Anxiety-A probable damager
By JIRARA
© JIRARA, April 2021
Published by JIRARA
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Anxiety-A probable damager
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An anxiety is anti-thesis of calmness, coolness, peace, stability of mind, and silence. It creates an over-excitement, or is the result of that. It eventually creates anger, and then confusion. In many cases it creates mental harm and/or physical damage, and recovery from which takes lot of time, and sometimes people who are adversely affected do not recover from either of the damages.
We, the most of us, if not all, get over-excited about certain things: events or works, especially if these are pending, and get into the mode of anxiety, in fact both the anxiety and the excitement feed to each other in a supplementary manner; and this is mainly in the human nature, either it is due to the inherent ‘swabhaav’ or a result of some health condition, e.g. hypertension, i.e. BP (blood pressure), and the latter condition is experienced by the people who are in late forties; and they take tablets but still they have to watch out their inherent nature, which they often ignore and overlook; and this ignorance might create very tough time for them, because this would over-ride the effects of the tablets.; similar situation also occurs with the people who have diabetes, especially of Type 1; where for they have to take insulin injections almost daily, and they would be under some tension.
If we figure out this early and accept the reasons and their after-effects, then we would be able to regulate our state of affairs, and minimize the adverse effects of the conditions of anxiety and over-excitement, the duo-damager.
We should realize that we in our daily or weekly lives live in the centre of several uncertainties, and irregularities of events and their happenings and when we are not able to cope with them we get tensed and worried and get over-excited.
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These uncertainties and vaguenesses are part and parcel of our lives:
1. Gas was just over when we were seasoning, 2. Electrical-power just went off when we switched on the AC, 3. While going to the airport the taxi’s tyre got flat, or there was heavy rains and the taxi got into a pit, 4. When we had cooked lot of food, and the guest cancelled their visit to our house, 5. A marriage function was arranged and heavy rains poured in, and so on…
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It is said in one Eastern philosophy that we must understand the concept of: a) paristhiti, b) manosthiti, and c) atmasthiti.
The first one is about the status of physical condition/s of any event or situation, including its origin, and environment. The second one is about our mental/psychological status when we are involved in this physical situation. The third one is about our overall personality status in respect of these two previous conditions: how we are positioned with our mental balance, intellectual understanding of the conditions/causes, and judgemental-decision capacity, if anything goes wrong, what to do and how to do?
This depends on how much importance we attach to each of the physical situations that we have had faced, and have we thought of some alternatives?:
1. Most of the people have a second gas cylinder, but if we had forgotten to order the one when it was over in the first place?
2. Most of us use UPS, but it was not serviced recently, or we do not have the AMC?
3. Is taxi driver capable of quickly changing the tyre, or can we not hire another taxi soon, or should we have not started mush earlier to the airport?
4. We should have told the guests that in case they have had any inkling that they might cancel their visit to our house for the dinner, they should have informed us in advance?
5. We should have done weather forecasting, and/or we should not have kept the function in an open place.
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There are deeper and broader facets of the three basic aspects of our life: a) paristhiti, the physical state, b) manosthiti, the mental state, and c) atmasthiti, the self-state of a human being; we may get a chance to discuss this in near future.
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