Some useful thoughts on "Stress Management". These thoughts have been mailed to me by Brahm Kumaris.
Vasant Nair
Stress Management
There are some false beliefs about stress that we have acquired:
"Stress is natural and has a positive part to play in our present day lives"
Truth: There is no such thing as 'positive stress'. By definition, stress is unnatural and unhealthy, and is therefore always a negative state.
Stress can be defined as a form of pain that comes to tell you there is something you need to change. Pain - any pain - is a messenger saying there is something you need to learn.
While some people rightly differentiate pain from suffering, where pain is physical and suffering is mental or emotional, but the term pain can be used for both.
If you put your hand in the fire, what do you experience? Pain. What do you learn? Not to do it again. You listened to the messenger, you learned and you changed. We can experience stress or pain at four levels - spiritual, mental, emotional and physical. When the messenger comes at the mental or emotional levels, with painful thoughts and negative feelings created by no one but ourselves, do we listen to the messenger? No we don't, we shoot the messenger down. Why? Because we have been taught to believe that some stress is necessary and good. 'They' told us it is normal, and we believed 'them'. And so we allow stress to develop within ourselves, not realizing we are creating our own slow death. One reason why the developed world's medical services are having such a tough time is because more and more of us are taking less and less responsibility for our own mental and emotional well-being. No one told us that a single negative thought could have a devastating effect on our immune system.
There are some false beliefs about stress that we have acquired:
"Stress is natural and has a positive part to play in our present day lives"
Truth: The second reason why we feel that stress is normal and don’t learn and change is that we have grown to like a 'dose' of fear and a 'quick shot (injection)' of anger. Why? Because these emotions stimulate the production of certain addictive chemicals in our bodies. Many people cannot get through their day without their 'adrenaline dose'. So we go looking for bad situations, for confrontational people, for reasons to become angry, and if we don't get our dose then it feels like something is missing from our day.
To say that stress is normal, that a bit of stress is good, is a neat way of avoiding the inner work of self-responsibility and a sign of lazy thinking. We all learn to think lazily, it is largely an unfortunate consequence of our education (or lack of education) so most of us learn to believe that some stress is good. One thing is for sure, an increasing number of people are waking up to the reality that stress has no part in a fulfilling life and they are doing something about it at the level of their thoughts and feelings.
Warm Regards,
Brahma Kumaris
From India, Mumbai
90Vasant Nair
Stress Management
There are some false beliefs about stress that we have acquired:
"Stress is natural and has a positive part to play in our present day lives"
Truth: There is no such thing as 'positive stress'. By definition, stress is unnatural and unhealthy, and is therefore always a negative state.
Stress can be defined as a form of pain that comes to tell you there is something you need to change. Pain - any pain - is a messenger saying there is something you need to learn.
While some people rightly differentiate pain from suffering, where pain is physical and suffering is mental or emotional, but the term pain can be used for both.
If you put your hand in the fire, what do you experience? Pain. What do you learn? Not to do it again. You listened to the messenger, you learned and you changed. We can experience stress or pain at four levels - spiritual, mental, emotional and physical. When the messenger comes at the mental or emotional levels, with painful thoughts and negative feelings created by no one but ourselves, do we listen to the messenger? No we don't, we shoot the messenger down. Why? Because we have been taught to believe that some stress is necessary and good. 'They' told us it is normal, and we believed 'them'. And so we allow stress to develop within ourselves, not realizing we are creating our own slow death. One reason why the developed world's medical services are having such a tough time is because more and more of us are taking less and less responsibility for our own mental and emotional well-being. No one told us that a single negative thought could have a devastating effect on our immune system.
There are some false beliefs about stress that we have acquired:
"Stress is natural and has a positive part to play in our present day lives"
Truth: The second reason why we feel that stress is normal and don’t learn and change is that we have grown to like a 'dose' of fear and a 'quick shot (injection)' of anger. Why? Because these emotions stimulate the production of certain addictive chemicals in our bodies. Many people cannot get through their day without their 'adrenaline dose'. So we go looking for bad situations, for confrontational people, for reasons to become angry, and if we don't get our dose then it feels like something is missing from our day.
To say that stress is normal, that a bit of stress is good, is a neat way of avoiding the inner work of self-responsibility and a sign of lazy thinking. We all learn to think lazily, it is largely an unfortunate consequence of our education (or lack of education) so most of us learn to believe that some stress is good. One thing is for sure, an increasing number of people are waking up to the reality that stress has no part in a fulfilling life and they are doing something about it at the level of their thoughts and feelings.
Warm Regards,
Brahma Kumaris
From India, Mumbai
Dear Friend There is a chinese proverb One who got up in Anger will sit with loss. Hence the Anger is not at all required for anyone. With warm regards S. Bhaskar 9099024667
From India, Kumbakonam
From India, Kumbakonam
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