Heartfulness Magazine - August 2023 (Volume 8, Issue 8)

August 2023
Tune In to the
Present Moment
DAAJI
Take the Consumer

Challenge
ELIZABETH DENLEY
Womanifesto
VARSHA NAIR
ChatGPT -
Gamechanger or
Hype?
RAVI VENKATESAN
E N TA
NM
VIRO
L H LI
EA
EN
NG
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H eart f u l n es s
Celebrating Life
Dear readers,
In August, our themes are diverse and life-affirming. Daaji offers practical tips on being in the present,
and relaxing our efforts; Ravi Venkatesan asks whether ChatGPT is a gamechanger or hype; Kiffer
George Card shows how crucial social connection is to well-being; and Ruby Carmen shares a practical
approach to dealing with grief.
Babuji gives us a time-honored natural remedy for insomnia; Kaj Hammargren overcomes addiction and
finds purpose through sport and meditation; Ichak Adizes looks at the perils of being too smart; Guy
Shahar experiences the benefits of energy healing; Prasad Veluthanar has a recipe for vibrant health;
Charles Eisenstein provides three priorities for environmental healing; Elizabeth Denley encourages us
to take the consumer challenge and reduce our wants; and Varsha Nair celebrates Womanifesto. It’s a rich
and inspiring edition that will keep you engaged all month.
Happy reading,
The editors
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6 H eart f u l n es s
inside
self-care Finding Purpose environment
Kaj Hammargren
32
Tune In to the Present 3 Priorities for
Moment Environmental Healing
Daaji
12
workplace Charles Eisenstein
58
Insomnia The Perils of Being Too Take the Consumer

Babuji Smart Challenge
Ichak Adizes Elizabeth Denley
15
36 63
Talking with My Grief
Ruby Carmen ChatGPT - Gamechanger or
Hype?
creativity
16
Ravi Venkatesan Womanifesto
Vibrant Health 38 Varsha Nair interviewed by
Prasad Veluthanar Vanessa Patel
20 70
relationships
inspiration 7 Tips that Show How
Crucial Social Connection
what's up
Is to Well-being
82
The Art of Relaxed Efforts Kiffer George Card
Daaji 46
28
Energy Healing
Guy Shahar
50
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BABUJI DAAJI VARSHA NAIR
Shri Ram Chandra of Daaji is the Heartfulness Varsha is an interdisciplinary

Shahjahanpur, affectionately Guide. He is an innovator and artist based in Baroda, India. Her
known as Babuji, was a researcher, equally at home in the works and projects have been
revolutionary spiritual scientist fields of spirituality, science, and exhibited internationally, most
and philosopher. He was the the evolution of consciousness. recently at Documenta 15, Kassel,
founder of the present-day He has taken our understanding in Germany. She is currently co-
system of Raja Yoga meditation of human potential to a new organizing Womanifesto: Flowing
known as Heartfulness. level. Connections, which will open
at the Bangkok Art and Culture
Center in September 2023.
CHARLES EISENSTEIN RAVI VENKATESAN ICHAK ADIZES
Charles is a writer, philosopher, Ravi is an Atlanta-based Dr. Adizes is a leading

speaker and pioneer, who has executive, who currently serves management expert. He has
been exploring the need for as CEO at Cantaloupe (Nasdaq: received 21 honorary doctorates
society’s transformation for CTLP). He is a regular public and is the author of 27 books
some years now. He has focused speaker on Presentation, that have been translated into 36
light on our economic, social Negotiation, Empathetic languages. He is recognized as
and political systems, and the Leadership, Technology, and one of the top 30 thought leaders
need for us to move from a Wellness. Ravi is also a regular of America.
paradigm of separation to that panelist, podcaster, and keynote
of interbeing. His work can be speaker on leadership topics at
found at charleseisenstein.org. events.
contributors
ELIZABETH DENLEY KAJ HAMMARGREN KIFFER GEORGE CARD
Elizabeth is a writer, editor, Kaj is a schoolteacher, coach, Kiffer is Assistant Professor in

Heartfulness trainer, and and prize-winning athlete. He Health Sciences, Simon Fraser
facilitator of interactive programs has meditated for 20 years and University, British Columbia,
in consciousness and personal is a member of the Heartfulness Canada. He is also affiliated
development, bringing together Institute in Copenhagen, with The Pacific Institute on
the fields of science and Denmark. Pathogens, Pandemics, and
spirituality. She is the editor-in- Society; The Canadian Alliance
chief of Heartfulness Magazine. for Social Connection and
Health; and the GenWell Project.
RUBY CARMEN PRASAD VELUTHANAR GUY SHAHAR
Ruby is a Heartfulness trainer, Prasad did his Ayurvedacharya Guy is an energetic healer who
tutor, mentor, and sometimes medical degree in Kerala. During also wrote Transforming Autism
writer. She has an M.Ed. in his 22 years of professional about how his family enabled
Education and Psychology from practice, he has worked in India, their son to transform from
the University of Cambridge, Mauritius, Malaysia, Russia, and a highly autistic toddler to a
and has worked in community Egypt. He was the first Indian happy six-year-old, living a full
and mental health. She is Ayurvedic doctor to practice and contented life. He proposes
passionate about volunteering, propagate this Indian wisdom in a radical inspiring way to
service, meditation, languages, Egypt. understand autism.He is also a
and finding beauty in the world Heartfulness trainer.
around her.
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The present moment
is the only time
over which we have
dominion.
THÍCH NHÃT HẠNH

self-care
YES, YOU CAN DO IT!
Tune In to the
Present Moment
DAAJI shares 4 simple practices to tune into the present moment and
bring about a joyful, contented lifestyle. Doing these regularly will
create sustainable peace.
D
ear friends, in the present moment, the only free to download on your phone or
moment there is for us to be alive.” iPad.
Take a moment to review
your day so far. Has your For many of us, being aware in Breathe
mind been busy with thoughts? the present moment is a rare
Were they full of what to do next, occurrence. So, how can we make Left nostril breathing is a simple
or what has happened in the past? it happen more frequently? It takes technique that activates your
Were you rushing from one task to some effort, but once we practice, parasympathetic system. It brings
another, feeling overwhelmed? Did it becomes second nature to us. clarity and calmness.
you spend hours scrolling on your
phone? Were you multitasking Here are a few short exercises to • Relax your body and mind
while eating, unmindful of the help you tune in to the present
food? Did you take time to breathe moment. • lose your right nostril with
C
and feel your surroundings, aware your right thumb
of that moment of stillness, Relax
rejuvenation, joy and gratitude? • lowly inhale through your
S
Turn off your phones and other left nostril and exhale through
As Thích Nhãt Hạnh once said, distracting devices, and sit your left nostril, breathing
“We are very good at preparing comfortably with eyes closed. deep into your abdomen.
to live, but not very good at Relax your body, from your toes
living. We know how to sacrifice to the top of your head, so that • Smile while you breathe
ten years for a diploma, and we pain and tension melt away. The
are willing to work very hard to Heartfulness Relaxation is an • Repeat 9 more times
get a job, a car, or a house, and ideal method and it takes just a
so on. But we have difficulty few minutes. You can also find it
remembering that we are alive on the Heartfulness App, which is
S ELF- CARE
Relax your body, from your

toes to the top of your
head, so that pain and
tension melt away.
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Eat with awareness from the Source that is woven into promotes physical, mental,
the fabric of Nature, including emotional, and spiritual well-
If you eat at your work desk, every atom of the food that has being.
grab a quick snack while rushing, been prepared for us.
or eat while texting on your Walk meditatively
phone, you probably do not really So, before eating, have the
appreciate what you are eating. thought of being happy to eat in Before walking, clear your mind,
You’re also compromising your constant divine thought whatever focus on your heart, connect with
digestion by multitasking, as there you receive, and hold that subtle your meditative state, and walk in
is not enough blood available for connection while eating. that state.
proper digestion. Most traditional
societies take time to pray or say The subtle vibrations will filter Then, spread that inner state to
grace at the beginning of a meal, down into the food and spread everything you come across, being
allowing us to activate the current throughout your system. This aware that everything around you
is absorbing peace – including
the sky, the oceans, the trees, the
people, the wildlife, the buildings
– and everything is radiating
peace.
Awareness of the present moment

creates a sense of being unlike
any other. And over time, such a
state of awareness cultivates peace.
This in turn fosters an expansion
of our minds and hearts, which
enriches our thoughts and feelings,
and enables us to live a life of
contentment, compassion and joy.
Before walking,
clear your mind,
focus on your heart,
connect with your
meditative state,
and walk in that
state.
Insomnia
Babuji’s
Natural Remedies
During his lifetime, BABUJI shared a wealth of knowledge to his

