Never Make Stress Your Ally

Never Make Stress Your Ally : 

We are only now beginning to understand that subjective states like pain and happiness are not standardised. In fact, as we constantly reshape the brain and nervous system through everyday experience, each of us is structuring a unique response to the world, including our response to stress. This implies that there are people with high tolerance for stress and others with low tolerance, just as there is for pain. But if you put soldiers under high stress of battle, eventually all of them will become shell-shocked unless they are given time away from the front line.

Therefore, don't try to make stress your ally, either by toughing it out or turning your back on the problem. The conscious choice is to recognise that modern life is a battleground of low-level stress, sometimes peaking into high stress that will have a damaging effect over time unless you deal with everyday stressors in a consistent, effective way.

Om Namah Shivay