What is PRIDE - definition of the concept and its impact on a person

Pride is a sin. How is it different from pride?

Pride is a sin. This is exactly how most religions interpret this trait of humanity, calling for work and getting rid of it.

It is worth understanding that pride is a feeling of negative orientation that can ruin a person’s life once and for all.

Few people will associate most of the theses below with pride. Although, these are the signs that allow us to assert its presence:

• self-centeredness;
• consider yourself better than others;
• think that your interests are the most important;
• self-confidence;
• boasting;
• using manipulations in relation to other people, as a result of which they become at a disadvantage;
• refusal of help;
• taking on an exorbitant load, working without measure.

We often confuse pride and pride. But the main difference between these meanings of concepts is that pride is something that always carries a negative characteristic. Pride, on the contrary, has a positive connotation.

Pride, its benefits and harm for humans!

What is pride? When talking about pride, many people mean selfishness and exaltation of oneself in relation to other people. Is it so? Should we treat her leniently?

What is pride?

Pride¹ directly relates to a person’s self-esteem², or rather to problems of self-esteem. Pride, starting with vanity, can reach the depths of hell, because this is the sin of Satan himself. None of the passions can grow to such limits as pride, and this is its main danger.

Pride is an amazing quality in a person. It is based on one basic law of vision of the world, and penetrates almost all areas of human existence.

This law is the value of the individual difference of one person from another and from everyone. If a person lives by this law (and almost all people live by it to varying degrees), then pride invariably flourishes.

How did pride appear?

In esoteric literature, Rudolf Steiner³ gives interesting information about the beginning of the appearance of this quality on our planet.

He writes that once upon a time people were very similar, were not at all interested in the issue of difference from each other, and had an inextricable connection with their soul, spirit and God.

They lived by this connection to a much greater extent than by the reflection of themselves in the eyes of other people. Then entities called Luciferic appeared in the astral plane⁴ of the Earth. They spent a long time and carefully processing people’s consciousness, instilling in them the idea that being different from others by one’s merits is a necessary, valuable quality that one should strive for.

These entities apparently originate from the anti-world, from another Universe. In the end, people believed their tunes and began to be interested in the differences, and to be interested emotionally.

This even allowed people to go forward in development at some stage, accelerated their progress in a number of areas, but led to clashes and various consequences, as a result of which the world began to approach its current state.

All this happened quite a long time ago - around the time of the first civilization on Earth - Arctida. Luciferic entities, having completed their work, provided themselves with the opportunity to receive energy from those people who began to live according to their laws and pass it on from generation to generation, from civilization to civilization.

Even today they feed on our energy when we show our pride. People love to milk cows and drink milk, and some people love to milk people's chakras and drink emotional energy. There are many amazing parallels in nature.

What is the positive aspect of pride?

In today's situation, pride continues to play not only a negative, but in some ways even a positive role. Let’s take, for example, a situation where at school a weak boy is held by his “six”, poked, teased, and so on.

Sooner or later, self-esteem (this is not pride, but a natural quality), combined with pride, anger and indignation, can prevail over fear and the weak boy will throw off his oppressors. Here pride is the engine of evolution.

If the soul first came into the world in the body of a person, having previously incarnated only in the body of an animal, then such people experience strong fear. They are not quite human yet. They need to overcome herd fear, fear of hunger, and greed. If pride helps them overcome their fear, then they will become human, if not, then they can be born again as animals. For them, pride can be useful.

Pride and self-development

For already experienced human souls, pride plays a double role. The positive aspect is that pride pushes people to overtake someone in mental, physical, and emotional development. The negative aspect is that it builds walls between people, prevents them from feeling and understanding each other, and leads to quarrels and hostility.

If we talk about people striving for self-knowledge and spiritual evolution, then for them pride is no longer a stimulus, but a hindrance.

These people strive for unity, for spiritual life, and fixation on individual differences and drawing out the emotional energy of other people leads to stabilization at a low level.

The subtle bodies of a person striving for spiritual improvement must be filled with universal love, pure natural and cosmic energies. If they are filled with emotional energy through pride and other qualities such as fear and self-interest, then this will greatly interfere with his progress towards the goal.

How is pride formed?

Pride resembles a cunning mycelium, penetrating with its tentacle roots into different areas of the human psyche. This happens from childhood, when the child adopts the vision of the world from his parents and others.

