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Stress.

It really is a huge problem in our culture, in our society, in our world. I talk to people all over the world. Stress is phenomenal. In fact, all you need to do is you look at the books and the seminars about stress management to realize the enormity

of the problem. Most social scientists tell us that we live frantic, disjointed, and disconnected

lives. As a matter of fact, we are in constant battle just trying to live a focused life

and a well-ordered life. It's a battle. And most people have

their priorities are sideways, and that's really the cause of most stress. Every study had shown

that at least 60% of us are living in a continuous state of stress, constantly stressed out. I know that the medical

scientists have been warning us, and very few people are heeding that warning that a continuous

stress, that a persistent stress is very dangerous for our physical will-being. In fact,

a continuous stress can suppress the immune system.

It opens the way to cancer and infectious diseases and even strokes.

In fact, most stress management experts have concluded that stress is caused by the way we respond to our circumstances rather than the

circumstances themselves. Let me give you an example. You get stuck in traffic. What do you

do? Well, you can scream and yell and honk your horn or do sign language and all of the things that people do when they get stuck in

traffic or you can say thank God I got 15 minutes of uninterrupted time it's the way you react

to your circumstances the University of Wisconsin has a very extensive stress management institute.

And they found that 90% of all the stress is brought about by worrying.

Worrying about things had already happened or worrying about things that are going to happen

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