Sadhguru | World Mental Health Day: Stress is your creation

It is not the question of profit pursuit or the nature of the work that you are doing which is causing stress; it is just that you don’t know how to function smoothly within yourself. You have no control over your own system. That is why you are stressful. Have you seen that in many situations, one person may be very stressed out but another person seems to go through it effortlessly? So stress does not come because of the external situation. Stress happens because of your inability to manage your inner situation. If your mind, body and energies were taking instructions from you and behaving the way you wanted them to, you wouldn’t make yourself stressful no matter what was happening around you, isn’t it? Your body, mind, emotion and energies are the vehicles through which you are travelling through your life. Without any understanding, control or subjective experience about them, you are trying to live your life. This is an accidental existence. When you exist accidentally, if you manage to get somewhere in life, it will only be by accident. So you need to do something about this; you need to get a grasp of these four. If this does not happen, you will live life by accident. You will always be hoping that situations will work out well. If you are seeking to expand the scope and play of your life, if you are seeking challenging situations, then you have to do something about the way you function. Challenging situations mean that you will face situations that you have no clue about. If you are the kind who gets stressed, naturally you will avoid those situations. When you avoid those situations, you will naturally avoid all possible growth for your business and for yourself. Today so many people are getting into challenging jobs, multitasking and things like that but a large number of them may not be naturally equipped to handle that kind of situation. This is why we see so many people losing their effectiveness and just breaking up in the process of pursuing their careers - burn outs are happening. So especially those people who want to take up challenging jobs and who are constantly looking for challenges in their life — which is what the corporate sector is in some ways, if they do not equip themselves with an inner stability and an inner sense of joy within themselves by their own nature, they are bound to become disasters over a period of time. They may be successful in their career but as human beings they would have failed because they cannot enjoy the process of their life. They are no longer joyful or peaceful; they have become stressful. If you are stressful, that means in some way you have failed yourself, isn’t it? When you fine-tune yourself to such a point that the fundamental faculties function so beautifully within you, then naturally the best of your abilities will just flow out of you. Have you noticed that when you are happy, your energies always function better; you seem to have endless energy. Even if you don’t eat or sleep it doesn’t matter; you can go on and on. Just a little happiness liberates you from your normal limitations of energy and capability. Yoga is the science of activating your inner energies in such a way that your body, mind and emotions function at their highest peak. When your body and mind function in a completely different state of relaxation and a certain level of blissfulness, you can be released from so many things that most people are suffering from. Right now, you come and sit in your office and you have a nagging headache. Your headache is not a major disease but it takes away your whole capability for that day; just that throbbing takes away everything. With the practice of yoga, your body and mind can be kept at their highest possible peak and you can be relaxed all the time. (Designed by Sadhguru,  Inner Engineering  is now available as a 7-step online program, which helps take charge of mind, body, emotions and energies) Ranked amongst the fifty most influential people in India, Sadhguru is a Yogi, mystic, visionary and a New York Times bestselling author. Sadhguru has been conferred the Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India in 2017, the highest annual civilian award, accorded for exceptional and distinguished service. He is also the founder of the world’s largest people’s movement, Conscious Planet – Save Soil, which has touched over 4 billion people. Views expressed in the above piece are personal and solely that of the author. They do not necessarily reflect Firstpost’s views. Read all the Latest News , Trending News , Cricket News , Bollywood News , India News and Entertainment News here. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter and Instagram .