The Power of Uncompromising Thinking (Part I)

Some time ago I read a book by the Italian-Argentine psychologist Walter Riso entitled "The Power of Flexible Thinking". There the author points out the importance of not being so rigid in our thoughts since "psychological rigidity makes us sick, generates suffering (stress, depression, anxiety, hostility) and promotes significant individual and social violence ", the author points out about his book.

I remember being encouraged to read it because I was always very rigid and uncompromising in almost everything I did. Growing up in a religious family and being indoctrinated under the biblical norms of the organization to which I belonged reinforced my natural tendency to "perfection" and strictness in doing things. I had to obey because I had to; I had to have control and willpower to please "God" and earn heaven in the future. As I continued reading the book review I was even more encouraged to read it: "Thus, it is incomprehensible that many cultures endorse and promote dogmatism and fundamentalism in any of its main manifestations as a standard to follow. If you choose to cling to your dogmas irrationally, you will have an impoverished and painful life."

But far from wanting to turn this post into an anti-religious preaching, what I wish to highlight is the fact that I felt that so much rigidity and righteousness was stifling me. I needed to make my life and my thoughts a little more flexible, after all, it is in the mind where everything originates and depending on how we use it we will see to a great extent the results of our life. The point is that thanks to that book and other information that I was gathering, I understood that for my mental and emotional health, it was advisable to expand my way of seeing things in order to find a balance in my life. I am not going to blame Riso and his book for what came after, just as I will not say that everything in religion is bad.

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