The total is staggering. No matter how well you prepare yourself to wage the struggle of life, the game keeps changing, shifting, posing new challenges and asserting fresh demands. You can also be stressed by underload. There is good reason to believe that an environment that makes no demands, that is benign, banal and boring, is also a stressor. Our complex brains thrive on stimulation.
Research proves that sensory deprivation is psychologically harmful to children and animals.
If you walk through a nursing home, you will soon see the effects of underload. Our central nervous systems function better when they are aroused. To Relax Count up all the times you briefly felt terror when you had to learn something new, and the many times your heart was made heavy by the tragic events in the news. Factor in those vacuous expanses of time when you were forced to sit still and do nothing, and you will see a life lived full of another kind of stress. Now look into the future.