New Member--Pat--Stress

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Hi Dennis,

Thanks for reiterating what my therapist has been

telling me about accepting my reality. It helps to

hear the same thing from other people. Constant

reinforcement is what it takes for me at times. :-)

Thanks,

Pat

--- " Dennis Lewis <denlew94131 "

<denlew94131 wrote:

> Pat--

>

> As you know, stress is an inevitable and important

> part of living.

> Stress itself is not bad. The problem is in how we

> respond to stress,

> and this has to do with our inner attitudes toward

> ourselves and the

> world.

>

> A great Advaita master (Jean Klein) once said that

> " Problems don't

> have to be problematic. " Stress-related illnesses

> are common indeed,

> but only because most of us today take everything

> that happens so

> personally and in such a narrow way.

>

> The key is to begin to observe your self-image in

> action in your life-

> -the ways in which it creates impossible

> expectations and thus stress

> and suffering. Southern Indiana may not be where you

> want to be, but

> it is where you are. So you need to start with

> that--with an

> acceptance of cutrent reality. You don't need to

> feel " stuck. " So

> much of our pain and suffering comes because we do

> not welcome what

> actually is. The main thing is that you're alive and

> breathing--that

> you exist now and here, wherever you are. Start by

> experiencing that

> amazing fact, by experiencing your own aliveness.

>

> You might be interested in reading some of the

> essays on my website

> in a section called Spiritual Perspectives. I truly

> believe that some

> of them might help you come to a new, wider

> perspective about your

> situation and thus help free you from some of the

> stressful reations

> to your situation that you are experiencing.

>

> With my best wishes,

>

> Dennis Lewis

> http://www.authentic-breathing.com

 

 

 

 

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