Know your Type:
“Stress is not always wrong; it can be used in Beautiful ways. It is not necessarily negative, but if we think that it is negative, that it is not good, then we create problems. Stress in itself can be used as a stepping stone; it can become a creative force. But ordinarily we have been taught down through the ages that stress is bad, that when you are in any kind of stress you become afraid. And your fear makes it even more stressful: the situation is not helped by it.
“For example, there is some situation in the market and that is creating a stress. The moment you feel that there is some tension, some stress, you become afraid that this should not be so: ‘I have to relax’. Now, trying to relax will not help because you cannot relax: in fact, trying to relax will create a new kind of stress. The stress is there and you trying to relax and you cannot, so you are complicating the problem.
“When stress is there use it as creative energy. First, accept it: there is no need to fight with it. Accept it, it is perfectly okay. It simply says, ‘The market is not going well, something is going wrong,’ You may be a loser’…or something. Stress is simply an indication that the body is getting ready to fight. Now you try to relax or you take painkillers or you take tranquilizers: you are going against the body. The body is getting ready to fight a certain challenge that is there: enjoy the challenge!
“Even if sometimes you can’t sleep in the night there is no need to be worried. Work it out, use that energy that is coming up: walk up and down, go for a run, go for a long walk, plan what you want to do, what the mind wants to do. Rather than trying to go to sleep, which is not possible, use the situation in a creative way.
“In fact if you have lived your stress totally you will come to a relaxation automatically. You can go on only so far, and then the body automatically relaxes. If you want to relax in the middle you create trouble: the body cannot relax in the middle. It is almost as if an Olympic runner is getting ready, just waiting for the whistle, the signal and he will be off, he will go like the wind. He has to use his stress: the stress is boiling, it is gathering energy. He is becoming more and more vital and potential.
Now he has to sit on this stress and use it as energy, as fuel.
“….So tries this too: when there is a stressful situation don’t freak out, don’t become afraid of it. Go into it: use it to fight with. A man has tremendous energy and the more you use it, the more you have of it.
“When It comes and there is a situation, fight, do all that you can do, really go madly into in it. Allow it, accept it and welcome it. It is good: it prepares you to fight. And when you have worked it out, you will be surprised: great relaxation comes, and that relaxation is not created by you. Maybe for three days you cannot sleep and then for forty-eight hours you can’t wake up, and that is okay!
“There are two kinds of people in the world: one can be called the race horse type and the other is the turtle type.
“If the racehorse type is not allowed to go fast, to go into things with speed, there will be stress; he has to be given his pace. And you are a racehorse! So forget about relaxation and things like that; they are not for you. Those are for turtles . So just be a racehorse, that is natural to you, and don’t think of the joys that turtles are enjoying; that is not for you. You have a different kind
of joy. If a turtle starts becoming a racehorse he will be in the same trouble!
“You can get out of the market. It is so easy; the mind will say,’ get out of the market, forget about it. Just go to a movie or a pub. ‘But you will not feel good. You will feel more stress arising because you will not feel your energy is engaged.
“So accept your nature.[if] you are a fighter, a warrior you have to be that way, and that’s your joy. Now no need to be afraid; go into it whole-heartedly. Fight with the market, compete in the market; do all that you really want to do. Don’t be afraid of the consequences—accept the stress. Once you accept the stress it will disappear. And not only that, you will feel very happy because you have started using it; it is a kind of energy.
“Don’t listen to people, who say to relax; that is not for you. Your relaxation will come only after you have earned it by hard labor.
“One has to understand one’s type. Once the type is understood there is no problem; then one can follow a clean-cut line. Stress is going to be your way of life”.
“Stress is not always wrong; it can be used in Beautiful ways. It is not necessarily negative, but if we think that it is negative, that it is not good, then we create problems. Stress in itself can be used as a stepping stone; it can become a creative force. But ordinarily we have been taught down through the ages that stress is bad, that when you are in any kind of stress you become afraid. And your fear makes it even more stressful: the situation is not helped by it.
“For example, there is some situation in the market and that is creating a stress. The moment you feel that there is some tension, some stress, you become afraid that this should not be so: ‘I have to relax’. Now, trying to relax will not help because you cannot relax: in fact, trying to relax will create a new kind of stress. The stress is there and you trying to relax and you cannot, so you are complicating the problem.
“When stress is there use it as creative energy. First, accept it: there is no need to fight with it. Accept it, it is perfectly okay. It simply says, ‘The market is not going well, something is going wrong,’ You may be a loser’…or something. Stress is simply an indication that the body is getting ready to fight. Now you try to relax or you take painkillers or you take tranquilizers: you are going against the body. The body is getting ready to fight a certain challenge that is there: enjoy the challenge!
“Even if sometimes you can’t sleep in the night there is no need to be worried. Work it out, use that energy that is coming up: walk up and down, go for a run, go for a long walk, plan what you want to do, what the mind wants to do. Rather than trying to go to sleep, which is not possible, use the situation in a creative way.
“In fact if you have lived your stress totally you will come to a relaxation automatically. You can go on only so far, and then the body automatically relaxes. If you want to relax in the middle you create trouble: the body cannot relax in the middle. It is almost as if an Olympic runner is getting ready, just waiting for the whistle, the signal and he will be off, he will go like the wind. He has to use his stress: the stress is boiling, it is gathering energy. He is becoming more and more vital and potential.
Now he has to sit on this stress and use it as energy, as fuel.
“….So tries this too: when there is a stressful situation don’t freak out, don’t become afraid of it. Go into it: use it to fight with. A man has tremendous energy and the more you use it, the more you have of it.
“When It comes and there is a situation, fight, do all that you can do, really go madly into in it. Allow it, accept it and welcome it. It is good: it prepares you to fight. And when you have worked it out, you will be surprised: great relaxation comes, and that relaxation is not created by you. Maybe for three days you cannot sleep and then for forty-eight hours you can’t wake up, and that is okay!
“There are two kinds of people in the world: one can be called the race horse type and the other is the turtle type.
“If the racehorse type is not allowed to go fast, to go into things with speed, there will be stress; he has to be given his pace. And you are a racehorse! So forget about relaxation and things like that; they are not for you. Those are for turtles . So just be a racehorse, that is natural to you, and don’t think of the joys that turtles are enjoying; that is not for you. You have a different kind
of joy. If a turtle starts becoming a racehorse he will be in the same trouble!
“You can get out of the market. It is so easy; the mind will say,’ get out of the market, forget about it. Just go to a movie or a pub. ‘But you will not feel good. You will feel more stress arising because you will not feel your energy is engaged.
“So accept your nature.[if] you are a fighter, a warrior you have to be that way, and that’s your joy. Now no need to be afraid; go into it whole-heartedly. Fight with the market, compete in the market; do all that you really want to do. Don’t be afraid of the consequences—accept the stress. Once you accept the stress it will disappear. And not only that, you will feel very happy because you have started using it; it is a kind of energy.
“Don’t listen to people, who say to relax; that is not for you. Your relaxation will come only after you have earned it by hard labor.
“One has to understand one’s type. Once the type is understood there is no problem; then one can follow a clean-cut line. Stress is going to be your way of life”.