Can Life be Stressful

Nowadays it is said that people's lives are very stressful, apparently living in a whirlwind of anxiety and stress imposed by modern times.

Is it really?

I think we live a lot in the superficiality of our potential. We accept everything without really realizing the concepts, the implications, the meaning of things. I am not saying that we should become philosophers and put everything into a "fine comb", but we must certainly stop and listen to our wisdom. As we stop and look at life around us, it becomes clear that what we see, the reality that surrounds us, is just that which is, simple and neutral, without emotions, an impersonal reality.

On the other hand, we, we do have many emotions. These emotions are reflections of how we end up perceiving reality, are the mirror of what goes on in our minds, the individual reality.

The problem is that this process happens so immediately, even under our noses, that we do not even have the notion that the reality we experience has already been altered by our perception and triggered all the emotions that assure us that reality is clearly stressful.

It is not the reality that is stressful, it is we who are experiencing stress fruit of our perceptions. And the more we look in this direction from where our experiences come from, we will be able to see beyond perceptions, how they operate, what influences, and more importantly, what it is up to us to do! I'm already looking in that direction and without stress, and you?

Rui Galhós

Coach