Stresstab5: Getting Closer to True North Principles

Stress can come from treating lightly our relationship with correct principles and making minimal effort to keep ourselves in alignment with it. Sometimes we are so convince we know better, we believe we have everything we need to be effective and efficient. We strive so hard to be successful, but deep inside we know that we are not living in such a way that we felt harmony and wholeness with true north. We think we can keep doing what we are doing and get a different result. We seldom read and used wisdom literature. We criticize others and get angry with them. In short, we live in a way, which creates dissonance between, how we are behaving and how we feel we should be behaving. This dissonance manifests itself in the form of internal stress. This is frequently a subtle stress, which we can easily suppress as long as things are going okay. The true magnitude of the stress is observed, however, when we are called upon to perform at a higher level like accepting a supervisory position or an administrative function. It is then that we have to examine our level of performance, and we often end up feeling inadequate and unworthy.

We all know what our performance level is. When we are making serious attempts to grow, we feel good and have a peace of conscience. When we are not, we generally feel agitated, defensive, critical and alienated from others. Such feelings are stressful. Peace and calmness can be restored to our soul by living with honor (attitudes and thoughts as well as behaviors).