Stress Management

Stress Management’ has become the buzz word in the corporate world. Stress is the result of misplaced priorities. Mankind has, over the past few decades moved away from core values in life and has taken more to materialistic living.

Wealth creation per se is not bad; in a way it is good for the humanity in the sense that it aids in living a physically satisfying life. But, physical comfort at the cost of mental wellbeing is not desired. Handling stress correctly is possible only when its root cause is identified.

Stress Management is more of a mind stuff. To know as to how stress arises in a person, on should dig deep down to identify its roots. Stress is all due to underlying fear.

The fear may be due to anything that affects a person, maybe fear of losing job, fear of not being able to meet the targets, fear of intimidating boss, fear of inability to make a comfortable living, fear of interpersonal conflicts and their consequences etc.,

On the personal front, fear may be due to threatening family problems like divorce, ill-health of dependent family members etc., If we dissect any possible cause for stress, underneath it we will find the fear of death, which lies as the fundamental cause for all other forms of fear.

Fear of death is fear of time and fear of time is deeply the fear of unlived moments, unlived life. The solution to be free from fear (and hence free from stress) is simple. The solution lies in living life more intensely, more meaningfully.