I cannot update this blog since I am moving to my parents’ home now. This is an article I wrote and scheduled several days ago.
Let’s talk about how to increase our rationality.
How to be more rational
Sometimes, we want to be more rational. Rationality calms us down and improves our lives steadily.
However, we often don’t know how to make it happen.
One idea is to avoid making judgments when excited. That will promote your rationality.
Emotions vs. rationality
Emotions and rationality put us in different states, as follows:
- Emotions are tightly connected to excitement, confidence, imagination, and heavy energy.
- Rationality is tightly connected to relaxation, calmness, curiosity, awareness of uncertainty, and lightness.
If you want to change and improve your life, choose the latter.
Acting without confidence
Logically speaking, our ideals can change. You should have experienced that many times. In that situation, there is no need to act with confidence. During change, we need neither high power nor deep trust.
It can be a state of giving up on everything. If we throw away hope, we lose heavy energy and can relax. That is one state where rationality works well.
For example, I have a naturally weak liver, and this past spring, its condition deteriorated more than I anticipated. I was in pain, and that made me let go of the obsession with becoming healthy. In other words, I temporarily became indifferent to my health.
That made me try having more carbs. Until that time, I believed that a strict keto diet kept my liver healthy. However, I gave it up. Since I received food that contained many carbs from my parents, I decided to eat it.
Giving up brings rationality
Unexpectedly, that experience improved my condition a little. As a result, I have obtained my advanced liver care diet, which varies the balance of carbs and protein according to the seasons. That reduced my stress.
I gave up my high energy toward my health, so I became more rational. That allowed me to improve my diet and health.
The same goes for trying to build our happiness. Even if we temporarily let go of something, truly important things will remain in our consciousness. That allows us to try new things and makes our lives better.
In other words, becoming indifferent to what we have focused on is a part of improvement.
It tells us that emotional actions often cause bad failures. For example, love letters and poems written at night are better reviewed the next morning. Jumping into the uncertain only with deep emotions will often lead to pain.
Conclusion
That is why we should avoid decisions to change when excited.
There is no need to act with confidence. During change, we need neither high power nor deep trust.
This logic might help you change and improve your life calmly and steadily.
Thank you for reading this article. I hope to see you in the next one.
