Stress Management - What Is The Fuss About?

I just recently have heard from a friend of mine that she is looking for stress management.

To be honest I don't have a real clue what the widely used term might mean. The only vision I have in mind is related to business to keep calm and one could perform better at a more exhaustive pace at work. But I guess that's not really the point - although I have no other clue, what it might be... OR what's the benefit if someone is longing for stress management in private life.


Some ideas what the terms means for you, how you do it and what's the purpose/aim of it?

 

To begin with your wife is cheating on you and she’s picked up a nasty STD that’s immune to antibiotics, your boss is always shouting about deadlines, you’ve been spending too many nights at Kelly’s bar, your 13 year old daughter is pregnant and needs your written consent for an abortion, and your 15 year old son is the town bully, he failing his classes, and will likely end up in jail or state prison

None of these things are true about me but I’d call that stress management


Hotwater :clown:

 

It just means they are looking for a way to cope with all the stress in their lives. They must be stressed and in a bad mood all the time and hoping to find a way out of that.

 

Sounds like one more thing to add to an already overly busy schedule... Yeah, that'll help.

 

I need some stress management in my life. I try channeling the stressful energy into productive forms but I could walk or work out or write for hours and still can't beat this ever pervasive stress and anxiety that follows me around.

 

i assume she's trying to figure out where to buy some weed.

 

it may be a way of looking for excuses to avoid looking for ways to avoid creating situations and conditions that create stress.

stress is experienced internally, but it results from real world conditions, and solving those, is the only real solution, to what we experience from them

 

^^Anyone who doesn't experience some stress in this world is either asleep or under the effects of some euphoria producing drug. It's stressful as fuck just being on this planet at this time.


No amount of psychology or counselling will remove the reasons for the stress IMO. It may help you deal with your own reactions to it.

 

true, but there are things you can do to minimize it. for example, a lot of people get stressed about being behind at work, when they could have easily worked a little harder in the first place and never fallen behind.

 

if it was "easily", they would either have done so and not be stressed about it, or they really aren't very bright to begin with.

 

You are forgetting all the lazy people.

 

no. i've covered that with not being very bright, also that the label "lazy" comes from a perspective that is based in myth rather then logic.
most people can do almost anything when they don't have to, and almost nothing when they do. this is not a defect.
only by brainwashing people (and other living creatures) otherwise, does slavery become possible.

 

The simpler you keep your life, the less stress you generate. People put too much stress on what people say or do. If your stressing about filing that report, find a job that doesn't require you to stress over a report. Stressing over your debt, don't get into debt, stressing over your love life, well it is time to move on from your partner.

Stress is a big money maker, Eat right, workout, YOGA, better shoes/clothe and ergonomic chairs. Look at what most people wear around town, Lycra gym gear, Nikes', water bottles and most don't even go to a gym.
They make trendy track suit pants to go to work in. Al Davis was on to something lol

 

Do meditation, go for a walk, spend time in nature, call a good friend, play with a pet, work in your garden, curl up with a good book, listen to music, watch a comedy.Also there are some stress management centers like Rygginstitute which helps to manage stress. You can visit there.

 

humans as a species, are perfectly capable of not creating the conditions of existence which create each others stress.
ideological and other fanatacisms oppose the logic of avoiding creating them doing so.

really the best way to "manage" stress, is to avoid creating it as a culture.

 

to me, "fix the person and it won't be a problem" IS the problem. and one very much worth 'fussing' about.

it ain't freedom if it ain't what you want. it damd sure ain't freedom if someone else is telling you what to want.
and that's the problem with the so called american dream, american nightmare i call it,
is that it IS someone else telling you what to want.

 

little bit astray from stress management....

but the question arises what will you (themnax) do, if others tell you what to do to reduce stress, to be happy, to achieve ...? What will you do if they asked you why not even try it? Why blocking in advance like a blockhead?

 

could you be a bit more specific?

i can tell you how to eliminate stress entirely, but its something it takes us together to do as a culture, and that is to stop romanticizing and rewarding aggressiveness.

what precisely do mean by achieve? productivity for its own sake produces too much of the wrong things for the wrong reasons, even itself contributing to stress.

it isn't freedom if it isn't what you want, and what i want, has nothing to do with symbolic value, nor trying to impress anyone.

 

Wow, that's awful. I never knew that it was like that for you.

Meditation? Acupuncture? A massage? A friendly pet?

I attended a satsang recently that emphasized the importance of gratitude and seeing everyone you meet as god. I think it has improved my outlook on life.