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Understanding And Handling Anxiety and Stress
This book offers you a totally different and refreshingly new approach to understanding, handling anxiety and stress. This book is NOT meant to offer scientific, modern, or psychiatric solutions to anxiety and stress.
This book will actually drive you to do introspection; it will question you on most of the current day lifestyles, goals, ambitions, and dreams. It can shake up your 'me-too' attitude to life, which everyone seems to have taken for granted as 'the norm'.
This book relies on age-old spiritual wisdom available from India, based on Hinduism (Sanatana Dharma) the teachings of its saints and sages in analyzing, understanding, and handling anxiety and stress.
The book discusses the importance of acquiring mental peace in life. It elaborately analyses various factors that cause loss of peace in our lives threadbare. You may find some shocking realities and revelations about our lives in general, from angles which many of us don't look at or don't want to look at!
We all want to have more joy in our lives with less associated pain. Are there any ways to get them? Yes. The subsequent chapter goes digging into it, with very down-to-earth examples, and shows you some practical ways.
The book continues to discuss, giving some practical examples, spiritually oriented values like contentment, morality, ethics, and principles, and how they potentially help in reducing anxiety and stress in our lives.
One stark reality is that some anxieties and stress that we face in our lives don't obviously seem to be connected anyway with our omissions and commissions. Why so? This question troubles many people. Hinduism deals with this question very convincingly through its spiritual concept -- Karma and rebirth. This book goes about discussing it in detail. This chapter can be good food for thought for non-Hindu people as well.
All religions speak highly of love and its positive role in the sustenance of society. But people also blame 'love' as something that potentially hurts! The next chapter does a critical analysis of the subject.
Next, the book proceeds to analyze debt, ways of avoiding debt, and the importance of simplicity in life to avoid stress.
Now, coming to the last segment of the book, the time-tested and workable Hindu spiritual practices like God worship, Yoga, meditation, and so on are dealt with from the point of handling and reducing anxiety and stress.
The concluding chapter is dedicated to understanding the role and importance of saints, sages. and guru/ sadgurus. In fact, the best tip for people to handle stress and anxiety is indeed revealed in the last chapter, which even many Hindu believers are not aware of.
The author of this book, C.V.Rajan, is a retired self-employed Engineer, spending his retired life with his wife in quest of spirituality under his Satguru Shri Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma).
He writes extensively in English and Tamil. As his interest turned to spirituality in his late thirties, he became an avid reader of Hindu Scriptures and philosophies, and the lives and teachings of Hindu sages. He is a published author of short stories too.
In his website hinduismwayoflife.com, C.V.Rajan is consolidating and sharing all his writings on Hinduism under a single umbrella.
This book will actually drive you to do introspection; it will question you on most of the current day lifestyles, goals, ambitions, and dreams. It can shake up your 'me-too' attitude to life, which everyone seems to have taken for granted as 'the norm'.
This book relies on age-old spiritual wisdom available from India, based on Hinduism (Sanatana Dharma) the teachings of its saints and sages in analyzing, understanding, and handling anxiety and stress.
The book discusses the importance of acquiring mental peace in life. It elaborately analyses various factors that cause loss of peace in our lives threadbare. You may find some shocking realities and revelations about our lives in general, from angles which many of us don't look at or don't want to look at!
We all want to have more joy in our lives with less associated pain. Are there any ways to get them? Yes. The subsequent chapter goes digging into it, with very down-to-earth examples, and shows you some practical ways.
The book continues to discuss, giving some practical examples, spiritually oriented values like contentment, morality, ethics, and principles, and how they potentially help in reducing anxiety and stress in our lives.
One stark reality is that some anxieties and stress that we face in our lives don't obviously seem to be connected anyway with our omissions and commissions. Why so? This question troubles many people. Hinduism deals with this question very convincingly through its spiritual concept -- Karma and rebirth. This book goes about discussing it in detail. This chapter can be good food for thought for non-Hindu people as well.
All religions speak highly of love and its positive role in the sustenance of society. But people also blame 'love' as something that potentially hurts! The next chapter does a critical analysis of the subject.
Next, the book proceeds to analyze debt, ways of avoiding debt, and the importance of simplicity in life to avoid stress.
