Name: Sadhguru's Advice on Stress, Anxiety and Depression
Uploaded: 2024-11-06T14:00:23.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Sadhguru's Advice on Stress, Anxiety and Depression' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-11-06. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Sadhguru's Advice on Stress, Anxiety and Depression' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-11-06. Transcript available.

People ask me, Sadhguru, so much work, how do you unwind?
I said, I don't wind myself up.
Why should I unwind?
You wind yourself up and then you want to unwind.
The important thing is this,
which unfortunately, very sad consequences are happening to people
because somewhere they have also realized this.
The most important thing is, if you want to be stress-free,
you must be intoxicated.
If you want to be stress-free, you must be intoxicated?
Yes, intoxication does not mean your uncle, Jack Daniel.
Yeah.
Intoxication means, as I already said,
this is the most complex chemical factory.
If you create a certain chemistry within you,
you are always stoned, but not unalert
because we are not against intoxication.
We are against incompetence.
Yeah.
So if you take chemicals from outside,
either alcohol or drugs or anything,
you become incompetent as to what you can do.
There is no time or room for incompetence in this life
because our life is very brief.
For what possibilities human intelligence creates,
what possibilities human intelligence can create,
for that, we don't have enough time.
If you live to be 100 years, it's too brief.
But have you noticed this?
On a particular day, you're very joyful.
24 hours, poof, went off like a moment.
Yeah.
Another day, you're a little depressed.
One day goes like a eon.
Yeah.
So time is a very relative experience.
So intoxication is important, but not from outside.
But if just intoxication means you'll sit around, you need exuberance of life.
If exuberance and intoxication is there at the same time, then you know how to
be still.
Stillness, exuberance, intoxication.
If these three things happen within you at the same time, life is like a breeze.
No matter what is the situation.
Every day there are situations for us.
Our activity is global and all kinds of troubles because we don't subscribe to
any particular,
see, we don't subscribe to any particular religious group or philosophical
group or anything.
So just about everybody is against us one way or the other.
Yeah, yeah.
We don't ascribe to any political group.
So political groups are everybody thinks I'm their enemy.
Though we've not done anything against anybody.
But you grow in size without being aligned to anybody.
They think you are their enemy.
This is the human mentality.
It's so hard to let go of things from the past, you know.
Don't let go anything.
Okay.
Let go means you're trying to forget it.
Okay.
See, the nature of the mind is like this.
Can we try an experiment with you?
Sure.
All the postures, yogic postures not needed.
Okay.
I want to get an egg.
This is called a Brahma Mudra.
All such serious things not needed.
I'm just going to tell you, close your eyes and don't think of monkeys.
Do not think of a monkey.
No monkey.
No monkeys at all.
Okay.
Only monkeys.
Come on.
So I'm saying this is the nature of the mind.
In this mind, there is no subtraction and division.
There is only addition and multiplication.
Whatever you try to do, it'll become one more.
One more.
If you try hard, it'll multiply.
How many monkeys did you see?
At least three.
If you try hard, it'll become 3,000.
Well, one of them was calling his friends.
So I could tell that it was going to start to grow.
So essentially, this is the nature of your mind.
You cannot forcefully make it do something else.
But you can handle it in such a way, the way you want it, only if you're above
it.
Right now, you're misunderstanding your psychological process as existential.
See, what is happening in your mind is your psychological drama.
On what platform is this drama being played?
The life that you are.
Are you alive or no?
Yeah, I'm alive.
You're alive.
Not because of your thought and emotion.
Because some European guy said, I think so I exist, so I'm not going to ask him.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, but as far as I know, I exist.
You exist, so you may think, may not think.
Right.
Like, because I exist, I may fly my hand or I may keep it here.
Similarly, I may fly my mind or keep it here.
But because most people have become so compulsive, they think because they
think they exist.
No, because you exist, you may think if you wish.
But that option and that choice has been given away by most people.
Thought is like a diarrhea.
It's happening all the time.
Yeah.
Not by choice.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it is.
So, the important thing to understand is that your mental and emotional stuff
is psychological drama.
It is happening on the stage that we call as life.
So, suppose your drama, one act is not going the way you think it should go.
So, we should change the act, end the act and change the act, not burn down the
stage.
Right.
Right now, we're burning down the stage with mental illnesses, suicide.
These things are growing in such a scale.
No more, it's individual problem.
It's like a global problem.
We are in the process of launching what is called as a miracle of mind, that we
are launching a very intelligent app, which will provide simple tools for
people to just 12, 15 minutes a day.
And what's it called?
Miracle of mind.
Miracle of mind?
Yep.
Yeah.
Because mind is a miracle, isn't it?
Every miracle that we have affected has only happened out of our mind.
But we think it's a problem.
Yeah, it's true.
We're treating our mind like it's a problem, huh?
It is not a problem.
I haven't even thought about that.
It's like we're treating the greatest thing that we have as if it's a problem
all the time.
Because it's a sharp knife.
If you had the brain of an earthworm, you would need marijuana, drugs, alcohol
to be peaceful.
You would be peaceful.
It can even be achieved now.
If you remove half your brain, you will sit here peacefully.
Destroying the possibility and then being peaceful is meaningless.
Keeping all the human possibility full on and then you're peaceful and joyful,
then it's wonderful.
Yes.
You destroy it.
You soak it in alcohol.
You sit in one corner.
You smoke and sit in one corner and you think you're peaceful.
It's meaningless peace.
That way death is better.
Death is peaceful.
Rest in peace till we meet again.
Till we meet again.
Oh, that sounds pressuresome.
Even you just died and you already have an appointment on the books.
That's the part that sounds pressuresome to me.
Yeah, we have a ton of anxiety.
I mean, that's a buzzword that a lot of people use nowadays is anxiety, anxiety.
It's become a qualification.
It's what?
For a lot of people, I'm distressed and disturbed and I'm anxious has become a
qualification.
They think it's a qualification.
They don't understand it's destruction of human nature, destruction of human
possibilities, isn't it?
Yeah.
Oh, for sure.
Yeah.
I think it's definitely something that's very common now.
I mean, I buy into it as well.
It's like, you know, I feel like I'm dealing with depression or I'm anxious.
I hear a lot of younger people say anxious though.
That's one thing I hear them say a lot.
Like I have anxiety and I never heard that.
When I was growing up, I never heard anxiety that much.
You hear it a lot now.
We had no clue.
We didn't know how to spell anxiety when we were young.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We didn't know how to spell anxiety when we were young.
We didn't know how to spell anxiety when we were young.
We didn't know how to spell anxiety when we were young.
We didn't know how to spell anxiety when we were young.