normal.

Envy puts us in a situation of uselessness, toxicity and sometimes even aggression.

Comparison with others

Confronting with others is an attitude that they instill in us from an early age to achieve success through competition and, consequently, to find “normality” in the criterion of society.

What they don’t tell us with conviction is that each of us is unique in terms of skills, character and circumstances.