Delusional Delirium

Stress - that dreadful monster that scares the living daylights out of one and all. Many throw the towel in, most struggle to stay afloat, some manage to hold on to the rope, and fewer still bask in its glory. I want to survive, and better still, flourish. What do I do? Deploy stress-busters!!

No prizes for guessing that the potent wonder-drug of my choice is called 'delusional delirium'. This sounds like I want everyone to turn into a hysterically euphoric psycho-neurotic, when all I want is each one of us to generate a self-sustaining illusion of general well-being; much like a controlled fusion reaction within one's self that powers the mind, body and soul to seek happiness and prosperity, outside, by acting as the driving force for sanguinity and the will to succeed, from the inside. This is hackneyed. Let me elaborate.

I am experiencing an ever-increasing visibility of animated gestures and moods around me everyday. People talk, behave, dress and act loudly to draw others' attention. Cartoons, caricatures, jokes and comic strips are hugely popular with kids and adults alike. They serve as potent weapons to disarm people without offending or hurting them and at the same time drive in valid points that would have otherwise been impossible to make understand. Concepts of Art of Living, Alternate Healing and the like are all aimed at healing the mind more than the body. They all serve to create an illusion that allows you to escape reality. Living with an illusion is not insanity. Infact it serves to provide an avenue to let go of the steam within by envisaging a world where only you call the shots. Once you learn how to control your mind, to see the other side of things, where you are in control, you automatically start feeling better.

The catch ofcourse being that you do not allow yourself to get carried away in your self-generated figments of imagination, lest you actually turn into a psycho-neurotic. Resist the urge to perform the act of this clinically executed self-destruction. The mind has a lot of power. It can make happen miracles by just wishing them. All you need is the will and the determination. Learn to control it. Don't let the boundary between illusion and reality get too blurry. But this seems like an impossible task. Illusions act more like black-holes. Once in existence, they work overtime to eventually suck the entire self into their field of influence and shut all doors of escape on you. The trick is to keep performing 'reality-checks'- a control mechanism that helps your fusion reaction reach a state of equilibrium and avoid uncontrolled escalation. A sensible reality-check is to frequently visit the real-world and express the desire to be led willfully, accept your flaws and work upon them in order to eliminate them permanently.

A time will then come when you will be without flaws and be in complete control of your self and the world around. It is then when reality will transform into illusion, and illusion will don reality. This is the fusion I envisage for one and all.

I have cooked up illusions of my own and hope to tackle stress in all its youthful glory. Still experimenting. Will let you know the results.