How Human Behavior Relates to Void-Filling?

It's surely possible for folks to recognize their patterns in this prose, yet I choose to co-create by choice, not to fill a void; to be full (even when folks thought I was full of it) and do things fulfilling. Focusing on the void, in your meaning, is focusing on deficits as you note. As long as we do, that's all we'll do. On the other hand, besides the five fingers, is the opportunity to use another version of the void, from which all things come, and imagineer innovative or invigorating creative experiences. Perhaps a simple difference in people to acknowledge a signature behavior... looking down in their walk or looking up to greet the faces coming toward them.

Sad, but true, psychologists say we’re trying to fill what we perceive is a void – mainly - because we lack love for ourselves. Feeling empty encourages us to fill those empty spaces with food, work and those things we believe will crowd out those voids and hopefully make us feel full and other tangibles we have come to believe will take the place of love and solid, fulfilling relationships as you so aptly suggest. Another of your interesting posts, Ali Anani, we could discuss for days. Thanks for the share. ?

As always, your article is so thought-provoking Ali Anani, PhD. Loving this thought "we create internal voids and we need to fill them" through these means (cosmetic, cheating, lying). It certainly would seem that lack deepens the divide, and continues to perpetuate its continual filling.

The sense of emptiness is an emotion and, as such, depends exclusively on what we think, how we judge, evaluate, approach what we have or what we lack. Anyone who lives with gratitude, presence, value, fullness of what is in his life, hardly feels this feeling. On the contrary, those who are not in harmony with the beauty of things and the people around them, those who don't feel serene where they live, those who don't feel accomplished and satisfied with what they do can cause this malaise within themselves. When we perceive an inner emptiness, we generally find it difficult to live with it, we try to "compensate" it by resorting to external things such as relationships, sweets, food, smoke, alcohol, work, commitments, television, etc. The reality is that our emotions depend only on us: they are the consequence of the thoughts we make, of our evaluation of the events and situations we come into contact with. This means that we must take total responsibility for our happiness. This will lead us to act concretely to make it grow within us and one of the wonderful side effects that this will generate will be precisely to fill the sense of emptiness.

I am grateful to you, Ali Anani, for the conversations you are starting here, with top talent. Every human being can perhaps choose his illusion, whether it will be in the mirror or in his head, it is a personal choice. ???Changing one's appearance can be a bottomless well, because there is always some part of the body that can betray us. Beauty is in enjoying what we have For me, man in his physical and psychological form is the most perfect phenomenon I know of. If a computer system is like our biological processors, I wonder if only correctly entered data gives the right answer. Or, does a balanced intake of love, attention and healthy care for a child result in a person who will first look for answers to life's challenges in their personal essence. There is hardly an ideal proportion. What would be desirable is that we try not to hurt others with our gaps. A billion is the combination for this answer. A long time ago, a great professor of mathematics said that it is a shame for a smart man to say ... I have boredom in my life. Nobody likes to be stupid, so I trained myself to never be boring. Life has routine, routine can get boring, and then it gives way to these great examples you mentioned. A lie is a nasty trap.