The Healing Self

The Telomere Effect

Self-inflicted stress is usually marked by repetition. It falls

• Pay attention to relaxing and being less demanding on yourself

Examine your own controlling behavior

Recognize the stressor

• Develop the ability to get back to your center whenever you are thrown out of it

Learn to recognize when you are not centered

Learn to center yourself. This

Controlling personalities are difficult to live with, all the more because they frequently think that their way is the only way—in fact, this is a hallmark of the controlling personality

Stress is aggravated when you feel you aren’t in control