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

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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.