Cause of distress

Your concept in the mind that things should be a certain way causes pain in the mind. The cause of distress is set concepts in the mind.

~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Stress management

Excerpts from a discourse by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev.

When I first came to the United States, wherever I went, I heard people talking about stress management.

We manage our families, our money, our property, our businesses — we manage whatever is valuable to us. Why would anybody manage stress? It took me a while to understand that people have made stress part of life.

Stress is not a part of life. It is not your lifestyle, it is not your work, it is not your family, it is not the situations in which you exist which cause stress to you; it is your inability to manage your system — your body, mind, emotions and your energy — your lack of understanding of how this system functions , your inability to use the system the way it should be used.

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Restfulness is the basis of all activity. You can be most effective in your life only when everything is at complete ease within. If your ability to act becomes effortless, naturally there is no such thing as stress.

The complete article can be read here: No need for stress