The foundation is laid in the words: “You’re a boy! Behave with dignity”, “Shame on you, you’re a good boy, you can’t be greedy, give the girl a toy”, “Guests will come, you should be nicely dressed and don’t knock on the plate with your fork - it’s indecent”, etc. Our upbringing shapes pride from childhood.

Pride is an energy predator

The law of comparison is the basis. You should correctly understand and see the essence of this phenomenon. First of all, we must see that pride is a predator. A predator who hunts for people’s energy, intended for completely different tasks.

Pride in our perception is often seen as innocent boasting, gambling excitement, cheerful boasting in front of other people, but this is just a disguise.

Osho gives one successful and ruthless example that reveals the predatory essence of pride, its destructive power:

“Women and men are walking along the streets of New York. Fur vests are in fashion this winter. Some women wear vests for $40, others for $150, but there are vests for $2,000. What prompted the woman to pay so much money for a vest? Fashion? Good taste? But you can buy a beautiful vest for one hundred or two hundred dollars.

To understand what's going on here, let's look at people's internal reactions and the redistribution of emotional energy between them. A woman wearing a mink vest feels uplifted, strong, triumphant, confident and superior. And what do other women feel when they look at her? The desire to compete, envy, and some - powerlessness and depression.

This is exactly the kind of energy they give to the owner of a $2,000 mink vest. It is these energies that her pride hunts, filling her with a sense of superiority and triumph.

The feeling of depression arises from the fact that many women have never had such a vest and never will have it, but the owner of an expensive item gets pleasure from this, since she is identified with her pride. She likes to hold others by the throat, she likes to drink their envy and powerlessness, and on the outside all this is disguised by fashion, good taste, coquetry, charm, etc.”

Look at the depth of manifestation of pride in yourself and your friends. It only takes a little honesty and courage to do this work and face the predator in the depths of yourself. Moreover, this predator hunts for the energy of your friends, whom you may love with another part of your being...

How does pride arise?

Now let's look at the process of development of pride within a person. Let's say that someone doesn't know how to dance and has been wanting to learn for a long time. So he came to the studio and started working. In the beginning, all his attention and thoughts were focused on movements, music, rhythm.

When he learned something, he began to enjoy the movements, the way energy flows in him along with the music. And here interesting fragments of thoughts began to emerge from the subconscious: “How beautifully I dance! I’ll have to show it to my friends!”, “But they don’t know how to do that...”, “Let them admire it, know ours!” etc.

A person continues to learn to dance, enjoys it, 90% of his attention is focused on dancing, and 10% is already retained by pride, becoming, of course, an incentive for practicing, but this is an impure incentive, from the point of view of spiritual development.

The tentacles of pride quickly and imperceptibly for the untrained consciousness make their way into the new area of ​​dance that a person is mastering, gain a foothold in it and begin to hunt for the energy of fame, brilliance, and prestige.

Law of Comparison

This is how a person lives from kindergarten until retirement, and the way for pride is paved by the law of comparison, a law that says: “Being better than someone else in something always makes sense.”

It’s one thing when a person strives for self-development and self-knowledge, he wants to be more perfect, i.e. tries to be closer to the Higher source of existence, to discover the secrets of nature, to enter the world of love, but it’s another thing when a person strives to be more perfect in order to “wipe the nose” of Vasya, Katya, Kolya and others.

If a person does not learn to very clearly and clearly see the difference in these stimuli in himself, to recognize them in each specific case, then his spiritual progress will not reach the highest impersonal levels of existence.

How to work with your pride?

Below are a few techniques that will gradually help you stop comparing yourself to others.

• You need to learn to feel free, appearing in public in the poorest and most unsightly clothes. When this stops causing unpleasant emotions, you can try going out in dirty and even torn clothes.
• You also need to learn to walk around the city freely and easily without changing your internal state in the richest and most fashionable clothes. If you don’t have such clothes, you can borrow them from friends.
• You need to learn to talk freely about your weaknesses and shortcomings with people who understand this level, and with those who are quite far from you in worldview. Having developed this fortune, you will not have the need to play prestigious roles.

There are many more such techniques that can be invented and must be practiced daily, but one must remember and see the insidiousness of pride. Her subtle game is based on the fact that, being forced out of one level, she immediately strives to occupy another - and a higher one. This is called the self-deprecation trap. Many mystics and religious figures of the past came across it.

