TOTAL STRESS MANAGEMENT AND NAMASMARAN (JAP, JAAP, JIKRA, SUMIRAN, SIMARAN; i.e. remembering God or true SELF) 06: DR SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Patient: You were to explain with examples; how NAMASMARAN is crucial to Total Stress Management!
Doctor: Yes! We have to appreciate the vast nature and causes of stress so that we can understand the crucial role of NAMASMARAN in Total Stress Management!
Patient: Yes doctor! Please explain!
Doctor: Stress is like a horse! But it would never leave us at any cost! So there is no lasting escape from it. There are only few options.
A] Getting dragged after it,
B] Getting bitten or beaten by it,
C] Carrying it on our head,
D] Beating or killing the horse (Barbaric, cowardly, disgusting and obnoxious. Isn’t it? Since stress is inseparable from life, killing horse is equivalent to suicide!)
E] Learning to “ride” the horse with delight, which is what Total Stress Management (TSM), is and the core of it is NAMASMARAN!
Patient: Any other example?
Doctor: Stress is also like river! But; we have no choice as we are already born in it! There are only two options. Either to get drowned, or to learn to swim to the bank.
TSM enables us to reach the bank of the river safely.
Patient: How would you define stress scientifically?
Doctor: Stress means a variable degree; of acute or chronic changes; in the internal environment of the body. The normal stress such as moderate exercise is useful. But when we talk of “stress” we actually mean HARMFUL STRESS OR DISTRESS, which causes adverse effects on almost every cell of the body; making life miserable in several ways.
Patient: What is this INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT of the body?
Doctor: The body cells contain fluid within them and they themselves are present in a fluid medium. This fluid which they contain and the fluid by which they are surrounded, together form the INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE BODY.
Patient: What is the importance of this INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT?
Doctor: The importance of the internal environment is that, various physical and chemical characteristics of the internal environment have to be maintained within a certain range if the body cells and hence the organism, have to function in the normal i.e. healthy way. If the characteristics undergo drastic variations then STRESS develops. This stress causes damaging effects on our life. This should explain to you the importance of the internal environment as well as the importance of any factor/s, which may bring about changes in it.
Patient: What are the characteristics of this INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT?
Doctor: The internal environment i.e. the fluid inside the cells and surrounding the cells, has certain concentration of hydrogen, sodium, potassium, calcium, chloride, magnesium etc. It has certain osmolality, temperature, viscosity etc. We are all aware of one such physical characteristic viz. blood pressure. The text books of physiology, describe in details, but it is not necessary to list them here and burden our memory.
Patient: What are the causes of stress?
Doctor: The causes of stress are called STRESSORS. The stressors are nothing else but exaggerated stimuli, which cause change in our internal environment beyond the normal range resulting in stress. We will see with examples; how NAMASMARAN, which is the core of Total Stress Management; is crucial in overcoming these!