This book offers you a totally different approach to understanding, handling, and even avoiding anxiety and stress.This book is NOT meant to offer scientific, modern, or psychiatric solutions. It will drive you to do introspection and question you on most of the current day lifestyles, goals, ambitions, and dreams. It can shake up your 'me-too' attitude to life, which everyone seems to have taken for granted as 'the norm'.
This book relies on age-old spiritual wisdom available from India, based on the teachings of its saints and sages in analyzing, understanding, and handling anxiety and stress. In its beginning chapters, this book deals with what anxiety is, what the causes of anxiety are, and how to know if you suffer from anxiety. Next, the book discusses the importance of acquiring mental peace in life and the factors that cause loss of peace in our lives.
You may find some shocking realities and revelations about our lives in general, from angles which many of us don't want to look at! We all want to have more joy in our lives with less associated pain. Are there any ways to get them? Yes. The subsequent chapter goes digging into it, with very down-to-earth examples, and shows you some practical ways.
The book continues to discuss, giving some practical examples, spiritually oriented values like contentment, morality, ethics, and principles to reduce anxiety and stress.
One stark reality is that some anxieties and stress that we face in our lives don't obviously seem to be connected anyway with our omissions and commissions. Why so? This question troubles many people. Indian faith deals with this question very convincingly through its spiritual concept -- Karma and rebirth, which is discussed in detail.
On one side we speak very highly of love and its positive role in life, but people also blame 'love' as something that potentially hurts! The next chapter does a critical analysis of the subject. Be prepared for some stark realities and revelations.
The book then proceeds to analyze debt, ways of avoiding debt, and the importance of simplicity in life to avoid stress.
In the last segment of the book, the time-tested and workable spiritual practices like worship, prayer, Yoga, meditation, and so on are dealt with in handling and reducing anxiety and stress.
The best tip for people to handle stress and anxiety is indeed revealed in the last chapter, which even many Indian believers are not aware of.
The author of this book is a spiritually oriented person, who writes extensively in English and Tamil. He is an avid reader of Hindu Scriptures and philosophies, and the lives and teachings of Hindu sages. He is a published author of short stories too. In his website 'Hinduism way of life', C.V.Rajan is consolidating and sharing all his writings on Hinduism under a single umbrella.