associates about the simple natural remedies that he learned
INGREDIENTS
and also discovered during his life in northern India. This month
we share a couple of his remedies for insomnia.1 Tulsi leaves or a Tulsi tea mix.
Boiling water.
W
e all know the This is because Tulsi relaxes the METHODS
importance of a good nerves, tones the central nervous
night’s sleep, and these system, and calms the mind. It is 1. Make an infusion of Tulsi
days scientists have done so much also an adaptogen, which means leaves in water. Leave it to
research in this field that there it helps us adapt to stress, and steep for a few minutes before
is no doubt that sleep hygiene promotes balance and resilience. sipping prior to going to bed
is a vital ingredient of a healthy This in turn supports healthy at night.
lifestyle. But not everyone finds digestion.
it easy to go off to sleep, and we 2. While lying in bed, first relax
often look for pills and potions to Babuji also taught his associates your body, starting with your
give us a helping hand. other subtler methods to help toes (you can try Heartfulness
them sleep, and one of these is Relaxation). Then, make a
In India, Tulsi or holy basil has also shared here. gentle thought that you are
long been known to support sleep. drawing sleep downwards from
your eyebrows to your eyelids.
1
Please note that these remedies are not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Please seek
the advice of your physician or qualified health provider. The remedies may be used to complement medical treatment and
support recovery.
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Talking with My Grief
RUBY CARMEN explores the often repressed emotion of grief, and
shares some ways we can accept it, value the meaning behind it,
and integrate it into our being as an expression of love.
“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give,
but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the
lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just
love with no place to go.”
—Jamie Anderson
Grief, it seems, is often unsaid, Grief can take the form of a

unexpressed, and avoided at all cycle, that is to say denial, anger,
costs, until we are overwhelmed depression, bargaining, and
and it looms large and can no acceptance. Not necessarily in a
longer be denied. Since the set order, one after the next; it can
pandemic, grief has been an move in circles, leap frogging over
undercurrent, and at times the one element, even a mix of one
feeling is palpable. It seems that or more of these elements. These
there is little space for it to be stages were conceptualized by
expressed, never mind honored. the Swiss-American psychiatrist
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her book
Oftentimes, grief is
Grief is understood as a natural On Death and Dying (1991). She is hidden, buried deep
human response to loss, and in considered a pioneer in the West
particular to loved ones. It covers for end-of-life care and near-death in our hearts. It can
so many situations, not only death studies.
or separation; it can be the loss be like an old
of a dream or a friendship; it What has become apparent to
can be a divorce, a miscarriage, me personally, and also while wound that remains
unemployment, or even retirement. witnessing friends and dear ones
Needless to say, the pain of the come to terms with loss, is the
inside, nameless,
loss can be overpowering, bringing impact of religion, spirituality, formless, and then
us to our knees, both literally and culture, and societal norms on the
metaphorically. form in which grief is permissible. something in the
What comes to me is that we
From a personal viewpoint, I am could do better. Are our coping present touches on
able to name a number of life mechanisms enough?
situations that have triggered
it and we are
grief in me that can be felt in the Oftentimes, grief is hidden, buried
reminded that it is
heart and in a way demand to be deep in our hearts. It can be like
processed rather than pushed aside an old wound that remains inside, still there, sitting
until a more convenient moment. nameless, formless, and then
something in the present touches silently, waiting.
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S ELF- CARE
on it and we are reminded that Me: (Laughing) You don’t say. This is the conversation thus far.
it is still there, sitting silently, So tell me, grief, what do I do? Grief need not be an enemy or
waiting. How can I get through this “avoided like the plague,” as the
grief that reappears especially English expression goes. Instead,
One approach that came into when I least expect it. at an individual and collective
my field of consciousness was to level, we can embrace it and ask
“talk” to the grief and, in doing so, Grief: Get through? how we can allow ourselves to feel
recognize that it exists rather than grief and grow from it rather than
pretending it is not there, that it Me: Yes. be overwhelmed by it. And we can
has been dealt with, processed in consider reaching out to empathic
whatever way we might explain Grief: You know about elders, dear ones, therapists,
it away to ourselves. In order to acceptance? counsellors, and support groups
“survive,” our emotions, especially wherever there is a safe space to
big, heavy ones, get stored away Me: Yes. Sometimes this give voice to grief.
under the category of “I will acceptance business is hard to
come back to this later,” or “I actually do. It can happen at
can’t deal with this right now, a mental or intellectual level,
I have a job to do,” and other and then all of a sudden, it is
such rationalizations. In the busy so overwhelming and difficult.
Grief need not be an
modern world, it seems there is no It needs to be at the level of
enemy or “avoided
time or appropriate space to deal the heart.
with grief or loss. like the plague,” as
Grief: Your heart, yes, and also
Talking to grief goes like this: self-compassion. To grieve is a the English expression
natural thing. It tells you that
Me: Oh, it’s you? I thought you are human and capable of goes. Instead, at an
you had gone. loving, of love.
individual and
Grief: No, I am still here, I Me: So, accepting that I feel collective level, we
never left you. grief and that it hurts bad, not
to mention giving myself some can embrace it and
Me: It hurts and I keep compassion, can help, right?
thinking that you might go ask how we can allow
away, and leave me in peace. Grief: That’s right. It can help
release the pain of the loss, ourselves to feel grief
Grief: Well, it doesn’t seem to and it can dissolve in your
work that way, you know. I am tears and in the sharing of
and grow from it
part of you, not separate. In your grieving pains. rather than be
fact, you are holding onto me,
not the other way round. overwhelmed by it.
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Vibrant Health
S ELF- CARE
DR. PRASAD VELUTHANAR describes the roles of the three doshas –

the natural elements in our system – in our health and well-being.
He also shares what can be done if one or more doshas are out of
balance in order to restore health.
A
yurveda is one of
the world’s oldest 1. “Healthy” means
systems of medicine. something different to
In Sanskrit, ayur means “life,” everyone
and veda means “knowledge;” so
it means “knowledge of life.” It We all know the fundamental
was developed over 6,000 years rules of eating healthy – stick
ago in India and is still widely to natural clean foods. Simple,
practiced all over the world. The right? So why is there so much
main principle behind Ayurveda debate over diets? Ketogenic,
is that the mind and body are paleo, Whole30, Mediterranean,
inextricably connected. Ayurveda low-carb, raw, vegan, dairy-free
promotes good health through – the options for healthy eating
balancing the body, mind, and are overwhelming these days.
spirit as a preventative to having The debate is probably because
to fight diseases through medicine everyone responds to foods and
and treatment. diets differently, something that
Ayurveda discovered thousands of
Ayurveda is based on the premise years ago.
that we consist of three governing
elements of nature – vata (air), If you’re working on becoming
pitta (fire), and kapha (earth). healthier, eat what’s best
Everyone is a unique combination for your body, knowing that
of these elements or doshas, something different might work
containing different proportions for someone else. Ayurveda tells
of each. The combination dictates you to eat according to your
our eating habits, sleeping habits, dosha, or which of your doshas is
and overall way of living life. imbalanced – warm heavy foods
Symptoms of mental and physical balance vata; cool refreshing foods
illness are signals that one or more balance pitta; and lightly cooked
of the doshas is not in balance. or raw foods balance kapha.
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2. Use six tastes in every

meal
Ayurveda recognizes six different If you’re working on becoming

tastes: sweet, sour, salty, bitter,
pungent, and astringent. Every
healthier, eat what’s best
fruit, vegetable, grain, nut, etc., has for your body, knowing that
a particular taste, or a combination
of tastes. The idea is that each something different might work for
taste has a specific connection
with one of the doshas. Here are someone else.
the foods and their tastes.
Sweet: carbohydrates and
natural sugars
Sour: organic acids and

fermented foods (probiotics)
Salty: salts (that contain

crucial minerals)
Pungent: spicy foods
(promote digestion)
Bitter: dark leafy greens

and herbs (antiseptic and
detoxifying qualities)
Astringent: legumes, raw or
dry produce
When you include all these

tastes in each meal, it balances
the doshas and ensures you’re
getting all the nutrients your
body needs. Biologically speaking,
it makes perfect sense, as each
taste represents a different set of
nutrients our bodies need.
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3. Focus on how you eat 4. Lifestyle (Vihara) Seasonal routine
Digestive problems include Daily routine (Dinacharya), In Ayurveda, the year is divided
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), seasonal routine (Ritucharya), and into six seasons, and a detailed
indigestion, nausea, stomach pain, behavioral routine (Sadvritta) are dietary regime is prescribed for
weight gain/loss, constipation, measures of an ideal lifestyle in each season:
diarrhea, and bloating; but they the classic Ayurvedic texts. They
also show up as skin blemishes, promote a long, healthy active life, In the spring, a bitter, hot, and
hair loss, and sluggishness. and provide relief from pain and astringent diet is advised, avoiding
Ayurveda suggests that digestive disease. salty, sour, and sweet food.
problems occur because the
digestive fire (agni) is weak, so Daily routine In the summer, due to the heat, a
igniting it before meals is crucial pitta-pacifying cold, liquid, sweet,
to improve digestion, e.g. adding I have described the Ayurvedic and oily diet is advised. Excessively
spices like cumin or turmeric to approach to the daily cycles in hot, spicy, sour, and salty foods are
meals will help; a teaspoon of depth in “Living with Nature’s avoided.
fresh ginger with a few drops Rhythms.”
of lime juice and a pinch of salt
before meals can activate the
salivary glands to produce the
proper amounts of digestive
enzymes. Ayurveda focuses on
proper digestion, as it recognizes
that it’s how our bodies absorb
nutrients.
So, eat slower, better, and drink

