Ambition and increasing peer
pressure ensures the 'rat in a trap syndrome', where you are trapped into
running faster and faster to stay in the same place. Work follows us
everywhere. The blurring of work and leisure has intensified in this era of
twenty-four-hour access, when the computer is just a fingertip away and the
Blackberry and the cellphone are as intimate as a heartbeat. The delicate
tissues of the body are constantly awash in the lethal chemical bath of chronic
stress. Interactive electronic devices have made stress continuous. Home is no
longer a refuge. The only way to break this pattern is to find a way to change
the response to tough situations.
Meditation
and pranayama, provide everyone with a way of reducing the automatic, violent
reactions to stress. You can actually control autonomous systems like heart
beat and pulse rate, which were thought to be outside the individual’s control.
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