PHENOMENON OF A TROUBLED MIND

PHENOMENON OF A TROUBLED MIND De-stressing Explained C ONSIDER a situation where you have suffered a loss. You become disturbed. In the first instance you feel that the experience is unbearable. But the next day you return to your normal self. You are able to manage your affairs as usual. These kinds of experiences are common in the daily lives of all human beings. How does this miracle happen? How does yesterday’s abnormal person become today’s normal person? Its a miracle of the mind. The mind has enormous capacity for diffusing things. Every mind is a large factory of de-stressing. Due to this mental faculty, we enjoy a normal life. Otherwise, our society would have become fraught with unsound people. Those who are believed to be masters in the art of de-stressing are only taking false credit. What actually happens is a result of the mind, but people wrongly attribute it to some master of de-stressing. The mind has enormous capacity for diffusing things. The mind is a unique natural gift to every human being. Then, why do we see people still living in stress? The phenomenon of stress is so common that perhaps no one can be exempt from this problem. Everyone feels that they are living in stress and that all kinds of methods of de-stressing have failed to make them completely stress free. The fact is that there are two different domains in this regard: the known world and the unknown world. When the problem pertains to the known world, our mind gets activated and soon de-stresses us. Loss of a job or loss in business, occurrence of a road accident, death of a relative, etc., are examples of the kinds of stress that are related to the known world. The mind knows the reason for stress and easily finds a solution to it, sometimes by forgetting it or sometimes by resolving it. But, there is a region that is unknown to the human mind. Here, the mind, consciously or unconsciously, believes that it does not have the information or data by which to explain and normalize the situation. The mind always acts according to the available data. If the data is not available, the mind becomes troubled.