If at least somewhere deep inside the thoughts appear: “I am taller than these people, because I can look weak, but they don’t,” then pride is immediately fueled in a new area of ​​your work.

The real development of pride occurs when at every moment you see your internal impulses: “I am better”, “I am taller”, “I am smarter”, “I am good”, “I understand deeply, I feel more subtly”, and behind these impulses You constantly see a predator inside yourself, hunting for your energy and the energy of those around you.

This requires honesty, courage and ruthlessness towards yourself. Only such a deep, cold look into yourself destroys pride; it shrinks and slowly retreats from every area where you have penetrated with your awareness.

An ordinary operation is performed by a surgeon, and the patient lies under anesthesia in an unconscious state, but the operation to remove pride is performed by a person himself - this is the difficulty.

Important point!

Pride, like a living being, like a mycelium from an alien universe, grafted onto us, lives in our subtle bodies and occupies some place there. If you manage to get to it and start displacing it, then a void will appear in its place.

The place of pride will be filled with something else, but perhaps not immediately. Maybe it will be love for the world, joy of life or something else, but if it does not come immediately, then the person feels discomfort. He feels that there is less of him. Previously, a person had a bright world, subordinate to his self-affirmation and self-realization, but now this world has become less bright.

In this situation, you can do two things at once - on the one hand, develop military qualities that help you endure any difficulties and watch out for manifestations of pride, on the other hand, look for something that other people have, who have almost no pride and live a fairly bright and interesting life. life.

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Notes and feature articles for deeper understanding of the material

¹ Pride - excessive pride, arrogance, arrogance, selfishness, conceit (Wikipedia).

² Self-esteem is a person’s idea of ​​the importance of his personality, activities among other people and evaluation of himself and his own qualities and feelings, advantages and disadvantages, expressing them openly or even closed (Wikipedia).

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³ Rudolf Steiner (February 27, 1861 - March 30, 1925) - Austrian scientist, Ph.D., occultist, esotericist, social reformer, architect, clairvoyant and mystic of the 20th century; the founder of anthroposophy - a religious and mystical teaching that emerged from theosophy (Wikipedia).

⁴ Astral plane, also Astral, Astral world, Subtle world - a concept in occultism, esotericism, philosophy, in the experience of lucid dreams, denoting a different volume (layer) of the universe (nature) from the material one (Wikipedia).

⁵ Lucifer - the image of the “morning star” in Roman mythology; in Christianity since the 17th century - a synonym for a fallen angel, identified with Satan and the devil (Wikipedia).

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Pride and arrogance are not the same thing

What pride is can already be understood from the above traits. But its main definitions are self-direction, egocentrism, and negativity in assessing the success of others. These are, first of all, actions and thoughts aimed at one’s “I”.

Pride is a negative emotional state of a person that strengthens the selfish essence in him. It is worth understanding that pride and arrogance are different concepts.

Possessing these traits, a person becomes what is called a “proud person,” and this feeling is difficult to overcome or get rid of. But what is the difference between pride and arrogance?

Pride differs from pride in its positive attitude, joy not only for one’s achievements, but also for the successes of others.

Such a person can provide support at the right moment and sincerely participates in both the victories and defeats of those around him. He can bear his joy not only for himself: he will be proud of his country, team, friends, family.

It is this polar orientation that is the definition that characterizes the difference between the concepts of “pride” and “pride.” Like black and white, these feelings reveal completely different sides of a personality, determining his entire life and social circle.

What do we know about pride?

What is pride, what is known about this feeling, what is its importance for the individual, how to get rid of it, and is it worth overcoming its manifestations at all?

A proud person builds a hierarchical structure for himself, on which he distributes the people around him. At the center of this configuration is himself. And all his judgments lack objectivity, since they pass through the prism of personal idioms and attitudes.

Pride in a person makes him consider himself an irreplaceable cell of the world, that link, the removal of which will interrupt the life chain of the Universe. A proud person needs constant attention from others.

It is for this purpose that he has “things to show off”: the ideal home, the ideal vehicle, the ideal relationship, the ideal Instagram page.

Needing the attention of others, a proud person shuns anyone's help. “I myself!” It is the ability to overcome a barrier, which sometimes requires an unreasonable amount of effort, that evokes internal praise, further feeding pride. But at the same time, a proud person considers himself deeply unhappy, since the responsibility entrusted to him requires hyper strength.

