IMPORTANCE OF TOTAL STRESS MANAGEMENT: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR


Total Stress Management means; to understand the nature, causes, dimensions, mechanisms, effects and principles of management of stress and practicing the solutions in accordance! This improves; cognition, affect and conation i.e. our views, our feelings and our actions. This includes the study of issues; affecting our private and public life; and is called Conceptual Stress Management. Lastly all this is inseparable from its core; the practice of NAMASMARAN.

Unfortunately many of us try frantically to manage stress without this understanding; and as a result; create and perpetuate STRESS and its numerous ill effects in the society.

Thus a student, who has stress of examination; may avoid appearing for examination, a doctor, who has a stress of treating a difficult disease; may shirk from his duty, a farmer, who has stress of drought; may commit suicide, a mill worker, who has stress of lay off and being rendered jobless; may be forced into illegal underworld activities.

The a prime minister of a country, who has stress of making decisions with national impact; such as nuclear testing, special economic zone, holistic health promotion, holistic education, organic farming, caste or religion based reservation policy; may take a wrong and disastrous decision.
The adverse effects; of the mismanaged stress of these different persons, are not restricted to one�s own body or family. In case of political, industrial, union, media and religious leaders; they influence; various walks of life, a society, a nation or the whole world; and even the future generations; directly or indirectly.
This is comparable to the patients; suffering from highly virulent infectious disease, who; if not put in quarantine, not treated and are allowed to mingle and influence the society; then harm themselves as well as billions others!
This is why; we need evolution of holistic perspective, policies, plans, programs, and actions. In fact; these are vitally important, essential and urgently needed; for individual and global blossoming! We may study, analyze, question, contradict, and argue. But it is not possible to verify the power, potentials and scope of Total Stress Management by mere casual approach, reading, discussion, guesswork, conjecture or imagination. We need to be involved in it!
All short cuts; marketed under the disguise of �stress management, stress relaxation, meditation etc�; claiming instant result; can at times be temporarily useful; but in the long run; and in absence of Total Stress Management (and NAMASMARAN); prove useless and even counterproductive; in personal and social life� as is true for other stress busters involving escapist ways!