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Getting Unstuck From Your Life And Defeating Stress

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Wilko van de Kamp
Aug 28, 2020
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Want to get unstuck from your life? Defeat stress? Achieve your goals and live a more balanced life?

All stresses are registered at the level of two basic instincts: being eaten or starvation. There are only two sources of stress:

  • the inability to adapt to a changing environment, often that’s the perception of loss of that what you seek.

  • the perception of gain of that what you try to avoid. In essence this one is about avoiding the predator and seeking prey.

Humans have added upon those two with additional expressions but it boils down to one of those two sources of stress. Take a moment and pick a stressor in your life and see which one of the categories it falls into.

High and Low Values

Human behaviour is tied to values. Every human being has a set of priorities. Thing that are the most (or least) important that you’re running your life by. For high-value-values (to you), you’re intrinsically inspired to take action, without external motivation needed. As you go down the list of value yo…

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