Dr. Mort Orman here and today I’m going to conclude this 6-part series by focusing on one more very common internal cause of our stress.
In part one of this series, I shared some of my thoughts on the key distinction between internal and external causes.
Then, in the next three installments, I focused on individual thought patterns, such as Good/Bad Thinking, Right/Wrong Thinking, and Cause/Effect Thinking, which are usually hiding in the background whenever we experience problems and stress.
Then, in my previous article (Part 5 in this series), I focused on one specific action pattern, called Failing To Ask For Help, which also contributes to stress.
Today, I want to point out another prevalent stress-producing action pattern: Failing To Admit You May Be Wrong.
Failing To Admit You May Be Wrong
Here we have a classic example of a specific internal action pattern that’s goes hand-in-hand with a corresponding internal thought pattern—to produce a tandem of powerful internal causes which contribute to much of our daily stress.
As I’ve already pointed out in earlier articles, internal thought patterns such as Good/Bad Thinking, Right/Wrong Thinking, Cause/Effect Thinking, and Credit/Blame Thinking often lead to errors in judgment and errors in perception.
Whenever this happens, which is quite frequently for all human beings, we tend to compound things further because we are often reluctant to admit (or even consider) that we may be wrong about our thoughts, perceptions, opinions, feelings, etc., in any way, shape or form.
Thus, we are constantly getting hit with an invisible, internal 1-2 punch or “double whammy.”
First, we have invisible factors that take hold of us, distort our perceptions, and keep us from correctly appreciating what is really going on, and then we have our automatic tendencies to Want To Be Right and to Fail To Admit We May Be Wrong, which keep us dumb, stupid, arrogant and blind, and which prevent us from making needed corrections that could help reduce our stress.
The desire to be right and our penchant to resist admitting that we could be wrong are both such strong human tendencies that none of us is immune to them.
Some people, however, will never come to recognize these internal factors as significant causes of their stress, while others will acknowledge them and will thereby be position to do something to combat them.
Just A Brief Sampling Of Internal Causes
In this series, I’ve briefly touched upon only a few specific internal causes of human stress.
There are many, many more.
And for each specific cause I did single out, there is much more to be aware of when it comes to appreciating their full impact on our lives.
However, this is the type of detailed, specific knowledge about internal causes you’ll need to have at your fingertips, if you want to become good at mastering your stress, instead of endlessly struggling just to manage its symptoms alone.
Once you get good at recognizing these and other common internal thought patterns and behavior patterns that typically arise and cause problems for you, you’ll begin spotting them and noticing them everywhere.
Regardless of what specific type of stress you may be experiencing—be it emotional stress, stress at work, stress at school, family stress, financial stress, the stress of public speaking, the stress of dealing with serious illness, etc.—many of these same internal causes are going to be involved in one way or another.
And most of the time, you won’t see any of this happening on the surface.
You will have to look deep within yourself to spot these internal causes, and you will have to know, in advance, what you are going to be looking for.
This is where Stress Mastery training comes in, and therefore it is one of the best and most rewarding types of personal development training you could ever engage in.
To your health, happiness and success,
Dr. Mort Orman, M.D.
International Speaker, Author And Founder Of The Stress Mastery Academy | http://DocOrman.com
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