subject: Stress And Freedom [print this page] We experience STRESS; when our freedom is jeopardized.
In cellular jails the freedom is throttled in terms of even making movements and meeting people apart from all other things and hence the life is extremely STRESSEFUL!
Lack of freedom of availability; of security, food, water, clothes, shelter, health care, education etc.; creates enormous STRESS.
Conversely, compulsion or imposition (lack of freedom) to live only in certain in certain conditions, eat only certain type of food, drink only certain quantity and unsafe water, wear only certain type of clothes, live in certain type of shelters, get only certain kind of health care, get only certain type of education; cause STRESS.
Lack of freedom of building shelters, using medicinal herbs, cultivating land, running businesses etc; without oppressive, coercive and harrowing license system; or throttling restrictions on all these by various laws; is denial of freedom and hence extremely STRESSFUL.
Lack of freedom of moving to other countries, doing business in other countries, expressing ourselves in paintings, music, literature, movies, dramas and so on; is also a STRESSOR.
Lack of freedom from superstitions is also a major STRESSOR!
God and His worship have been a part of human civilization for millennia. In fact many philosophers and seers consider God to be unanimous with truth, rather, absolute truth. However we may think God to be a too burdening and too paranoid superstition, to surrender to, as our freedom is brutally challenged by it. We may argue that such suppression of reasoning coercive and STRESSFUL. Our freedom; especially of rational thinking are suffocated by God. It is not easy to get freedom from God, because everything sublime, selfless, subtle, serene and supreme is also associated with God.
Lastly; we are not quite free to assert our conscience and are in STRESS; due to inconsiderate outlook, intolerant attitudes, bigotry, religious, racial impositions, vested interests, fanaticism, terrorism, and pettiness of perspective, policies, plans and transactions inside and outside us! In turn, the laws, the conventions, the traditions, the fashions, the beliefs and even literature, media and advertising suffocate our conscience and create STRESS!
Just as every particle is connected by gravity, space, time and so on, similarly but not in exactly the same way, we are connected through consciousness. When we do not realize this unifying link, we are under stress of being cut off from others (like being in jail) locked in prejudice, bitterness, hatred, jealousy, contempt and so on! This is due to the slavery and starvation of our conscience!
When we define and hail political freedom; we have to consider these different aspects of freedom and see; whether majority of us in the world are FREE in all respects and free from STRESS!
If we understand freedom in depth; then we would not discriminate between those who participate in political freedom movements and those who dont. An individual or an organization that does not participate in political freedom movement is not necessarily antinational or against freedom! Thus artists, scientists, hermits, health workers, government servants, social reformers, atheists, internationalists, different religious leaders; might not have participated in political freedom struggles; in different countries. But they are not antinational, against freedom; antisocial and so on; but they actually work for different aspects of our freedom to blossom together!
Thus; together; we all can get total freedom of individual and global blossoming; by working complementarily; if billions of people; apart from making brilliant and valiant efforts; practice NAMASMARAN (which is core of Total Stress Management) with freedom of any superstition in theist or atheist imagery.
This is because; in remembrance of God or true self, we realize and help others to realize this unifying link (as the immortal saints are said to do); and/or help the others; through our perspective, thinking, policies, plans and administration, arts and other creative efforts! An atmosphere of unity and harmony is thus created through the remembrance of God or true self.