ginger tea every single day to keep
your digestive system on track!
Ayurveda focuses
on proper digestion,
as it recognizes
that it’s how our
bodies absorb
nutrients.
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In the rainy season, aggravation

of vata occurs, so vata-pacifying
sweet, sour, and salty food and
drinks are preferred. Food should
be hot, dry, oily, and easily
digestible.
In the autumn, aggravation of pitta

occurs. Diets dominant in bitter,
sweet, and pungent foods are
advised in this season.
In the pre-winter and winter

seasons, aggravation of vata occurs
due to the cold, dry climate. Hence
a vata-pacifying diet of hot, sweet,
sour, and salty food, oils and fats is
advised.
Whenever possible,
devote your
services to God, to
the wise, and to
respectable and
elderly individuals.
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Behavioral routine Do not harm anyone. Be straightforward and kind.
Ayurveda prescribes certain As far as possible, do not Avoid irregularity in daily

guidelines for maintaining a expose yourself to hardship. activities.
healthy mind that have come
from yoga. These principles are Try to control your passions. Avoid overeating,
applicable to all people at all times overdrinking, too much
and places. Practicing them brings Endeavor to speak pleasant sexual activity, and too much
balance and harmony to the mind. and sweet words. or too little sleep.
They are: Meditate every day for Behave according to the

tranquility of mind. time and place where you
Whenever possible, devote are residing.
your services to God, to the Observe cleanliness in all
wise, and to respectable and things. Act in a courteous and
elderly individuals. polite manner.
Be patient.
Speak the truth. Control your sense organs.
Observe self-control.
Do not lose your temper. Make a habit of doing all
Try to distribute knowledge, that is good and avoiding all
Do not get addicted to good advice, and help to that is bad.
sensory pleasures. others.
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The ability to ask
beautiful questions
– often in very un-
beautiful moments
– is one of the great
disciplines of a human
life. And a beautiful
question starts to shape
your identity as much
by asking it as it does by
having it answered.
DAVID WHYTE
THE WISDOM BRIDGE SERIES
The Art of
Relaxed Efforts
In September 2022, DAAJI released his latest bestseller,
The Wisdom Bridge, and throughout 2023 we are sharing
highlights from the various chapters to give you a taste of
the wisdom the book offers. This month the excerpt is from
chapter 10 on Principle 5: Early Childhood Is the Foundation.
INS P IRATION
Relaxed Efforts Go a Long begun to complete without It goes by too fast.” They are
Way interfering. Just as we sow a right.
seed and then wait. We put the
Saint Kabir wrote a couplet that potatoes on to boil, and then we If you need to drop something
goes like this: wait. We teach children good to get more time with your
habits, and then we wait. We child, then do it. If you both
Dheere dheere re mana, offer a prayer, and then we wait. enjoy cuddling and poring over
dheere sub kucch hoye If you analyze it, life is nothing a book together more than the
Mali seenche so ghara, but waiting interspersed with piano class or the taekwondo
ritu aaye phal hoye moments or bursts of activity. training, go ahead and do that.
Waiting takes up a large part of If you feel like taking the day
Slow down, dear mind, slow our life and not activity. Waiting off and going for a picnic with
down. Everything happens in its comes from the faith that the children, then do that. Our
own time. actions done well will yield the fondest memories are usually
The gardener may pour a hundred right results. It is waiting that is of childhood. There is no need
buckets of water, the art. to rush children through their
but only when the season is right childhood. Don’t force your
will the trees yield fruit. As parents, there is hardly children to grow up fast. Your
anything more important to son is being clingy and wants
In a few words, Saint Kabir you than the well-being of your to spend more time with you?
shares the wisdom behind doing children. So, you do everything Great, spend time with him.
things at the right time and you can to help your children Your daughter doesn’t feel like
waiting patiently for the results. succeed. All the sleepless nights reading the story book on her
and ferrying your children from own? No problem, read it to her.
Parents know about doing one activity to another is to Let them take their time.
things at the right time. And prepare them for their life ahead.
even if they don’t, they can read Each child is unique. Some
about it and learn. But waiting I commend the efforts parents learn math fast, while others
for the results is an attitude one put in these days in raising their create wonderful art. Some
needs to develop. Especially in children. I do have a suggestion. love helping in the kitchen,
today’s world of FOMO (fear Once in a while, relax. Do less. while others like to spend
of missing out) and instant You are already starved for time, time running around the park.
gratification, waiting can be a don’t try to squeeze more into Children’s minds are like flower
tough exercise. your day. Less is more. One buds. Do not force them to
advice new parents often get bloom. Be patient, be present,
What do we mean by waiting? from parents with grown-up and be loving.
In its real sense, waiting means children is, “Spend as much time
allowing a process that has as you can with your little ones.
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INSP I RAT IO N
development cycles of a child.

Children’s minds Educating ourselves on the best
Patiently wait for your
are like flower child to bloom, in the practices of parenting is helpful.
same way a flower This happens organically in
buds. Do not force blooms on its own. a family with elders around.
Children’s minds are like If that’s not the case, reading
them to bloom. Be flower buds. They should and learning about parenting
not be forced open. Do is helpful. A group of parents
patient, be not push them too much. getting together once every few
months, specif ically to share notes
present, and be
and ideas on parenting, will also
loving. help.
Keep listening
What helps the most is listening
Knowing what to do and what to your child. Listening will
not to do equips you better on teach many things that are
the parenting journey. Gaining otherwise lost in the noise of
knowledge is an important step. life. The tantrums of your child,
Most of us know a lot more the meltdowns, the loving hugs,
about the global economy or the shyness, the mischief are all
the statistics of the last ball opportunities to listen to the
game than we know about the unsaid feelings of your child’s
INS P IRATION
Learn to wait and understand that

everything happens in its own
sweet time. Enjoy the journey
because the destination is a
moving goal post.
heart. Keep listening with your Daily Dilemma Please introspect and see if
eyes and ears, and your heart will that’s what is happening in your
speak its guidance more clearly. Q: My child seems to lack case. Also, positive suggestions
confidence. She hesitates in and indirect advice work well
While our life circumstances asking the teacher about her over time. Be patient and keep
can be unique, a common factor doubts and even when I remind me posted on how things come
that unites all parents is a her, she doesn’t. What to do? along.
perennial dearth of time. So, be
kind to yourself. Learn to wait Daaji: Some children are From Chapter 10 of The Wisdom
and understand that everything shy. It’s part of their make-up. Bridge.1
happens in its own sweet time. Parents often remember their To be continued.
Enjoy the journey because the own so-called shortcomings and
destination is a moving goal are over cautious about such Illustrations by ARATI SHEDDE
post. tendencies in their children.
1
Patel, K.D., 2022. The Wisdom Bridge: Nine Principles to a Life that Echoes in the Hearts of Your Loved Ones. Penguin,
India.
Au gu s t 2 02 3 31
Finding KAJ HAMMARGREN is an
athlete who turned his life
around from a very dark
Purpose
place in his twenties to
serving others and bringing
joy, all through a spiritual
awakening and the practice
of meditation. His story is an
inspiring one!
I
shouldn’t be able to run, not
even walk, and especially not
pole vault. In fact, I shouldn’t
be alive at all.
I was born in Copenhagen in

1964 and I was good at sport.
I became one of the biggest
talents in Denmark in the pole
vault. But I also struggled with
alcohol, and those two things
didn’t match at all. Alcohol
became my master for some
years, and it almost ended my
life in a traffic accident at the
age of 27. I wanted to die.
But then I had a spiritual

awakening, and meditation
became central to my life. I
have practiced Heartfulness
meditation for more than 20
years.
At the age of 51, I was asked

to start jumping again, just for
fun, at my old club. That’s eight
years ago. The first few years I
had fun, competing for the club
with all my old friends. But last
INS P IRATION
year, my weight was more than morning, “How can I be useful?”

