Have you ever felt as though someone is pulling your strings, making you do things you would rather not or stopping you from doing things you would prefer to continue?
Most of us don’t like the feeling to be manipulated.
Being manipulated can be a highly stressful experience, it is unpleasant, demeaning, and disturbing.
But it happens so often.
Manipulation is used because it works so well.
If it wouldn’t work, it would stop!
When you allow a manipulator to exploit and control you, he will continue to manipulate you.
As long as it works for him, there is no reason for him to stop it.
However, if you make the manipulation ineffective by changing your reaction, your attitude, your behavior, the manipulator will be forced to change tactics or to seek an easier target elsewhere.
Tags: control, decision making, manipulation, manipulator, stress
