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USE YOUR THINK TIME TO REDUCE STRESS
Pramod Batra
Do you ever try to think of ways of reducing stress? You can do this
in your “think time” – when you have nothing active to do like when
traveling, before going to sleep, when getting up when shaving, in
between tasks and so on. Personally, I find it a good way of reducing
my stress.
This is how I do it. Mentally, I list what is crowding my mind.
Sometimes I write it down. Then I make mental calculations to see more
clearly what I can do and what I cannot do. I have a go and a no-go
device-like quality control people have-in my mind, which tells me
what will give me happiness and what will give me stress. I find out
how much of each is involved, and then superimpose my extraneous
factors on the stress giving activities-such as pressures from my
wife, children, colleagues, friends and relatives. Again in
stress-related activities, I calculate how much trade-off is possible
and I try to reduce stress damage as much as possible.
Over the years, I have become less stressful. Earlier I used to spend
60 minutes to 120 minutes tossing in my bed; now I fall asleep
sometimes in as little as 6 minutes. I keep my mind uncluttered and
decongested of whatever I do not need; I want to meet my needs and not
my greeds.
I empty my mind also and this think time is very useful. I empty my
mind several times a day of whatever I do not need and of things said
by others that hurt me a the time or may hurt me later.
Very often, I bring on my mental screen the following wonderful story:
Two monks were traveling in the rain, the mud sloshing under their
feet. As they passed a rivulet crossing they saw a beautiful girl
finely dressed unable to cross because of the mud. Without a word the
older monk simply picked up the woman and carried her to the other
side.
The younger monk was seemingly agitated for the rest of their journey
and could not contain himself once they reached their destination. The
younger monk exploded at the older monk, “how could you a monk even
consider holding a woman in your arms much less a young and beautiful
one? It is against our teachings. It is in very bad taste”.
“I put her down at the road side,” said the older monk. “Are you still
carrying her?”
Now don’t we all “carry her” for years and decades together and become
stressful? Why not start having self-audit sessions and throw
thousands of “hers” into the dustbin?
Etch on the screen of your mind that no man or woman is always
fortunate. Each one of us is like a wheel which revolves and different
shades of fortunate and unfortunate keep on emerging and dissolving
all the time. It is wise to remember; “It shall pass,” be it good or
bad luck. So during your more fortunate periods enjoy your good
fortune.
Again, through thinking I have built self-respect in my own mind. I
seldom worry about what people think about me. I am what I am and so
be it! No one can ever insult me. Whenever anyone tries remember the
story of the old salesman and the new salesman: A new recruit burst
into a veteran sales manager’s office complaining bitterly that he had
been insulted by a dealer when he visited him. He was not shown the
normal business courtesies. The old man was amused and told his young
colleague that he had been virtually kicked out of dealerships but
never had he been insulted!
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