Stress and Peace

The purpose of this book to discuss various stresses we face in our life and how we can find peace despite of all these stresses. We face many stresses throughout our life beginning from very early childhood, as an adolescent, as an employee, as a spouse and until we die. Most everyone during their life faces some short term stress or long term stress. How we handle our stresses depends on each individual. Some people can handle it very well and others cannot handle it very well.

This book is written from my experience, social involvements, challenging job experiences, faith and inspirations, to assist people who live in stress. This is guidance for all, especially our younger generation who has many years left to manage their talent and resources properly and live in hope, belief and peace. This is also good tool for growing families, retired and elderly people.

My experience growing up as the seventh of ten children helped me to understand the stresses my parents faced raising us within their limited resources. My father was a teacher and my mother a homemaker. They gave us their love and spent a lot of quality time with us. We did not have many material things but had a wonderful family relationship that served me well in my life. This lifestyle helped us to face stress properly and live more at peace.

My experience in my career, international travels, prison ministry works, management consulting and many other associations made me realize that all people go through a lot of stress. It prompted me to research and observe various stress situations. My inspiration and God’s guidance helped me to find out how to obtain peace despite of all these stresses.

We will all go through each phase of our life and try to understand different stresses and find out how we can handle our stresses and make our life more peaceful. Sometimes the stress is for improvement and most of the time it affects us adversely. The intent of this book is to assist you to evaluate your particular stress situation and find a solution through various recommendations in this book.

When we believe in God and follow His discipline, life becomes content, easier and happier. So our purpose of life is to establish God’s discipline in ourselves, our family, society we live and the universe. We must not lose faith and must install truth in our actions. Let us all try to live out our purpose righteously so that we can get rid of our stress and live in peace.

We are all looking for life to be joyful, happy and at peace. Life is not easy and can be very complicated. The simpler we make our life, the easier it becomes. We have mentioned numerous ways to overcome stress and accomplish peace. We may never accomplish complete peace but we will feel less stress and more at peace during our life. It all depends on how we manage our life, relationships with God, family and friends.
When we are brought into this world, we believe in Him and are assured that He will take care of us. If we look at our life, we will see that from the day we were born, during every stage of our life, we always had someone come to our assistance. During good times and bad times God provided us with his ambassadors and angels to protect and preserve us. God is always there with us during our life journey. When He is with us and we follow in his footsteps, our life becomes more contented and peaceful.
We face ups and downs in life, which, we must learn to accept positively and live with contentment. Life becomes more joyful, hopeful and peaceful when we learn to love others as they are. The more we love others the better our life become, and will provide us more peace and less stress. We share our time, talent and resources with others in need. We start feeling good about our life and feel more peaceful.
God created us with sufficient time, talent and resources to lead a peaceful life. Along with this, He gave us freedom to lead the life we want. We have been given a choice of living on our own way or choose a life with Him. We see it happens all around us and all throughout the Universe that, sometime we try to live without Him.
We can try to build everything we need according to only our needs. We cannot practice true love and live our life only for ourselves. When we live our own life only for us, we will find that the life we are living is not always full.
We begin to feel that all material things we have accumulated do not mean much. We feel lonely, stressed and not peaceful. We feel like we are a looser and could have enjoyed life better, sharing with others. We must live our life with Him, and for Him. We must share our God given time, talent and resources for people in need.
Time does not wait for any one and we are allowed only a limited time on earth. It is essential that we live the best we can for us and others. We do not know when life will end. However we must live in happiness, peace and hope and when our time comes we will be at peace.
We must praise God at happy moments, seek God at difficult times, worship God at quiet moments, trust God in painful moments and thank God every moment. When God is with us, we will experience His acceptance of us when we die.I hope that this book will help you to reduce your stress and increase your peace.