100 kg and I decided to lose 15 and I ask God what His plan is
kgs, start training two to three for me.
times a week, and participate in
the world championships 2023 As a result, I am not afraid
in Gothenburg. I also decided to during competitions, and I’m
have surgery on my right knee, more relaxed and focused. Also,
so I could jump without pain. I don’t waste energy being
afraid, envying others, so a lot
It’s easy to lose weight. I only of good stuff happens, especially
eat what is necessary most days making new friends.
during the week, and some days
I fast until the evening. I ask I recently participated in the
myself, “Is it necessary to eat Championship of the Nordic
this?” and then I don’t. One or Countries and won. I also made
two days a week I eat normally. I several new friends, but during
lost 13 kgs the first year, so I was the competition I noticed a
close to the optimal weight for man running on the track who
my height. I think previously I was dying. I followed him, then
was attached to eating too much, shouted and waved my hands
and not always the right stuff. to the officials, and called for
Of course, I did not eat well an ambulance. Quickly a doctor Earlier, I would have been
every day, but many days I did. came running with a heart satisfied with my current
And I became grateful for being starter, but I saw the man’s blue achievements. And fear was
able do it, including fasting for face and instantly knew he was part of jumping, limiting my
more than 16 hours a day. dying. I sat down with my head progress: fear of winning, failing,
in my hands and started to what others thought of me, etc. I
But what about other pray for his life. After a while was attached to the goal of being
attachments? Am I attached to I looked up, and he was awake the best, so that people would
becoming the world champion and sitting on the track. think I was a good man. It was a
in pole vaulting? Well, I’m big dream, an illusion.
not, but I am interested in My goal is to participate in
experiencing what happens the World Championships in Now I have a spiritual goal, to
when I meditate and pole 2025. But I also know that life live right here, right now, in
vault. So that’s what I’ve been is meant to be joyful, and it’s constant rememberance of His
doing. It’s not only important important for me to find out presence in everything I do.
to jump, but it’s even more what God’s plan is for me. I do Whether I win or lose, my life is
important how I participate. not want to only reach for gold fullfilled while doing it – I have
Babuji mentioned that we need for myself, and I don’t need to experienced it in all my affairs.
to be of service, so I’m trying be the best. I do, however, need It is experiencing life on another
to be helpful to everyone who to reach out for the best way of level.
is jumping. In fact I pray in the living a spiritual life.
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Workplace
The ability to shift from
reacting against the
past to leaning into and
presencing an emerging
future is probably the
single most important
leadership capacity
today.
C. OTTO SCHARMER
Illustration by LEMBERGVECTOR
JUST THINKING AND FEELING
The Perils of Being

“Too Smart”
DR. ICHAK ADIZES challenges the notion that smarter is always better. What is able
to surface when we move beyond the intellect?
W OR KPLACE
A
fascinating Sephardic right from wrong from a values rapidly than a human ever could.
expression states, “It’s standpoint. Truly distinguishing To me, that's being “too smart.”
not good to be ‘too right from wrong calls for But where is the heart in all
smart’.” One might question something more than cerebral this? There is no intuition, no
this sentiment; after all, it seems cognition. One must feel the judgment beyond pure intellectual
to contradict conventional situation and judge the merits of analysis. Imagine the potential for
wisdom, doesn’t it? The standard the choices in front of them. That erroneous lethal decisions.
assumption is: the smarter the is where the heart speaks.
better. Making decisions involves more
Sometimes, it’s crucial to than just processing information.
But let’s think about how we momentarily suspend thinking and To handle uncertainty and risk, it
process information. A profound listen to the heart about what truly takes more than logical thinking.
relationship exists between the makes sense. I have solved some of When all information processing
brain and the heart. The more we my most complex problems during has been exhausted, the last
employ our mental faculties, the meditation. When the meditation source of uncertainty and risk
less we tap into our emotional was over, I had an answer. needs to be addressed. One must
ones, erroneously believing that pause, and intuition, judgment,
employing the brain is sufficient In meditation, you stop thinking and experience play a role. For
to arrive at the best decision. So, if or getting attached to thoughts. that, it is not enough to just be
a person is extremely smart, they You just calm your mind, which smart. One needs to be wise, for
are likely to be utilizing primarily enables the heart to open. And which listening to the heart is
their brain, which can hinder their ideas, judgments that the brain did indispensable.
heart’s engagement. not process, emerge.
Just thinking and feeling,
Not all decisions can be I recently came across a newspaper
made based solely on tangible article about a robotic police
information that the brain can officer in San Francisco with lethal
analyze. “Too smart” individuals capabilities. This robot, leveraging
might not harness their intuition. artificial intelligence, assesses ichak@adizes.com
They might over-intellectualize threats and decides whether lethal https://www.ichakadizes.com/post/
risks and fail to sense the nuances force is necessary. It’s a machine the-perils-of-being-too-smart
of a situation, fail to discern that processes information more
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ChatGPT
Gamechanger
or Hype?
W OR K PLACE
RAVI VENKATESAN takes us on a journey through the

world of Artificial Intelligence, charting its history and
developments, and also exploring where we are headed.
P
art of my job as the CEO 1950 landmark paper with what There was a lot of hype at that
of a technology company is now popularly known as the time about how AI would change
is to keep track of trends Turing test. In simple terms, if the world and dominate fields as
and technologies that could be you interact (perhaps chat) with a diverse as predicting the weather,
incredibly transformational. This computer, but are unable to tell the to picking winning stocks, to
knowledge is critical to formulate difference between this experience automating architecture and
strategies for our business. To use and chatting with a real human design for buildings. However,
a hockey analogy from Wayne being, then the electronic brain has very little of this came to pass.
Gretzky, it is to “stake to where the passed the Turing test. Funding dried up when people
puck is going.” realized that too much expensive
So, what is AI? The fundamental computing power was needed and
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is building block of AI, or an the economics just did not work
definitely a major trend today “electronic brain,” is a neural out.
and has probably had more network that mimics the kinds of
historical cycles of being sold as neural networks our brains have, The next generation of AI came
transformational and not living up and in essence has a “learning in the late nineties when IBM
to its promise than any technology mechanism.” I remember writing developed Deep Blue, which beat
in the last century. It all started neural networks in languages like the reigning world champion
with early neural networks in Prolog and C as a student. The Garry Kasparov at chess. In
the 1940s and 50s that looked to fundamental difference between 2005, a Stanford robot drove
make a computer mimic a human this type of computer program autonomously for 131 miles in
brain and its mental functions. and other purely computational the desert. These developments
In other words, the endeavor was programs or software, was the revived interest and funding
to construct an electronic brain. aspect of being able to learn, again. So far, AI still needed very
The benchmark for success was potentially predict, and come to large-scale computing power and
established by Alan Turing in a conclusions. bespoke computing equipment –
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WOR K P L AC E
W OR KPLACE
translation, a lot of money. This is called generative AI. It has So, is the promise of AI finally
generation of AI can be called the quality of not just arriving being delivered? It is safe to say
purpose-built AI. It was still in upon a result but also explaining that AI has finally reached a point
the domain of large companies or the derivation of the result. It where many applications have
governments. is thus far the closest to human become economically feasible and
intelligence that AI has reached. hence will scale. Autonomous
The next big move was Google’s Carrying out a conversation with driving, facial recognition,
DeepMind, which beat the ChatGPT feels like talking to improved customer service
reigning world champion at the a very intelligent and articulate by scanning knowledge bases
GO game, much more complex human being. With computing and using chatbots, authoring
than chess, and used “deep costs continuously decreasing, marketing content, writing code
learning” techniques such as deep and “big data sets” to train the AI for software programs, etc., are
neural networks. This generation becoming more easily available, some of the applications that
of AI can be called “deep learning the improvement in AI with ChatGPT is already doing
general AI.” ChatGPT has been accelerated. successfully. It is the only
technology that has been adopted
The current generation of AI, To summarize these generations, by 100 million users in just two
with ChatGPT as a prominent look at the graph below that plots months after launch.
example, is way more general Purpose and Cost:
purpose or multi-purpose and
Very Now
Generic
Somewhat 2000s
Generic and 2010s
PU RPOS E
Somewhat
80s and
Specific
90s
Very
Specific 40s and
50s
Very Somewhat Somewhat Very

