How to deal with inner conflict

How to deal with inner conflict

Internal conflict is described as a “Mental struggle arising from opposing demands or impulses”.

Have you ever been in a situation where your friends all wanted to do something or go somewhere and something inside you was telling you, “This is not going to end well…”? Or you wanted to buy something, but the voice inside of you was saying, “you cannot afford this right now, remember you need to buy food, have transport fair, that marketing textbook and your friend’s belated birthday present?”

These are just a few examples of internal/inner conflict – when you have the impulse to do something while an inner voice (life experience) jumps in and tells you it’s not such a great idea.

The older we get, the more life experience we have and the better we are able to judge things and make better decisions, even when we haven’t experienced the exact same thing before.

But what happens when we don’t resolve inner conflict?

The effects of inner conflict include: moodiness, stress, anxiety, depression and lack of self-regulation, which may or may not lead to procrastination, indecision, lack of purpose, self-sabotage and work or relationship failure.

Quite hectic right?

The best advice when you’re conflict is, life is too short to stress out, follow a direction that will leave you feeling good about yourself. It’s very easy to please people, but at the end of the day you have to live with the choices you make and the consequences thereof.

Following a problem solving process will help you deal with inner conflict, because, after-all, inner conflict is a problem that affects so many aspects of your life. Find out here how to tune your problem-solving abilities.