TOTAL STRESS MANAGEMENT AND NAMASMARAN (JAP, JAAP, JIKRA, SUMIRAN, SIMARAN; i.e. remembering God or true SELF) 08: DR SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Patient: Can a child practice NAMASMARAN?
Doctor: Life is like a river. Stress is like a disturbed river or a whirlpool! NAMASMARAN is a process of reestablishing the river to its calm flow! Hence; it is better to start as early in life as possible.
Patient: But won't they get bored?
Doctor: They would! Therefore NAMASMARAN has to be started in small "dose"!
Patient: Would this act as preventive measure!?
Doctor: Yes! NAMASMARAN is like alum! It enhances the settling of muddy particles to bottom!
Patient: I see!
Doctor: NAMASMARAN is like systematizing the electrical wiring so that bulbs of our life; emanate light according to our potentials; in literary as well as actual sense(voltage)! It is like a proper functioning of signals! It makes the traffic smooth!
Patient: Can we compare stress with TRAFFIC JAM?
Doctor: This is not an exact analogy but helps in understanding STRESS, clearly, which in itself; significantly "rectifies the signals" and reduces STRESS!
Comparison of STRESS with TRAFFIC JAM!
1. The STRESSORS are like excess number of VEHICLES coming from all directions.
2. The individual under stress is like a square where the signals or the traffic police are not working.
3. The signs and symptoms of stress are like the excess crowding, anxiety due to inability to reach destinations, quarrels amongst the drivers, excessive blowing of horns, chemical pollution etc.
4. The pathology is inability of the vehicles to move and reach their destinations.
5. The Relaxation Techniques prevalent today are like arbitrary and isolated efforts to calm down the drivers and prohibit the blowing of horns.
6. The relaxation techniques therefore can bring about temporary peace (temporary symptomatic relief) but cannot help the vehicles to reach their destinations (cannot effectively remove the pathological changes and handle the stressors effectively).
7. NAMASMARAN (and consequent Total Stress Management); is like re-establishing the functioning of the signals and re-instituting the traffic police (perception) so that the crowding, jam (homeostatic disturbances or affect), blowing of horns, quarrels (symptoms and signs ) and the reaching of the destinations ( handling the stressors and rectify the pathological changes ), all are made possible.