I tend to agree with Mr. Harris who replied here also. In the mid-to-late 1980s there was an article published in a mainstream magazine that stated modern society was being affected by something called the “acceleration syndrome.” People had begun to try and do more than one thing at a time (what is known now as “multi-tasking”)abd to try and do these things in an efficient manner. The stress and/or tension that results why trying to do more than one thing very well at the same time is what many people experience today.
I believe that some people have “high anxiety” as a result of a psychological imbalance or a metabolic (sugar level disturbance maybe) imbalance. Anxiety/tension can also be caused by a lot of caffeine perhaps too. The thing is in modern society we’ve got a “catch 22″ going on with the caffeine however. Caffeine gives a person energy and that excess energy lends itself to the belief that more tasks can be accomplished. And then the way that multi-tasking becomes expected nowadays people need the caffeine to keep them going.
I, too, long for the days when people moved slower. There is a song by singer/songwriter Randy Newman for some years back entitled “Dayton, Ohio 1903.” The lyrics go something like “sing a song of long ago when things were slow and folks were nice to you…” — i possibly have the words a bit skewed but the jist of it is the same. No, I don’t want to go back 100 years — back to the 50s and 60s and maybe the early to mid 70s.
One thing i wondered at some point is if we humans are subconsciously trying to compete with computers on some level. Computers do everything soo incredibly quick. It’s a losing competition for us humans however and the sad thing is we are the ones who’ll shortcircuit (brain burnout) way before computers ever will.

Tension is a result of the mind’s inability to cope with distractions. We are constantly distracted from what is truly important to us. There are messages all over that tell us what is good and what is not. So much of this distracts us from what truly feels good, the simple truths and beauty in life. When we weed out the distractions by remembering what really matters..our health & wellbeing then we can find peace in chaos. The question is how many people are willing to risk what others tell them to do in order to hear the voice within. The voice that knows what we truly need which is what will set us free.