What's Your BASELINE In Life

What's Your BASELINE In Life

Oh yes, do we need a BASELINE In Life?  WHAT's BASELINE in the first place?  BASELINE represents a person's core nature.  WHEN you establish your BASELINE, you define the metrics and norms you need to achieve and live with on a barest minimum.  Circumstances may push you to breach it but by and large, you expect yourself to live life within the pre-determined criteria of your established BASELINE

BUT the catch here is that BASELINEs are a huge gaping hole in life.  And since our daily life lives around emotions, let us go through that emotional BASELINE stuff.  Thinking of your emotional BASELINE as the emotional state you would naturally gravitate toward WHEN NOT under significant stress OR influenced by external factors.  Essentially, it is your emotional 'HOME BASE'.  Understanding that BASELINE is a crucial step in building emotional resilience as it serves as a reference point for tracking changes in your emotional landscape

So, does this matter?  Psychologists tell us that our emotional BASELINE is never fixed at all.  Over time, it can shift as a result of one's experiences, life events and personal growth.  By recognizing your BASELINE, you can gain insights into your default emotional state and create your own 'warning system', so to speak.  And that awareness will enable you to detect those early signs of distress OR imbalance and even detect any unhelpful coping skills which sometimes creeps in way beyond one's consciousness

Experts encourage us to consistently reinforce our awareness to build that resilience from within.  Identifying your emotional BASELINE ISN'T just about categorizing emotions as good OR bad.  Instead, it's about fostering understanding and self-compassion.  WHEN you know WHERE you typically stand emotionally, you can approach life's challenges with a much clearer mindset and greater emotional stability

Our takeaway:  Let us NOT overlook that emotional BASELINE is the confluence between nature and nurture [as per studies by experts] briefly summarized below:

BIOLOGICAL FACTORS - That is our genetic makeup that can predispose our emotions

EARLY EXPERIENCES - Childhood experiences, family dynamics can leave a lasting imprint on our emotional BASELINE

Bottomline, let us be aware of our emotional BASELINE as it sways and swings in life