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Originally Posted by markings
A metaphor that says as soon as you enter this world you must experience shock and pain? Better start right away with teaching this?
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Life
doesn't always 'work' as one 'wishes' and 'believes' that it will.
The way I see it, there is a 'happy'
(meaning
optimally beneficial in effect) medium, or 'middle' way, between stress (due to experiencing problems, difficulties, pain, frustration, etc) and relaxation. A violin string that is
too taught is likely to break and one that is
too loosely relaxed is likely to 'yield' quite 'unexciting' (i.e. un-live-ly, vitality-
lacking) tunes. A lot of
so-called 'New Age' music falls into the latter category, for example.
Depending on the situation, a good/positively effective athletic coach knows when it is appropriate to urge a person to 'take it easy' and when to push past his or her 'limits', to 'push through pain', etc. I think that the choice to
just 'make things easy' and/or to always 'take it easy' results in people becoming mediocre-(if-any!)-action-prone 'couch potatoes'.
Something (from
http://blog.ted.com/could-stress-be-...-has-benefits/ ) very worth thinking about, I think:
The study: Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison asked almost 29,000 people to rate their level of stress over the past year as well as how much they believed this stress influenced their health — a little, a moderate amount or a lot. Over the next eight years, public death records were used to record the passing of any subjects.
The findings: People who reported having high levels of stress and who believed stress had a large impact on their health had a whopping 43% increased risk of death. On the other hand, those that experienced a lot of stress but did not perceive its effects as negative were amongst the least likely to die as compared to all other participants in the study.
I think that
discernment regarding the above 'issue' highlighted above is what should be 'taught', of course noting that there are emotionally unbalanced 'drill sergeants' (coaches, spiritual teachers) who do novice-trainees a great disservice by being '
too tough' on them. As I said, reject the metaphor I offered as having
no relevance at your own 'risk'.
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