Stress is a Friend! || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Competition and stress in student life || Acharya Prashant (2022)

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00:00If you deal rightly with stress, stress is a friend.

00:04It crystallizes something within you.

00:06It makes you stronger.

00:07But if you do not know the right place of stress in life, then stress becomes threatening

00:15and it reduces your ability to work, to concentrate, to think, to be meditative.

00:22All that will suffer.

00:23Next time you are in a stressful position or period, try to take it lightly.

00:28Try to turn it into a joke.

00:29Try to laugh at yourself.

00:31Try to remember all the previous instances when you were stressed out.

00:36What happened to those instances?

00:38They passed, right?

00:39So as the Sufis say, this too shall pass.

00:43I was stressed out for exactly the same reason last Sunday.

00:47What happened to all that stress?

00:49What happened to that episode?

00:50It passed.

00:51So this period too should not be too big on me.

00:54This too shall pass, right?