Finding Inner Peace

Stress is a Natural Part of Life

In postindustrial Western cultures the degree of stress has become excessive and deleterious.

Primitive humans had to deal with the challenges of :

disease
changing weather with no permanent shelter
environmental dangers
family and community relations
unstable food supply
fear of death and disability

Today your stresses are different:

mortgages
school achievement
employer relationship
employees
customers
economic issues
politics
new devastating diseases
anxiety over time
effects of noisy, polluted and crowded environments

When you get used to these stresses it does not lesson the harm to your body. Stress causes you physical and mental tension.

The Chinese call this: wai qiang nei gan – “the outside strong,the inside rots”

When you can’t change your circumstances, you often internalize your frustration. Beneath this hard shell the Qi becomes sluggish, unable to flow smoothly. This leads to pain and disease.

Prolonged stress leads to :

high blood pressure
headaches
digestive disorders
arthritis
cancer
heart disease
respiratory disorders

Under continuous stress :

your nervous system learns to desensitize as a means of coping
you tune the air conditioners
you don’t hear the drone of passing cars
you don’t notice the rattling of the railway train
you ignore toxic fumes of cars
you loose sensitivity to the feelings of others to protect your own privacy
you avoid and escape your worries by dulling your senses with alcohol, drugs or excessive television

It is imperative you take control of the health of your internal environment: