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The root of stress

Stress is experienced in the waking state and is a function of lack of alignment between the physical, pranic, mental and emotional bodies. No stress is experienced in deep sleep as these bodies are not experienced. The secret to stress free living is to align these four bodies in the waking state as it happens during the deep sleep state.

What can help me align the different bodies?

The technique that can help to align the different bodies is to find out and be clear about the "technical information" for each day to day action in life. For example, take the action of brushing one's teeth. "Technical information" for this action is found out by asking questions such as "Why is brushing my teeth important?", "What will happen if I don't brush my teeth?". Answers could be that this impacts my health, and bad breadth will cause discomfort to me and people around me. This shows that "health" and "relationships" are important concerns in life. Being clear that brushing teeth fulfils the concerns of health and relationships will help settle the physical body, other desires will not show up, the mental body will not ask "why are you doing this?", and there is no reason to have a worry about doing that task at that point in time.