Brilliant Stress Management

Relax: last words on stress

Karoshi is a Japanese word (properly transliterated to ‘karoushi’):

過労死

Karoshi is usually translated as ‘death from overwork’. It represents

a phenomenon well known in 1980s and 1990s Japan. Don’t let

it happen to you. As we mentioned in Chapter 5, nobody ever

said as their dying words, ‘I wish I’d spent more time on my work.’

Relax

Imagine that all the stresses in your life are like a wind blowing

around you. And you, sitting where you are, are like a strong

powerful tree, with all the ideas and resources you have gathered

from this book. As the wind blows, you are condent that your

roots are deep and you are strong and supple. You laugh at the

puny attempts of the wind to blow you over. You look up to the

ceiling ...