SAY NO TO STRESS

                                                  

Thinking  is a part of our mind. Thousands of thoughts come and go daily. It is a continuous process of a living mind. But when an individual is over obsessed with a particular thought, on mental level, he is virtually cut off from the world around and he is treated as a stressed man. He knows that by simply remaining shrouded in that particular idea will neither minimize nor remove the problem, but somehow he just cannot come out of that mental labyrinth.

In this connection, while reading a Hindi newspaper, I came across a very good analogy defining stress. I prefer to share with others who might have missed the daily. The teacher had to explain stress to his students. He held a glass of water in his hand. He held it for a minute and put it back. Nothing happened. Then he said that if he held the glass for an hour, he would have got stiffness and pain in his hands. He added, if he kept the glass in his hand for 24 hours, he might get pain, stiffness or even that part of the body could have got paralysed. Similarly, he advised, if a stressful situation overtakes you, drop it as quickly as you could. Nothing will happen. But if you allowed yourself to be haunted by that incident/thought indefinitely, you would start going closer to your end. You will have to convince yourself  that just continuously thinking about a problem brings no solution.

The Sanskrit word for stress is ‘chinta’. The word basically means thinking as well as over thinking on any situation. Our ancestors were aware of this silent but killing ailment. Therefore they said, “chinta chita samakhyata”, meaning that the stress ultimately takes one to crematorium. Though to start with it is just a thought, prolongation of which is sanguine. Every sane person has to remain ever alert against this sugar- coated poisonous pill.