For the past
couple of months this has been going on in my mind as to what affects a person
more - physical stress or mental stress. I gave this a considerable thought as
I face both. I have shared about my physical stress here, though not a very
major one but it is still something I have to live with. Some of you may understand
the cause of my mental stress as in a sudden urge to let it off my mind I wrote
a brief post on that long ago. What I
think is shared in this post.
There is no doubt
that physical stress causes a lot of unhappiness which at times may also lead a
person to contemplate suicide. After a lot of thinking I feel that if one has
positive attitude thus being mentally prepared to accept whatever physical
drawback it be, one can not only be happy but attain what one sets eyes on.
There are numerous examples of persons who are physically challenged having
achieved feats which a fully fit person may find difficult. Thus a positive
attitude and mental preparedness to accept physical stress leads a person to live happily
doing whatever he or she wishes to.
Now let us have a
look at mental stress. We all know that mind travels at an astonishing speed.
You may give a thought to your own experience. One may be thinking of something
and suddenly mind may traverse to something entirely different with no relation
to what was in mind. One may be totally physically fit but if there is any
mental stress, no matter how much one tries to be positive or divert mind but
it will stray back to the cause of such stress without any warning making one think
about it thus aggravating the stress. This is experienced personally by me as
inspite of making all efforts to divert my mind, it does stray back.
What do you say on
this?
4 comments:
I think mental stress causes much more harm in ways we do not even know. Hope you are away from both.
A good piece. Thank you for sharing.
Hope all's well at your end.
Blessings to you and your family.
However, a little stress, both physical and mental, is needed to achieve one's potential. No stress means no action and no effort to overcome it. No action and no effort would make life dull.
The effort should be to manage stress and not avoid it. One cannot avoid stress as long as one is alive.
ALKA :
Thanks for your supportive view. Take care
ELLEN :
Thanks for your blessings and appreciative view. One has to face whatever be it with positive attitude. Take care
T G :
So true. No pain no gain. One has to feel some stress but my intention was to bring out that mental stress does more harm than physical one. Hope you agree with that. Take care
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