High High Low Low
COST
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WOR K P L AC E
creating music, etc. However,

the evolution of this aspect is
at a very rudimentary stage.
4. Consciousness – what forms

the base for everything else
in a human being’s mental
functions can be described
as consciousness. There are
various levels of consciousness
based on the sophistication
of the being – humans,
plants, or even stones, all have
consciousness but of different
levels. In that sense AI does
have consciousness, but it
is of a different kind than
human beings. It is based on
the programming and inputs
provided to the AI and can of
course evolve over time.
In summary, there have been

multiple generations of AI
going from very specific to very
However, ChatGPT still does not being has not been mimicked generic, and very expensive to very
conclusively pass the Turing test, in AI. inexpensive. ChatGPT has been a
so there is still a long way to go. giant leap from prior generations,
A bigger question, often raised, is 3. Mind – this is broader than and in some ways is democratizing
if AI is conscious. To answer this, just the brain, it includes the access to this technology by
let’s look at the various mental the ability to process inputs making it available to millions of
functions of a human being: from multiples senses (sight, regular people. AI has still not
sound, touch, taste, and passed the Turing test and is not
1. Intellect – this is where smell) and also from internal yet close to replicating all of our
logic and reason live. Prior sources (contemplation and human mental functions, however
to ChatGPT, AI had already thoughts). It includes the the technology will continue to
developed logic, now reason ability to imagine and create. evolve, creating both opportunities
has been incorporated as well. AI is starting to mimic and threats for the human
some of these functions. experience.
2. Ego – this is the sense of ChatGPT is the first AI that
self, and while it can be also “hallucinates” and can
programmed artificially, the undertake creative processes
way it develops in a human such as authoring a poem, I ll u st rat io n s by A N A N YA PATEL
Your presence is the most
precious gift you can give
another human being.
relationships
MARSHALL B.
ROSENBERG
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7 Tips that Show
How Crucial Social Connection
Is to Well-being
Could public health guidelines help stop loneliness? KIFFER GEORGE CARD shares both
research and his perspective on how we can address the pandemic of loneliness. He
advocates coming together in a whole-of-society response, which means addressing the
very problem he is seeking to solve.
U
nited States Surgeon outcomes, ranging from HIV to While everybody’s vulnerability
General Vivek Murthy substance use. to loneliness and social isolation
recently called loneliness differs, we all need social
an epidemic, and issued a public For example, my colleagues and connection. Perhaps just as
health advisory on the healing I have previously shown that importantly, Harvard research
effects of social connection and social isolation is associated with from the longest-running cohort
community. a 48 percent increase in odds for study ever conducted suggests
premature death, and that lonely that warm social relationships are
The report warned of the people have 71 percent higher the most important predictor of
considerable adverse effects of odds of reporting fair or poor happiness across the life course.
loneliness and social isolation – health. In other words, people who are
comparing it to other leading risk disconnected lead sicker, sadder,
factors for premature death such Other researchers have also and shorter lives.
as smoking, obesity, elevated blood documented the havoc that
pressure and high cholesterol. loneliness wreaks on individuals, Public health guidelines
showing that lonely and isolated
Loneliness and social people have poorer immune In response to this epidemic
isolation can be harmful function, experience higher levels of loneliness, my team at the
of inflammation, and are at greater Canadian Alliance for Social
In my work as a social and risk for heart disease, cancer and Connection and Health has
behavioral epidemiologist, I have diabetes. engaged experts from across
studied how social and community Canada and globally to develop
connectedness shapes health
R ELAT IONSHIPS
the world’s first public health social connection is associated connected, but sometimes we get
guidelines for social connection. with poorer well-being. While trapped by it.
everybody’s vulnerability to
Similar to the nutrition, exercise loneliness and social isolation Public health guidelines can help
and alcohol use guidelines differs, we all need social raise awareness of the importance
promoted by many national connection. Yet, people generally of social connection and provide us
governments, social connection underestimate the benefits of with a road map for better social
guidelines have the potential to connecting with others and health. But what should these
improve our health and happiness overestimate the costs, which guidelines look like?
by helping us all prioritize social include the emotional labor and
connections in our daily lives. mental energy needed to manage This is exactly what my team
They can also raise awareness relationships and your self- has set out to understand as
among healthcare providers presentation. part of a multi-phased, mixed-
and policymakers to ensure method study funded by and
these experts are taking actions Regardless of levels of introversion conducted in partnership with the
consistent with the latest evidence or extroversion, insufficient Canadian government. So far, we
highlighting the importance of social connection is associated have identified a few promising
social health. with poorer well-being. This is approaches that each of us can act
because social connection is a on right now:
Promising guidelines for biological imperative. We evolved
better social health in close-knit communities. For
ancient humans, social exclusion
Regardless of levels of introversion was a death sentence. Loneliness
or extroversion, insufficient is our body’s way of keeping us
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REL AT IO N SH I P S
day. This value aligns with the

approximate 24 hours per week
that tribal and pastoral societies
have historically enjoyed. While
this may seem like a daunting
jump in social hours for some,
social interactions can include a
wide variety of activities: chit chat
with your barista, a phone call to a
friend, conversation over dinner.
3. Prioritize spending time

with those closest to
you.
We’ve found that individuals need

to socialize with both “strong” and
“weak” ties, but that the balance
of your social energy should be
spent on close friends and family
with whom you have warm
relationships. This is because
close relationships fulfil our most
important relational needs: to feel
loved, acknowledged and validated.
Building these strong ties takes
time.
4. Diversity in your social

network is important
1. M
ake sure to have three quality for quantity. Having too too.
to five close friendships few can leave you alone in a time
to call on when you’re in of need. So-called “weak ties” – those you
need. don’t have a close relationship with
2. Get one to three hours – also matter. In fact, studies have
Research has shown that of social interaction per shown that talking to neighbors
individuals who have at least three day. can build a sense of community;
to five close friends experience the making friends at work can reduce
lowest levels of loneliness, anxiety, That’s between seven and 21 hours job stress; and even talking to
depression and a range of other of social time per week – far more strangers can create a sense of
adverse health outcomes. Having than the average of 34 minutes safety and provide a meaningful
too many friends can sacrifice of socializing most of us get each source of connection. Different
R ELAT IO NSHIPS
relationships provide different social reserves and meet your own This article is reprinted with
types of support. personal needs. permission from the author and
The Conversation under Creative
5. Recognize the risks of Following these and other Commons license from https://
living alone. strategies can improve your theconversation.com/could-
health and well-being. However, public-health-guidelines-help-
People who live alone are at addressing loneliness, like many stop-loneliness-7-tips-that-show-
increased risk of loneliness and of the big problems we face today, how-crucial-social-connection-is-
studies have shown that living will require a whole-of-society to-well-being-205358.
alone, particularly for men, is response. Public health guidelines
hazardous to your health. That for social connection can provide I ll u st rat io n s by A R ATI S H EDDE
means that if you live alone, the foundation for such an
prioritizing social relationships approach.
may be especially important to
you.
6. Reach out to old friends

and don’t be afraid to
make new ones.
Keeping and maintaining

relationships can be hard –
especially in today’s fast-paced
world. Renewing old friendships
can be an easy way to keep your
social calendar full, but keeping a
healthy level of engagement with
new people will make sure your
friendship well doesn’t run dry.
7. Don’t forget the

importance of solitude.
Just as time with others is

important, it’s also important to
have time alone. It is perfectly
good, and even healthy, to spend
time alone. We call this “solitude.”
In fact, for some, time with others
may even exacerbate feelings of
loneliness. Time alone provides
an opportunity to restore your
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GUY SHAHAR embarked on a career in
Energy
energy healing with little understanding
of what it entailed, after experiencing
Dr. Bradley Nelson’s method, The
Emotion Code. The results spoke for
Healing
themselves. After becoming certified
as a healer, Guy is now watching with
wonder how the method is unfolding
and evolving, and how he is growing
through the process.
R ELAT IONSHIPS
I never gave energy healing The Emotion Code people how to do it. It includes
any serious consideration until a chapter on how to muscle
after my first visit to Kanha But having heard the voice, I test. I had zero confidence that
Shanti Vanam Ashram in 2020. couldn’t ignore it. So I half- a written chapter in a book
The idea of sitting in a room heartedly looked up the method would enable me to learn this
and being able to heal another I’d been receiving, The Emotion important new skill, but I picked
person in another town or Code. It is based on the idea up a copy and by the end of the
on another continent seemed of releasing “trapped emotions” chapter, doing the exercises he
interesting but fantastical to me. that come up at various points suggested, I was surprised to get
in our lives but are not fully some reasonably clear answers.
A few years before that, I’d had processed. Perhaps it is because
a health breakdown following we are too overwhelmed or So I persisted with learning
a long difficult situation at triggered at the time, and the method, using it on myself
work. I was housebound for 3 instead repress them, so they and my family, without any
months, and one of the things lodge as excess and disruptive expectation of results. None
I’d been doing was receiving energy in our system, and lead to came until one day when I was
online energy healing with a all sorts of physical and mental suffering from severe back pain
practitioner. I didn’t really know issues. and inflammation, and my wife
what it was or how it worked, suggested I try The Emotion
but I figured it was worth a try. I discovered that it was actually Code to help. I wasn’t hopeful
a very simple method, and but had nothing to lose, so I
It was during one session after very easy to do, but required went upstairs and released a
that visit to Kanha that I heard an ability that I didn’t think I number of trapped emotions. By
a voice in my own head saying, had – “muscle-testing” to obtain the time I had finished, I was
“You should do this!” I almost clear yes or no answers from the surprised to find that the pain
dismissed it because energy subconscious mind of the person had halved, and it continued to
healing was so far from anything being treated. diminish as the day went on.
I ever thought I’d do, or would When I told my wife, she took a
be able to do. The man who created The look at my back and exclaimed
Emotion Code, Dr. Bradley that the inflammation had also
Nelson, has written a book of gone down. That was the first
the same name which guides time I genuinely felt there was
something in energy healing.
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I had similar results when My surprise at the results was

