{"id":70339,"date":"2019-01-06T09:48:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T08:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/181765847826"},"modified":"2019-01-06T09:49:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T08:49:54","slug":"we-feel-stressed-not-so-much-because-we-are-over-worked-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=70339","title":{"rendered":"We feel stressed not so much because we are over-worked as because we are over-worried"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We feel stressed not so much because we are over-worked as because we are over-worried (Based on Gita 18.35)
\nChaitanya Charan Das: Stress is rampant in today\u2019s society. Why? One common explanation is over-work.
\nBut is over-work the only cause? At least three points suggest otherwise:
\nNowadays, machines do many things that we ourselves had to do earlier.
\nEven people who don\u2019t do much work sometimes complain of stress.
\nEven people who are on vacation without any pressing obligation sometimes feel stressed.
\nWhat, then, primarily causes stress? Let\u2019s consider our own experience of stress. We usually feel stressed when we are doing one thing but are obsessing over all the other things we need to do. Right now, we have no control over those future to-dos, yet we are trying to control them. Struggling to control the uncontrollable is the recipe for worry. Too much worrying stresses us far more than too many to-dos.
\nWhy are we obsessed with over-controlling things? Two main reasons:
\nModernization and mechanization have increased our capacity to control things, thereby increasing our illusion that we are meant to be controllers.
\nSecularization has decreased our awareness of any higher controller.
\nWhen we think that no one is in control if we are not in control, such spiritual ignorance about the supreme controller keeps us over-worried. Pertinently, Bhagavad-gita (18.35) indicates that spiritual ignorance causes fearfulness.
\nTo counter such ignorance, Gita wisdom offers two empowering insights:
\nWe are essentially souls who are indestructible \u2013 the many things that threaten us can\u2019t hurt our core.
\nKrishna is the omnibenevolent supreme controller; even if things go wildly out of control, he can still bring good out of the bad. We just need to do our part by acting in a mood of loving service to him.
\nBy spiritual knowledge and practice, when we internalize these twin truths, we gradually gain an armor of inner calm that shields us from stress.
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\nVerse 18.35 – \u201cAnd that determination which cannot go beyond dreaming, fearfulness, lamentation, moroseness and illusion \u2013 such unintelligent determination, O son of Prtha, is in the mode of darkness.\u201d
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\nThink it over:
\nOver-work is not the only cause of stress \u2013 why not?
\nWhy are we obsessed with over-controlling things?
\nHow can Gita wisdom provide us a shield from stress?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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We feel stressed not so much because we are over-worked as because we are over-worried (Based on Gita 18.35)
\nChaitanya Charan Das: Stress is rampant in today’s society. Why? One common explanation is over-work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-70339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media","tag-nectar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70341,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70339\/revisions\/70341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}