Question

Share both the positive and negative experience of how an individual handled life’s transitions in the past. Then identify how previous strategies and coping skills can successfully assist managing and experiencing current life transitions.

Answer 1

Life Transit are life changing event that cause an individual to re examine the present sense of being. Transition s generally happen without warning ,it may be positive or negative. Negative Transit ions like accidents ,jobloss, death etc . while positive transition are getting married , getting a new job , giving birth to a child etc. Both positive and negative live transition cause on individual to leave behind the familiar and force to adjust to new ways of living ,they can leave feeling completely unprepared. In past the individual successfully move in the life transition by experiencing the following steps

Experience a range of negative feelings (anger, anxiety, confusion, numbness, and self-doubt).
Feel a loss of self-esteem.
Begin to accept the change.
Acknowledge that you need to let go of the past and accept the future.
Begin to feel hopeful about the future.
Feel increased self-esteem.
Develop an optimistic view of the future.

How past life experience help in today's life

With the experience of past life transition an individual can manage stress successfully in today's life in the following ways

1. Recognize that transition hold a special place in life memories and give strength to manage stress.

2. Past life transition help to view stress not as a threat but as a challenge.

3. To view that past life transition as a help  in appreciating the benefits of change.

4. As one face a new challenge, use of knowledge that one have managed to cope before, gives an individual strength.

5. Be prepared for such changes.

6. Using such transition to reflect on where one life has been and where it is going.