working with others in need. a little ironic, however, because
Perhaps it is
People’s pains disappeared in I’d been a Heartfulness trainer because we are
front of my eyes on Zoom calls. for nearly 20 years, and I was
People who’d been depressed used to sitting at home giving too overwhelmed
started smiling with an inner meditation sessions to people far
joy they’d not felt for ages. away, which I had no doubt were or triggered at the
Children’s issues started to be effective. But for some reason
resolved when we worked on the idea of working in the time, and instead
them through their parents. same way to bring about more
Even pets showed dramatic material health benefits hadn’t
repress them, so
improvement. And each time, it occurred to me. they lodge as
was me who was more surprised
than the other person, as if I I was starting to field calls from excess and
couldn’t quite believe the results people who’d been referred to
that were happening. me by friends and family, and I disruptive energy
realized I needed to start doing
I had the good fortune to record this professionally. So I got
in our system, and
an interview with Dr. Nelson certified in The Emotion Code,
lead to all sorts of
recently, where he said that he and then in a vastly expanded
shared the same surprise at good version of it known as The Body physical and
results, even after many years Code, and then launched a
of practicing his own system. company, Heartful Healing. mental issues.
When asked how his approach
brings about changes, he just
shrugs and says, “I just work
here.”
R ELAT ION SHIPS
How does energy healing

work?
One of the questions I’m often

asked is how energy healing
actually works, and I’m no closer
to having an answer. But having
reflected on it, there are now 3
steps I always take at the start of
a session:
1. Connect to a Higher
Power
Make a deep connection to

a higher power, whatever
that means to you. Dr.
Nelson advocates this. As a
Heartfulness practitioner, this
is an easy step: I bring my
attention to the constant inner
presence in the heart that
we’re gifted when we meditate
with Heartfulness regularly
and sincerely. It becomes an
ever-present and vital part of
our existence. That way, I’m
I bring my attention
not dependent of my own to the constant inner
ultra-limited capabilities.
presence in the heart
2. Connect with the
client that we’re gifted
I focus my attention on them when we meditate
so that the answers I get
from muscle testing reflect
with Heartfulness
their own responses. I do regularly and
this with as much love and
prayerfulness for their well- sincerely.
being as possible.
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3. Positive intention
Together with the client,

we set a positive intention
for the results of the work.
This is really important, as
dwelling on problems actually
exacerbates them. As the old
saying goes, “Where attention
goes, energy flows.” I invite
them to put their attention on
the positive outcome that they
want, rather than the current
negative situation they don’t.
For example, if they can’t sleep,

we don’t focus on “I want
to be free of these sleeping
problems,” but rather, they
picture themselves waking
up happy and refreshed in
the morning, full of positive
energy. They connect with “Where attention
how that will feel, and
experience joy and gratitude as goes, energy flows.”
if they have it now. If they do
this while the work is going
on, it is especially powerful.
The more they keep this
changed perspective through
their daily lives, the better.
Then the session begins. We

identify the imbalances in the
person’s system which need to
be released, and use a simple
technique to release them. But
I can’t help feeling that this
and other healing methods
are a little superfluous, as
the essentials of the work are
established in those initial 3
steps.
R ELAT IONSHIPS
Those 3 steps are a sort of prayer technique to release or rebalance

It uses the release for a particular manifestation, whatever needs it, to bring the
and perhaps it is the ultimate result they want. I find the
technique to destination of any healer to end results to be at least as effective
up in a place where the healing as an established modality. It’s a
release or occurs through prayer alone. step in the direction of where I
rebalance suspect healing will ultimately
I’ve started to move in this take me.
whatever needs it, direction with some more
pioneering clients, using a I ll u st rat io n s by JA S M EE
to bring the result method I call “Accelerated M U DGA L
Healing,” which bypasses the

they want. need to identify each individual
imbalance. It uses the release
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Environment
Life waxes and wanes imperceptibly,

It does not stay long.
The leaf that has once fallen
Does not return to the branch.
Behold the Ocean of Transmigration
MIRABAI
T H R E E P RIOR IT IE S F OR
Environmental
Healing
ENV IR ONME NT
CHARLES EISENSTEIN challenges our current understanding of

environmental sustainability, and asks us to reconsider our approaches
and practices to environmentalism. In part 1, he dared us to realize
that environmentalism will only work once we become nature lovers.
In part 2, he focuses on the way forward, offering ways to heal the
environment and ourselves.
A
ll is not lost. There is in fact a way to “save Priority 1: Protect Ecosystems
the world.” I put it in quotes, because
ultimately the choice we face is not about The first recalls traditional conservationism. We
our survival, it is about what kind of world we must absolutely protect any remaining intact
choose to live in. One vibrant with life? Or a ecosystems from development, whether it is for oil
gigantic strip mine/waste dump/parking lot? So and gas, minerals, lumber, ranching, suburbs, dam
let us say there is a way to regenerate a world reservoirs, industrial-scale fishing, or biofuels.
vibrant with life. The way is to enact a reverence The few remaining intact organs of Gaia are
for life in all its forms. This translates to three its reservoirs of biodiversity and its memory of
priorities for environmentalist attention and health. Note well that to “protect” does not usually
funding. mean to fence off and keep humans away. In fact,
right human participation can enhance the health
of ecosystems when those humans have intimate
understanding and reverence for the places where
they live.
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EN V I R O N M EN T
Priority 2: Regeneration
The second priority is regeneration, the restoring In fact, right human

of life to places where it has been depleted.
Regenerative farming and ranching, agroforestry, participation can enhance
marine preserves, beaver reintroduction, salmon
reintroduction, dam removal, and water retention
the health of ecosystems
landscapes are just some of the ways to revitalize when those humans have
the organs of the Earth and bring them back
online to stabilize the climate. intimate understanding and
Priority 3: Detoxification reverence for the places
The third priority is detoxification. I suspect a where they live.
lot of forest death (it isn’t just oaks) and insect
collapse (in most places at least 80% of insects
have disappeared) is due to the ubiquity of
herbicides, pesticides, toxic waste, and other
pollutants in the environment. It shocked me
when I learned that vast areas of forest in the
eastern United States are routinely sprayed to
“control” pest insects. Dioxins, PFAs, antibiotics,
pharmaceutical residues, and agriculture chemicals
contaminate every ecosystem on Earth, every
animal, every cell. They are detectable even in
Antarctica.
Add to these the aerial spraying of aluminum and

other particles in geoengineering experiments,
causing elevated levels of aluminum in places
remote from any industrial source. And let’s
not forget the little-recognized impact of
electromagnetic pollution, light pollution, and
noise pollution on ecosystems. All of the above
harm the Earth on the tissue level, further
weakening her already compromised organs.
ENV IR ONMENT
The soul of the environmental

movement
I do not worry that our system is not sustainable.

I worry that it is. I am afraid that we can continue
to lay waste to the living Earth indefinitely,
ending up on a concrete world, so chronically ill
physically and mentally that we must incorporate
technological assistance into our very brains and
bodies.
I am afraid we will compensate for the lost

connection to a living world with a burgeoning
array of virtual substitutes, digital realities, and
online adventures, tragically seeking something
that we come to forget we ever had. Do you
remember how loud the frogs were? Do you
remember flocks of birds extending from horizon
to horizon? Do you remember the clouds of
fireflies that lit up the nights of my father’s youth?
I am afraid we will forget we ever lived in such
wealth and make do instead with Mario Cart.
We are already far down this path to a concrete

world, and far down the path of learning to
cope with it. American doctors write every year
around 120 million prescriptions for SSRIs,
118 million prescriptions for Adderall, Ritalin,
and other ADHD medications, and 120 million
for benzodiazepines (I got those numbers by
The ecological crisis and the consulting the oracle, I mean ChatGPT). That’s
more than one psychiatric drug prescription
spiritual crisis that we call
per capita! No wonder people have never been
“mental health” share a happier.
common source: denial of The inner desolation mirrors the outer. The
ecological crisis and the spiritual crisis that we
the Earth as a living being call “mental health” share a common source:
denial of the Earth as a living being worthy of
worthy of love, worthy of love, worthy of service. The conservationist draws
service. from a well of truth: that the purpose of a human
being is to participate in the flourishing of life.
To serve with. Sundered from that purpose, we
Au gu s t 2 02 3 61
EN V I R O N M EN T
inevitably become sick. That inner sickness, Reprinted with permission by the author
that soul sickness, reflects the outer sickness of from https://charleseisenstein.substack.
ecosystems. Could there ultimately be any doubt com/p/how-the-environmental-movement-
that the global climate reflects the social climate, can#footnote-1-110660236
the political climate, the economic climate, and
the psychic climate?
The three priorities I listed above are no mere

