Managing Stress Without Succumbing: How to Turn an Enemy into an Ally

Main subjects

StressAnxiety, stress, and inner calmSpiritF/Friend / friendsChildren, parenting, and family lifeSpiritual development and the spiritual path

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00How to get rid of stress
• 01:02What does the word “stress” mean? Where stress comes from
• 02:25Understandable, appropriate causes of stress
• 04:49The uniqueness of personal stress: why you can't judge it by your own experience. Useful and useless stress
• 08:41Ways to work with stress
• 15:16Don't confuse types of stress
• 17:33Anticipating stress: my experience
• 21:48Examples of stressful situations from life
• 27:50Spirituality. Self-development. Business

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• 00:17

  Today, we'll do more than examine what stress is. Most importantly, we'll find one very simple action that, by the end of this video, is guaranteed to help you minimize your suffering and stress.

  Alexander Volchek

• 01:58

  Another may experience it part of the time, or not at all—only, for example, in circumstances where it's necessary or unavoidable.

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• 03:41

  Or, “I feel stressed every day when I come home,” or, “I have children, and that causes stress.”

  Alexander Volchek

• 05:10

  Someone comes to us with a problem, and we usually say, “Oh, that's exactly like me!” Or, “I felt bad yesterday, stressed all day.” “Oh, exactly like me!” “I moved to another country.”

  Alexander Volchek

• 07:21

  It's a justification: “All right, I'll live this bad life because I need to go through it, because it's karma.”

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• 12:03

  Working on causes means understanding in advance, before going outside, that cars may pass, animals may run around—given the area we're in—planes may fly over, and something else may happen.

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• 15:38

  When I say “practically,” I mean impossible for most people.

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• 19:33

  Every time I leave my car on a San Francisco street, I feel that worry.

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• 20:42

  Yet every time I think about saying it, it causes stress and changes something inside me.

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• 24:13

  Can you respond calmly when someone says, “I have a problem,” and understand that their problem isn't necessarily something you need to become stressed about?

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