Dance away your stress

Dance away your stress: You are carrying a bomb inside you if you are repeatedly stressed. The way to go is to kill it before it kills you. Instead of getting involved into the madness of your confusion that has caused your stress, you should try to get out of it, either by learning to ignore it or by finding a solution.  Peter Bregman, in his book, The Best Way to Diffuse Your Stress, says you better “think of stress as a monster who lives in your body and feeds on ’uncertainty’. The monster’s most satisfying meal starts with, What will happen if ...? What will happen if one of the projects I am working on runs into objections? And the like. No normal human being can be stress free. Some conquer the ‘monster’, others fail to do so and fall a victim. If one gets cool-headed, much of  the stress factors keep away. Stress is like a parasite and attacks the weakest of minds. Confusion is let loose and a world of darkness seems to be enveloping one. When you say try to forget your stress as one of the ways to be free of it, it means that you learn to live with it but don’t try to be overly conscious of it. You will see, in no time, it has gone out of your being. Its best opportunity comes when you keep yourself ‘busy’ with it and doing nothing else. Bregman says one need not try to manage one’s stress. Instead, try to dance with it. The monster will ease out.  But this kind of ‘solution’ can’t be exercised by everyone. The best way, for most of us, is to use logic to see why you are stressed and why it is clinging to you like a parasite. If we understand this much, then we will understand that we have been worrying over nothing. And you will soon be a free bird. Still not convinced‘? Take this from the great Buddhist philosopher monk, Santideva, “If the problem can be solved, why worry? If the problem can’t be solved, worrying will do you no good.”