Pride is the feeling that instills in a person an erroneous sense of omnipotence (in strength, intelligence, life experience). Possessing it, a proud person considers it right to give advice to less experienced comrades (of whom the majority are around), and also to monitor their implementation.

The Process of Forming Pride

Pride, like any personal characteristic, is formed by several structural components. Let us explain this more clearly: pride is formed by three main components that support its existence.

Here they are:

• Feeling of false prestige. The process of forming pride begins in cases where an individual puts his own interests above the interests and needs of others.

In the normal version, we are all, of course, more concerned about our own fate than the fate of other people. But the appearance of pride manifests itself in complete open disregard for the interests of others. A proud person respects and values ​​himself, but he empathizes with other people, knows how to share painful things with them and understand them.

A person who finds himself in captivity of pride is himself in a state of enormous delusion and leads those around him into it. Because of her closed heart, she imagines that she is the center of the universe, the owner of super-outstanding abilities, and therefore everyone around her is obliged to do everything for her good. Someone must donate their time to her, someone - their achievements, someone - material wealth.

At the same time, such individuals are not at all bothered by the fact that they actually harm other people. That’s why psychologists talk about the false nature of the feeling of superiority over others, because in fact, each of us is a unique individual and no one has the right to judge their neighbors.

• Feeling of inferiority . In reality, pride is provoked by extreme self-doubt and dissatisfaction with one's life. It is for this reason that such people, as a rule, are angry and irritated by the results of other people's work.

They suffer from constant internal doubts, first of all, about themselves. Due to a feeling of inferiority, they begin to look for flaws in others and, it should be noted, achieve “success” in this field instead of turning to their own personality.

When a person inside feels like a nobody, feels useless, he begins to notice only the shortcomings and flaws in those around him. The wisdom of a person is manifested in the fact that he is ready, first of all, to eliminate his own problems, and arrogant individuals tend to blame others.

• Diffidence. Lack of self-confidence makes the individual its slave, forcing it to try on masks and roles that do not correspond to the individual’s individuality.

This is also dangerous because the more you play a role, the more difficult it is to remain yourself. Those people who suffer from self-doubt are those who, for some reason, are afraid to show their individuality, do not develop their character and do not work on their shortcomings.

The strengthening of pride only increases in cases when we forget about others and begin to concentrate exclusively on ourselves. You cannot think that your deeds are more significant than the deeds of everyone else.

Pride in religion

In social life, manifestations of pride can interfere with others, but are considered quite acceptable and can be justified by a “philosophy of life.”

Modern society has reached the finish line of egocentrism, and it is unlikely that it will be possible to surprise it with another “great I”. But, from the point of view of many religions, pride is a sin, and a mortal sin.

It is the attempt to put oneself on the same level with God, or even higher, that elevates sin to the rank of the most serious. And it is by overcoming manifestations of pride, according to theological teachings, that a person earns the opportunity to live in a better world after death.

Islam

Pride is the greatest sin in Islam, as it is the cause of many other grave sins. It was she who forced Iblis to bow to Adam, whom Allah created.

Iblis considered himself better than Adam because he was created from fire, unlike Adam, who was created from earth.

Pride (for kibr) settles in a good heart and sharpens all his good intentions and aspirations, depriving him of reverent awe of the Almighty. “No one will enter Paradise in whose heart there remains pride weighing even a grain of sand,” said one of the first Muslim converts, jurist and scientist Abdullah ibn Masud.

Buddhism

In Buddhist belief, the many faces of pride have seven manifestations: the pride of selfishness, pride beyond pride, the pride of superiority, the pride of the thinking self, false pride, and the pride of inferiority. Success is dangerous: clouding the mind, it leads to destructive consequences. It blinds and a person becomes careless.

Falling down, he begins to blame others for the defeat, forgetting about the main role of his pride in his personal catastrophe. People can become proud of anything that attracts everyone's attention, even if it is negative. This is exactly the vision of pride in Buddhism.

Christianity

Pride is a sin, one of the eight (Catholicism) or seven (Orthodoxy) deadly sins. Considering himself to be the only “culprit” for his achievements, according to the teachings of Christianity, a person forgets about the things that he received from God: the senses of touch, a healthy functional body, a cozy home, a happy family.

He no longer thanks the Lord for his virtues, deciding that he has achieved everything himself. Pride is the sin of Satan, the first passion that appeared in the world even before the emergence of humanity on Earth.

