The word "stress" used to be a purely engineering term.It dealt with how much pressure and tensile force a piece of metal could bear without deforming. Today, it is also employed as a medical term, referring to the effects on the human body of things such as work pressure, weather, heart,noise, traffic, pollution, financial problems, job interviews, presentations, disagreements, demands for one's time and attention, loss of loved ones, combined with psychological forces such as defeatist, negative and irrational thinking.
Result: deep-seated anxiety, tension and depression on the psycological front and frequent colds, flu, viral and bacterial infections, raised blood pressure, increased heart rate and the onset of cardiovascular disease on the physiological front.The problem is so acute, research shows, that two-thirds of all working days lost are due directly or indirectly to the effectsof stress.work pressure today and demands to achieve ever and ever tougher goals has burgeoned to the level that the average office goer works three times as hard for only twice the pay compared to twenty years ago! Just look at your own kids! The weight and number of books they lug with them to school today is more than five times what kids carried a decade aShockingly, but predictably, psychiatrists have lately begun to notice symptoms of study-related stress in these minorstoo! Even more sadly, it has been found that babies within the womb of pregnant and depressed mothers are born with clinical symptoms of depression, too.Today is the Age, not of the Space Shuttle, but of Stress !But this stress epidemic we see spreading throughout theworld is not bacterial, viral or physical at root. It is societa and psychological. Most of the infections, raised blood pressures and arterial blockages are symptomatic. This cannot be 'overstressed. Stress has developed out of an irrational and blind rush for material success and pleasure with the result of milions of people ending up not with true gold but Fool'sGold - iron pyrite - as did millions of people in South Africa in the 1950s. Materialistic pleasure and success is fool's gold.But ignorance drives ignorance. Numbers drive numbers."The masses can't be wrong," people reason to themselves."Let's follow them." Like a flock of sheep which observes one after another of its members step off a cliff with the reasoning that the previous lot couldn't all be wrong. Intelligent human beings are gripped so tightly by the notion that all the rich and famous actors, dancers, singers, models, businessmen,doctors, pilots and IT barons before them can't all be wrong, that they choose to leap off the cliff too! "Insanity in individuals is something rare," said Friedrich Nietzsche, "but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule." And did you know that even psychiatrists can suffer from this insanity-related stress and depression?What will lift this menace that hovers above the heads of almost one and all? It will consist, say experts, of asking ourselves the fundamental question, "Wherein lies our basic self-esteem?" This is a question that hits the root reason behind nearly everything we do. Most people today attempt to build their self-esteem or their self-value on the possession of wealth, fame, status, good looks and talent. But this is foolhardy. "Marilyn Monroe, Mark Rothko, Freddie Prinz,and a multitude of famous suicide victims attest to this grim truth," says Dr. David D. Burns in his best-selling bookFeeling Good.All the above people had almost unlimited wealth, fame and status, etc. They were also adored by millions. Yet they threw away their own lives! The fact is, until you love yourself, approve of yourself, endorse and affirm yourself,no amount of wealth or talent or adoration from the masses is going to lift your depression. Learning to love yourself,for what you are - whether you have any achievements or talents behind your name or not is the fundamental basis of peace and true, self-sourced self-esteem. Self-esteem is about accepting and loving yourself together with the world, with all its ups and downs, unconditionally. Understanding this truth, loving it and living by it is the Royal Road to uprootingdepression and averting all its physical consequences.
The word "stress" used to be a purely engineering term.It dealt with how much pressure and tensile force a piece of metal could bear without deforming. Today, it is also employed as a medical term, referring to the effects on the human body of things such as work pressure, weather, heart,noise, traffic, pollution, financial problems, job interviews, presentations, disagreements, demands for one's time and attention, loss of loved ones, combined with psychological forces such as defeatist, negative and irrational thinking.
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The problem is so acute, research shows, that two-thirds of all working days lost are due directly or indirectly to the effects of stress.
work pressure today and demands to achieve ever and ever tougher goals has burgeoned to the level that the average office goer works three times as hard for only twice the pay compared to twenty years ago! Just look at your own kids! The weight and number of books they lug with them to school today is more than five times what kids carried a decade a Shockingly, but predictably, psychiatrists have lately begun to notice symptoms of study-related stress in these minors too! Even more sadly, it has been found that babies within the womb of pregnant and depressed mothers are born with clinical symptoms of depression, too.
Today is the Age, not of the Space Shuttle, but of Stress !But this stress epidemic we see spreading throughout theworld is not bacterial, viral or physical at root. It is societa and psychological. Most of the infections, raised blood pressures and arterial blockages are symptomatic. This cannot be 'overstressed. Stress has developed out of an irrational and blind rush for material success and pleasure with the result of milions of people ending up not with true gold but Fool's
Gold - iron pyrite - as did millions of people in South Africa in the 1950s. Materialistic pleasure and success is fool's gold.But ignorance drives ignorance. Numbers drive numbers.
"The masses can't be wrong," people reason to themselves.
"Let's follow them." Like a flock of sheep which observes one after another of its members step off a cliff with the reasoning that the previous lot couldn't all be wrong. Intelligent human beings are gripped so tightly by the notion that all the rich and famous actors, dancers, singers, models, businessmen,doctors, pilots and IT barons before them can't all be wrong, that they choose to leap off the cliff too! "Insanity in individuals is something rare," said Friedrich Nietzsche, "but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule." And did you know that even psychiatrists can suffer from this insanity-related stress and depression?
Feeling Good.All the above people had almost unlimited wealth, fame and status, etc. They were also adored by millions. Yet they threw away their own lives! The fact is, until you love yourself, approve of yourself, endorse and affirm yourself,no amount of wealth or talent or adoration from the masses is going to lift your depression. Learning to love yourself,
for what you are - whether you have any achievements or talents behind your name or not is the fundamental basis of peace and true, self-sourced self-esteem. Self-esteem is about accepting and loving yourself together with the world, with all its ups and downs, unconditionally. Understanding this truth, loving it and living by it is the Royal Road to uprootingdepression and averting all its physical consequences.
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