How To Manage Stress

 

How To Manage Stress

We manage things that are precious to us. Our families, our organizations, our cash, our property, whatever is valuable to us, we will deal with that. Why would somebody want to manage stress? I couldn’t get it for some time (Laughs). Then I realized people have concluded, that stress is an extra limb that they have in their body.

Stress is an appendage that they cannot get rid of. Stress is not a part of you. You get stressed because you do not know how to handle your mind.No attention has been paid to how to handle this mind, how to handle this emotion, how to deal with this body, how to deal with these energies; nothing has been done about it. You’re managing such a sophisticated system accidentally. So you being upsetting, is a characteristic result of such oblivious living.

There is no other way to be. Don’t think your job is stressful. Presently you are an understudy, being an understudy is unpleasant. If you don’t find employment when you come out of college, that is stressful. If you get a job, even more stressful. If you don’t get married, that is very stressful. If you get married…(Gestures) (Laughter) I don’t want to say anything(Laughs).

If you don’t have children, that is stressful. If you have children, you pull your hair out with stress (Laughs). So it isn't your work or your life circumstances that are unpleasant. Stress is happening to you because of your inability to manage your system.  Not realizing how to deal with this framework is upsetting. If this (Referring to oneself) happened the way you want it, you wouldn’t be stressed.

If you…You do a simple Inner Engineering process, just 21 minutes a day –today you take your pulse rate before and after food, do it for six weeks, check your pulse rate and see, it will be considerably down, which essentially shows, with the same level of activity…this is a simple indicator, there are many other parameters that you could check but this is an extremely simple indicator for which you don’t have to go to any laboratory, you can check it yourself.

The lowering of the pulse with the same level of activity indicates that your system is going at an easier pace. That means it’s working much more efficiently. If you drive your car at 2000 pm, the engine may last 100,000-kilometers or miles. If you drive the same engine at 5000 rpm, it may last only 50,000 miles or less, simply because it’s unnecessarily revved up. So if this (Referring to oneself) can do everything that it has to do in an easy space that means it is happening efficiently. Any machine which has the least amount of friction within itself happens efficiently, naturally produces more with the least amount of stress. It is time you do some Inner Engineering (Laughs).