Anxiety and needless thoughts? Simple Solution || Acharya Prashant, Sir J.J. College, Mumbai (2022)

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00:00Good afternoon, my name is Aryan and I'm from 1st year. So my question is how to control

00:10anxiety as I have a problem called hyperhidrosis where my hands are too much sweaty. So without

00:19thinking my hands and feet starts to sweat. So and it's cause of anxiety, overthinking

00:27and all. See if the problem is due to a physiological reason, obviously only a medical practitioner

00:37can advise best. Having said that, I'm sweating right now probably as much as you do. It's

00:47just that I don't care for it. And that ends it. You have no control over what your body

01:02does, what circumstances or chance can do. Who can control that, right? You didn't control

01:13your birth, you'll also not probably control your death. We do not know when the next earthquake

01:21or tsunami might hit us. There is so much in life that we have no handle over, no control

01:32over at all. But there is one thing we can choose and that one thing is everything. You

01:44can decide what is it you care for and what is it you ignore. If you cannot ignore all

01:57the trivia in life, life will enslave you. Are you getting it? There is just so much

02:10that can happen to you just randomly. Let it all happen just on the outside. Even the

02:20body must be considered an outsider. If something is happening to the body,

02:25it is something happening to somebody external. How many of you got COVID infected? Many. Did

02:39the virus take your permission? That's how life is. It infects you without your permission.

02:47But inwardly your consent should be everything. The body is an outsider and the virus can infect

03:00it without your permission. But let no virus infect you inwardly without your consent. You

03:11have that freedom, that authority over yourself and you must exercise it. It is possible there

03:21is something in your body, in the brain, in the physiology that causes the condition you named.

03:27You can't help it. Maybe it is genetic, who knows. But is it not in my purview to accord

03:45it importance or to willfully ignore it? I am asking you. Has it not ever happened that you

03:54are running a high fever and yet you are engaged in something simply because it is important,

04:01simply because you love it? Does it happen or not? In fact it happens with little kids as well. 101

04:11fever and the little chap is running away to play cricket. 7 years old and mama is running after

04:21him. You stop. He says no, I have to play. 101 fever he wants to play. Equally 101 fever you may

04:31decide you are very sick. Fever you cannot control. Your attitude you can. Or can you not? Please

04:42tell me. Please tell me and that's everything. If you cannot control your attitude towards the

04:57strange things life throws at you, you will simply be a pitiable slave controlled by,

05:12possessed by situations. Do you want to live like that? Something, anything can come and

05:18simply control you. You want that? Do you want that? But then there are things outside the body,

05:27there are things inside the body. You know of hormonal changes, you know of mood swings,

05:32you know of how heat affects you, you know of how humidity affects you, you know of how food

05:39affects you. And these things are happening. Do you want to allow them to possess you or do you

05:51want to rather lord over them? You say yes, something is happening in the body. But I don't.

05:56But I don't. I don't care. Don't care. Roger Federer recently retired. One of the reasons why

06:13for me he will remain the greatest ever is not because he had 20 grand slams. Nadal has 22. He

06:25will be the greatest ever because he played a lot in pain and through pain. He was 41 when he retired

06:36and that means a lot. Interestingly, even against Rafael Nadal, most of the matches that he won

06:54were after he crossed the age of 33. Federer was losing a lot to Nadal. But the last 8 or 10

07:09matches that they played, Federer dominated and that was after Federer had crossed the age of

07:1533, 35, 38, 40. And the body was creaking. There was a phase in between when his backhand had

07:35totally broken. He was just slicing and also losing. But he kept playing. And that's something

07:50I have found in all great players. They play through pain. They simply tell pain, come on,

08:00I don't care. And if you can learn to say, I don't care to your body and everything associated

08:10with the body, you'll go very far. I don't care. Are you hungry? Of course, but I don't care. It's

08:22animals who are ruled by their physical instincts. Am I an animal? No, I don't care. If an animal is

08:31hungry, it will go for food. If a human being is hungry, she will decide whether to go for food.

08:39You have the power to choose and that choice I am saying is everything in life. That choice is

08:47called consciousness. That alone is the characteristic of consciousness. The authority

08:54to choose. The power to not be ruled. I will not be ruled. I will choose whether to go for food.

09:05And the body may keep crying for food. I might decide I am not having anything for two days.

09:10I am not having anything. Have you ever seen any animal fasting? We manage to fast because

09:17we rule our bodies and that's why we are human beings. We rule our bodies. The bodies keep saying

09:23so many things. We don't, we don't care. We don't care. You have an examination tomorrow. It's just

09:3310.30 pm and the body is saying sleep. What do you do? Crash on the bed? What do you do? You say,

09:43I don't care. Your comfort is less important than my priorities. The body is saying give

10:01me comfort. You say no, something else is more important. Have you watched the movie

10:07A Beautiful Mind? Did you see how Nash fights against his own body? How many of you have watched

10:16it? It's worth it. Go for it. You must especially. See how he fights against his own body and that's

10:30why he is a great and that's why the movie is wonderful. Getting it? Don't be a normal timid soul.

10:48Why did you fall asleep? Because I was sleepy. That's a kid's argument. It does not behoove

11:01grown-ups. Why did you fall asleep? Why didn't you hit hard? Because I was tired. That's a

11:18loser's argument. When you are tired, that's when you should be hitting the hardest. When

11:35you are afraid, that's when you should be the boldest. Getting it? Remember these are all

11:48things embedded in the body and the body comes from the jungle. We are no more creatures of the

11:59jungle. We are not to be ruled by the body. We must understand the body and we must use the body

12:08towards the purposes of consciousness. Consciousness will decide the destination and the body will be

12:17the vehicle to reach that destination. The body itself cannot be the destination or the ruler.

12:24What do you want? To use your body or to be used by the body? Use your body. Otherwise your body

12:41will use you.

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