This document discusses merits that stress management techniques should possess. It states that stress management should be possible and feasible for most people, cause no financial loss or undesirable side effects, not be painful or a nuisance to others, involve intellectual surrender but not dependence, and be natural and conducive to growth. It provides the analogy that good stress management is like breastfeeding, which nourishes the infant for life without the infant consciously realizing it.

1. STRESS
AND
BREAST
FEEDING
DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR

2. After decades of thinking and working on
TOTAL STRESS MANAGEMENT I
have begun to realize that the best way of
stress management should have certain
merits.
It should be possible and feasible for
maximum people, except extremes; such
as embryos, newborn, comatose or
mentally challenged individuals.
It should not be a matter of selling,
buying, marketing, advertising,
bargaining, exploiting, and so on.
It should not cause any financial loss.
It should not have any undesirable side
effects.
It should not be painful or discomforting.

3. It should not be a nuisance to others,
including those who belong to other
religions, other faiths, other ideologies etc.
It should involve intellectual surrender,
though it may not fit in one’s subjective
rationality.
It should not be conducive to dependence,
parasitism, lethargy, indolence, passivity,
inaction and discord in society.
It should be natural, like blossoming of a
plant and emanation of the fragrance.
It should be conducive to growth and
evolution; enhancing dynamic harmony
in individual and universal life.
In simple words, Total Stress
Management should be like the breast
feeding, which plays; “life building and
life blossoming role” in the infant even if

4. he/she does not realize it! The guru is
called, mauli (mother), because he/she
feeds the divine sap of NAMASMARAN
i.e. remembrance and reorientation to
one’s true self, to generations after
generations.