Background about the speaker

■ Electronics & Communication, Computer Science Engineer

■ 20 years experience in the IT industry
■ Visited 18 different countries – some global experience
■ Professional roles:
➨ System Engineering & Project Management on LCA Avionics at ADA
➨ Quality Professional at Motorola covering India, Singapore, Japan,
Korea, China
➨ Quality professional and senior leadership role at MindTree
■ Interests outside the profession:
➨ Homeopathic practitioner, Physiology (neuroscience, endocrine
system, respiratory & circulatory mechanisms)
➨ Ancient Indian Wisdom: Yoga, Pranayama, Meditation, Vedantha
➨ Modern Physics, Quantum Physics, Electro Magnetism
➨ Trekking, Mountaineering, Nature study, Photography
➨ Classical music, playing Tabala, singing

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 What is Stress?

■ Stress is a state of Mind

■ Stress is a mind-body reaction/response to a

situation
➨ To flight from/fight the situation

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 Why Stress Happens?

■ When a situation/condition is not Acceptable to us

■ When we want to do/get something but are unable
■ When ego is hurt (feedback, comments, criticism…)
■ When we loose something which we feel as important
■ …
■ Stress is mostly due to
➨ Fear (of Future)
➨ Worry (about Past)
➨ And not so much due to Present Moment
■ It is always due to the perception of Mind
➨ Different people ‘feel’ different stress levels for the same situations

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 What Happens when Stressed?

■ Psychology of Stress: Emotional impact

➨ Anxiety
➨ Fear
➨ Depression
➨ Anger
➨ Sadness
➨ …

■ Physiology of Stress
➨ Acidity
➨ Ulcers
➨ Heart ailments
➨ Blood Pressure
➨ Kidney problems
➨ Diabetes
➨ …

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 Chain Reaction of Stress: The Negative Spiral

Triggers animal instinct Adrenalin increases

Mind perceives threat
of fight or flight to prepare the body

Heart beat increases to

Breathing becomes Blood pressure
supply more food & oxygen
fast & shallow increases
to body parts
Panic
Stomach readies for
Metabolism Overloaded Excretory Systems
processing more food
increases to clear the toxin
Acidity* increases

Imbalanced Endocrine Systems

Imbalanced Emotions
the chemical factories of
Fear, Anxiety, Anger, Depression*…
hormones, enzymes
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 Some Impacts of Sustained and Unmanaged
Stress
■ Brain
➨ Continues to operate in higher Beta state (15 to 26 cycles per
second of electrical impulses (EEG))
➨ Continues to trigger the rest of the body mechanism and create
stress
■ Blood Pressure remains high
➨ High blood pressures can lead to Heart failure, paralysis (due to
breakdown of blood vessels in brain)…
■ Acidity, Ulcer and other digestive problems
■ Diabetes
■ Kidney problems due to overload on removing toxins from
the body
■ Reduces immunity and makes body susceptible to diseases
■ ….

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 Some More Impacts

■ Human body & mind are a highly complex and

integrated system
➨ Each system impacts the other: either positively or
negatively
■ Stress and Mind induced effects on the body are
far more harmful than the external pollution
➨ Internal Toxins are far more harmful than external
chemical/industrial pollution
➨ ISO 14000 needs significant change in the globalized
knowledge era!

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 Why Allopathic Medicines and Stimulants are not
good for managing Stress

■ Allopathic medicines directly add chemical to the

body and interfere with the internal chemical
factories
➨ E.g. Taking Antacids for Acidity neutralizes the acid in the
stomach. Then body thinks that the acid is not sufficient
and starts producing more.
➨ E.g. Anti-depressants suppress the ability of brain cells to
generate electric impulses
➨ People taking such drugs for prolonged time become dull

■ Stimulants like Tobacco, Coffee, Tea, Coco etc.

temporarily trigger higher activities
➨ Subsequently body craves for more & more stimulants

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 Then how to manage stress?

■ Turn it into a Positive Spiral

➨ Break the negative cycle at each point

■ Some amount of Stress is healthy – it triggers and

energizes the system

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 Managing Stress

■ Root Cause: Manage Mind

➨ Positive Thinking and Attitude
➨ Larger view of life
➨ Meditation

■ Build capability to face stressful situations and reduce the

impact of stress at physiological level
➨ Yoga
➨ Pranayama

■ Healthy lifestyle and food habits

■ Have multiple positive energy sources

➨ Hobbies, interests

■ …

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 What does Yoga, Pranayama, Meditation do at
Physiological level?...

■ Yogasanas
➨ Exercise different parts of the body
➨ Combine with breathing
➨ Postures: Stretch & hold, Compress & hold
➨ Creates flexibility and hollowness, lightness
➨ Helps in flow of water, food, oxygen, electrical signals and
flow of energy in the body
➨ Isometric exercises
➨ As against Isotonic exercises of aerobics, gym exercises
which help to build muscles which reduce the flexibility &
become blockers over a period

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 What does Yoga, Pranayama, Meditation do at
Physiological level?...

■ Pranayama
➨ E.g. Ujjai breath: Increases absorption of oxygen into the
hemoglobin by creating inhale pressure in lungs for
osmosis
➨ E.g. Bastrika pranayama: Increases the removal of carbon
dioxide from the blood plasma by creating exhale pressure
in lungs for osmosis
➨ Increases oxidation and liberation of energy in every cell
of the body
➨ Air filter analogy in automobiles
➨ Stimulates nerve tips in lungs which have connection to
the brain area where Pituitary Gland is situated
➨ Pituitary Gland is the master gland in the endocrine system
and has a strong influence on rest of the endocrine glands

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 What does Yoga, Pranayama, Meditation do at
Physiological level?

