Copyright (c) 2009 Willie Horton
Stress is a choice. Stress has nothing to do with external events or how other people are treating or mistreating you. Stress is unrelated to what’s going on around you. Rather, stress is the sole result of what’s going on inside. We make sense of what is happening externally based on what psychology calls our “stored knowledge” – things we have learned from previous experiences, in particular those that took places in our formative childhood years. This stored knowledge enables us react without having to give too much thought to what is actually happening. However, when you consider that the average adult’s stored knowledge is decades out of date and, therefore, totally unrelated to what is actually happening in the here and now, the average normal adult ends up making non-sense of external events and, in being enabled to react without giving it too much thought, is effectively disabled from taking any real action to appropriately handle what is actually happening in the moment.
It really is that simple – stress is the result of a disabled mind reacting to what it thinks is going on. Read more…
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