14 December 2016

The results suggest that an important contributor to the development of motivation for change is a perceived conflict between being an addict and holding other important and positively valued identities, or between being an addict and becoming the person one had hoped to become. Average scores on identity-related motivation for abstinence were higher in this sample than were comparable scores for motivation arising from social influence, health, and legal issues.

In our previous conversations we described learning at the example of interaction of a human with the world around him or her. Apart from the world outside us there’s another one inside us. And in this inner world, we can find multiple components on an absolutely conditional basis. The first one is the sphere of automated reactions. They take place in the body beyond any control: the heart pumps blood, the lungs pumps air, the stomach digests food, the kidney remove the products of our vital processes out of the body. This normally works invisibly to our consciousness and can be compared to such well-known processes as the Earth rotation round the Sun or the water cycle.