Fruits of Pride

Pride in most cases is a source of negative thoughts and emotions that have a detrimental effect on a person’s state and behavior, in other words, prevent him from living a “normal” life, because:

an excessive sense of the importance of one’s own “I” gives rise to an aggressive attitude towards others;

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the discrepancy between ideas about the world causes a surge of emotions in the soul such as: anger, resentment, hatred, contempt, envy, pity. And they, in turn, lead to the complete destruction of a healthy psyche, and therefore consciousness.

Main features

So, what is pride, what are its main signs?

There are main factors that cause the sinful essence in a person, namely:

• Consider yourself to be the only one right, constantly proving this to others;
• The need to give advice to others, even if they do not need it;
• Consider yourself an unshakable value of ideal life on earth;
• Incredible responsibility for everything that happens: in the family, at work, in the country, in the world;
• Victim syndrome. Whatever you did despite yourself, you gave it to the world. Let everyone see how I suffer for your sake;
• The desire to force people to do everything the way you want, the way you taught them;
• Be deaf to the advice of others. What can they advise ME?
• The desire to condemn the actions of others because they do it differently from what is accepted in your ideal world.

Anyone who behaves this way gradually becomes weaker. Ultimately, such people live the last minutes of their lives in complete solitude, filled with pain and suffering.

Signs of Proud People

To accurately determine whether someone in front of you is proud, it is enough to notice the following in his behavior:

• Unfounded self-confidence, excessive conceit and conviction that one is right.
• Lack of desire to gain new knowledge.
• Negligent attitude towards people.
• No business aspirations.

What is bad about pride, what does it lead to?

The great sage and philosopher Carlos Castaneda wrote: “A sense of self-importance makes a person hopeless: heavy, clumsy and empty. To be a warrior is to be light and fluid."

A proud person with his hostile attitudes towards people gradually loses friends, spoils relationships with relatives and colleagues. More often than not, those who were closest are the first to suffer.

How to deal with pride?

What can you do to rid yourself or your loved one of excessive self-confidence?

First of all, you need to learn humility. When a certain success is achieved, a person is overwhelmed with emotions, which is natural. However, one should not allow a pleasant feeling to develop into pride. It's hard to avoid praising yourself for your efforts. But it is important to use internal control resources and minimize excessive expression of emotions.

It will help you to realize that today's success is a small part of a long journey that still lies ahead. There are many goals and tasks ahead that require additional strength. But with pride these resources will not arise. And then all previous efforts will be in vain.

In addition, for every successful step you take forward towards your dream, you need to be able to give thanks. Close, casual acquaintances who contributed to your advancement, circumstances and places - everything that could influence your success. After which the efforts spent will definitely not be in vain, you will be filled with a feeling of gratitude and humility.

How to get rid of pride

There are many opportunities in the life of any person that will answer the question: how to get rid of pride?

First of all, this is an attempt to understand the interlocutor, to hear him, to “get into his shoes,” to try to think like him.

A proud man, accustomed to his superior position, will be able to change his mind by doing the work that he considered unworthy of him. So, for example, wash the entrance or pick up trash after someone.

While appreciating your ideal life, trying to plunge into the lives of less fortunate people will also help you get rid of the veil of pride. Look at how a financially poorer person or people with disabilities live. Will they be able to fulfill your dogmas dictated by pride?

A simple “thank you”, sincere gratitude in the store to the seller who served you; the person who gave the item you dropped; to the chef for an excellent dessert.

All these are simple methods, opportunities that exist in everyone’s life.

How to deal with pride

• Working on yourself is not an easy task. First of all, you need to realize that there is a problem. If you find signs of pride in yourself, then accept it.
• Learn to ask for help and offer it to others. Proud people have a hard time asking for help because they believe they can handle everything on their own. Understand that it's okay if someone helps you.
• Try to be tolerant of other people's points of view. Don't force your opinion on anyone.
• Accept the fact that nothing is perfect in this world. This means you don’t have to try to be the best.
• Try to focus more attention on people rather than yourself. Listen to their opinions, take an interest in their lives. Don't be afraid to compliment and thank people for their help.

Any problem can be solved if you really want it. Respect yourself and other people!

What are the consequences

Will your life be better without pride? What about the lives of those around you? Yes, if you are a believer, and pride is a mortal sin. And the highest reward will be the opportunity to help your neighbor, hear him and feel the Lord’s support. But how will the life of an ordinary person from modern society, for whom pride is not a moral problem, change?

