When you’re under a lot of stress, it’s easy to
lose perspective and think that “Nothing is worse than what’s happening to me,”
but I found a simple experiment helped me regain my perspective:
I asked myself
which situation could I handle for a longer time period, bearing my stressful problem or
holding my breath. I quickly found the lack of oxygen infinitely more difficult
to handle. I couldn’t hold my breath for more than a minute, but I had been
bearing with my stressful problems for days. This little experiment, as silly
as it sounds, caused a shift in my thinking that made it easier to with my
personal life stressors.
Mental Self Defense is the use of tested, practical cognitive therapy techniques to help deal with the stresses and traumas of everyday life by reshaping self-destructive mental habits into constructive, coping, and healing habits.
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