Understanding Behaviors That Create Stress

Behaviors help us to determine how our lives will turn out. Behaviors are the manner in which we conduct our self on a daily basis. Behaviors are organisms that react to stimulus producing action and response. Behaviors are formed when we first arrive in the world and the more we practice a certain behavior the more attached that behavior comes.

How does behavior cause us stress? It depends on the person and the teachings the person endured throughout his or her lifetime, but many of us lack in development in one way or another. Since, we have religion, law, parents, teachers, siblings, employees, employers, peers and so forth playing a part in our life we often become confused since all of us have our own beliefs.

The best teacher in the world is yourself. If you take the time to study, learn, listen, hear, practice good habits and so forth, you will have the ability to see yourself in the future as being successful. You have a built-in stress management mechanism that surpasses any other management scheme, since no one can lead you to make stress-inducing decisions under most reasonable circumstances. It is good to take other people's beliefs into consideration. However, investigating and collecting evidence that proves a fact is more beneficial than accepting everything your are taught or told.

For example, I am a logician. I take extremely complex problems and break them down to simplicity. This means I analyze each problem, carefully weeding through the pile and eliminating any areas that produce negative results. I also collect and gather evidence to support my claims when I am finished, and this is a healthy practice of behaviors, since I do not lie, steal, or do anything that will cause another person harm.

As you can see from my example, my problems were minimized, since my behaviors are positive and my stress level is not controlling my life. We can view behaviors as teachers that allow us to grasp hold of a better understanding of how behaviors cause stress.

For example, let's say that a parent teaches a child that speaking out of term in inappropriate. The child is punished each time he or she disobeys the parent. We see a series of problems developing, since this teaching will tell the child during his or her development that it is not ok to speak up when someone hurts, violates, or induces other types of fears on this person. The person will go through life with the fear of punishment if he or she asserts themselves.

How can we help this poor wrongfully-taught individual to find a way to reduce stress and avoid stressors? First, our parents are important people in our life. In most cases, we believe that they will not lie to us and they have our best interest at heart. Now we see another problem, since this person will trust the parents before listening to someone else that tells him or her that they are safe and it is ok to speak your mind. We can teach this person to practice self-talk first since self-talk is an approach that helps us to rely on self, rather than others.

Self-talk is a method that tells us that we have control and that we have a right to determine what we think, feel and believe. The method teaches us to take responsibility and learn communication that is effective, since our thinking habits are in the process of change. We can also help the person by offering him or her the tool known as visual display. Visual display is helpful since it allows us to stroll back into the past and review our learning so that we can sort through the facts and eliminate the lies. It teaches us to display a pictorial event in our mind and then role-play to see if what we were taught is true.

Think of a time in your life that you spoke up and no one hurt you or punished you for your action. Think about how many times this happened and what the consequences of your behavior led to. Practice these techniques daily to learn a new method that benefits you and your life. If you do not see prediction by now in behaviors, then you probably never will.

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