by Ravindra Ranasinha

Created on: July 19, 2010   Last Updated: July 20, 2010

Tension as many consider is a sickness that requires medication.  However, human life does not exist without tension and it is the gravitational process that runs through the human mind till death.  Tension pulls man to one thing and then pulls to another direction at the next moment.  Attachment and detachment take place at every second through which life achieves its targets.  At certain moments this coming in (attracting) and going out (leaving) becomes unbearable for the human and views these changes as causes of unrest and turns to clinical support.  This is a serious misunderstanding and requires in-depth study on why tension is essential to human life.

The human form is a need of the consciousness to reach maturity.  The realm of consciousness which is invisible and non-material governs the whole cosmos to help thinking to mature.  Human form becomes one source to achieve that maturity and a short life span given to human is to learn and experience what is made available in the planet earth.  Therefore, tension comes into human life from the moment the baby is structured in the mother's womb and the struggle goes on to relieve itself from the confinement and darkness.  It is from this imprisonment – mental and physical - that the human wants to vindicate himself / herself and tension becomes the tool for same.

There are innumerable structures the man is born to through which he/she learns and gain experience: poverty, hunger, and mental/physical disabilities, becoming a prisoner, administrator, philosopher and sage. And all these are experiences and learning processes which people treat as positive or negative. There is a whole set of emotions that work with these experiences and they establish the tension required in the human life. Joy, sorrow and fear keeps the life moving as it is from one action that the man always switches to another and all that action ensures a progress of maturity in mind.

School, prison, concentration camp, hospital and mental asylum are places where fear reins and many lessons are learnt through such fear. The school provides punishment and discipline, prison provides confinement with fewer facilities, concentration camp brings fear of death, rape, torture, hospital brings surgery, death and medication and mental asylum gives the learning of what shock treatment and medication is and the totality of all that is tension of what would happen next. The thinking of the next

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