Tilak Amitava Chowdhury

Healing is a process most of us are hearing a lot about last few years. We are talking about doing things that help us rejuvenate ourselves and find inner peace. Somehow it means to me the journey from self destruction to being self centred. Let me try and explain. Most of us have been on the journey of self destruction. Eating junk food. Doing little physical work, lazying around. Burning the candle at both ends. Living a very indisciplined life that leads to physical, emotional and mental stress. When we follow mindfulness and meditate. We learn the need to be self centred. To be taking care of ourselves with good food, good rest and good physical activity. We learn to respect our body and mind. We respect nature and live with its rules and rituals. Self centred is seen as bad. I think it's the best thing we can do to ourselves. And as Ayn Rand puts it, if you take care of yourself and everyone does that the world automatically becomes a better place. A toast to this thought on S