TOTAL STRESS MANAGEMENT AND TIME: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

As we study stress; and Total Stress Management; the ‘stress of the passage of time’; strikes our attention! This stress may not be easily noticed as it is a bit subtle.

But the painful and stressful feelings of nostalgia; are often soul stirring and the subject of art and literature. Can we bring back the golden moments shared with our brothers, sisters, parents and grandparents? Can we bring back the childhood friends, adolescent love and more mature romance?

Don’t we have this agonizing experience of loss of time; and our inability and helplessness to resist its passage? Don’t we get emotional; while going down the memory lane?

The concept of time is an enigma; a mystery; in several ways. A continuous process; of changes in the world and in one’s body; stimulate the human brain. According to the stimulation of various receptors in different tissues of the body there are modifications in neuro-humoral secretions, metabolism, and consciousness associated with them!

As a result; we experience things and events. Further; they last “long” or “short” and become unbearable or absorbing! But they are always fleeting! Time is thus a passing, fleeting or relative reality.

We can verify; if; through NAMASMARAN (the core of Total Stress Management); we can go beyond this subjective individual consciousness (ego) and the “stressful helplessness” of playing in the hands of (what we call) “time”! We can also verify if we can go beyond the three dimensions and “time”; and if this engenders; pleasant transformation in us and the universe; called God’s plan or spiritual renaissance.