Agency
The cornerstone of your mind health
What is Agency?
"Agency is the capacity to make decisions and to act accordingly"
Consider the challenges of your job, your career or even you life. What do they have in common, psychologically? In each case, success requires high-functioning human agency.
In the psychological sense, agency entails a category of beliefs, a mindset. More profoundly, genuine agency includes the strategies and actions that accomplish what we want and bring us what we need.
Feeling that you have agency is nice. But feeling agentic falls far short of exercising agencyā€”thinking and behaving competently and making real progress toward your desired goals.
To exercise agency is to acquire significantĀ control over yourĀ lifeā€™s various arenas, including school, work, sports, physical health, and psychological wellbeing.Ā
However, there are particular types of futures that have more potent effects on oneā€™s life here and now. Research shows that having a seemingly impossible future turns out to be profoundly useful.
In other words, imagining and attempting an impossible goal is such an absurd frame for any of us that it literally dismantles or disrupts your false identity andĀ seamlessly replaces it with yourĀ true identity.Ā
Discover Your Own Agency
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Discover your 6 areas of AgencyĀ
Adaptability & Resilience
Your ability to shift your behaviour and outlook in response change
Mind-Body Connection
The regulation of the balance between your mind and body
Core Cognition
Your ability to perform basic cognitive functions, make sense of complex sets of events and situations
Drive & Motivation
Your ability to work towards achieving your desired goals and to initiate & persevere
Mood & OutlookĀ
Your ability to manage and regulate your emotions effectively and to have a constructive outlook.
Social Self
How you interact with, relate to and see yourself with respect to others and to your community
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