I had discovered the source of my stress, the unconscious workings of my human machinery, a self-imposed nightmare that would be my undoing. However there is no need to believe me, a few short days of observation and you will have your own proof. Fortunately for us, there are practical steps we can take to remedy this situation and they have already been thought out and organized for us. What follows is a list of six common leaks, how to recognize them and how to stop them. Once we quit losing all this force our biggest problem will be what to do with all our extra energy.
Examples are worry or daydreaming.
In some people this creates great anxiety, a form of stress, in others the stress is an indirect result. Either way it is a drain on resources. To counteract, notice the flow of associations or direction of thought. Find a substitute, think of some definite thing, a poem, song, sunset, etc. One possible solution is to see yourself in the scale of all creation, to see your relative size and importance compared to the cosmos.