{"id":2832,"date":"2018-06-04T17:22:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T17:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.openstanceacademy.com\/golf\/?p=2832"},"modified":"2019-11-18T21:01:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T21:01:43","slug":"stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstanceacademy.com\/golf\/stress\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cStress\u201d and It\u2019s \u201cTypes\u201d Are Fear-Based Definitions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cStress\u201d and It\u2019s \u201cTypes\u201d Are Fear-Based Definitions. Stress, eustress, distress, et.al. are all enabling shortcuts. Social psychologists slap inflammatory labels on simple conditions to patronize people. Clinical psychologists call \u201cStress\u201d, \u201cgeneralized disinhibition\u201d. Stress and disinhibition are definitions separated by implications.<\/p>\n

Embued with similar, negative, emotional components, \u201cStress\u201d is synonymous with fear. We are allowed to rationalize our feelings without having to understand them. Simply by saying \u201cI\u2019m stressed\u201d, we imply that we have no say over our condition. Hence, enabling definitions maintain our confusion.<\/p>\n

You may have employed the motivational axiom, \u201cFace your fears\u201d without realizing \u201cFYF\u201d is an adversarial barb into our subconscious. \u201cFear\u201d is promoted as our antagonist. \u201cFace Your Fears\u201d has supplanted humanity\u2019s more inspirational, positive message, \u201cEmbrace the unknown\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cStress\u201d also causes us to blame our system or situations implicitly for \u201cstressing me out\u201d, as if our situation has an intention. \u201cStress\u201d describes an adversarial relationship between man and nature. For example, stress as enabling oppressor – e.g. an over-protective mother. In any case, blaming our feelings on a disembodied system is ludicrous. Therefore, we have to acknowledge that \u201cStress\u201d is a term used by social<\/em> psychologists and not by data-driven, clinical<\/em> scientists.<\/p>\n

Clinical Psychology\u2019s \u201cDisinhibition\u201d, on the other hand, describes an openness to any potential outcome and requisite actions. Simply stated, we exhibit a \u2018keeping-our-options-open\u2019 condition. Our system is not central to our clinical condition, but rather a sounding board for internal dialogue.<\/p>\n

Certainly, there are both material and immaterial uncertainties we turn into life and death scenarios. But, ours is an individual problem, not a systemic problem. Overcoming our fear-based, \u201cStressed\u201d condition gets easier if we find ways to understand disinhibition as a completely natural openness to uncertain outcomes.<\/p>\n

Changing our way of doing things, for instance, creates an opportunity for learning disinhibition as an empowering condition. It is a process, like anything else. We are conditioned from birth either to fear or embrace the unknown. We don\u2019t have to worry about which conditioning we received. Just understand that embracing change or fearing change is, essentially, a choice.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to offer the Open Stance as a golf swing cure. However, initiating the process of adaptation necessitates disinhibition until you shed inefficient movement patterns. Obviously, I assume my audience is highly intelligent. Therefore, I\u2019ll close by saying, be \u201cDisinhibited\u201d to the Open Stance\u2019s curative unknown.<\/p>\n

John Wright – Founder
\nThe Open Stance Academy<\/p>\n