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How we create stress by ourselves - 3 'P's Formula

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In a research by a Psychologist, he revealed three 'P's which we used to disturb ourselves.  Personalising: Some of us take things personally. For example, a wife said to her husband, "The air conditioner is not working, have it fixed. Her husband got anger and shouted at her saying, "Do you mean that I don't take care of things properly ?". Such people are hypersensitive to others comments. They pick on what others say and construct an unproductive meaning of self based on what is said to them. Permanent:   This is about seeing negative things and creating a permanent scare in life. Some people feel that one failure will have a permanent impact in their life. Someone not getting selected in an interview perhaps believes everything is lost. Though ancient wisdom says "This too shall pass", we seem to cling onto unfortunate experience in life and lose our inner peace. Pervasive: The third P is believing that any negative impac...