How To Make Things Worse
How Psychophysiology Becomes Our Worst Enemy
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How To Make Things Worse
How Psychophysiology Becomes Our Worst Enemy
Life is hard.
Things go wrong.
We all have those times in our lives when it feels like everything is breaking around us...
Sometimes it feels like that is all the time.
But what is interesting about this...
Is that for most people...
Things go from bad to worse.
Usually they do not experience a problem and resolution...
Instead, they have a problem...
Followed by another problem...
And another problem...
And another problem...
Then hopefully a resolution...
That creates a new problem.
Why does it happen like this for most people, though?
The answer lies in a specific aspect of our psychophysiology...
Specifically, in our “perception” of what happens.
See, we all will fail...
At one point or another...
But where most people struggle is how they look at that failure.
They do not see it as just a simple failure that everyone experiences in life...
They perceive it as something horrible.
The word here is “catastrophizing”.
See, most of us have been trained to believe that “failure” is the absolute worst possible thing that could ever happen.
Many people are literally more afraid of failure than of death.
What does this do when we experience a failure?
All failure will cause some sort of stressor in us...
But when we “perceive” that failure as significant...
We amplify the amount of stress that the failure causes.
Exponential stress.
So think of it like this...
Let’s make up a very simple point system of stress, where a higher number is worse.
Say there is a failure that is only a stress level of 2...
If we “perceive” it to be horrible, suddenly we “experience” that as a 4.
If we have a failure that is a stress level of 3...
When we “perceive” it as horrible, it becomes a 9.
Our perception of the stressor can make us experience the stressor as significant...
Even if the stressor really is not that bad.
I have watched many people nearly have a mental breakdown over problems they were able to resolve in less than 10 minutes.
If you can solve a problem in 10 minutes...
It really is not that big of a problem.
But so many people have catastrophized “any” amount of failure for so long...
That it becomes a habit...
And they do it for any level of failure.
When we do this...
We also end up making things worse, whether we realize it or not.
Why?
When we mentally catastrophize things...
The parts of our brain that we need to get to the best solutions...
Become blocked.
Literally.
The catastrophizing makes us experience that event as significantly more stressful...
Which then pushes us into fight-or-flight mode.
When we go into this...
We become reactionary...
We do not think logically...
We just revert to the worst versions of ourselves.
Our problem-solving becomes worse...
We are more prone to mistakes...
And we create more oxidative stress, or stress damage, that takes longer to recover from...
Meaning that we are more vulnerable to succumbing to this catastrophizing...
With the final result being that we make things worse.
Sometimes, significantly worse.
This is how we get our psychophysiology to work against us.
But this is not how it has to be.
We have the capability to learn and understand how our psychophysiology works...
And use it to aid us in overcoming our stressors.
It is possible for us to accomplish the opposite of this.
Where, if we experience a stressor at a level 10...
We can reduce its impact to a level 5 and more easily overcome it.
But we need to learn how “we” work to accomplish that.
That is often what separates those who move easily through life from those who always feel trapped by life...
They are working differently at the psychophysiological level...
Where one is getting destroyed by it...
And the other is using it to master their entire life.
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