What Does it Mean to Be Intense?

Have you ever heard someone say that they could not be around someone because they were so intense it unnerved them? What did that mean? Was the person feeling the other person’s intensity as tension and a forceful energy? What does it really mean to be intense and can you be joyful at the same time?

Intensity and relaxation, explains Sadhguru, are the most essential qualities for one to become perceptive. However, most people misunderstand intensity as tension and relaxation as becoming lax.