■ Meditation
➨ Takes the brain to Alpha state: electrical impulses of 8 to
14 cycles per second
➨ At deep meditation level (Samadhi state) brain goes to
Theta state: electrical impulses of 4 to 7 cycles per second
➨ Leads to deep relaxation
■ Sudarshana Kriya of Art of Living
➨ Takes the brain to higher beta state
➨ Then takes the brain to deep relaxation
➨ Thus exercises and expands the brain/mind capacity
■ Mind rules the body
➨ Mind  Nervous system  Endocrine system  rest of the
body function
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 Importance of Endocrine System

Master gland
Controls all other Body
glands rhythm

Metabolism
Immune
system

Adrenalin: heart Insulin: blood sugar,

rate, blood energy
pressure

■ Enzymes produced by Endocrine glands influence every cell, organ

and function of the body
■ They regulate mood, growth, metabolism, tissue function, sexual &
reproductive processes
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 Chain Reaction of Managing Stress: The Positive
Spiral

Triggers hope, optimism, Adrenalin normal

Mind peaceful, joyful
Positive feelings to prepare the body

Heart beat normal to

Breathing becomes Blood pressure
supply normal food & oxygen
slow & deep normal
to body parts
Calm
Confident Stomach readies for
Metabolism Normal Excretory Systems
Composed processing normal food
normal to clear the toxin
Acidity normal

Balanced Endocrine Systems

Balanced Emotions
the chemical factories of
Energetic, Enthusiastic, Positive…….
hormones, enzymes
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 Clinical Research Results…

Increased alertness and deeper Reduced tension and stress

relaxation
of mind

Ref: Art Of Living Research with AIIMS, NIMHANS

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 Clinical Research Results

■ Improved immunity
■ Increase in good cholesterol and
decrease in bad cholesterol
■ Decreased depression

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 Beyond Physiology… The Energy
System

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 Human Body as the Energy System

■ Modern Science & Medicine consider human body as

merely electro-chemical, electro-mechanical and
physical phenomena
■ Ancient Indian & Eastern Spiritual Sciences consider
it as an Energy System
➨ Universal Cosmic Energy (everything is common at atomic
level)
➨ Yoga – union of body, mind and spirit
➨ Raja Yoga – Chakras
➨ Reiki (which means life force in Japanese; Started by Dr.
Mikao Usui a doctor and Buddhist monk during 1860s)
➨ Thai Chi, Acupressure, Acupuncture (originated in China)
➨ Homeopathy (Started by Dr. Hahnemann a doctor in
Germany during 1800s)
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 Chakras: Energy Centers

■ Chakras are situated near the key endocrine glands and nerve groups (plexus)
■ Wireless connection to brain; Connection to Cosmic universal energy

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 Chakras and Naadis: Wireless Connection to
Brain

■ World seen through the 5 sensors (wired connection) is narrow

band: gross, inert, matter world

■ World seen through Chakras & Nadis (wireless connection) is

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broad band: subtle, dynamic, energy world
 Science of Homeopathy: Medicine of Energy System

■ Basic principle: what causes disease cures the disease also

when given in the potenticized form
■ Homeopathic medicine preparation
➨ Potencization through the process of tritration
➨ Transfer of atomic vibrations to the base substance. Not even a
single molecule of medicinal material will be present according
to Avogadro number
■ Curing principle
➨ Right medicine creates energy vibrations in the human system
(resonance principle)
➨ This increase the energy level to improve the health conditions
➨ Typically causes initial aggravation and subsequently cures with
oscillations
➨ Cures inside-out: Mind  Emotional level  Physical level
➨ Mind & Emotional symptoms are the key for diagnosis

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 So, to be “Successful”….

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 What is “Success”?

■ The definition I liked most:

➨ “The measure of Success is the number of joyful smiles
per day every day” – Shri Shri Ravishankar

■ Life is full of choices; The choices one makes

determine one’s life – they are like cross-roads
➨ IQ < EQ < AQ < SQ : determine what choices one makes

■ Manage Mind
➨ Healthy mind FOR a healthy body
➨ It is mind, and not body, that differentiates the leader
from the rest
➨ Positive Energy is most fundamental to any Leader
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 The Vicious Cycle

Priority Loose health Loose joy Less creative

1) Pursue money
2) Pursue fame
Less Accomplishment

More stress on the priorities Less Money Less Recognition

■ People spend half of their life in making money and loose

health in that process.
■ In the remaining half they spend that money trying to regain
the health
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 Make it a Virtuous Cycle

Priority More joy More creative

1) Pursue health
2) Pursue knowledge
More Accomplishment

Continue stress on the priorities More Money More Recognition

■ Pursue health (mind+body) and knowledge (universal knowledge)

then money & fame will follow as a byproduct

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 Don’t believe me…

… But do not wait for proof

Explore

Experiment
Experience

Modern Science (“Matter” Science) : Proof first, then belief/trust

Spiritual Science (“Energy” Science): Believe/trust first, then proof comes

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 Conclusion: The Simple Prescription

■ Practice Yoga & Pranayama (and Meditation) everyday*

➨ Life will change at the most fundamental level
➨ Art Of Living workshop is one of the best
➨ Combines Raja Yoga, Karma Yoga (Service: Jesus), Bhakti Yoga
(Devotion: Narada, Chaitanya…), Jnana Yoga
➨ Practical for family & social life, professional life and spiritual life

■ Use Homeopathy for chronic or hereditary health problems

to strengthen the positive spiral

■ Become better individuals and better leaders

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