Decom-Pressing Issue
By: Geo (May 23rd, 2009)
Pressure was the most talked about issue in Anju Musafir’s workshop on parenting that ended last week. The amount of pressure that kids go through to perform in class, deal with fights and prejudices in class, teacher’s negative comments, peer pressure, course and tuition pressure et cetera are only mounting by the year. Parents are also not helping them in lessening this pressure, on the contrary they are only adding up to it by allowing no play or music or movie!
Some parents resort to once in a while release of the pressure on kids by taking them on tours or weekend reprieves while they remain under pressure rest of the days! Isn’t it more wise to have a release of this pressure on a much more frequent or regular basis?
Maybe a scuba divers example is out of place at this juncture but can be a life lesson. When a diver goes beneath the surface of the ocean, pressure on him increases due to the weight of the water around and over him. The deeper the diver goes, greater is the pressure. Now something happens in his blood stream due to the increased pressure. From the air that he breathes, both oxygen and nitrogen start getting dissolved in the blood. At normal atmospheric pressure, nitrogen doesn’t dissolve in the blood but at high pressure, its solubility increases greatly.
So far so good. However, if the diver returns abruptly and immediately to the surface, nitrogen will try to escape from the blood immediately. In its sudden bid to escape the diver’s body, nitrogen forms bubbles which the lungs are not able to exhale and this bubbles start blocking blood vessels, push on the nerves and start causing random distrubances thoughout the body, and sometimes even death. The right way then for the diver is to come very slowly back to the surface allowing nitrogen to escape normally from his blood stream.
What’s the lesson? Some parents say that their kids perform well under pressure. They maybe right, but undue pressure not commensurate to the consequences can make the chiild absorb a lot more than he is supposed to. It’s not just the course that the child will imbibe and inculcate under sustained pressure, there are other things, which will surface later in life when the child gets a release from his pressure chamber into the hostel or college! A regular release of this pressure is necessary. A balance very important. Life is more than exams and results.
For very deep divers, they provide decompressing chambers where a release of the pressure is done gradually, thus allowing all the nitrogen to escape from their bodies. We need to identify such decompressing chambers, not just for the kids but even ourselves. Decompressing chambers for release from the pressures of work, relationships and life!
I have found the church and the fellowship it provides as a perfect decompressing chamber for my family. It not only allows us to let the unwanted elements, thoughts and anxieties to escape from inside us but also refreshes us and fills us with fresh fuel to face life and future and the entailing challenges with greater vigour and confidence. Again this is possible only a couple of times a week. Therefore there is a need for something more frequent.
Personal devotion time is the answer to that. The daily decompressing chamber. A time which includes prayer, scripture reading and meditation can be great decompressor of all bubbles. Try it, make it a habit and avoid decompression sickness. It a pressing issue for one and all. Its time we realise it and take steps to make it a part of our life.
Tags: Church, Daily devotion, Pressure, Scuba diving
June 13th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
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