Tuesday, July 1, 2008

How to Manage your Stress?

A lecturer was giving a lecture to his student on stress management. He raised a glass of water and asked the audience. ‘How heavy do you think this glass of water is?’ the students answers ranged from 20 to 500 gm.


‘It does not matter on the absolute weight. It depends on how long you hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it is Ok. If I hold it for an hour, I will have an ache in my tight arm. If I hold it for a day, you will have to call an ambulance. It is exactly the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.


If we carry our burdens all the time, we will not be able to carry on, the burden becoming increasingly heavier. What you have to do is to put the glass down, rest for a while before holding it up again.We have to put down the burden periodically, so that we can be refreshed and are able to carry on.


So before you return home from work tonight, put the burden of work down. Don’t carry it back pick up tomorrow. Whatever burdens you are having now on your shoulders, let it down for a moment. Pick it up again later when you have rested. Rest and relax. Life is short, enjoy it!

Adversity causes most men to break and a few to break records