Do you think there has ever been a time in ancient or modern history where stress hasn't been prevalent?
We have stress related illnesses now, apparently we are more stressed now than we have ever been before, rubbish!
What could have been more stressful that being chased by a sabre toothed tiger when you were out hunting for some berries to eat way back when? Do you think we might have said, 'I need a week of because I'm a bit stressed and I want to be paid for it too, it's my human rights innit'!?
Well of course we are much more cultured now and very highly complex and fragile beings, we have so many more needs now than we used to have. What are they?
We still need to eat, sleep, go to the toilet, have warmth and shelter and human company and touch. There are more but these are the bare necessities for human growth and security, according to what I've read.
But now we see that (apparently) this is not the case. You know in a sense the way I see it is that if you are happy then it doesn't matter where you are or what you are doing. But it begs the question, what is happiness and what are the requirements for it? Is happiness based on external things, or is it simply a question of the right brain chemistry?
Sri Nityananda was a great sage who came in the great Siddha lineage, and he was the master of Swami Muktananda. He was said to have spent hours standing naked in the tree tops, he ate on occasion cow dung and offered it to others in dismay that they wouldn't eat it. This person was and still is revered as a great saint and holy man. He lived in India the birthplace of yoga. It appears he was happy (understatement) without the need for anything at all.
We have the western business man who in a sense, although maybe not so much now, has been praised with the same gusto as Nityananda was in India, only for entirely different reasons. One makes oodles of dosh the other has nothing.
'One man's meat is another's poison'.
What makes me happy may not make you happy. The doing of certain tasks makes me happy/miserable. I like going to the cinema, I don't like going to work on a Monday morning in the rain and cold. Preferences control our actions, we become drunk and hypnotised by who we think we are and we actually believe it to death.
It is only when a crisis of some kind comes along that we may ask ourselves what we are doing and why we are doing it.
The politicians seem like a kind of 'spitting image' farce as they argue and score points over one another and call each other names. The country and indeed the world according to more and more sources from many different walks of life is in a right old mess! But you wouldn't believe it, the shops are full, the biggest shopping complex in Europe has just opened in Shepherds Bush and seems to be doing ok. People are still driving huge juice guzzling motors all over the place and on and on. The politicians are arguing over who's going to make the least cuts to public sector spending, to save (us?) money over the next 10 years.
What I would like to know and please tell me this if you do know, where is all the money and who is it all owed too? I'm told it's the Chinese, is this true?
I digress, stress is here to stay, get used to it, stop moaning and get on the mat !!
I'm H A P P Y I'm H A P P Y, I know I am I'm sure I am I'm H A P P Y.
Rama Dama Ding dong.
Om zzz
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