even i said this so many times, here again, about the stress..

There are two types of stress: the Conscious and the Unconscious, the Healthy or the Unhealthy way of experiencing the stress.

I was few days ago in a mystical presence (he likes to says).. on the word stress there was a bit of avoiding in my perspective and because i repeat myself often with these words.. maybe now is a good moment to have them written..

In few words, stress can be beneficial if we want to.. or stress is beneficial as long as we can control the duration, the intensity and other attributes of it.

Just today we re-emphasized that our bones needs some amount of stress in order to stimulate growth and density. So if you set yourself for a walk, a conscious run, jogging.. the stress on the circulatory system, breathing, ambulatory (mussels and bones), digestive and hormonal.. all will get some benefits or gain a level of balance.

But a bit more of this run, walk.. can easily transform into a toxic or traumatic experience of stress.  Some times, hearing the ones we love.. is joyful.. other times consuming.

 
As in yoga we talk about a sutra saying that “each pleasure culminates in pain”.

When you are doing asana or any yogic technique it is required that you are present into your body, conscious, focused. Being there with a correct attitude is yoga and will bring you the benefits.. but practicing any yogic technique.. with the mind “gone to shopping” is dangerous.

Like sometimes your doing one asana and instead of observing more into yourself, you dream away – waiting maybe for the teacher to ask for a new posture – as soon as you get back to your body, you feel there is some pain, some discomfort and as more as you acknowledge its presence you want to get from the posture. Because asana might give you the opportunity to know and quiet your body.. but instead of listening to it and learn how to make it peaceful you run (with your mind outside).. then when you get back you wonder “where from the crazy mob came?” – that’s the unhealthy stress.

You are the one experiencing this… You are the one able to control this.

There is a switch at your reach to transform every experience into a joyful one.. or you can stop it. For both there is Yoga, as the mean or the path to process emotions and pain, to mukti, to liberation.

Stress is always there for you, in you.. the first step to control it, to transform it.. is to be conscious about it, to realize that it is.. and then act upon it.

Let’s take the moment of your birth, the moment you get out.. you will experience gravity (asana), then breath (pranayama).. then many sensory excitements (pratyahara), emotions, thoughts (dharana, dhyana).. some forces were always there with you.. understand and ride them.. fighting them is exhausting and is not efficient living.. ignoring them is postponing and enduring.

my Lulu, love says that on the other side I’m making people suffer from 1983 🙂