Dr. Mort Orman here, and today I want to continue with the third installment of my 6-part series on common internal causes of human stress.
In my last article, I focused on Good/Bad Thinking as a hidden, internal cause of human stress.
Today, I want to highlight another common hidden cause: Right/Wrong Thinking.
Right/Wrong Thinking
Right/Wrong Thinking is simply our automatic tendency to judge our own or others’ behaviors as being either totally ‘right’ or totally ‘wrong’.
Throughout human history, many adverse consequences (and stress) have emerged from Right/Wrong thinking.
For example, almost every war ever fought came from Right/Wrong thinking.
Recent terrorist attacks, as well as our outrage and responses to them, also emanate from Right/Wrong Thinking.
Right/Wrong thinking and Good/Bad thinking are frequently involved as invisible, internal causes of all of our negative emotions, such as anger, guilt, fear, worry, sadness and frustration.
So whenever you are experiencing any strong negative emotion, always look for one or both of these internal causes playing a major role.
And when it comes to marital problems, divorces, and other interpersonal conflicts, Right/Wrong thinking is commonly involved here as well.
The Anatomy Of Human Arguments
Have you ever wondered what the core cause of most human arguments is?
I’m talking about the fundamental nature of all human arguments, no matter where they occur, the nationality or cultural backgrounds of those involved, or even what they may appear, on the surface, to be about.
Well here is the basic anatomy of all human arguments:
An argument between two people can best be described as follows:
- Two individuals are having a passionate discussion, where each believes he/she is right and the other is wrong.
- The argument is caused when both parties try to convince the other that they alone have the right perspective and the other’s perspective is clearly wrong.
Thus, arguments are always rooted in Right/Wrong thinking.
How Complicated Is This?
You’ve now seen two very common internal causes of human stress: Good/Bad Thinking and Right/Wrong Thinking.
I’m sure that when you were reading through this material, you were probably thinking to yourself: “This isn’t very deep; This isn’t anything new; This isn’t very complex or complicated to understand; This is very simplistic.”
And I would agree with all of these thoughts.
The problem is not that our internal causes of stress are all that complicated or difficult to understand.
The problem is that they happen automatically for us, deep within our bodies, and we are not usually aware (moment to moment) of how they are contributing to our stress and other problems we experience.
You don’t have to be a psychiatrist or a psychologist to understand these hidden causes. But you do have to train yourself to become much more aware of when they have been triggered inside you, and when they are operating in ways you don’t normally see.
As simple as they might be, when you are “blind” to the role that these types of hidden, internal causes are playing in your life, you lose the opportunity to do anything about them.
On the other hand, when you learn how to spot them, and bring them out into the open, there is much you can do to nullify their stress-producing properties.
In next week’s final three installments of this 6-part series, I will cover three more common internal causes of human stress. I’ll focus on one more common thought pattern and two very common stress-related action patterns.
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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