Jacob Eapen

Stress-busting With Sound

admin — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:19:36 +0000

By Jacob Eapen

In a recent article titled “Stress — Mind, Body or Emotions?” I wrote about the link between our mind, our feelings and emotions, and the physical body; and how stress has a lot to do with how we think and feel. I explained how unresolved feelings and emotions can trigger undesirable emotional responses and interfere with our ability to handle daily life situations in a calm and rational way — leading to more stress. Excess stress affects our ability to sleep, diminishes our capacity to operate at peak efficiency and eventually leads to burnout. Stress can also rob the body’s organs and tissues of much needed nutrients, vitamins and regulatory signals from the brain that keep them functioning at a healthy level. Studies have shown that stress is linked to many disease processes including asthma, allergies, high blood pressure, heart disease, and is also known to weaken the immune system which can leave the body open to all kinds of infections and diseases.

While eating healthy food, drinking plenty of clean water, daily exercise, taking time to rest and relax, getting adequate sleep are all important ways of dealing with stress, it is essential to find ways to diffuse unresolved feelings and emotions. So what exactly are unresolved feelings and emotions, and how do you diffuse them? (more…)

Stress – Mind, Body or Emotions?

admin — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:04:33 +0000

By Jacob Eapen

High levels of stress have become synonymous with our busy, active everyday lifestyles. We recognize its symptoms — the tension, headaches, and other aches and pains. When ignored, stress can lead to high blood pressure, ulcers, heart problems and many other serious health problems. Yet many people do not recognize other common symptoms of stress — lack of sleep, fatigue, persistent low level anxiety. They will often attribute it to an overactive mind that just won’t shut down at night to let them fall asleep.

Stress affects each individual in a different way. Some seem to perform best under moderate to high stress levels, while others cannot tolerate much stress at all. Even those who perform well under stress can reach a breaking point. In order to take appropriate measures to counter the effects of stress we need a good understanding of the root cause of stress.

Stress is the body’s response to experiences that do not match our expectations. Basically we have run into something unfamiliar… something other than what we expected. So what are expectations? Expectations are based on how we think and feel. Our feelings and emotions are very much tied to memory and learning, which then influence the expectations we place on all our experiences. Stress then has very much to do with how we think and feel. (more…)

Dealing With Low Self-esteem and Depression

admin — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:33:38 +0000

Question: How do I deal with low self-esteem and depression?

Answer:
It’s been my personal experience that as we pass though certain phases of our evolutionary process we find our sense of self dashed to pieces by life events (more…)

Nothing Matters?

admin — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:04:29 +0000

Question: Is it true that nothing we do while alive really matters, and in the end nothing at all matters? Does it matter if you are a mass murderer, or terrorist, or if you follow the government and societal rules ? I say it does not matter one bit. You are alive and then you die, nothing else matters. An obedient servant fares no better than a mass murderer in death.

Answer:
Whether it matters at all or not, depends very much on how you look at life. True, that regardless of the roles we play in life, (more…)

Dealing With Burnout

admin — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:47:10 +0000

Question: What’s the best way to deal with burn out? I mean in the sense that you get up go to the same boring frustrating job everyday but it pays the bills so you can’t really leave. Get home see the same people, same friends, eat, sleep, and repeat the same thing over and over again.

Answer:
When life is no longer satisfying, it is time for a change because you are in a rut. You need to find out what it is you are really passionate about and put your energies there. (more…)