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All these measures help relieve the stress, though the results
from most are very short-lived. The main reason why they are
so is because they aim at external reality which we attempt to
avoid, escape or rearrange. This rearranging of external
circumstances is like attempting to straighten your shadow
while you yourself remain bent!
We thus see that our underlying stress is, not about what is
(the external situation) but more about what happens to be
(our individual way of seeing and experiencing that situation).
When our individual perception differs markedly from the
actual situation, we are in effect suffering from a delusion.
This false way of seeing (delusion) is like wearing life-long
colored glasses that we never seem to take off. We view all
situations in the same colored way and it becomes the
routine way of perceiving our self and our world.