STRESS and value crisis are interwoven intricately. Which is the cause and which is the result; is difficult to say! Many of us are not even aware of what is value crisis.

Value crisis means being misguided with respect to our aims, objectives and purpose of life. Value crisis means conflicts and confusion with respect to our missions and ambitions in life. Value crisis means misconceptions about what we like, love, respect, adore and dedicate to. Value crisis means inability to deicide and implement our innate choices. Value crisis means difficulty in internal evaluation and prioritization. Value crisis is uncertainty; in giving more or less importance to our likes, dislikes, principles, relations and living accordingly.

Various influences from our body, mind, media and peers create the overall value system/crisis; and in accordance; we want to be some one different; than our best choice. In the process we remain unhappy and unsatisfied even amidst a reasonable well to do condition, because; neither do we accomplish our dreams nor do we succeed in the pursuits we get trapped into!

How has this value crisis developed in India and the world?

Once upon a time the question �How are you?� and the answer to this question; implied; how keenly and completely we adhere to our religious duties leading to �connection with God�. Our success and failure and our pleasures and pains also; depended this; irrespective of glamour and glitter, (which were loathed as garbage if possessed at the cost of religious duties). The precepts in various religions and ethics were formulated so as to develop connection with God as per one�s age, capacity, relationship in family, season, circumstances etc.

However; these days; every time we ask this question, or we have to answer this question; we think of our physical condition, climate, salary, salary of children etc. and NEVER about �connection with God�.

Naturally if we have amassed wealth; we are proud and arrogant and if we haven�t; then we are meek and submissive. Similarly if we are robust and physically sturdy, then we feel �on top of the world� and if we are ailing physically; we feel miserable.

Some one can argue; �we do not see and understand the connection of God�! So; we ask and answer what is perceptible! (In other words; we have dumped the profound ancient (and of all times) wisdom and have chosen to remain immersed in superficiality and pettiness.

We dumped the ancient wisdom of �connection with God� and started worshipping and boosting the hysterical craze for petty success at the cost of �connection with God�; as well as the violent reactions to such craze, leading to ubiquitous stress! It can be conquered by universal practice of NAMASMARAN, japa, jaap, jikra etc and globally benevolent wisdom born through it!

This value crisis has emerged and spread; like a wild fire; because of we being disconnected from our true selves and oblivious to the assertion of our true selves; i.e. our DHARMA. The maximum, respect or following for DHARMA and SHASTRA; was a cherished value in the past. It has become feeble and almost ineffective today.

Being disconnected from our true selves has leaded us to become our own caricatures. As a result we have been deprived of the sap of vitality and become listlessness, emaciated, individualistic, petty, and superficial. Our perspective and thinking have become sectarian, mean, fanatic and fragmented. This is the beginning of value crisis.

Thus; we are increasingly overtaken by the value of unabated unleashing of individualism (free from any sort of self knowledge and conscience) and are overwhelmed by the craving to fulfill our individual whims and fancies, making quick money, fame and popularity and all kinds of power and sway on people; even at the cost of others! This is the progress of value crisis and further crumbles our perspective, policies, programs, plans and their implementation at individual and global levels; and produces STRESS in walk of life!

The media is also immersed and intoxicated by individualism and hence keeps on creating; the tempting hype of hollow glamour and petty successes in individualistic pursuits; besides attributing glorified martyrdom to petty failures (as in case of the novel and movie/s Devdas)!

Since the media hype largely decides the celebrity status and we (who have become our own caricatures) follow the celebrities in different fields; our pettiness and hence value crisis is further reinforced.

Trapped in this way; in value crisis; we all vote; and form assemblies and parliaments, which decide the contents and drafting of the laws; which protect and promote the vested interests of few at cost of billions; and do not provide any justice in turn exacerbate our value crisis and STRESS!

As a result, we either become �successful� in our individualistic and antihuman pursuits; or we become �failure� and turn towards crimes and suicidal activities. The remaining amongst us; lead the life of compromises.

In any case; we are STESSED; because; individualism; the root of value crisis; NEVER gives the fulfillment and satisfaction to anybody. In fact; it has caught us in a state of suffocation and STRESS, through which we are unable to find a way out.

The return to the old value of respecting DHARMA and SHASTRA appear to be very difficult, because DHARMA and SHASTRA of any particular religion are not likely to be accepted by or even beneficial to the whole world.

The solution in this STRESS of value crisis is evolving individualism into SELF REALIZATION and democracies into GLOBAL BLOSSOMING. One of the simplest ways for this; is; the practice of NAMASMARAN (which is the core of Total Stress Management); which �reconnects us with our powerhouse� or �waters our roots�!

In absence of NAMASMARAN, formal teaching or propagating of some arbitrary code of conduct (under guise of value system) becomes a) alien, unsuitable or repulsive to; different people in different parts of the world; belonging to different cultures, religions and socioeconomic conditions. It is almost impossible to arrive at democratically; to a universally acceptable code of conduct. Such efforts in formal education or in the propaganda; become pitiable and utterly ineffective in serving the purpose of rectifying the value crisis and the STRESS produced by it.

The CONQUEST OF STRESS; resulting in value crisis; would be increasingly successful; through NAMASMARAN coupled with actual and global implementation of holistic medicine, holistic education, holistic agriculture, and holistic laws and so on, which may be called Total Stress Management; to keep on continuously developing an environment to catalyze SELF REALIZATION and GLOBAL BLOSSOMING.

It is then; when the working conditions, monetary returns and public appraisal and accolades; required for smooth progress to SELF REALIZATION and GLOBAL BLOSSOMING are available for all of us in different jobs or professions; that the philosophical notion; �every work has its own dignity and glamour� would be actually vindicated.

It is then that we all can live to the best of our satisfaction; and CONQUER STRESS of value crisis; by going to the root of our job and churning out the results beneficial to ourselves and the mankind and thereby keep facilitating the wellness cycle of Total Stress Management.