Calculate your score for the following questionnaire:
- Feel tired or fatigued even after taking adequate sleep?
- Experience frequent mood swings?
- Face difficulty in taking decisions?
- Face problem in concentration and remembering important things?
- Experience headache, stomach disorders, and restlessness?
- Fall short of time often and have to rush to get the job completed?
- Unable to perform tasks well?
- Observe changes in appetite– desire to binge or loss of appetite?
- Lack the zeal and spirit to deal with the situations in life?
- Even trifle matters annoy you or make you upset?
Today's fast-running life has unfortunately magnified the scores of such questionnaires, thus labelling the present age as the age of stress and anxiety. According to the American Institute of Stress, 75% to 90% of visits made by the people to primary care physicians are due to stress. In America, 78% men are stressed about money, 55% about job stability, 58% about housing costs and 63% for the health problems affecting their families. It is estimated that in the UK, over 13 million working days are lost every year because of stress. In fact, such a shocking state of statistics is prevalent in almost every part of the world today and for all age groups, be it the youth, the middle-aged or the old. These stress statistics undoubtedly present before us a distressed and diseased state of the world.
Someone has rightly distinguished between health and disease by calling 'health' as the phase of life characterised by successful adjustment with the circumstances, while 'disease' being the phase of failure in establishing this harmony. In other words, it's all dependent upon how well a person tunes himself to the challenges and pressures surrounding him. If he is able to work out a successful adjustment for himself, he is said to be healthy, else diseased (or stressed in specific). It is due to this absence of tuning today that we see more and more people falling into the abyss of stress.
Once a disciple asked his Master, “O Master, how many moons does it take to light up the earthly night sky?”
The Master replied– "One".
Disciple: O Master, how many moons does it take to light up the Mars' night sky?
Master: Two.
Disciple: O Master, how many moons does it take to light up the Saturn' night sky?
Master: Sixty-two.
Disciple: O Master, how many moons does it take to light up the solar night?
Master: None, because there are no nights there!
Disciple: O Master, how many moons does it take to light up the Mars' night sky?
Master: Two.
Disciple: O Master, how many moons does it take to light up the Saturn' night sky?
Master: Sixty-two.
Disciple: O Master, how many moons does it take to light up the solar night?
Master: None, because there are no nights there!
So, why not be like the Sun (which signifies the effulgent Self), where no single trace of darkness of stress exists! The very term loses its existence. Then, no trifling moons of antidepressants or counselling or therapies are needed and one basks in the brilliance of the divine rays of enlightened soul.
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