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In today's fast-paced world, we routinely use jet planes, bullet trains, and all terrains. We might ask ourselves, right off, why do we fall victim to the stress-related effects of these faster-than-a-speeding bullet modern conveyances? (Along with the multitude of so-called labor-saving devices we use at home and at work that take a toll on our psyches and our paychecks!) Is jet lag the only physical and psychological disconnect we experience from fast and furious travel? Or is that inner sagging of our spirit a clue to the source of the stress that saps our overall energies?
In addition, we use lightning-fast computer bytes, cell phones, e-mails and faxes, and in-the-sky satellites. Many technological devices are, literally, at our finger tips. Does the TV remote control change more than the image on the screen? Does it, in fact, serve as a metaphor for the disconnect between our inner lives of the spirit and our outer lives of the present which have been changed by technology at breakneck speed? Soberly, with so many high-tech tools at hand, we might ask ourselves again: Why is stress the blight of late twentieth-century society?
According to Dr. Rae Baum, Ph.D., a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Bioenergetic Analyst and Stress Educator, it is not what happens to us but how we react to what happens to us that causes our stress. In her online article, "Getting A Handle On Your Stress", she says: "Stress is your body's biochemical reaction to how you live your life. Stress can develop into distress and disease through your personal adaptation to internal and external environments."
Not surprisingly, I fit Dr. Baum's profile. I am a recovering stress-ive. Though I am retired, I still feel the swirling suction that stress exerts on me and society in general as we plummet pell-mell towards the new millennium. What to do? Can I stop the world and get off? Well, yes, sort of. The practice of daily meditation is one way to stop the 'world' around me. In the process, at one and the same time, I calm myself and I am energized by my inner spiritual resources.
"Who am I? and What do I Want? are questions that have been asked through the ages," says Dr. Baum in "Listening To and Heeding Your Inner Voice". Questions such as these underline the care and feeding of the soul that nurture the inner self. Also, she observes: "Looking for, listening to and heeding the inner voice is currently being explored in every aspect of life."
And I am looking for and exploring my "inner voice" too. In that pursuit, I am meditating twice a day -- twenty minutes in the morning and twenty minutes in the late afternoon or early evening. These periods of meditation focus my attention on my interior life in order to bring stability and strength to my exterior life. It is an ongoing learning experience to discern the promptings of my inner voice. At times, the learning progresses at a snail's pace. But, after living under the tyran- ny of stress for much of my life, I have resolved to listen silently while heeding my inner voice's counsel in staying stress in my life. After all, I am plumbing my spiritual resources to set them free in helping me to attain healthy mental habits for the rest of my life.
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