“Allergy to Ambiguity” A Stress Trap

Why things are not happening as to our expectations, it adds to the anxiety, resulting in more stress. When we are allergic to unpredictability we are more prone to stress. Uncertainty is part of life even with best of our efforts we are bound to face it, but predominately we are ill prepared to mange the haziness in life. Emphasis on over rationality can make us prone to stress, excess dependence on systems has consequential impact on our capacity to handle stress.

In our life situations are build to give us surprises, there is nothing wrong in being very immaculate in our approach to manage circumstances, however you cannot control everything on your own. Exhibiting much confident on our deeds is sign of high internality and diversions on any front perturb us enormously. Aversion to unknown horizons is indicative of our tendency to get trapped in stress.

Start enjoying some vagueness, volatility is thrill in itself and avoid following the obvious path. Bring Resilience in your personality and it may help in managing day-to-day stress more effectively. Don’t be evasive to chaos and accept unpredictability also as the part of life. Mental readiness for unknown is a time tested mode for managing the avoidable stress.