As human beings, we want to invest in our growth.
Usually we focus on improving the physical or financial aspects of our life. We
buy stocks and/or enrol in gyms for this purpose. However, it is also important
to invest in psychological as well as spiritual growth. Education is an
important means to achieve this. Connecting with resources that promote such
growth becomes vital to lead a healthy life.
It has been about a century since the advent of
Quantum physics. It is time to acknowledge the end of a materialistic world
view. Although physics has laid rest to objectivity and factored in the
importance of consciousness, other sciences seem to be lagging behind even
now. This has led to a schism.
As a society, we still pretend to be materialistic
beings with solid bodies who need only good food, clothing, shelter and money
to have a “good” life. All the while,
our minds are screaming out for someone to heed its woes. We fail to
acknowledge how our emotions are all over the place. We have no clue what can provide
us with happiness. In the race to gather more amenities, we fall ill. We look
to our body to give us an indication as to the source of our sickness. We spend
most of the money we earn for this purpose. We get hooked on anything that can
help hide our pain.
In a bid to cope with our disease, we may become TV or
social media junkies or get addicted to cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, religion or
sex. Some suck their thumbs, others fall in and out of relationships or jobs or
gurus, some others overeat or undereat. With the dawn of COVID and the social
isolation that followed, we have become adept at putting on a false face.
In this era of texting, we are not obliged to show our
faces or reveal our body language. Our emotional health is known only to us. We
define ourselves through the hallowed statements we make about ourselves.
People are for the first time obliged to concur with our limited ideas about
ourselves. There is no other clue available to contest our claims. Our level of
empathy cannot be gauged. Those who are empathically disabled cannot be
recognized. There are no safeguards to emotional exploitation in the virtual
space.
People are confused, depressed and anxious. We may
have enough money or food or power to have a “successful” life. However, it is
hard to find anyone around us who is genuinely happy. It is time to recognize
that we are spiritual beings with bodies and not the other way around. As such,
we need to first familiarize ourselves with who we truly are. Self-awareness is
the need of the hour. Even a car mechanic will first study what a car is made
up of, before repairing it. Shouldn’t we know who we are, before aspiring to
lead healthy lives? Our educational system needs to reorient itself to such a
rising need.
Who can address this? Mental health specialists,
counsellors, social workers, psychologists, and spiritually-awakened souls have
to step into this vacuum. Beyond the body and our limited imaginations, there
are aspects to us that need to be acknowledged and utilized. Only through such
a wholesome approach can we rise to our full potential as human beings and
build a blissful future.
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