Stress | tantra

What is stress

Too much stress will activate fight or flight mechanisms as too little stress make us mentally freeze.

In order to understand stress, we need to understand homeostasis because anything that knocks us off the state of homeostasis is stress. There are so many processes in our system that work continuously to regulate our internal environment irrespective of external environment. We cannot live without even one such process in Internal environment.

We have limited control over external environment. If it is very hot outside, we try to go under a tree or into an air conditioned room. If it is too cold outside, we wear sweaters, use blankets or sit near fire. Like this many vagaries of nature or people constantly challenge our state of homeostasis. Even in all the protective actions, we are not really controlling the external environment. We can never win if we fight against nature or life force. There are so many known and unknown processes that bombard our homeostasis. Systems that regulate homeostasis inside the body are: temperature control system, urinary system, digestive system, respiratory system, cardiovascular system, endocrinal system, nervous system, muscular system, immunity system, etc. We cannot really list out, at least a reasonably exhaustive list of external vagaries.

Stress affects our wellbeing in many ways. At the same time we cannot find any living organism without stress. What really troubles us is too little or too much of stress. Too much stress will activate fight or flight mechanisms as too little stress make us mentally freeze. A person under freeze will not have any interest even in normal pleasures of life like food and personal comforts. Tantra will neither remove external stessors nor gives you a feel of high. It tries to restore your homeostasis by enhancing internal thresholds and in turn helps you to channelise energy of destructive emotions towards useful pursuits.

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