Stress is a natural and necessary consequence of living
Stress is a natural and necessary consequence of living. But there’s no need for us to be subject to it in abnormal amounts. Any influence that perverts or abuses the expenditure of our energy toward our desired functions is stress.When excessive, it produces undesirable reactions, both physical and mental.
Examples of stress symptoms are: overeating, drug or alcohol abuse, excessive smoking, glued to the TV, loss of appetite, boredom, twitches and tics, inability to concentrate, persistent worry and fear, hopelessness, depression, sudden lapses of memory, disturbed sleep, sudden feelings of hyper-elation, frequent colds and illness, aches, muscle cramps and chronic fatigue.
It is easy to have any one of these symptoms in a very subtle form and tend to pass it off as not important. Adequate stress management, or coping with stress, must start by recognizing the underlying symptoms, then doing something about it. Our Hindu yoga practices alleviate stress – a fact which Weste...