technical tweaks to the project of engineering
Earth. They occur naturally to anyone who
beholds Earth as a living being with a complex
physiology. Beholding Earth as a being, a
magnificent being, a gorgeous being, a sacred
being, we fall ever deeper in love. Here is where
to find again the soul of the environmental
movement and fulfill its destiny to transform
civilization.
62
Take the Consumer
Challenge
ELIZABETH DENLEY shares

some insights on reducing
wants, cutting costs, and
in the process living more
sustainably on the planet.
Even if you choose one tip
and do it for a month, you
will make a difference!
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ENV I RO N M EN T
F
or most of us, the cost of
living is going up month
by month, and it is not
matched by an increase in our
incomes. We are being squeezed,
and while that is challenging,
it is also forcing us to live more
creatively and more sustainably on
less! We can no longer justify the
consumerist throw-away culture,
even though all the advertising
we see thrives on selling us the
latest and most trendy goods. Our
current economy is built that way,
and it will take a bigger shift in
consciousness to transition to a
truly sustainable and regenerative
way of living.
When I first started meditating,

over three decades ago, one
principle that jumped out of the
Heartfulness literature was, “Do
not purchase a new thing if you
can manage to carry on with your
old belongings.” I soon learned
that it is a fundamental principle Our current economy is built that
of yoga – reduce your wants.
way, and it will take a bigger shift
Since then, I have personally
experienced one of the great in consciousness to transition to a
side benefits of meditating –
meditation reduces your wants.
truly sustainable and regenerative
How? Let’s wind back a step. way of living.
ENV IR ON ME NT
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ENV I RO N M EN T
Why do we want Here are a few that have served Outer tips
things? me well:
• ake the contentment
T
Wants play into our need to Inner tips challenge! Don’t buy any
belong. If all your friends ride non-essential items for a
bicycles, you will want a bicycle. If It is how we respond to the ups month.
your neighbors all wear a certain and downs that determines how
brand of jeans, or cook with a well we navigate life, and that’s • ake a list of what you are
M
brand of rice cooker, you will be where Heartfulness helps. grateful for every week, and
tempted to buy that brand. If let it replace your list of
someone says something is good, • I n Heartfulness Meditation, wants.
it is natural to be curious about we learn to dive deeper into
it. We are social learners, and that the center of our being, • hen shopping for food,
W
has many survival benefits. But it where the ups and downs take your own shopping
also leaves us open to suggestion don’t affect us; like the eye bags, stick to a prepared list,
from advertisers, and sees us of a tornado, it’s perfectly buy in season, eat vegetarian,
succumbing to peer pressure, and still. ditch the takeaway, and buy
that is not so healthy. generic rather than branded.
• I n the Heartfulness
Wants also play into our wish to Cleaning, we remove
feel happy and avoid pain – our the complexities and The truth is that the
likes and dislikes. Likes and heaviness in our system, so
dislikes drive so many of our we don’t hold emotional
world we live in is full
choices, even leading to addiction entanglements and sources of dualities – with
and other avoidance behaviors of angst. Each new day is
when we are struggling. The a fresh start where we feel health comes illness,
media tells us to be happy, healthy, content within ourselves,
successful, beautiful, intelligent, with fewer wants. with pleasure comes
and the list goes on. What
happens when we fail, when we • I n the Heartfulness Prayer, pain, with happiness
are sad, lonely, ill, or when we we build our resilience and
don’t feel beautiful? We don’t like self-mastery, so that our
comes sadness, with
those painful feelings, so we try to inner life is stable and not good comes bad. It’s
avoid them and fill our lives with so easily swayed by outside
external distractions and pleasures. pulls and pushes. unavoidable. So best
The truth is that the world we
live in is full of dualities – with • These three simple daily is to face life as it is
health comes illness, with pleasure practices provide a natural
comes pain, with happiness comes antidote to the lure of wants. and come up with
sadness, with good comes bad. It’s
unavoidable. So best is to face life
simple solutions to
as it is and come up with simple reduce wants and
solutions to reduce wants and
wishes. wishes.
ENV IR ONME NT
• low-cooked meals like

S effective. Or prevent food take care of the plants as
casseroles, stews, and soups spoilage by getting together they grow, and they will also
are economical, and can be and preserving foods, e.g., learn some valuable skills.
stored easily in the fridge pickles, sauerkraut, passata,
and freezer. They also use stewed fruits, and dried • earn from your
L
up whatever vegetables you herbs. grandparents. What did they
have at home. do during tough times to
• row some of your own
G exist with less?
• hare food with neighbors,
S food, even if it is as simple
friends, and extended family. as herbs on your kitchen • eclutter – eliminate
D
A good potluck meal is windowsill. Let your unnecessary things from
usually fun and very cost children plant the seeds and your life!
I ll u st rat io n s by A N A N YA PATEL
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Creativity
Creativity arises
out of the state
of thoughtless
presence in which
you are much more
awake than when
you are engrossed
in thinking.
ECKHART TOLLE
Womanifesto
CR EATIVITY
The Womanifesto collective came together in Bangkok in

the late 1990s to fulfill the need for an inclusive, creative
and open-ended art platform for artists from Southeast
Asia. It was primarily set up as an independent project run
by women, and is now a globally recognized entity, involving
multiple art forms and artists from all over the world. One of
the coordinators, VARSHA NAIR, shares her experience of this
movement and its evolution with VANESSA PATEL.
Q: The Womanifesto collective what led to that artwork and how conversations about running
has members who are artists, we arrived at that point. It has Womanifesto.
poets, writers, and activists, also been very much about the
with the outcome based on ethos of caring for and supporting We don’t ask our members to
shared experiences and dialogue each other. For the second event, register; no one has to pay money
exchanges. So, has it been one artist was short of money and to belong. We don’t exclude
more about the gathering and everyone pitched in to support her. people. If somebody reaches out
feeling of community that it to us with interest, we engage
has engendered rather than the With funding for projects from with them and invite them if
creative work produced? sponsors, we have retained our there is an exhibition coming up.
autonomy for decision-making, Also, we don’t limit ourselves to
VN: Yes, absolutely. Always, we e.g., how big their logo is on exhibitions; we have diverse ways
have brought what we would like posters and catalogues, and where of engagement.
to present, to exhibit, to talk about it is placed. These are important
– it was never curated. It was not decisions that came out of our Our first project was on a farm,
only about the artwork, but about involving the local community; the
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second was a very big exhibition in Q: How is Womanifesto different We want to involve as many
a public park. We didn’t want to be from other artists’ platforms? women artists, and also have a
based in the center and limit our cross-generational approach,
output to having exhibitions only. VN: In the mainstream art world, because that’s the other thing
there’s a way of looking at things about the art world – age
Q: How often did you gather for top down. Whenever there is a discrimination, especially for
these collaborative events? big show with a lot of funding, women. What we emphasize is
the big names in the art world are conversations with elders. They are
VN: Every two years. As artists invited to participate, and then the ones who have lived through
we are also the organizers, and we they reach out to minor players, many experiences and gained
have our own lives. After an event, almost as fillers to complete the wisdom and knowledge. That’s
there’s a lot of follow up. Then curation. The funders have a stake where the interest is; that’s where
you need another year to realize in it, and the curator has to keep the real conversations can happen.
another event. them happy, so it all becomes a big And we now set up projects that
game. are pointedly cross-generational.
We soon realized that we didn’t
Womanifesto is the opposite; it is want to just do exhibitions, and
inclusive and representative. We that we enjoyed the gathering of
We want to involve invite men into thematic projects women artists.
to talk about human issues and
as many women to listen, because in the art world We have tried to look at
it’s a known reality that we’re everything through a different
artists, and also always talking from the male lens; for example, in a residency,
have a cross- perspective. So, one idea is proper do we have to produce and display
representation. work at the end of it? Can we have
generational a workshop without a “work” to
Q: Apart from gender, in what take away from it? That was the
approach, because other ways does Womanifesto idea behind the 2001 workshop
encourage representation? on the farm: even though it was a
that’s the other workshop, we didn’t have to make
VN: In our second event, we had work. It was inter-generational,
thing about the art
artists from Japan, Indonesia, we were going away on a picnic,
world – age Singapore, Croatia, America, all living together, cooking, eating,
and many other places. And we and spending time together.
discrimination, are open to the idea of anyone And this brought about a lot of
organizing projects under the exchange, sorrow, and fun.
especially for Womanifesto banner and adhering
to what it stands for. Suppose you The focus was on conversation,
women. have an idea of doing a workshop exchange, and working with
in Indonesia, you could involve us children on an educational
in the organization and set it up program. All the artists came up
however you wish. with workshop models that we
CR EATIVITY
could run with children from the We hosted everything on the farm well. But the exchange, another
age of 7 up to senior students from so that the community members level of creativity, awakened both
a local technical college. At the would come to the farm every sides. In many ways it was the
end we had an open day, which day and show us how they made artists who learned more – we
was a great celebration with local various things, talk about it, spend gained knowledge of materials,
music and lots of food. the day with us, and food would be the locality, the skills, and how to
cooked for everybody. scout things out.
Everybody from the surrounding
villages was involved; we put Q: So they shared the arts and For example, one of the artists
contemporary artists with local crafts of their everyday life – not running a workshop asked the
traditional craftspeople and necessarily something to hang kids to lead her through the farm,
artisans, who were making fishing on the wall or display. which had a little creek running
baskets, mats, woven cloth – through it, a forested area, and
everything that they still continue VN: Exactly, it’s an integral part of rice fields. In the forested area, she
to use in their day-to-day life. their life. asked them, “Show me what you
These were agrarian communities know about the plants growing
and there’s a real rhythm to their We also talked about new forms. here: which are good, for cooking,
existence. During the rice planting For example, they were interested for eating, and why?” She wanted
season, everybody is in the fields. to see an artist make a fishing to determine how much of that
Once the rice is planted, and basket with a slightly different traditional knowledge was being
they’re waiting for it to grow, the look. Already the object is faultless handed down. They were asked,
weaving and the dyeing of yarn in that it’s been used to track fish “What has your grandmother told
happens. for centuries, and it works very you?” “What has your grandfather
Everybody from the surrounding villages was

