Modern life, on the other hand, is more hectic in other ways.

The sources of stress that we have are more chronic.

Let's define stress for a moment.

Physically, stress is when something wants to be in two places at one time.

If I take an iron beam and apply pressure to both ends in different directions,

I'm creating stress in the beam because one part wants to be north,

the other part wants to be south.

I create stress on the beam.

In a person, stress is when we can't decide what's important,

so then you want two things that are mutually incompatible.

I want to relax right now, but I need to get some work done.

I'm under stress.

I need to go to that party, but I also need to go to work.

But when you truly give up on something, it's actually no longer stressful.

When you accept that something is completely out of control,

there's no point in being stressed about it.

So it does imply that you have some level of control over it.

The mind is constantly creating stress for you through situations where it's being more

paranoid or more angry than is actually warranted for your environment.

We want to find peace from mine.

We want to have tools that allow us to not turn off the mind

because you can't suppress the mind.

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