How Life Works?: 24 Ways to Progress Without Stress

By Dr. Vijay Pabbathi

This book offers a deep insight into human attitude that causes stress and opens a new door in our consciousness. In brief sections, the book is packed with metaphors, examples and suggestions that are relevant to everyone. This book is filled with 24 insights from a very insightful medical science teacher who has also invented "Pulse-mediated Relaxation" (PmR) method to spontaneously silence the mind and relieve stress.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Sep 30, 2011
• ISBN: 9781456797478

Dr. Vijay Pabbathi

Dr. Vijay Pabbathi is a lecturer at the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic (AECC), Bournemouth, Dorset, UK. He currently teaches human anatomy and supervises research projects. Before moving to Dorset, he was involved in research and teaching at the University of Bristol for approximately ten years. Prior to his work at the University of Bristol, he studied for his degrees in Biology and Veterinary Science in Andhra Pradesh, South India.

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Contents

Preface

1. How Life Works

2. Traffic jam or Tsunami?

3. Pragmatic thinking

4. The Trap of Deadlines

5. Genuine Relationship

6. Life follows the body

7. The way to achieve more

8. The best possible outcome

9. Giving what we have

10. In observing sunrise….

11. The right direction

12. The Stress Equation

13. A dual effect

14. Stress Free Conversation

15. A practical example

16. Moderation Factor

17. Making a right choice

18. When to say NO?

19. A Perfect Person?

20. Being An Expert

21. The words

22. What goes around

23. The best antidote

24. The survival system of life

Summary

About the Author

Acknowledgements

Other books by Dr. Vijay Pabbathi

Preface

Having found my own inner peace with the insights described, I feel that what I have learned in my life could be a valuable resource for others.

Our actions are generally related to gaining good health, pleasure, happiness, comfort, material wealth, longevity, a peaceful life and so on. Irrespective of our cultural background, this is what we all want. One day, everything in life might appear to work in our favour and we may think that we do not need any guidance. On another day, we may face inevitable dangers, get frustrated and discover that the entire technological advancement is not really helping us deal with life. In the process of accomplishing what we want, we get stressed. If we understand ‘how life works’, then there is a possibility of dealing with life events without feeling stressed. For this reason, some chapters in this book reflect on how life works.

Motivation to achieve more progress makes us ignorant about the inherent stress that comes with pushing ourselves beyond what is possible. It would be possible to achieve better progress if we examine both stress and progress simultaneously.

The presented insights could be experimental tools to verify whether these insights could be useful in your life situations. In essence, the purpose of these insights is to offer practical ways of progressing in life without stress.

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Vijay Pabbathi

1. How Life Works

It is our approach to life that causes stress; we can change it because we are the creators of our psychological drama.

We want happiness now and ever after. We want continuous profits, pleasure, peace, happiness, health and love. This is what we want. What we want is a fairy tale. In reality, life does not give us everything pleasurable in a continuous fashion, even for the richest man in the world. When we understand this fact, we will not be easily disappointed or stressed because our expectation about life will be neither positive nor negative – but just realistic.

I think that life progresses like a wave on the sea surface. The wave shows momentary movements of ups and downs (crests and troughs) during its progression towards the coast. Similarly we also witness both happy and challenging moments during our progression through life. Understanding this reality of life is the basis of maturity. Such understanding unconsciously alters what we expect from life and causes less psychological damage if the events in life do not work in our favour.

In life, we face both happy and challenging events irrespective of our financial, academic and religious backgrounds. Individual life situations may differ based on our individual circumstances.

Happy events may be finding a partner of your choice, peace of mind, job achievement, loving relationships, having a new baby, health, winning a law suit,