Stress

1. What is stress?

　Stress is anything that I don’t like, mentally or physically. It starts with a feeling of dislike in the mind, and depending on the magnitude of the sensation and the length of time it is felt, the body also feels dislike, such as pain or symptoms. The body alone does not feel bad. The illness or symptom that the body feels bad about continues until the mind stops feeling bad about it.

2. What are the things I don’t like?

　There are things I don’t like, such as seeing, hearing, and doing, that I have already experienced, and things I don’t like because I don’t know what they are, am afraid of them, am not sure if I can do them, or have not experienced them.

　Things I don’t like to do because I have already experienced them are things I would prefer not to do. What I don’t like to do because I haven’t experienced it is to think about things I haven’t experienced from a different angle.

　When I say or do something that I don’t like in an experienced way, something bad happens to my body. If I don’t think about inexperienced and unpleasant things from a different angle, inexperienced and unpleasant things will not decrease.

3. What is stress reduction?

　Stress reduction is the reduction of unpleasant things from the mind. If the number of unpleasant things decreases from the mind, the number of unpleasant things will also decrease from the body. Stress reduction is either continuing to have similar experiences to the point where I don’t feel bad about them, or becoming able to think of them as good.