Now, coming to the last segment of the book, the time-tested and workable Hindu spiritual practices like God worship, Yoga, meditation, and so on are dealt with from the point of handling and reducing anxiety and stress.
The concluding chapter is dedicated to understanding the role and importance of saints, sages. and guru/ sadgurus. In fact, the best tip for people to handle stress and anxiety is indeed revealed in the last chapter, which even many Hindu believers are not aware of.
The author of this book, C.V.Rajan, is a retired self-employed Engineer, spending his retired life with his wife in quest of spirituality under his Satguru Shri Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma).
He writes extensively in English and Tamil. As his interest turned to spirituality in his late thirties, he became an avid reader of Hindu Scriptures and philosophies, and the lives and teachings of Hindu sages. He is a published author of short stories too.
In his website hinduismwayoflife.com, C.V.Rajan is consolidating and sharing all his writings on Hinduism under a single umbrella.
139 pages, ebook
First published July 1, 2021
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About the author
C.V. Rajan
11 books5 followersAlso writes under சாந்தீபிகா and C.V. Rajan Sandeepika.
C.V.Rajan is a retired Design Engineer, now an avid spiritual seeker, living with his wife in Ashram at Amritapuri, Kerala.
He is an avid reader and a writer. Writing as a hobby started in him at the age of 20 and he became a regular short story writer in popular Tamil magazines during the seventies and eighties. He writes Tamil fictional stories with a pen-name Sandeepika.
As his interest turned to spirituality in his late thirties, he became an avid reader of Hindu spiritual scriptures and also the lives and teachings of great Mahatmas.
In his early fifties, He also started writing in English in the Web at various blog sites on variety of subjects like Hinduism, spirituality, life & living, healthy living, Indian culture, personal anecdotes and so on.
Apart from original writing, C.V.Rajan also does considerable translation works across English - Tamil - Malayalam.
C.V.Rajan maintains his own website hinduismwayoflife.com C.V.Rajan is consolidating and sharing all his writings on Hinduism under a single umbrella.This site is aimed to be comprehensive source of basic info on Hinduism with all its facets to common seekers.
C.V.Rajan also writes Answers regularly in Quora (English) as well as in Quora (Tamil) on readers’s queries related to Hinduism, Life and Living, life experiences,etc. More than thousands of his answers are there in both the languages in Quora.
C.V.Rajan’s Tamil stories are now available as Audio books at Storytel.
C.V.Rajan is a retired Design Engineer, now an avid spiritual seeker, living with his wife in Ashram at Amritapuri, Kerala.
He is an avid reader and a writer. Writing as a hobby started in him at the age of 20 and he became a regular short story writer in popular Tamil magazines during the seventies and eighties. He writes Tamil fictional stories with a pen-name Sandeepika.
As his interest turned to spirituality in his late thirties, he became an avid reader of Hindu spiritual scriptures and also the lives and teachings of great Mahatmas.
In his early fifties, He also started writing in English in the Web at various blog sites on variety of subjects like Hinduism, spirituality, life & living, healthy living, Indian culture, personal anecdotes and so on.
Apart from original writing, C.V.Rajan also does considerable translation works across English - Tamil - Malayalam.
C.V.Rajan maintains his own website hinduismwayoflife.com C.V.Rajan is consolidating and sharing all his writings on Hinduism under a single umbrella.This site is aimed to be comprehensive source of basic info on Hinduism with all its facets to common seekers.
C.V.Rajan also writes Answers regularly in Quora (English) as well as in Quora (Tamil) on readers’s queries related to Hinduism, Life and Living, life experiences,etc. More than thousands of his answers are there in both the languages in Quora.
C.V.Rajan’s Tamil stories are now available as Audio books at Storytel.
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May 10, 2023
After reading through this book, one of the key takeaways for me is the principle of being content with one's self and situation. It is interesting to see how this has been an age old solution to anxiety and stress.
CV Rajan writes these principles with an easy to understand language and examples while co-relating situations from real life to the culture/practices.
They said a proper diagnosis means half of the treatment done. In the same way, this book provides careful explanation of what is and what causes stress and anxiety. If we can identify them, then half of the treatment/worries are gone. Still the book proposes some solutions that are practical enough to practice.
CV Rajan writes these principles with an easy to understand language and examples while co-relating situations from real life to the culture/practices.
