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**** elib.tech Exclusive ****Help us keep elib.tech all the more special for its exclusivity.Out of respect for the original authors and publishers,please do not make this product available outside of our community.Thanks for keeping elib.tech awesome!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            GB Status :  CLOSED GB Page : Joseph Riggio – 7 Days to Genius – Make 2018 Your Best Year Ever GB                                                                                                                                Stress is often described in a way that makes it sound something like measles – a disease that you catch, something that gets inside you and causes troubles like an invading microorganism. The principles of control theory, however, teach us that human beings and other organisms are complex systems run more by inner motivations and networks of goals than by external forces. They are so complex that they can get themselves into trouble, one part of the whole system coming into conflict with another part. control theorists think that stress is a condition in which a person is at war internally, one desire thwarting another desire, one goal canceling another goal. A human being, in other words, creates the stress in an attempt to deal with the problems of life in a way that’s not internally consistent.It’s not pleasant to be told, in effect, “You’re doing it to yourself.,’ But from another point of view, that is a very encouraging judgment – if you’re doing it to yourself, then you can also stop doing it to yourself. The catch, of course, is that you’re not aware of doing this to yourself; if you were, you wouldn’t have the problem because then you would just stop doing whatever is clearly causing the problem. If you,re doing it to yourself, but don’t see how, this means that you have to learn something about how your body and mind work. Only then can you see the indirect and subtle ways in which inner conflict can arise; then you can change the goals and perceptions that led to the conflict that generates the symptoms we call stress.Ed’s aim in this book is first to teach control theory in terms that are relevant to ordinary life and the problems of real people who aren’t theoreticians. That’s the main theme in his current writings. But in this book he slants the message toward the specific problem of stress: what it is and what people can do to free themselves of this difficulty. He is convinced, and I agree, that the basic task is to understand what is going on, not to prescribe some pill or procedure that will work like a cold remedy. Out of understanding will come awareness of what has to change. And then the change will come about naturally.Control theory is not the perfect final answer to everything; it simply represents what many reasonable people think is the best current guess about how we work. Ed tells you here enough about this theory so you can make up your own mind, check out what he says for yourself. No book can substitute for a personal relationship with a helpful and experienced counselor, but this book may give you a head start in solving the kinds of problems meant by the word stress.https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Stress-Edward-Ford/dp/0961671…