2. The only way of stress management is to
understand the nature, causes, dimensions,
mechanisms, effects and principles of
management of stress and practicing the
solutions in accordance!
Basically this involves improvement in
cognition, affect and conation. In other words,
this involves improvement in our views, our
feelings and our actions. In my book, “STRESS,
UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGEMENT, A
WAY TO TOTAL WELL BEING”, I have
discussed these things.
But having studied the basics required in stress
management; one looks forward to more
complete or total management of stress. For this
management of conceptual stress is essential!
For this, it is imperative to study issues, which
affect private as well as public life and especially
those issues, which are pertinent to our fields.
3. Please remember, without evolving views,
feelings and actions with respect to issues in
individual as well as social life, pertinent to
your field, stress in general and conceptual
stress in particular can not be managed totally.
Unfortunately many of us try frantically to
manage stress [and conceptual stress], without
this understanding and as a result, create and
perpetuate misery for themselves and the
society. All short cuts marketed under the
disguise of stress management can at times be
temporarily useful but ultimately prove useless
and even counterproductive in personal and
social life.
Now let us see examples of how conceptual
stress management is essential.
Every one of us has stress. Thus a student may
have stress of examination or competition and a
4. doctor may have a stress of treating a difficult
disease. A farmer may have stress of drought
and a mill worker may have stress of lay off. A
Prime Minister of a country may have stress of a
crucial decision making such as nuclear testing,
dealing with religious sentiments or flak from
media etc.
It has to be appreciated that just as the causes of
the stress vary, the implications of the stress also
vary. Thus the adverse effects of the ineffective
management of stress in individual life as well
social life vary. Thus the student may avoid
appearing from examination, the doctor may
shirk from his duty, the farmer may commit
suicide and the mill worker rendered jobless may
be forced into illegal underworld activities. The
wrong decision of a Prime Minister may
influence not only his life but also that of the
generations after generations of one or more
countries, in adverse ways.
5. This clearly illustrates that the adverse effects of
conceptual stress are not restricted to one’s own
body and one’s own family. The
mismanagement of conceptual stress by political
leaders, industrial leaders, union leaders, media
leaders, religious leaders and in general; people
involved in decision making can adversely affect
various walks of life and even the future
generations directly or indirectly. This is
comparable to most dangerous and rapidly
spreading pandemic infectious disease. The
patient suffering from such infectious disease, if
does not undergo proper treatment, then he/she
would harm himself/herself as well as the others,
(millions after millions!)
Management of Conceptual stress therefore, is
vitally important for one’s own well being and
that of the society as well! One of the
prerequisites for this is NAMASMARAN.
Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
