Letting go of something is a metaphorical term that means releasing it from your mental state rather than your physical grasp. To many psychologists, letting go of something means generating the emotional headspace that you need to recover from a situation or state. When it comes to personal and close familial relationships, the ability to let go can be challenging and even traumatic. That is why we feel such emotional strain when we feel grief. Numerous psychological explanations of grief refer to it as the first stage of letting go. However, to let go of something need not be as the result of bereavement. It could equally be the loss of a job or a relationship. There again, people also try to let go of their own emotions, especially when they are having a negative effect, such as jealousy or frustration.
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To many people, the purpose of life is very clear. It has been laid out clearly either by their parents, teachers or religious leaders. For others, it is much harder to work out. In fact, many philosophers have argued for centuries about what the true purpose of life is. There is a distinction between what the purpose of any life is and what it means to an individual, of course. Some people believe they have found a purpose in their life if, for example, they do a job that they find fulfilling. To others, the purpose of all human life is to work towards a higher purpose that is bigger than any individual. Broadly speaking, the latter is a spiritual interpretation of a life's purpose.
A talking therapy that is sometimes referred to as an intervention, cognitive behavioural therapy is based on several psycho-social theories. Sometimes referred to as CBT for short, cognitive behavioural therapy aims to challenge people in their thoughts, especially ones that have become cognitively distorted in some way, either through habit, belief systems or erroneous attitudes. By talking about such thoughts and challenging them in a secure environment, therapists try to alter the way patients think which can often include attitudes to themselves. Cognitive behavioural therapy was first developed to help people suffering from chronic depression. Still, it has since been adapted to treat people with other mental health conditions, such as anxiety and even psychosis and bipolar disorder.
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