One could only suppose that something that doesn’t have emotions doesn’t have the ability to betray you, like your arm, or your ear, but my mind has given me reasons to think otherwise. Every time I can finally give myself some time to relax, I either bust my toe, get a bad grade, get a huge headache, or something else happens that I could just forget about and continue with my ‘relaxing time’, but no, I don’t forget about them, I subconsciously let them get to me and stress me out. I wish I wouldn’t do this, I hate it, because even though I am a person that handles stress well, I’m always under a little bit of stress, and I’m never completely relaxed.
Most likely, the reason behind this is that I am subconsciously ‘scared’ of getting too relaxed because I somehow ‘miss out’ on what is going on around me, and me having something to keep me somewhat stressed is a way to maintain myself alert, and thus, aware. Of course this is an irrational uneasement, as when you think about it, the idea seems ridiculous, but it still ‘uneases’ me. This sense of worrying about getting too relaxed, however ridiculous it sounds, happens to lots of people, maybe not for the same reasons it does to me, but it does happen. Some people think they won’t look as good if they’re seen relaxed, others don’t like it when their thoughts slow down, and others get worried their heart rate slows down too much.
The mind can work both ways. With you or against you. Of course it doesn’t work on its own, it can’t ‘decide’ to do or don’t do something, you subconsciously tell it to either do it or not. When I start letting small things stress me out, even though I don’t directly choose to do so, I am the one allowing my mind to let them stress me out. And since these stresses are triggered through irrational worries, also coming from my subconscious, I guess that our subconscious and irrationalities are where all stress and worry arise.