Stress Management ?
Dr.Rajiv C. SharangpaniMS (General Surgery)
Diplom Sports Medicine Germany
What is stress ?Stress is the interpretation of the present situation in the past context or future hope.
MANAGEMENT
Managing Health, Money, Business etc increases it.
If you manage stress it will also increase.
Thus Stress Management is counterproductive.
Becoming aware of our interpretations is the key.
AWARENESS
Awareness is continuous, simultaneous, nonjudgmental and total perception of internal and external environment
RIGHT ACTION
Effortless Effort is the right action. Happens out of Awareness. Total awareness leads to absolutely
right action.
Interpretation Story of the Sufi with wine and
woman Story of Buddha when
someone spits on him.
Society thrives on stress. Society makes each other
more and more stressfull through advertisement,serials, movies, dramas, gossip,newspapers and result oriented approach which should be process oriented.
TAI CHI: SYMBOL OF THE UNIVERSE
Mind in body and Body in Mind
One is in the other
Represents the interrelationship of all dualities as complimentary and interdependent
FEAR IS THE KEYFEAR IS THE KEY
All business in the society runs on FEAR.
A wrong conceptA wrong conceptWe are oriented towards having
disease and then treating it. We cannot think of health as such. In the same way we want to have stress and then manage it. This is business.
Damage to Mental healthDamage to Mental health
DesireAngerConceitTemptationAvariceJealousy
Fear
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Real Stress if at all
Real stress is only the stress of death for an average person because really nothing is known of the beyond
Story of dying Story of dying SocratesSocrates
Signs of Stress Rapid Shallow breathing Palpitations Sweating White face Trembling Loose motions and frequency of
urination
PEACE
Quick AppreciationResponse and not reactionExpression and not suppressionPath of Heart
PATANJALI’S ADVICE
Friendship with strongEgoless pity for unfortunateHappiness for one doing good Indifference for one doing bad
Laughter Laugh and no
stress will touch you but it should be a belly laugh and not a polite social laugh which will increase the stress.
Key to stress reliefNasal abdominal breathing is the key.
Effect of ExerciseEffect of Exercise All the exercises are a help to
readjust the joint positions to relieve stress and keep the body/mind unstressed.
Weight training is the most important exercise in present age and not Yoga.
Effect of each exercise on body/mind different but all together they help.
YogaYogaGives a neutral peaceful feeling
Weight TrainingWeight TrainingGives a positive peaceful
feeling.
Endurance Endurance trainingtraining
Gives a negative peaceful feeling.
YOGIC FOODYOGIC FOODFood which gives pleasure to
both ends of the Gastrointestinal tract.
Eating Meditation or Eating Meditation or Yogic eating.Yogic eating.
What we eat becomes our body/mindEat only when hungryEat when you eatDo not swallow till taste and flavour
disappears.Bless the one who provided you mealsNever comment on food
Work from the highest thoughtWork from the highest thought
Thought becomes wordsWords become actionAction creates the world we live in.
Correct attitudeCorrect attitude
A correct attitude gives us the correct perspective of our situation and our place in the developing situation
Correct attitudesCorrect attitudes
Work is its own rewardThis too shall passResponsibility is mineEverybody is equal before deathPresent moment is the culmination of life lived
so farChange is truthThere is no cause and effect
There is no There is no stress stress thisthis
moment, only moment, only if………..if………..
…….you are in Meditation. Anything done with full AWARENESS is meditation.