How To Fight Laziness?

How to fight laziness? Just stop fighting it! Most people feel guilty due to laziness; also usually it means they feel shame. Both feelings are too important for a man who lives in this society, so most of us couldn’t think about laziness without guilt or shame. That’s why it isn’t easy to see the root cause – the real source of laziness. The main idea is that laziness is the form of crisis, like the creative crisis. It’s a real conflict for the real psychologists’ work or you could fix it by yourself. From psychoanalysis we know that humans have ambivalent feelings. That’s the second difficult thing (after looking through a shame). In reality it’s a very simple idea that we have ambivalent feelings and wishes, but it isn’t easy to understand it, to see it clear and also to allow having it (paradox) in conscious. And so we can also suppose that laziness is a variant of ambivalence when the energy for both wishes or feelings is the same like wish (es)+ wish (es)=zero (laziness). But also we could see that one of the feelings is unconscious. Laziness – how much do we know about it? Could we explain what does it mean when we say “I’m too lazy” or “I’m lazy” or “He is lazy”? It’s so usual that some of my clients come to my office, pay for the consultation and say about one of their problems “It’s just laziness” like it’s an answer. But in truth that “answer” doesn’t work and also it doesn’t help us to understand anything. For example we could say “He is too lazy to get up and eat”, but we also could say “It seems to me he is in the deep depression – he couldn’t eat and also he couldn’t get up”. What do you think about an idea that the laziness is a kind of apathy? If a person feels that it means that he or she has energy for moving on, but he also has an opposite energy, which has the same power. And usually that energy (feelings or wishes) is unconscious. So the person can’t move. We could say that stagnation is the kind of resistance, because a man is full of paradoxes (as we know thanks to psychoanalysis), conflicting wishes and desires. Laziness is a point of reference, the ideal situation for a psychologist to work (unless you are too lazy to go to psychologists’ office). Laziness helps detect the problem or rather discovers it.