2.41 The power of healthy tension
When under pressure, a cricketer might miss an easy catch— or pull off an incredible one. Why the difference? It's not the absence of fear; [...]
When under pressure, a cricketer might miss an easy catch— or pull off an incredible one. Why the difference? It's not the absence of fear; [...]
We may fear public speaking. "I might freeze—or be mocked on stage." But if we let that fear stop us we’ll meet another fear: that [...]
Have you ever met someone who had no tension in a situation you were tense about? Maybe you were coaching them for a critical interview, [...]
Have you ever felt the absolute power of fear? You feel a certainty about imminent doom— no doubt that disaster awaits on the path ahead. [...]
Fear isn’t always bad. Sometimes it warns us of real dangers to avoid. The Bhagavad Gita (3.35) points to such healthy fear, teaching that choices [...]
Fear sometimes feels like an inner enemy, beating us relentlessly with a stick. But here’s the twist— the stick used against us actually belongs to [...]
Because life is full of uncertainties, we’ll all sometimes feel anxious, insecure, or worried. We can’t remove fear from life— but we can refuse to [...]
Have you ever heard the voice of fear in your head? It can nag, distract, exhaust, overwhelm, even paralyze. But here’s the key: fear can [...]
Whenever we try to change ourselves for the better, fear whispers, “If you fail, they’ll laugh at you.” Such fear will hold us back, till [...]
Courage isn’t only found on battlefields or in blockbuster-style heroics. The greater courage is quieter—shown in our daily life, when we dare to face our [...]
Life often subjects us to dualities: success-failure, honor-dishonor, pleasure-pain. Due to such dualities, we may keep swinging between emotional highs and lows. Our moodiness makes [...]
Do you know people who are prone to emotional extremes: elation in gain and dejection in loss? Success gets to their heads; failure buries them [...]
Some people mistake the Gita’s teaching on equanimity— thinking it means not caring about externals. But look at Arjuna, the Gita’s original student: he [...]
When we try to control emotions, we often adopt two unhealthy approaches: suppression or repression. They sound similar, but they’re very different. Suppression is conscious— [...]
To process emotions, we need to begin by understanding why we feel what we feel. Whenwe don’t understand the cause of an emotion, our attention [...]
Once we understand why an emotion arose,we may realize the situation didn’t warrant it—or at least not with such intensity.Maybe the person who seemed to [...]
When we process an emotion, we may discover it has a genuine cause. If we felt enraged by someone’s behavior, perhaps they were actually disrespectful— [...]
When something terrible happens, do you ever wonder— Did God really want this to happen? Nothing happens outside his loving plan. Every event is [...]
When a loved one hurts us, the pain cuts deep. To make sense of their actions, consider three possibilities: they may be heartless, thoughtless, [...]
Have you ever felt so low that you thought, “Nothing I do will change anything”? Fight that thought. Are you really powerless? Can you not [...]
When a company collapses—or when a person implodes— is there a common denominator behind it all? The triggers may differ, but one pattern runs [...]