What Causes Stress?
Stress arises primarily due to lack of a person’s ability to handle work and life in a balanced way. This in turn results in an increase 
wants coupled with peer pressure in “keeping up with the Joneses”!. In the midst of this imbalance, emotions of an individual gets trapped. Though the threshold of each individual differs, yet the ultimate breaking point, when reached spells the ruin of the person.
Important causes of Stress are :
- Goal incongruence at both personal and business level.
- Excessive focus on selfish wealth accumulation and lack of concern for less priveleged people.
- Lack of exercise and couch potato life-styles
- Obsession with work
- Juggling too many goals and not enough time and energy for accomplishing the goals
The Gita offers age old solutions for stress management:
- Do your action but do not hanker after results of action.
- Understand that Happiness does not exist in any material objects.
- Appreciate the good things you have.
- ”Why me” questions only worsen the situation. We have to reap what we sow
- Be contented with what you have. Never increase your wants which is the root cause of increasing stress.
- Eat moderately, Exercise and do yoga regularly – these are stress busters
Understanding and imbing these values can easily provide solution to the modern day malaise of heart disease borne out of stress and lead to a better quality of life!
I like your explanation of stress causes but I prefer your “old age” solutions. Your list is plain, short and simple that is why I’ll try to stick to it and we’ll see how it goes. Other lists of solution are just so doll and extensive that it is hard to follow them point by point, yours is more suitable for me.
just a note, you should attach smaller image to your post because the first part was really hard to read.
Very good article, thank you!
stress is a major problem for health.actually stress is caused by many reasons.stress is very harmful for our health its effects on
mind and body also so i think so every one should have to avoid the stress.they have to do exercise,meditation and so on… so they can relief from stress.they don’t have take any tension without any reasons so i have read this article so its great and informative article.its useful. its very nice gita has given the more tips about old age stress management so thanks to give this knowledge
one of the best things to incorporate with Stress Management is meditation and deep breating exercises.’,-
Active listening, empathy, understanding the emotional problem and exploring the alternatives and suggestions to over come the situation is of utmost importance. However in most cases, such a response from family/ friends does not come easily and the affected person goes in to deep depression. And here comes the role of a counselor and psychiatrist. Through counseling, the affected person comes in touch with his underlying emotions and feelings. Over a period of time, the person moves from a position of hopelessness to HOPE, hope of living.
Everyone really wants some good way of stress management. Yoga and meditation are good.’~*
you can do some personal stress management at home by practicing yoga*’.