Exaltation – what is it, pluses and minuses, the existing signs, examples

Integral part of mentality of the person are emotions. The ability to rejoice and long is inherent in us since the birth, but everyone has the degree of expressiveness of any given feelings. The excessive and exaggerated joy for no particular reason which can easily be replaced by deep grief in psychology carries the name exaltation.

What is exaltation?

Reactions of the person to any events depend on congenital temperament and the most striking traits of the personality which are called aktsentuation. This theory was put forward by the German psychiatrist Karl Leongard who allocated 10 types of aktsentuation. They differ with specific reactions to different types of irritants. One of such aktsentuation is the affective and excited type.

The Ekzaltirovannost in psychology is a property of the person extraordinary violently and disproportionately to react to any situations. Any insignificant trifle can delight such people, up to uniformity of a color of some product. However this elation can be replaced very quickly by universal grief from a species of a homeless kitten or an accidental spot on clothes.

Ekzaltirovannost – pluses and minuses

In total on the planet the excited type of the personality meets at 15% of the population, is more often at women, than at men. Such feature of mentality has both positive, and negative properties. It is possible to carry to pluses:

1. Exaltation promotes ability to notice and to rejoice sincerely to trifles.
2. Ability to infect surrounding with the good mood and a laughter.
3. Esthetic taste and thin sense of style therefore such persons often find themselves in art.
4. Frequent enthusiasm promotes that the person easily strikes up acquaintances, is not inclined to complexes and shyness.

Negative sides of exaltation are:

1. Tendency to dramatization and rough sufferings in any, even insignificant occasion.
2. In love such people are completely given to the partner, not seldom becoming very persuasive.
3. In a rush of the emotions the excited person is capable of the certain aggressive actions unacceptable in society.
4. The working capacity depends on mood.
5. The increased uneasiness and obsession with certain events in the past.

Signs of exaltation

To notice at acquaintances or to define exaltation at itself it is possible on the following signs:

1. Continuous sharp differences of mood.
2. Disproportionate intensive reactions to simple situations. Such people are always very strongly touched by the watched movies and a news, the read books and the heard messages on radio.
3. The excited person always speaks very loudly and many, and his laughter is very infectious.
4. He is not indifferent to children and animals.
5. It is always ready to come to the rescue, others misfortunes can touch stronger, than own problems.
6. The emotional state at such person influences practically everything: appetite, dream, working capacity and general physical health.

The excited personality – examples

Very often the ekzaltirovannost meets at artists: famous artists, actors and directors. Authors in works of art like to use such characters, the tricks they easily I exaggerate passions and turn a plot to the most unimaginable course. Popular characters in a constant condition of exaltation:

• Katerina Ivanovna in the novel by F. Dostoyevsky Brothers Karamazov;
• Romeo from the well-known play by W. Shakespeare Romeo and Juliette;
• Nikolay Rostov in the novel by L. Tolstoy War and peace;
• Exaltation is traced at Ruby Rose's telestar in the movie The Fifth Element;
• lemur by nickname the King Julian from the animated film Madagascar.

Exaltation reasons

Psychologists claim that any person during certain age periods can ekzaltirovat:

1. Small children approximately from 2 to 5 years just learn to operate the emotions therefore the fallen candy can cause rough chagrin, and arrival of the father from work impetuous joy.
2. The next stage of flashes of an ekzaltirovannost is the share of awkward age because of hormonal reorganization of an organism.
3. At adult age the exaltation can periodically happen at people during love or the birth of children. It is possible and to cause such reaction artificially. A striking example of artificial enthusiasm are fans after the concerts of favorite bands or sports meets.

It is possible to recognize excited type of the personality at adult age when rough emotional splashes become the ordinary phenomenon for the person. It can be promoted:

2. Wrong technique of education, lack of development of emotional intelligence.
3. The overestimated or underestimated self-assessment.
4. The dissatisfaction of basic needs for communication and safety can fix exaltation in adult age.
5. Lack of a concept of moral and cultural standards.
6. The frequent conflicts with peers during the pubertal period are capable to transfer exaltation to adulthood.

Excited religiousness

It is possible to meet an artificial ekzaltirovannost of feelings in various religious actions. Under the leadership of one or several people the crowd of believers can quickly come to a condition of extreme emotionality to which are peculiar:

• adoration of the deity;
• fear of supernatural force;
• submission to commands of mentors;
• refusal of rational judgment of religious doctrines and aspiration to extend them;
• intolerance to other beliefs.

Recommendations to excited type

Exaltation in itself by psychologists is not considered pathology and belongs to norm options except those cases when such behavior prevents adaptation in society. In case of inadequate behavior the following methods of correction which can be carried out as independently, and with the psychologist are used:

1. The excited personality first of all has to learn to represent adequately those situations which are considered as the most vulnerable.
2. It is not less important to recognize features of the structure of the nervous system and to arrange under them a day regimen and lifestyle.
3. Inefficient ways of response to different situations can learn to be changed thanks to inclusion of a strong-willed component.

Excited type of a profession

It is necessary to choose a profession to the excited woman and the man especially carefully, the working capacity strongly depends on an emotional state. Psychologists recommend:

1. With talent to pay the attention to creative professions: artist or designer, writer.
2. Enthusiastically the excited state is inherent in many actors who try to obtain considerable heights in the craft thanks to the emotionality.
3. In the absence of thirst for art, it is possible to try out as the tutor or the teacher, work with children brings to many people of similar psychotype sincere pleasure.
4. The excited person can prove also in the design activity connected with the organizations of holidays and special events.

How to fight against exaltation?

When excited nature prevents the person to live normally in society, it is possible to use special techniques of correction of behavior and management of emotions which are carried out by psychologists in the following forms:

1. Individual and family conversation.
2. Group training on fight against a certain problem. Now it is possible to find courses of management of anger, for example.
3. Other kind of a group technique is the psychodrama when the psychologist at one or several clients creates the fictional excessively exaggerated situations, at the same time helping to find the correct means of egress from them.