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Stress for long can kill

Stress can kill when it amounts to "deadly doses" for a long time. Otherwise it is related to many common diseases. Among the physical ones, estimates of doctors range between 70 and 90 percent. "Related" means either wholly caused by stress, or partially caused by it.

Stress influences a lot of people, and sets its marks on many - hardly for good in the long term. Thus, stress and its most relevant causes could need to be dealth with in jolly good time - at best before there is stress, by stress prevention. The next best is to handle the causes of stress when the stress is mild. The third best is to seek therapy before the ill effects have gone too far.

Stress prevention and stress handling had better be common knowledge, if you consider the diverse, harmful effects and diseases it may give rise to, either by itself or along with other factors.

At this point you are referred to gentle, all-round surveys (bottom of page). Add to it: If you learn to relax wisely and methodically, you could bulwark against stress, many harmful effects of highly paced modern living, and enjoy life more or better. It depends much on you.

Sound relaxation and fit skills can help a life

To learn to meditate wisely is not impossible. Many could thrive more and better by meditating wisely and well. Much depends on the good method. And every little sitting may help you guard and evolve rest for mind and body. Regular resting periods may counteract stress to some extent. [Smith 2004:505].

Go about your business fit and to the point, linking up to your advantage. Do not exploit your inner reserves. It hardly works all right to force anyone to get calm and uncomplaining; it is hardly different with your deeper mind. Life may get easier on you if you learn to stand by your assets and even increase them - save money, for example - than to dispense with things. Many teach meditation and yoga these days. The Western lifestyle and its strains and abuses is a great reason, for yoga and meditation counteract it, or gives release - Few consider that if you can stand more exploitation and abuse - by mainstream yoga and meditation and many other ways, you do not manage ideally. You have to build a life-style that fits you too, ideally, and lets you improve your conditions also.

1. Heaven is said to be inside. What is inside is also termed Deep Mind

Many big-sounding words and ideas may appear and disturb the practice. There is at times a deep need to digest hard experiences - it is not so bad to be distracted by the mental handling of it in the meditation. You get caught on a memory train and try to stay aware anyway, focusing on the method as best you can till you get aware that - oops, you drifted again. This happens to many, and not seldom. Try to avoid or lessen it by steady, relaxed focus on your fit method. Otherwise memories, memory fractions, reveries, and other distractions may crowd out very much of the time you have set off for practice. The risk is waste of time. If you contemplate well for a while, maybe you get happy.

2. You can follow suit and link up to the very best ancestors

To follow suit in these times, an education is much to go for. And so are instructions from your nearest of kin, hopefully. Maybe you can take off from accumulated winnings of near ones if you find them interesting. If not, I suggest you let it be, and stick to your main motivations. They do not tend to be fickle, and maybe they lead to gains to be had. Who knows.

Learn to relax as you perform chores at home and at work, and you may be spared much trouble. You may need to know how to handle some persons too, even psychopath bosses above you. Many diseases are psychosomatic, one half to two thirds of most common ailments have a psychosomatic component, medical doctors estimate. (Smith 505)

Check now and then how well you are doing in various alleys; some self-tests assist it. Maybe you can ferret them out and sort out the rubbish tests. There are difference between "all sorts of tests", valid tests, and reliable tests. It pays to discern between them, and go for reliable, valid wisdom too. And do not be reckless or sloppy about meditating if you do not have an experienced instructor. If your attainments go beyond those of the instructor's, you may be ill advised by that one. [Ams 477 ff.

Adjust to how the mind works naturally: allow it its say as you practice. Tune into hints from the poignant dreams you get as you move ahead - that is one method. ◊

3. Mud can be filtered and also allowed to settle

Minds are compared to lakes, and some lakes are muddy. A sitting (session) is like clearing the water of the mind so it gets limpid. Ruminating on experiences may assist the filtering. The mind is an intriguing thing to understand, and so is the psychosomatic connection - how mind operates in the body and sensing, and how the body and sensing affects the mind. The Deep Mind is the thing to go into in deep meditation, and thoughts of Padma-Sambhava are well worth noting. Being literal about descriptions of "heavens" and other things outside of your experience, may serve to block you from having a keen, alert mind that registers the experiences you do have. Being literal-minded may block you a lot. [Link]. ◊

So

Find a rhythm of work and deep meditation that suits you, and you have to get as much as you give, or you and your resources may end up depleted or abused. Skills help too along rewarding avenues. Drop being nosy - Take to Deep Mind diving, be tactful and appropriate.

