The world is in your
drawing room, it is clamouring to change your life with more and more
sophisticated toys. As a popular jingle goes, 'What separates the men from the
boys is just the price of their toys.’ Simplify and go home to what you really
need.
The world is like a buffet
counter at a five-star hotel. Let's not grab everything on our plates. Let us
be choosy, so that we may avoid spiritual indigestion and physical exhaustion.
Let us replace stress with
positive emotions that engender joy. Let us increase our HQ.
‘I felt like a waterfall,’
said Diane Roffe–Stainrotter, gold medallist skier in the 1994 winter Olympics.
The joy of a job perfectly executed, fills the body with the chemicals of
bliss.
Professor Mihalyi Csikzent
speaks about a state called the flow, which athletes, musicians, surgeons—in
fact everyone experiences when they are at their best. It is the experience of
doing your job with total immersion in it. So absorbed are you, that there is
no place for anxiety or niggling worries.
Finding a job you love is
one of the ways you can immunise yourself against health problems. A good
marriage is a protective shield against heart attacks.
The capacity to enjoy the
free gifts of Nature—sunlight, rain or flowers starts the flow of the chemicals
of bliss. It is in this gentle chemical bath that the body is able to replace
dying and dead tissues. Merely avoiding negative emotions is not enough; one
should consistently cultivate the positive emotions: love, compassion, courage
and peace.
Stress is the epidemic of
the new millennium. Protect yourself.
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