Untuk menjadi lebih baik itu perlu bermula dengan satu keinginan.Percaya dan yakin.
Untuk menginkan, kita perlu sesuatu atau seorang utk jadi panduan.
Dan untuk sesuatu itu jadi panduan, kita perlu percaya terlebih dahulu.
Belief leads into intention.
Intention leads into action.
Kalau tak mampu buat sesuatu action, periksa kembali keyakinan mu, sang insan.
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One of the modules that we had last semester was called "Health and Psychology". Err. I think that was the full name( was it?) . Nvm. We always called it Healthpsych in short.
I like the course. It taught me about dealing with human beings and most importantly to understand my own self. In fact, one of my friends told me that the course is useful to help her in doing usrah. True enough. Knowing psychology can give us the invaluable skills to understand people. The nature of human beings.
I just like to share with you regarding one of the theories that we learned. It is called the Health Belief Model, but let me just make it general since I personally and strongly think that this is applicable in maaaaany things in life.
Hopefully this piece of theory can help us analyse ourselves and ease our pursuit to change into a better person. Biidznillah.
1. This theory basically discusses about two types of beliefs. That is:
- Belief about threat
- Belief about action
2. Threat
When we talk about threat, there are two factors that determine whether or not an individual will think that something is really a threat hence causing changes in their current behaviour.
number one: how far do they think they are susceptible to the threat. (perceived susceptibility)
number two: how severe they think the threat is. (perceived severity)
3. Action
When we talk about action, there are also two factors that determine whether they will want to do the actions or not.
number one: how beneficial they think the action really is. (perceived benefits)
number two: how they think they are able of acting it out by thinking about possible barriers available (perceived ability/barriers)
Talking about reality, there are good things and bad things in this life. That's a fact.
And what good and bad depend on what code of moral conduct becomes your point of references.
The country's Law?
The societal standard?
Your peer's view?
Really, what defines your "good" and "bad"?
Islam defines these for me. And hopefully, my ultimate code of moral conduct is Allah Almighty's Quran. So I shall be making this as my example.
Relating to this theory,
Threat
If all the torments and punishments told by Allah in His Book is something that is not sufficient enough to stop us from doing what He dislikes, we need to check back on our belief. Maybe deep in our heart, we think that we are not going to go to the Hellfire for sure (perceived low susceptibility) .Or even worse we think that his punishments are not severe enough (perceived low severity). Naudzubillah.
Action
On the other hand, if we think that it is so difficult to do good actions, we need to check on whether we really believe that Allah's blessing is a real benefit and worth seeking for (perceived benefits). And do analyse the barriers that are stopping us from feeling capable (perceived barriers).
okay, that's all I like to share.
sebab saya suka the theory. It helps me analyse my personal level of belief.
p/s Sorry my writing skills are really poor.
Hope this benefits.
Akhir kata, reflect and relax.
Till I write again. If He'll let.

