“The current level of life stress is not a novel phenomenon. In fact, the word stress was first used in the fifteenth century” Since the turn of the twentieth century, however, social consciousness of life stress has risen dramatically, particularly in the Western world, and stress and anxiety have become common terms.
Stress was originally defined in reference to human biology. In this talk stress includes artifical and spiritual realities. A broader meaning of stress is suffering.
“If we consider stress a stimulus the response” can be found in four categories: psychological, physiological, social and cultural, and spiritual. Dr. Ghaderian addresses each one of these categories and human responses to them as coping strategies.
"Suffering ceases to be suffering in some way at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice." "Science has yet to learn how true spiritual enlightenment can transform sorrow into joy."