Willpower: What is and how to increase?

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After the carnival and now the year we really start to go back to goals. Targets are important to direct our efforts, But what does it actually direct them? Motivation? Will?

It was what I read in a sign in a gymcase of power of power ”gym. I reflected from this: right? Will we be our way to get power in any way? What is the role of this variable in our decisions? I discovered some interesting things by dived into science and came here to share them with you.

Willpower is its own control

We do not call the will in science, its control. I think it is a better term to define the concept of individual capacity to intentionally and actively change our own behavior, thoughts, emotions, and desires.

“Self -control is an area in our executive function of an inhibitor control.”

And as we demand from our own control in the modern world, right? We always have to resist the emergency sin: Unhealthy hyperpaleptive foods, mobile and TV on screens such as rough entertainment and various types of comfort, so that we can do other activities for our personal and professional growth.

The tasks that require attention, emotion, cognition, impulse, choice and persistence require our own control. In general, we estimate this capacity by believing that the “Self of the Future” will take. Resist the sin and overcoming the obstacles that we believe is the best to do now. But most of the time we beat.

Are we spending Willpower?

Our routine is full of decisions to demand a lot of control, as well as to demand a lot of control, as well as how to eat, what we eat, how to do things. The truth is that we control ourselves by making decisions that we call ego depletion. That day is like a mental fatigue in which the capacity worsens for the next situations.

Similar to a tired muscles, his own control is temporarily exhausted. Stress gets worse, because it reduces our limited self -control ability.

It varies between people who control themselves, some of them have less control of themselves and others -this characterizes the self -control feature. In different cases, people have their own control at a different level that makes the state control itself. Some may be better to control themselves in food, others to get up from the couch and to exercise.

Exercises and Willpower

There is a bidirectional relationship between self -control and exercise, because more self -control allows more physical exercise, and they have positive effects on the execution function, one of the fields of this important variable of our cognition.

Dominika Kwasnickka – Melbourne University Behavioral Change Researcher emphasizes important features for self -control effectiveness, such as how important the certain behaviors are now, how important the certain behaviors are now, and in general environmental facilitating behaviors. But Dominika says: never about Willpower!

Increase yourself –

Among the strategies of changing or increasing behavior are: Improve motivation, creating intention and relaxation.
We can improve the quality of motivation by increasing the importance we attach to the results or awards.

In my opinion, this is the main long -term strategy to control itself. However, this is a process that can take months or years in case of exercise. Start by realizing what you have earned with only an exercise session: One in your mood, energy feeling and mental clarity.

A practical measure to control itself is to adopt planning. If an unpredictable event occurs, you have plans. The strategy aims to save itself, but it works better if we are specific, for example: “If it rains, I change my race on the street in the gym that goes home after 19 hours.”

If it is like a muscle control, it is necessary to rest. Relaxation is required for recovery of capacity and contains meditation, awareness and yoga.

Pay attention to the foundations: Food, Sleep and Exercises

Therefore, it is critical to look at your biological base, care quality, food and how much your body moves. Stanford Kelly McGonigal’s psychologist, in a study dedicated to understanding the will, A weak self to our society -indicates that there is an outbreak of control and bad focus.Thanks to the deprivation of sleep, bad diet and built -in lifestyle. Nevertheless, stress is the enemy of his control.

More awareness may be the first step to avoid controlling itself throughout the day, but this is not enough. Virtual and face -our face environment, as we know human weaknesses, has been seriously built in a way that will harm sin.

The truth is that you cannot only trust will or self -control. Who says we just need will.

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Fábio Dominski He is a PhD in Human Movement Sciences and graduated from Santa Catarina State University (UDESC) in physical education. He is a university professor and researcher at the Laboratory of Sports and Exercise Psychology (Lape/UDESC). He does it Scientific expansion in social networks And Available in Podcast Spotify. He is the author of the book of physical exercise and science – truths and myths.