Stress is Helpful when… || Acharya Prashant
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00:00 It's alright to have a particular level of stress. It keeps you disciplined.
00:05 The problem is when stress becomes everything for you.
00:08 When you lose sight of joy, of freedom, of attainment and start feeling overwhelmed by stress
00:17 and it reduces your ability to work, to concentrate, to think, to be meditative, all that will suffer.
00:23 Next time you are in a stressful position or period,
00:27 try to take it lightly. Try to turn it into a joke. Try to laugh at yourself.
00:31 Try to remember all the previous instances when you were stressed out.
00:36 What happened to those instances? They passed, right?
00:39 So, as the Sufis say, "This too shall pass."
00:42 I was stressed out for exactly the same reason last Sunday.
00:47 What happened to all that stress? What happened to that episode? It passed.
00:51 So, this period too should not be too big on me. This too shall pass.