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Go for Accruing Benefits ☼

Be recurrently divested of language for more time and harvest many benefits.

A person should go for benefits that accrue and tend to get stored in good neighbourhoods if possible.

1. A man should go for benefits that accrue and tend to get stored in good neighbourhoods if possible

If you do not have meditation experiences, many terms about it may not tell much - unless you read into stories and sayings of yogis where they are used. Ramakrishna is one source of such formulations. He describes meditation experiences at length in a large work, The Gospel of Ramakrishna. At least parts are on-line today.

Allusions and figurative mentions are not easy to deal with for the literal-minded of fixed mentalities and stubborn habits. Maintain integrity and lax proficiency as best he can, if surrounded by them. And the effects or fruits of "gentle slips" (meditation sessions) by "duck sounds" and the like as you fathom your inner sides - "plumb yourself", well, they may be accumulative. It means you can build health reserves through the best meditation methods available in the West. But not all are for free.

Effects of some meditation methods:

  • Maybe nothing is perceive, especially if you mainly sit down to let the mind drift and rove about. Make the sessions a part of your quality time instead.
  • Maybe some more peace and poise in the start, maybe not. After all, much depends on your associates and the damages they do to you, on your standing in life, on the respect you get and deserve, and on how congenital and rewarding your neighbourhood is. Not everyone lives in a castle to their benefit either.
  • Maybe you should become sterner. The bet is "yes".
  • Anyway, learn to meditate. Being exact, to the point, and meticulous could helps, and elsewhere too. ◊

There are many needs in a life. Sound preparations may spare troubles also.

2. Be recurrently divested of language for more time and harvest many benefits

Regular periods, remain tidy, enjoy titbits of nature. The sight of a duck, goose, or swan in the sky: Is a flying duck something to look up to as it passes you overhead? You do not have to be a hunter to appreciate the bird. Aesthetic pleasures reach high. The first experience of higher states came to Paramahansa Ramakrishna when he was a boy of seven or so and looked up one day. There he saw some swans flying across the sky - the sight took his breath away and he fell into a swoon. You do not have to do that to rally nature sights.

Koan: Saying "swan" in Sanskrit, do you make yourself into one in time?

You should know exactly how to and eliminate possible bad sides to the enterprise, if possible. A complete training program may pave the way for you and go a long way. But do not overdo it.

Solutions

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  1. The best meditation methods - who are they and where can you get them? What do they cost and what will they require of your living?
  2. It is much all right to use meditation for different ends. They include better health. A survey: [◦ A Lynch Foundation survey] .

SIMPLY. In traditional yoga the regenerative effects of good meditation methods are said to depend in part on how you live also - your way of life in general and moral.

Proficiency

If things really are "neat and handy" they may be worth buying, if affordable.

The same goes for self-help methods. Check if the methods or other means really work, and judge how good the proof is and how far it goes. Take a look at the teacher and tone - is it all too dogmatic? Authoritarian structures and attitudes demand that many are "bottomers" (underlings).

Self-Realised ones are not all figured out by all and sundry. Still, they are able to adapt to the knowledge and thinking of others, as Buddha is reported to have said and done.

Delve into winning streaks and parts of yoga and meditation. That could work well and shows good sense.

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Meditation tips, Literature  

Cavalcanti, Leandro, and Sofia Azevedo, eds. 2013. Psychology of Stress: New Research. New York: Nova Science Publishers.

Ciccarelli, Saundra K., and J. Noland White. Psychology. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2012. ⍽▢⍽ Stress knowledge: p 408-45.

Kahn, Ada P. The Encyclopedia of Stress and Stress-Related Diseases. 2nd ed. New York: Facts on File, 2006.

Kottler, Jeffrey A., and David D. Chen. Stress Management and Prevention: Applications to Everyday Life. 2nd ed. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2011.

MedicineNet.com. "Stress Related Diseases and Conditions". MedicineNet 1996-2015. [◦List]

Murray, Michael T. Stress, Anxiety, and Insomnia: What the Drug Companies Won't Tell You and Your Doctor Doesn't Know. The Natural Solutions that Can Change Your Life. Coquitlam, BC: Mind Publishing, 2012.

Nolen-Hoeksema, Susan, et al. 2015. Atkinson and Hilgard's Introduction to Psychology. 16th ed. New Delhi, India: Cengage India. ⍽▢⍽ Stress: 492-525. (The 16th ed. is of 2014).

Shrand, Joseph A., with Leigh M. Devine. Manage Your Stress: Overcoming Stress in the Modern World. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2012.

Zautra, Alex J. Emotions, Stress, and Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

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