involved; we put contemporary artists with
local traditional craftspeople and artisans,
who were making fishing baskets, mats,
woven cloth – everything that they still
continue to use in their day-to-day life.
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told you?” “Has your mom told you One recent project was a
anything?” There was an emphasis publication, Procreation
on keeping that knowledge at the Postcreation, which went out as
forefront, because the gaze is so an open call globally for artists to
much turned towards cities for participate. We had an amazing
employment. response with people from
Mongolia to St. Vincent and the
It reinforced the richness of the Grenadine Islands sending us
rural environment and honored their work. The idea was that you
our codependence with Nature. procreate, and then what happens
There is immeasurable wealth in after you’ve created? Those are
It reinforced the community living and the handing very widely interpreted in many
down of the tiniest of details. One ways. One response was from a
richness of the rural girl said, “If you touch that flower, man who had recently become
don’t put the finger to your mouth a grandfather, writing about his
environment and or it will make you sick.” From experience of being in a hospital
childhood, she’d been made aware waiting for his daughter to give
honored our of all of those little things. birth. Another person documented
codependence with children’s textiles. We had really
We’re planning a similar workshop diverse contributions. In this way
Nature. There is in a couple of months, which will we’ve set up projects to bring in
be included in the next exhibition new people.
immeasurable later this year.
Womanifesto is very agile. We
wealth in Q: Is that to celebrate any frequently change format, and
we tend not to decide on the
community living particular milestone of
Womanifesto? next project while one project
and the handing is coming to an end. It’s never
VN: We started in 1997, which preconceived. One is a stepping-
down of the tiniest was a milestone already because stone to the next. We went from
we did it against many odds a community-based workshop,
of details. and with a lack of funding. We to a publication, to a web-based
have managed to sustain this project, to establishing a residency
format over the years with some in the same community where we
core members who were there did the workshop.
from the beginning. In terms of
organization, we did everything Our next project, the workshop
inhouse, from write-ups to residency, is a bit more thematic.
accounting. We’ve always had We’re concentrating on ceramics
other artists joining, and doing and earthenware pottery, because
projects that involved a lot of it’s close to a UNESCO World
artists. Heritage site called Ban Chiang.
Their pottery is well known VN: We don’t always realize We don’t
and valued, and there’s still a how valuable it is to gather our
community of mostly women material, our documentation. differentiate
potters. So we’ll probably only While working with the archive,
bring in four or five outside artists, I’ve realized that every single bit of between those
and mainly invite potters from paper created from 1997 onward
the local community. We don’t is so valuable. It was a fantastic
who’ve been brought
differentiate between those who’ve process to archive it, and we did in as contemporary
been brought in as contemporary it mostly during the pandemic
artists and those from the local lockdown. At Womanifesto, we’ve artists and those
community. We are all partners. always had to talk about ourselves,
so as not to become invisible, and from the local
Q: Recently, Womanifesto had this has helped us do just that.
its work included in the Asia Art These days, you cannot talk about
community. We are
Archives in Hong Kong, which is a art in Southeast Asia without all partners.
huge deal. How significant is this mentioning Womanifesto.
for the collective?
We’ve kept meticulous records, Q: So the next big thing for This anthology project was
and beautiful photo albums with Womanifesto is the exhibition spearheaded by the Power Institute
hand-stitched covers that are coming up in September at the at the University of Sydney.
works of art in themselves, lovingly Bangkok Art and Culture Center. And in the meantime, we were
put together. We have every slide, approached by the Bangkok Art
every negative, every project VN: Yes, and simultaneously and Cultural Center to showcase
proposal, every application for there is an online anthology Womanifesto in what they call
funding – we’ve kept it all. Already of Womanifesto, called the their Master Series of exhibitions.
there are researchers who’ve Womanifesto Way. Now there It’s a massive project.
reached out, for example, the is a recognition of our “way,”
Cooper Gallery at the University which is to be hospitable, caring, There was a hiatus for 10 years,
of Dundee. We were part of a open, engaged in community from 2008 to 2018, because of
project called the Ignorant Art conversations, and with the various personal challenges for the
School, which is looking at artists capacity to be agile. team members. Early on we had
engaging in alternative modes of decided that we would would not
education. push ourselves beyond our limits
Au gu s t 2 02 3 79
to ignore all the other things that Berlin, Sydney, Basel, and London.
we needed to take care of in life. And we realized what it meant to
And ironically, just when things have this connection during the
started to revive, and we planned lockdown, to be able to gather and
a physical gathering, we were to be able to exchange our stories.
hit by Covid. During that time,
we came up with the idea of the www.varshanair.studio/
Digital Courtyard, where a team www.womanifesto.com/
of artists from multiple locations blog.womanifesto.com/
had small gatherings. We met over
Zoom from Bangkok to Baroda,
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Take the Consumer

Magazine Jasmee Mudgal, Ananya Patel, Arati Shedde

EDITOR — Neeraj Kumar

subscriptions@ PUBLISHER — Sunil Kumar representing

Insomnia The Perils of Being Too Take the Consumer

Shri Ram Chandra of Daaji is the Heartfulness Varsha is an interdisciplinary

CHARLES EISENSTEIN RAVI VENKATESAN ICHAK ADIZES

Charles is a writer, philosopher, Ravi is an Atlanta-based Dr. Adizes is a leading

ELIZABETH DENLEY KAJ HAMMARGREN KIFFER GEORGE CARD

Elizabeth is a writer, editor, Kaj is a schoolteacher, coach, Kiffer is Assistant Professor in

RUBY CARMEN PRASAD VELUTHANAR GUY SHAHAR

THÍCH NHÃT HẠNH

Relax your body, from your

Awareness of the present moment

During his lifetime, BABUJI shared a wealth of knowledge to his

Grief, it seems, is often unsaid, Grief can take the form of a

DR. PRASAD VELUTHANAR describes the roles of the three doshas –

2. Use six tastes in every

Ayurveda recognizes six different If you’re working on becoming

Sour: organic acids and

Salty: salts (that contain

Bitter: dark leafy greens

When you include all these

3. Focus on how you eat 4. Lifestyle (Vihara) Seasonal routine

So, eat slower, better, and drink

In the rainy season, aggravation

In the autumn, aggravation of pitta

In the pre-winter and winter

Behavioral routine  Do not harm anyone.  Be straightforward and kind.

Ayurveda prescribes certain  As far as possible, do not  Avoid irregularity in daily

They are:  Meditate every day for  Behave according to the

development cycles of a child.

Learn to wait and understand that

I was born in Copenhagen in

But then I had a spiritual

At the age of 51, I was asked

year, my weight was more than morning, “How can I be useful?”

The Perils of Being

RAVI VENKATESAN takes us on a journey through the

Very Somewhat Somewhat Very

creating music, etc. However,

4. Consciousness – what forms

In summary, there have been

day. This value aligns with the

3. Prioritize spending time

We’ve found that individuals need

4. Diversity in your social

6. Reach out to old friends

Keeping and maintaining

7. Don’t forget the

Just as time with others is

I had similar results when My surprise at the results was

How does energy healing

One of the questions I’m often

Make a deep connection to

Together with the client,

For example, if they can’t sleep,

Then the session begins. We

Those 3 steps are a sort of prayer technique to release or rebalance

Healing,” which bypasses the

Life waxes and wanes imperceptibly,

CHARLES EISENSTEIN challenges our current understanding of

The second priority is regeneration, the restoring In fact, right human

Behavioral routine Do not harm anyone. Be straightforward and kind.

Ayurveda prescribes certain As far as possible, do not Avoid irregularity in daily

They are: Meditate every day for Behave according to the