The key factors involved throughout; is NAMASMARAN, which is very simple. There is no need of any technique, money, methodology, technology, cooperation; or anything for that matter. It is beyond all kinds of “barriers and walls” of beliefs and non beliefs. It is a super-solution provided by the immortal galaxy of saints, seers and sages; from round the globe, but most importantly by Shri Brahmachaitanya Maharaj Gondavlekar. Lastly; every one of us is bound to go through the conceptual stress knowingly or unknowingly and hence; there is no escape. We can conquer it through NAMASMARAN (remembering our true self); and get the empowerment and enlightenment; and vision, clarity and clues; to individual and global blossoming; or else; suffer and inflict others with our suffering.

1. STRESS
AND
CONCEPTUAL
STRESS
DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR

2. Conceptual stress is not a separate entity. It is a part of over all
process of stress. We can also call it intellectual confusion,
doubts, chaos, conflicts, suspicions etc; born; out of physical,
metabolic, endocrine, autonomic, and nervous i.e. instinctual,
emotional and intellectual interactions; with internal and
external environment.
It is true that we should manage to bypass or ignore some
questions, and rightly so; e.g. mathematical problems need not;
as a routine, bother a biologist. Similarly, the problems of
school children are best dealt with in the text-books and guides
and the experts in those fields; and need not worry a musician.
But there are issues which are a) inevitable b) inseparable c)
unavoidable, d) faced by most of us; and affect our personal,
family and social life; as well as the life of the society as a
whole; immensely. These issues produce Conceptual or
Intellectual Stress!
In modern life; the pace of life has become very fast. The
nature of the influences of the scientific and technological
advances is much more complex and there are rapidly
emerging new issues and we are unable to understand and deal
with them. Morality, ethics, customs, traditions and
conventions, which guided us in past; are being proved
inadequate and/or irrelevant!

3. Conceptual stress results from day to day questions; such as
celibacy or free sex, divorce no divorce, legalization of
homosexuality or no, caste based reservations or no, charity or
SWADHARMA, vegetarianism or non vegetarianism, theism
or atheism, rationality or shraddha, productive element in
education or no; and so on!
Health related issues are even more troublesome. Thus
complexity, mysteriousness and dread of; AIDS, cancer,
diabetes, heart disease, muscular dystrophy; cause stress.
To give a simple example, excessive and unfounded fear of
cancer; is a case of conceptual stress. Cancer phobia many
times results from inappropriate views, feelings and actions
(conceptual deficiency) about cancer, its nature, its symptoms
such as pain and its outcome.
A patient of cancer phobia may suspect that he/she has cancer,
whenever he/she gets pain. If he/she gets repeated pain, in a
particular organ then he/she starts suspecting cancer of that
particular part! This leads to morbid fear, anxiety, worry, and
sense of helplessness; due to imagination of pain, agonies and
physical, mental, economic and social dependence helplessness.
Conceptual stress involves:
1. Defective or inaccurate perceptions, imagination, ideas,
thoughts, guesswork;
2. Lopsided, disproportionate imbalanced emotions;

4. 3. Unreasonable instincts and unnatural physical needs,
These are associated with disturbed rates, interrelationships
and proportions in electrophysiological interactions in brain,
secretion of neurotransmitters, hormones; and metabolic
activities. These cause deleterious effects on personal and social
health.
“Conscious” conceptual stress is minimal or absent if we are
totally ignorant and adjusted to a self centered, petty,
indifferent, reflexive, passive, callous and stereotyped life style
like a lower animal. But still; there can be “subconscious”
stress; and it can play havoc!
Conceptual stress is not merely determined by the
technological advances and their complex effects; but also by
our nature, constitution and overall resilience, tenacity,
fighting spirit, patience, killer instinct and objectivity.
Confusing information about the risk of computers and mobile
phones, radiations of mobile towers, swine flu, bird flu, chicken
Gunia, cyber crimes; creates stress.
Maximum conceptual stress is developed; when begin to grow.
As our perspective assumes global dimension our thinking
reaches out to probe into; and explore the mysteries of various
natural phenomena, our feelings reach out to the miseries of
the millions including animals; the conceptual stress

5. multiplies! This stress amongst Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma
Gandhi, Lokamanya Tilak and others; gave new light to world.
Our conceptual stress also; increases as we search for solutions
to the conflicting situations and observations and inexplicable
issues and come close to the solutions; but encounter difficulty
in expressing them! This becomes more disturbing when our
solutions are proved ineffective, though not inaccurate! Since
we seem to fail we get quite stressed in persisting with our
views and mission; but cannot abandon them too! We are in
agony! Why are we ineffective if we are accurate?
At this point the very foundation of our existence begins to
shake and our existence almost gets uprooted! But through this
devastating dark night; dawns; the capacity to assert ourselves
and conquer the stressors on the one hand; and there is visible
benevolent impact of Total Stress Management on the other!
The key factors involved throughout; is NAMASMARAN,
which is very simple. There is no need of any technique,
money, methodology, technology, cooperation; or anything for
that matter. It is beyond all kinds of “barriers and walls” of
beliefs and non beliefs. It is a super-solution provided by the
immortal galaxy of saints, seers and sages; from round the
globe, but most importantly by Shri Brahmachaitanya
Maharaj Gondavlekar.

6. Lastly; every one of us is bound to go through the conceptual
stress knowingly or unknowingly and hence; there is no escape.
We can conquer it through NAMASMARAN (remembering
our true self); and get the empowerment and enlightenment;
and vision, clarity and clues; to individual and global
blossoming; or else; suffer and inflict others with our suffering.