They said a proper diagnosis means half of the treatment done. In the same way, this book provides careful explanation of what is and what causes stress and anxiety. If we can identify them, then half of the treatment/worries are gone. Still the book proposes some solutions that are practical enough to practice.
September 26, 2025
I am the author of this book and I thought let me add some info on how this book came into being.
I am a spiritual seeker leading a relaxed retired life in my Guru Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi Devi)'s ashram, spending my time in quest of spiritual upliftment, and continuing with my hobby of writing.
By education and profession, I was a mechanical engineer, who spent early professional life in the corporate jungle, tasting reasonable success and professional growth. Later I started my own design and consultancy firm (a SOHO) and ran it successfully for almost two decades.
By choice, I lead a life of simplicity; I have been a stickler to dharma -- ethics, morality and good conduct. I have always been a spiritual seeker deep inside, but leading a very fulfilling and happy family life. By divine grace, I had very few up and downs in my life and I was mostly blessed with a life free from anxiety and stress.
At some point of time, I started wondering -- is my life, with all its experiences, thoughts, principles, practices and beliefs (which were highly linked to the spiritual wisdom of Hinduism) lead me to be anxiety-and-stress-free mostly?
I started studying more on western thoughts and ideas about handling anxiety and stress. I was gradually convinced. Yes. The Hindu spiritual wisdom (followed by generations) does have a huge impact on leading a life less troubled by anxiety and stress.
Gradually the book took shape. I published it as an ebook first in Amazon Kindle. Then added a printed version through Notionpress to distribute in India. Then added the paperback version in Amazon Kindle.
Incidentally, it was the first book I wrote and published. It continues to be my top selling book till date!
I invite readers interested in this subject to try my book.
I am a spiritual seeker leading a relaxed retired life in my Guru Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi Devi)'s ashram, spending my time in quest of spiritual upliftment, and continuing with my hobby of writing.
By education and profession, I was a mechanical engineer, who spent early professional life in the corporate jungle, tasting reasonable success and professional growth. Later I started my own design and consultancy firm (a SOHO) and ran it successfully for almost two decades.
By choice, I lead a life of simplicity; I have been a stickler to dharma -- ethics, morality and good conduct. I have always been a spiritual seeker deep inside, but leading a very fulfilling and happy family life. By divine grace, I had very few up and downs in my life and I was mostly blessed with a life free from anxiety and stress.
At some point of time, I started wondering -- is my life, with all its experiences, thoughts, principles, practices and beliefs (which were highly linked to the spiritual wisdom of Hinduism) lead me to be anxiety-and-stress-free mostly?
I started studying more on western thoughts and ideas about handling anxiety and stress. I was gradually convinced. Yes. The Hindu spiritual wisdom (followed by generations) does have a huge impact on leading a life less troubled by anxiety and stress.
Gradually the book took shape. I published it as an ebook first in Amazon Kindle. Then added a printed version through Notionpress to distribute in India. Then added the paperback version in Amazon Kindle.
Incidentally, it was the first book I wrote and published. It continues to be my top selling book till date!
I invite readers interested in this subject to try my book.
March 12, 2023
Here is a book carrying Indian wisdom and wisdom from the grand old religion Hinduism on ways and means to handle anxiety and stress.
I would say that this book will appeal to people from other religions too, because it is not strictly religious, but carries lots of wisdom from Hindu spirituality.
The author rekindles some of the time tested values and guidelines of good and peaceful living that our forefathers practiced effectively and effortlessly.
He has explained the law of Karma very well with examples and this chapter indeed is one of my favorites.
Once we finish this book, we will automatically enter into self-inquiry mode, evaluating our life and its worries and stresses and how we can seriously think of a changed way of life for a peace-filled and satisfying life, not filled with self-made potholes.
I would say that this book will appeal to people from other religions too, because it is not strictly religious, but carries lots of wisdom from Hindu spirituality.
The author rekindles some of the time tested values and guidelines of good and peaceful living that our forefathers practiced effectively and effortlessly.
He has explained the law of Karma very well with examples and this chapter indeed is one of my favorites.
Once we finish this book, we will automatically enter into self-inquiry mode, evaluating our life and its worries and stresses and how we can seriously think of a changed way of life for a peace-filled and satisfying life, not filled with self-made potholes.
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