THE KOREA TIMES
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Page 8, Opinion -> Thoughts of The Times

Stress and healing

By Lee Sun-ho

There are two interrelated words for “mind control” we often hear from mass media. 

One is “stress relief” and the other is “healing camp.” Stress is characterized as an emotionally-upsetting condition that occurs in response to adverse external influence which is capable of impacting an individual’s physical and mental well-being. 

Healing is likely to be a perceived adverse stimulus, which is not necessarily the event that causes the stress but how one approaches the event. Identifying the true sources of stress is not easy as it appears. It would be even more difficult for anyone to implement healing a broken heart by looking closely at one’s habits, attitudes and excuses.

We human beings experience stress differently, so that stress healing may require a different approach for different people. We should figure out what we need to know about how stress can affect us, and what goes into our healing needs. It is easy to think of stress as something to be categorically avoided for a happy life, and healing as restored by a relaxing-but-nurturing energy therapy.

Interestingly though, there are different types of stress and not all are necessarily bad for us. In fact, some stress is not only positive but also vital for healthy functioning. A positive type of stress leads to feelings of excitement. Without it, life would be extremely dull and depression would be rampant. Hence, as surpassing as it may seem, healing from all stress is not the best goal.

One factor that traverses across boundaries of age, sex, religion, class, ethnicity, etc. and can be found in each member of our species is the wish to lead a happy life. Happiness is a way of life that transcends time and place. It is a simple value of neutral concept, not complicated.

Studies on establishing link between stress management and healing ability have been explored in recent decades. The finding provides insight into how stress from suffering, in particular, affects the body. Stress, concern and tension prior to medical treatment have all been associated with poor clinic recovery. Chronologically stressed individuals have increased levels of the stress hormone setting. This shows the start of the healing process. Stress poses serious consequences to patients or stressors recovering from major damages or wounds.

There are many kinds of expensive but time-consuming ways of stress relief and healing methods.

Whatever ways one chooses for everlasting reservoir of youth and happiness, these activities not only improve one’s physical health and make him look better but they also relieve anxiety and depression.

Over the past decades, some experiments have made it clear that stress can significantly slow wound healing, and stressors ranging in magnitude and duration impair healing in humans. In future research, an increased focus on transformation patterns might help to elucidate pathways linking stress and healing processes.

The most effective ability must be unifying one’s body and mind to heal over, so as to attain, as an impetus for life cleansing, the goal of turning one’s pains into wisdom. How to combat despair and frustration is to find out ways to increase spiritual growth and emotional clearing such as sleeping better and moving on fully energized in one’s daily life images.

Eventually any human being ever realizes life being full of physical stress and trauma healing. At that juncture one should accept one’s inevitably-endowed destiny optimistically as granted, by consulting medical doctors for physical health and by awakening oneself for spiritual peace through one’s own adequate solution findings to self-strengthening. The eventual awareness of our prolonged misguided-judgment through various means of cultivation and practice is of utmost importance in our day-after-day life process.

Let us conclude, without stress and the power of healing optimism, human life would not be challenging and rewarding for the wishful desire of happy-go-long lives. To make the joy of enhancing living in reality, we have to accept unavoidable uncertainty in our lifecycle with smile and perseverance, and enjoy coping successfully with more versatile life pathways full of stress handlings and healing touches in the years ahead.

The writer is an outside director of Samyang Tongsang Co., Ltd. in Seoul.   Contact him at kexim2@unitel.co.kr.

<우리말 풀이>

                         압박과 치유

 

I. 두 가지 밀접한 용어 – 언론매체에 자주등장

가. 압박 완화 - 외적영향에 의한 정서적 심리적 고통을 경감

나. 치유 행위 – 심리적 타격에 대처하는 각종 타개방안.

 

II. 두 가지 용어의 상호작용 – 도전과 극복의 원동력

가. 긍정적인 측면 –

     1. 압박은 적극적인 생활의 행복한 자극제 또는 활력소로 받아들임

     2. 치유는 긍정적이고 낙천적인 문제점 해결의 열쇠가 될 수 있음

나. 부정적인 측면 –

     1. 육체적인 통증이나 질병 발생은 전문의와의 상담치료로 해결

     2. 정신적인 마음의 상처는 자신의 자각에 의한 해소방안 모색이 관건.

 

III. 연구과제 – 과거, 현재, 미래

가. 행복추구는 동서고금, 시간장소에 구애됨이 없이 중립적인 관념에 지나지 않음

나. 압박 완화와 치유 행위는 비싸고 시간이 소요되는 여러 가지 방안이 개발 보급됨

다. 고통을 지혜로 다스림은 정신적인 성장과 정서적인 함양으로 숙면과 생동감을 불러오 는 자각증세를 과감히 실천하고 개발하는 적극적인 용기와 집념이 필요조건.

 

IV. 맺음 - 몸과 마음의 생동쾌감 지향

가. 적절한 정신적인 압박감 없이는 인류의 행복을 추구하는 생활의욕은 의미가 없음

나. 생의 활력을 지속함은 웃음과 인내로 불확실성에 대처하는 낙천주의로 치유함이

     젊음과 행복을 추구하는 지름길.

                                                                           {글쓴이 : 李善浩, 三洋通商(株) 사외이사}