English book · Leading A Spiritual Life

Stress is a Good Servant but a Bad Master

English book, p. 150

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Stress is a Good Servant but a Bad Master When you come face to face with stress, don’t take it as a negative phenomenon. Look upon it as a chalenge and try to meet it. You have to activate your mind in a positive direction. E veryone, both young and old, complains of stress or tension – a common phenomenon of our times. There are several centres established in order to enable de-stressing but these provide, at the most, only temporary relief. None of them offer any permanent solution. Tension is only the negative name of a positive phenomenon. What is generally called tension is, in fact, a sign of a healthy life. It is not an evil but a blessing in disguise. Your mind has unlimited capacity, but this capacity, which is a gift of nature, is in the form of potential. You need to turn this potential into actuality. How should you go about doing this? Your potential can be realized only through being exposed to different kinds of stress or tension. Stress awakens our mind; stress activates the natural process which can lead to intellectual development. Stress plays a role in developing our personality.

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