Friday, May 20, 2011

The importance of saying no

I commented last week that it is very important to find the positive dimension in these times of crisis in which we live and charge us with vital energy. To do this we must find our space, and not get abducted by anxious behaviors and trends that often pollute our day to day. Some friends told me how it has thinned their work environment, the nerves of the street just coming home.

Is our natural tendency to understanding and harmony, or rather by our aversion to conflict, it sometimes seems that we assume the task of fixing the world we own starting with our family, business and family, always willing to pitch in and indulge everyone everywhere. Far to fix it and be recognized for our efforts, we are overwhelmed, none and we autosilenciamos to the outside, which we perceive as chaotic and hostile.

We can end up feeling bitter, depressed, labeled as weak and unimportant. And it's all a mental state caused by fears and insecurities, they subconsciously lead to a state of immobility, of apparent docility, to a coworker who enslave us, a chief plaintiff, a family or a couple absorbent selfish.

This oppressive environment that we built, seemingly immutable conviction that supposedly eternal and end just as soon as we decided to open his mouth to hear us. There need to get things, our noes "I will not bend more to this situation, naturally, with inner serenity. If we think well and we agree with ourselves, we see that all these situations where you think live subjugated in a tradition where you always have to say yes, we can change with relative ease.

We will seriously but without aggressiveness, without the anger that causes you discomfort caused by the very fact that non-words, in a positive act of affirmation of who you are and want, not like in shock at the injustice. Talk clearly "I do not think always the hardest work," I will not take no more your selfishness ", arguing our position uncompromising.

Nothing excuse excesses of empathy that others' behavior hurt you, or impossible twists and turns in the lead by putting in place for ten people at a time. The secret of positioning is honest and direct communication. And the sooner the better. Practices are nothing when we are angry. Reflection, I insist.

(Exaggerating, remembered now bundling the protagonist of A Day of Fury for unfair dismissal after years of badly assimilated discreet and exemplary conduct.) If you have to be blunt, almost to go with your character, you will be from calm and self-assertion. Think of yourself in everything positive you have and where is this problem in your life exactly why it is worthwhile solution.

For bitter or bad it is given the situation, you've put the cards on the table and will be much better about yourself, free. And you have taken the first step for building a new order in your relationships. The most likely pick up an understanding and support around you that you did not expect.

Said John Huston, which is less painful than be beat up the bile that is within you if you shut up when he saw an injustice. Nor is the fight, it's become a voice in the world around you, without you gag complexes, being yourself, nothing else. By Dr Michelle Nielsen Photo: Gtres

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