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Introduction
Tension in Daily Life
We live in the age of tensions and because we are confronted with more and more situations that produce stress, increasing numbers of people at younger ages are suffering from hypertension which results in high bloodpressures, heart-attacks and premature deaths. Everywhere we are cursed with colour war, communal strife and religious riots; politicians endeavour to make our life miserable with missionery zeal; atomic weapons continue to pile up threatening the very existence of humanity, but our most prenicious anxiety involves more common problems of daily life such as the daily commute in a congested city, rising cost of living, unabating shortages of daily necessities, polluted air and water. These and many other insoluble difficulties appear to have been built into our daily life.
Scientific and technological development has brought supersonic speeds for travelling. It has consequently created conditions which make unprecedented demands on our physiological organs as well as mental equipments. The fast rate of living needs trmendous expense of energy and results in sapping of vitality. Overacting needs higher rate of respiration and the enrgy metabolism is overloaded.
The existence of mental stress as a part of modern living has been universally accepted. Frequent stressful situations affect us, not only psychologically, but also undermine our physical health.
If one can learn to stop all muscular activity and breathe slowly and scientifically, he can save himself from
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