STRESS

AND

INTERNATIONALISM

DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR
Stress is not problem restricted to one particular field. It
is not merely medical, psychological, economic or
political problem. It is multifactorial problem with
ubiquitous causes and pandemic and global spread. It is
a problem that has been nurtured and contributed by
different fields of life and has in turn eroded all the fields
of life!

If we consider the world to be a pot of water, then stress

is like virulent bacteria being added to it from every
nook and corner; in turn spreading toxicity to every nook
and corner of the container.

This is why; the Total Stress Management and nothing

short of it; is inevitable and unavoidable for optimal
results. The Total Stress Management (which has no
alternative) involves blossoming at individual and
universal levels through holistic perspective, holistic
policy making, holistic planning and holistic
administration at individual, local, national and global
levels in different fields of life!

Total Stress Management, which is individual and

universal blossoming; is truly international and never
against the welfare of any race, religion, culture, nation,
state, province, district, city, town or village and most
importantly an individual!

The ad hoc, temporary, symptomatic, palliative,

sectarian and piecemeal solutions and various activities
and movements for justice have some role at individual,
local and national levels, but as adjuvant measures. They
themselves do not and can not form the mainstay of Total
Stress Management; and in fact can be rendered
counterproductive if attempted in isolation.

Idiosyncratic, fanatic and extremist frenzies and

upsurges; with petty and vested interests centered
around individual, family, group, caste, creed, race,
language, region, religion, nation and culture; are
disruptive, destructive and represent major deficits,
blocks or perversions in the process of human evolution.

They need to be corrected by global consensus on Total

Stress Management and appropriate multipronged
attack; as otherwise; they keep on breeding
indiscriminate and barbaric violence, and go on
disrupting the global fabric of human civilization;
thereby perpetuating fulminant stress in global, national,
local, domestic and individual life.
Apart from several holistic solutions discussed in
reasonable details in my books on Total Stress
Management; suffice it point out that the core of Total
Stress Management is NAMASMARAN, the universal
practice of which; can usher in; the individual and
universal blossoming, which can be verified.