How do we get rid of our stress?

According to the World Health Organisation, mental health is the overall emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It is the natural state of how one can think, feel and act in normal conditions of life.

It also indicates our capacity to handle difficult situations of life like stress, agitation, and our capacity to make decisions and choices. The basic necessity for any human being to complete his life is a stress-free mind or peace of mind.

Stress is the uneasiness of the mind, making it difficult to conduct our normal routines of life or any task or daily peaceful life activities. Due to excessive indulgence in psychological drama, one gets stressed out. It is overthinking and over imagination that leads to stress. People are suffering from a fantastic sense of imagination and a beautiful sense of memory. This is the cause of stress. We need to learn how to handle our memory and imagination.

Peace of mind is a natural character of any human being. It is not that we have to aim for our life. To enjoy our daily tasty meal or friendly conversation with our parents or friends we need a minimum requirement of peace of mind. So peace of mind is a natural requirement.

Does any one manage his stress?! 

That’s what in the west people call stress management. We normally manage our precious things like money or property, but we need not manage our stress. This idea of stress management comes from the deep-frozen reality of today’s over-stressed life of people around the world. 

So let us healthily handle our mind and body so that we can never get stressed. So to stay away from stress, one needs to exercise daily. Yoga and fitness are the best methods to do that. Among these two, a wise will choose yoga, as it has direct applications to control and manage your mental activities in a most joyful manner.

Daily routines of SukshmaVyayama (loosening exercises), yoga breathing exercises, yoga warm-up exercises, Yoga asanas, Surya Namaskara are very good physical plus mind-based practices that deepen the awareness and consciousness. This daily practice to connect with yourself can connect you with your healthy life. This connection with the self is what makes yoga the only powerful technique for getting rid of the stress out of your life.

Meditation for knowledge and wisdom

Pranayama and Meditation are the most advanced techniques of yoga that have the most powerful methods to control your mind and cure any type of stress, anxiety, and depression. Both of these methods keep your mind in your present moment providing mindfulness in your daily life that is very busy and distracted. 

Meditation or Dhyana is the ultimate method to make your mind still or calm. Daily practice of meditation can make any person energized, young, calm, composed, joyful, and blissful. Meditation is a simple way to get rid of stress from your life.

Practice daily 15 minutes or 30 minutes meditation after pranayama or without pranayama. NadiShuddhi Pranayama Meditation, Brahmari Pranayama meditation,  OM meditation, Vipassana meditation, and Nadanusandhana are the most powerful meditation for purifying the mind and attaining stillness and calmness of the mind. Also, there are many other methods of meditation all of which make your mind calm, empty and peaceful.

Nadi Shuddhi Pranayama

Our sorrow and happiness are due to our karma (past action), as said by Shirdi Sai Baba, an Enlightened master of India. Hence all our stress, anxiety, or depression are arising from our past unconscious actions. Meditation can dissolve this karmic baggage of sorrows or stress. Therefore the wise way to handle your stress is to meditate daily throughout your life to make your life joyful, and blissful.

Shirdi Sai Baba