{"id":150073,"date":"2022-09-06T08:15:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T12:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/?p=150073"},"modified":"2022-09-05T14:48:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T18:48:28","slug":"sadhguru-and-shekhar-kapur-on-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/150073","title":{"rendered":"Sadhguru and Shekhar Kapur on Stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sadhguru and Shekhar Kapur on Stress\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M-V9q5ZemS0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nShekhar Kapur: And one last question, because I know people will say, \u201cWell, why didn\u2019t you ask him about stress?\u201d (Sadhguru Laughs) And I\u2019ll say, \u201cWell\u2026\u201d Because I don\u2019t understand I cannot define stress. (Sadhguru Laughs) There\u2019re a lot of the things that a lot of the questions people ask me, and very well know that since I\u2019ve been interviewing you, they\u2019ll say but I know that we get addicted to keywords, but is there a\u2026 is there, I mean, what is there a definition that we can assign to the idea of stress? Sadhguru: (Laughs) I must tell you this. When I first went to the United States a few years ago, wherever I went, everybody was talking about stress management. I really couldn\u2019t understand this, because in my understanding we manage things which are precious to us, okay? (Laughs) Shekhar Kapur: All right. (Laughs) Okay. Sadhguru: Our business, our family Shekhar Kapur: Yeah. Sadhguru: \u2026our money, our wealth, our children we manage all these things because these are all things precious to us. Why would anybody manage stress? I couldn\u2019t get this.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(Both Laugh) When this word was thrown at me everywhere, \u201cStress management, stress management,\u201d I said, \u201cWhy manage stress?\u201d It took me a while to understand these people have concluded that stress is a part of their life. Stress is not a part of your life. Stress is just your inability to manage your system. Stress is not because of the nature of your work. The Prime Minister is complaining of stress. The chapparasi also complain of stress. In between, every other person saying his job is stressful and unemployed is stressful. (Claps) (Laughs) Shekhar Kapur: Yeah. Sadhguru: They don\u2019t have anything to do (Laughs) \u2013 that also they\u2019re stressful. So you\u2019re suffering your job. If I get you fired, will you be joyful? Shekhar Kapur: No.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSadhguru: No. So, stress is not about your job, isn’t it? It is just that you do not know how to manage your body, how to manage your mind, how to manage your emotions, your energy, and your chemistry, you do not know how to manage anything! You\u2019re functioning by accident, so everything is stressful. you get into a car without a steering wheel or you get into a car, if you turn this way (Gestures), it goes in the opposite direction you will be stressed, isn’t it? Shekhar Kapur: Yeah. Sadhguru: So right now that\u2019s the kind of machine you\u2019re driving. Without understanding anything about it, just by chance, you\u2019re going, blundering through life you will be stressed. So stress is not because of the nature of the activity that you\u2019re performing, not because of life situations. Stress is simply because you do not know how to manage your system.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhat is stressful for you, somebody is breezing through it. Isn’t it so? Shekhar Kapur: Correct. Sadhguru: stress is not situational. It is just an inability to manage the inner situation, not the outer situation. Sadhguru: Essentially the quality of our lives change and transform not because we change the content of our lives but only because we have changed the context of our life. Someone living a beautiful life does not mean he\u2019s doing something different when he wakes up in the morning.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.pexels.com\/photos\/7927369\/pexels-photo-7927369.jpeg?auto=compress&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;h=650&amp;w=940\" \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHe also goes to the toilet. He also brushes his teeth. He also does the same things. But somehow his life is magical and beautiful because of the context. This could have happened to people when they fall in love with somebody. They were doing the same thing, suddenly they are in love with someone, and suddenly everything is different because the context of their life has changed.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut then once they fall out of it, again (Laughs) the context of their life changes and it becomes miserable. Now, changing the context is voluntary, which is just something that you can do willfully. Changing the content may not be possible as you will. Because to change the content of your life, you need permission from the situations in which you exist, isn’t it? Shekhar Kapur: Yeah. Sadhguru: But to change the context of life, you don\u2019t need anybody\u2019s permission. You\u2026 it is not at all situational. So on a certain day, three men were working in one place. another man came by and asked the first man, \u201cWhat are you doing here?\u201d This man looked up and said, \u201cCan\u2019t you see I\u2019m cutting stone? Are you blind?\u201d This man moved on to the next man and asked, \u201cWhat are you doing here?\u201d That man looked up and said, \u201cSomething\u2026 something to fill my belly.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI come here and do whatever they ask me to do. I just have to fill my belly, that\u2019s all.\u201d He went to the next man, the third man, and asked, \u201cWhat are you doing here?\u201d That man stood up in great joy and said, \u201cI\u2019m building a beautiful temple here!\u201d All of them are doing the same thing, but their experience of what they\u2019re doing is worlds apart. Every human being, every moment of his life could be doing whatever he is doing in any one of these three contexts and that\u2019ll determine the quality of his life, not what he is doing. How simple an activity you\u2019re doing or how complex an activity you\u2019re doing doesn\u2019t change the quality of your life. In what context are you doing, changes the quality of your life, isn’t it? Shekhar Kapur: Completely.\r\n\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M-V9q5ZemS0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As found on YouTube<\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/flywait.4brain.hop.clickbank.net\">Alzheimer’s Dementia Brain Health \u27ab\u27ac \ua19b\u30b7\u27ab I was losing my memory, focus \u2013 and my mind! And then\u2026 I got it all back again. Case study: Brian Thompson There\u2019s nothing more terrifying than watching your brain health fail. You can feel it\u2026 but you can\u2019t stop it.<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Shekhar Kapur: And one last question, because I know people will say, \u201cWell, why didn\u2019t you ask him about stress?\u201d (Sadhguru Laughs) And I\u2019ll say, \u201cWell\u2026\u201d Because I don\u2019t understand I cannot define stress. (Sadhguru Laughs) There\u2019re a lot of the things that a lot of the questions people ask me, and very well &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/150073\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sadhguru and Shekhar Kapur on Stress<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":150072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,781,111,7,122,140,63,72,305],"tags":[34558,59777,36670,59773,34651,5696,45,34172],"class_list":["post-150073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety","category-crime-justice","category-diy","category-getting-help","category-lgbt","category-lgbtqq","category-life","category-style","category-unrest-conflicts-war","tag-dealing-with-stress","tag-overcoming-stress","tag-sadhguru-person","tag-shekar-kapur","tag-spirituality","tag-stress","tag-stress-management","tag-wisdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/htmlF_IMG_63163cfd75cd4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150090,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150073\/revisions\/150090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}