Pressure does not usually arrive as a clean problem. It arrives through the body first: a tight jaw, a shorter breath, a faster answer, the need to prove something before you have understood what is actually happening.

Sthirta begins at that exact point. Not after life becomes calm, but while the nervous system is still trying to pull you into reaction. The practice is to notice the physical tightening, create one second of space, and let the next response come from choice instead of fear.

This is why steadiness is trained daily. Under pressure, we do not rise to philosophy; we return to what has been repeated enough to become available.