How to manage stress in life

HOW TO MANAGE STRESS IN LIFE:

We all experience that our duties get affected by the moods. When the mood is off, the mood is not optimal, you can't perform well. If our mind could always be in an elevated, inspired, uplifted mood, we will naturally performed well. While you work, you experience there is tension, anxiety, fear, hankering, aversion,greed. All these negative emotions are present in the mind. They are impacting us and together they are creating STRESS. What is the STRESS? Today we are in the 21st century. The world has speeded up with mobile phones and pagers and SMS and whatsapp and viber and tweets. The speed of the world has increased, and the consequence is STRESS. While we have rapidly conquered new frontiers in science, when it comes to conquering the mind, humankind is at a stand still. Problems of the mind are ever increasing. We have harnessed external nature. But when it comes to internal nature, we are at a failure. Albert Einstein said science has succeeded in denaturing the plutonium atom but it is unable to denature the evil in man's hearts. How to conquer the mind? Science doesn't have a solution and hence STRESS has become a universal phenomenon. So what is STRESS? To an engineer, STRESS is the force in a machine part, in a beam, in a structure that tends to shear it, twist it, turn it, break it, bend it. We also experience STRESS in our emotional personality when we encounter the external world. When we were little children, we were hungry and our mother was not around. We experienced STRESS and cried. And as grown-ups, as factory manager, you experienced when your boss says the production is not up to the mark. Your job is under danger. The causes of STRESS are infinite. So let us try and figure out how spirituality can help us MANAGE STRESS? First of all understand that stressful situations are always there in the world. But our stressful response is the one that causes problems. Difficult situations will always be there in the world. Don't expect a world free from difficulties Once in a while people say, "for what reason does God give me challenges ?" " Some people go beyond, "if God is sending hardships then I don't believe in God. He should give me an easy life." But just think it the student who is studying all the year long, if he says teacher I don't want any tests. I will only study, no tests. The teacher will say, then how will you go into the next class? The test is there to help promote you to the next class. Similarly God deliberately has created a world with difficulties. It's not that there is a defect in his design. You know he wanted to create a perfect world but by chance the world has got earthquakes and cyclones and hurricanes. Is there a defect in his design? No. The Chandogyopanishad says, why did God allow earthquakes etc to be a part of nature? He could have changed the physical properties a little, so there would be no earthquakes. The Chandogyopanishad answers, He deliberately creates challenges so that people don't become complacent in their situation. The difficulty forces them to manifest their latent physical abilities, mental, psychological, emotional, spiritual abilities to face the challenge. That is how they grow.Now if you say, just remove it, then growth will be retarded. when God gives us difficulties, it's his way for filling up our wings so that we can fly high. But we look for somebody who can cut our cocoon, who can remove our difficulties and give us an easy life without realizing it is those difficulties that help us, prepare us for the flight ahead. Do any of you have difficult circumstances in your life? Everyone has. This is the nature of God's design. He says I want you to keep progressing. I will keep sending difficulties not to pull you down, to help you grow further and further and further so that one day we can become perfect. The Bible says be perfect. Even as your father in heaven is perfect. God wants us to reach that perfection where we are like him and he has arranged for difficulties. But in those difficulties, we should not become internally STRESSED. So the point to understand here is, hard work never STRESSES us. You can work from morning to night, and still be unstressed. What STRESSES us is attachment to results. When we are attached to results that is what STRESSES us out. If instead of being attached to the results, if you could focus on your effort, you will do a far greater and better job. That is the art of work. You have the right to do your work. Do it nicely, properly, with full focus. But don't be attached to the results. The results come for so many reasons: your present efforts, your past Karmas. Some people they do a little work, and get great results. Some people do great work they get little results. There's past Karmas , The efforts of others. Now if there's a job interview and fifty people have applied, one of them has to be selected. So the efforts of others as well the general karma of the whole place. An earthquake happened to come. what to do? The will of God, sheer chance. "You happen to be in an unlucky spot." So the results are not in your hands. Don't be be attached to them. You have the effort in your hands.You put in the effort. It will solve all the problems.