Ever feel frustrated on this journey we call life? Have you ever felt stuck, under the rule of a force beyond your control? Perhaps you've sought help, attended leadership seminars, read self-help books; perhaps you've consulted your pastor or rabbi, your imam or spirit guide. Yet, for some reason you still remain or return to that place of powerlessness.

Why? Why are we doomed to a life of mental slavery? How can we avoid living like we are helpless to rise above the forces that seem to straddle our spirits to the ground?

Perhaps the answer lies within the question. Perhaps the problem is we are fighting phantoms. There may be bills coming in the mail and the threat of your boss firing you from your ever so needed job. But it is the stress that tears you into pieces. It is the stress that must be dealt with.

That stress is not the enemy. It is a conglomeration of emotions habitually injected upon mental reaction. And in order to relieve stress, without the aid of mind numbing medicine, we must not fight it, because there is nothing to fight.

Think about it, how can you fight something you have created, albeit unconsciously?