First of all, getting rid of pride will help you relate to difficult situations more simply and understand what happened, as in the proverb “What doesn’t happen is for the better.” You will realize that there are several options for the development of events and your psyche will be ready for any turn, leaving resources to resolve situations.

You will begin to see positive features in what is happening, without bringing reality into your “ideal” framework.

Those around you will also feel an undoubted benefit when the pressure on your part eases and you stop elevating yourself above everyone else in the hierarchical ladder. Humiliation of loved ones, even indirect ones, will no longer stand in your relationship. By changing yourself, you will change the world around you.

Causes of pride

Modern society forms the opinion that a woman can do without a man. Women's pride does not recognize a family union - marriage, in which the man is the head and his opinion should be the main one. A woman in such a relationship does not recognize the man’s rightness, clearly puts forward her independence as an argument, and seeks to subjugate his will. It is important for her to be a winner in a relationship with unshakable principles. It is unacceptable for a proud woman to sacrifice her own ambitions for the good of the family.

Excessive control, sawing and female irritation over trivial matters poison the lives of both. All scandals end only after the man admits his guilt and the female Ego wins. If a man is forced to praise the superiority of his wife for any trivial reason, he feels humiliated. His love fades away - passions rise, and he leaves the family.

How to help a person overcome pride

But it often happens that with all the immense desire to get rid of pride, a person cannot overcome this feeling himself. If such a moment comes, it is very important to listen to people who want to help you in your difficult struggle with pride. Many of them have come into contact with the problem of pride and many have effective advice that will help you too.

If you decide to restore balance in the soul of a proud person, then only by constantly talking through the problem and correct “sawing” can you achieve a result. But don’t forget about the “no more than two times” rule. Repetition more than twice causes irritation, rejection and rejection of information in a person. If a person wants to hear, he will do it even after two times.

Sometimes it is worth becoming a guide, taking your neighbor by the hand and opening doors for him to another world that is not typical for him. Show a proud person that even with his inaction, the world will not collapse, and the universe will not change its cycle; that people can live by their own “imperfect” rules and still be happy; that you don’t need to sacrifice yourself, performing super-tasks, while destroying yourself and your life.

How to get rid of pride, how to help others - there is a wide choice of methods, but it is worth remembering that the main thread should be service - to other people, society, the universe. And so, by trying every day to become better, you will change not only yourself, but also the world around you.

Pride of humility

A successful fight against a serious vice leads to humility. And then life takes on new colors. After all, humility is:

internal self-restraint (spiritual freedom); absence of arrogance and pride, which is replaced by meekness, patience and prudence; recognition of God and peace in the soul; an indicator of knowledge and inexhaustible strength; harmony in everything.

Achieving such a state is a very difficult task. A person who takes this path must be truly courageous and spiritually strong, for he will have to go through many tests, the main one of which is himself. Therefore, if someone wants to gain humility, it is important to be able to take the first step - to recognize their sin.

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And it is he who will be the most significant. Until then, nothing else can be done. The famous theologian C. Lewis once said:

“If you think you don’t suffer from pride, then you really do suffer from it.”

It often happens that people deny their sin, passing it off as imaginary virtues. To do this, you need to know the main differences in order to be able to correctly and timely determine the significance of the defect.

Advice from psychologists

To help with the fight against pride, many psychologists advise to humble yourself and understand that a person is not ideal, he must constantly improve and become better.

One of the main steps on the path to getting rid of pride is to understand the goal with a detailed description of the losses that pride has brought you and the gains that you will have without it.

The next step is to learn how to communicate two-way with people. Hear them. Let them describe you. And you, in turn, will adequately evaluate this portrait and accept it. This is how you appear to others.

Psychologists also recommend the same work that you considered beneath your dignity to do. Only by plunging into another reality will you be able to compare and understand whether the edges of your world are ideal.

And, of course, say thank you. Even psychologists advise this.

Summarizing

So, first of all, pride is the negative side of your personality. And it should not be confused with pride, which is an open positive feeling. Almost every world religion considers pride, if not a mortal sin, then one of the most important and serious.

Pride is the main element, the catalyst that sets in motion the entire chain of consequences, giving rise to other sins. Getting rid of pride will bring positive spiritual fruits not only to a believer, but also to those who do not build their lives according to the commandments.

Well, and most importantly, say thank you. This is not only polite, but also healing for the soul.