Ways To Deal With Change And Stress.
Through the years, I’ve had a lot of opportunity to work with people under stress and I’ve seen how important meditation is,forstaying balanced. Stress training is common today; but, most stress training simply. helps people relax. As important as this is, t is not enough because it works only with he conscious or subconscious mind. Meditation, however, enlists the super-consciousness, the infinite awareness at the core of our being. It is from this Heap level, that lasting changes come. Unhealthy levels of stress usually come from trying to control the incontrollable. Chronic stress can cause serious health problems. Since the effects of stress begin inthemind, the same event will affect different people in completely different ways, depending on now they react. It has been said, "Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional." Learn to flow with life and much of your stress will disappear. Be more accepting of life. Life Isa School and we draw to ourselves the events, circumstances, and relationships we need to help us grow. Every problem offers us two choices-to expand or contract our consciousness. Eventually, through meditation, we can discover an underlying joy that doesn't change under any circumstance. And expansion of consciousness is the essence of spiritual growth. Acceptance might seem like a somewhat passive state. But, we can develop a higher, more active state of acceptance. Paramhansa Yogananda said we should train our minds to be "even-minded and cheerful in all situations". This is a powerful, life changing technique. How do we achieve this state of mind? Commit yourself to being happy under all circumstance Then watch your reactions to events. As soon as you catch yourself being pulled down, reaffirm your decision to be happy Decide, also, to let go of old baggage. Realise, finally, that your highest duty is to love-to love others, to love life, and to love the Divinity within Make some practical changes to allow you to better deal with stress. On the physical level, make sure your diet is filled with fresh and vital foods. Get regular exercise. Find activities that expand your horizons, get out in nature or go to events that uplift your mind. Get sufficient sleep and rest, and try deep breathing during times of pressure. Look at your home environment to see if it helps you have a positive state of mind. Move your TV out of the centre of your life to a place where it doesn't intrude. Choose carefully the music that you listen to. Music has an incredibly powerful effect on our consciousness. Try to spend more tin with those friends who are positive as elf-contained, those who can help magnetise you into a state of being even-minded and calm. Get more in touch with your spirinature. Tune into your deeper essengthejoy and peace that lie within you. You claim your own higher reality, as child of God, you will begin to see Hinreflected back from everyone around you. Daily meditation is the way to fithese deeper states. In the morning it prepares you tothe day from a state of inner calmnesandjoy. At night it helps you to release everything and offer all your attachments back into the divine light
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Courtesy: Nayaswami Jyotish and Speaking Tree,Times of India
Ways To Deal With Change And Stress.
Through the years, I’ve had a lot of opportunity to work with people under stress and I’ve seen how important meditation is,forstaying balanced. Stress training is common today; but, most stress training simply. helps people relax. As important as this is, t is not enough because it works only with he conscious or subconscious mind. Meditation, however, enlists the super-consciousness, the infinite awareness at the core of our being. It is from this Heap level, that lasting changes come. Unhealthy levels of stress usually come from trying to control the incontrollable. Chronic stress can cause serious health problems. Since the effects of stress begin inthemind, the same event will affect different people in completely different ways, depending on now they react. It has been said, "Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional." Learn to flow with life and much of your stress will disappear. Be more accepting of life. Life Isa School and we draw to ourselves the events, circumstances, and relationships we need to help us grow. Every problem offers us two choices-to expand or contract our consciousness. Eventually, through meditation, we can discover an underlying joy that doesn't change under any circumstance. And expansion of consciousness is the essence of spiritual growth. Acceptance might seem like a somewhat passive state. But, we can develop a higher, more active state of acceptance. Paramhansa Yogananda said we should train our minds to be "even-minded and cheerful in all situations". This is a powerful, life changing technique. How do we achieve this state of mind? Commit yourself to being happy under all circumstance Then watch your reactions to events. As soon as you catch yourself being pulled down, reaffirm your decision to be happy Decide, also, to let go of old baggage. Realise, finally, that your highest duty is to love-to love others, to love life, and to love the Divinity within Make some practical changes to allow you to better deal with stress. On the physical level, make sure your diet is filled with fresh and vital foods. Get regular exercise. Find activities that expand your horizons, get out in nature or go to events that uplift your mind. Get sufficient sleep and rest, and try deep breathing during times of pressure. Look at your home environment to see if it helps you have a positive state of mind. Move your TV out of the centre of your life to a place where it doesn't intrude. Choose carefully the music that you listen to. Music has an incredibly powerful effect on our consciousness. Try to spend more tin with those friends who are positive as elf-contained, those who can help magnetise you into a state of being even-minded and calm. Get more in touch with your spirinature. Tune into your deeper essengthejoy and peace that lie within you. You claim your own higher reality, as child of God, you will begin to see Hinreflected back from everyone around you. Daily meditation is the way to fithese deeper states. In the morning it prepares you tothe day from a state of inner calmnesandjoy. At night it helps you to release everything and offer all your attachments back into the divine light
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Nayaswami Jyotish views and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Nayaswami Jyotish and Speaking Tree,Times of India