Meditation to reduce stress
You see your father coming home late today. His shoulders drooped and forehead sweating profusely. Instead of coming home to lap food he chooses to plant himself in front of the laptop and resumes his office work. On the other hand, you witness your neighbor, who is more aged than your father, and relatively in a lower position than your daddy moreover he earns enough to buy luxuries for his living and yet finds him chilled and happy. What did you confer from these two situations?
How you defined stress then and now should now have been changed by contemplating these two scenarios? Ideally, a person working at a lower level (Your uncle) in an industry should obviously encounter stress often as he is being shadowed and interrogated frequently by his boss and boss’s boss. Whereas the one who is comparatively at a higher position (Your Dad) should enjoy the perks of getting paid more.
This is the context that we have defined for stress until now, isn’t it?
There have always been talks amongst elders where they specifically mention government postings as the only stress-free jobs left in our country and on the other hand while traveling you visualize government contractors toiling hard on the railway tracks and roads to meet deadlines targeting the upcoming elections. The definition of stress now seems to be more complicated and confusing than before, doesn’t it?
To redefine stress, it never existed in any case or situation. It was in fact created by you and the way you work. It is never the content of your life but the context due to which you experience stress in variations.
There are many instances in which we can justify how stress is not related to your work. Like in the above scenario clearly work never mattered for stress levels of both the individuals.
What really accounted was how both the individuals looked upon their work. One seemed to enjoy his work while the other took it as an unwanted responsibility, unwillingness to enjoy its purpose and as a result, failed to accomplish it which in turn developed pressure from all ends in his professional environment and that also affected his personal life.
Be it the work of any level, from studying to pursuing masters in any subject or developing codes and applications for your clients or managing a team of huge building projects. Unless and until you love it and master its art and strategy you won’t experience pleasantness in any work you are in charge of.
The same goes while making relations with people. Your unwillingness and sometimes too much of friendliness might create a lull or havoc in relationships respectively. In short, your inability to tackle any work or relationship will obviously create a stressful atmosphere.
The dimension that you choose when you work in any particular field is where stress comes into the picture. For instance, if you see developing applications in an IT industry as a responsibility (burden) just for the sake of bread and butter to your family then this would no doubt drown you down to stress.
