Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

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DENIAL
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IS NOT A RIVER IN EGYPT
Many of our problems in dealing with setbacks and disappoint-
ments come from our resisting reality. We engage in denial. We be-
come angry and insist that this should not have happened to us or
should not have happened at all. We reject it and wish that it hadn’t
occurred in the first place.
It is this resistance and denial that causes most of our stress.
When you say,
“What can’t be cured must be endured,”
you lower your
flash point. You become more relaxed. You become calmer and you
develop a more detached perspective. You stand back and you look
at the situation as though it were happening to someone else. As a