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What’s the solution to addiction? | Sadhguru at Columbia University | #7
Synopsis: On the note of what we’re consuming and what we’re putting in our bodies, one of the things that I would like to know the truth about is the increase in addiction. I would say, in the US, is the length that I’m looking at. It’s something that has personally touched a lot of the loved ones in my family and friends. And I see it as a growing trend amongst my generation...
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Synopsis: On the note of what we’re consuming and what we’re putting in our...
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January 7, 2021
Is being ecstatic the best way of being? | Sadhguru in Conversation with Ranveer Singh | #9
Synopsis: So then if peace is the basic requirement, what’s a better way of being? Ecstasy, ecstatic?
Synopsis: So then if peace is the basic requirement, what’s a better way of being?...
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January 6, 2021
Entertaining the people around you | Sadhguru in Conversation with Ranveer Singh | #7
Synopsis: I feel a compulsion to entertain people. Does that make any sense to you?
Synopsis: I feel a compulsion to entertain people. Does that make any sense to...
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January 6, 2021
How to cope with negativity around you? | Sadhguru in Conversation with Matthew Hayden | #13
Synopsis: Sometimes, we’re in a situation where we’re surrounded by people who have a very high expectation of us. And when you can’t fulfil their expectation, you start feeling a very terrible feeling of guilt. And, it’s okay when it’s your mother-in-law, I’m kind of cool with that. But, sometimes it’s your parents, for example. Sometimes it’s the people who are...
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Synopsis: Sometimes, we’re in a situation where we’re surrounded by people...
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January 2, 2021
How to think positively? | Sadhguru in Conversation with Matthew Hayden | #12
Synopsis: How do you think positively in circumstances or, you know, external factors that are very negative?
Synopsis: How do you think positively in circumstances or, you know, external factors...
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January 2, 2021
How to not be affected by our surroundings? | Sadhguru in Conversation with Matthew Hayden | #9
Synopsis: My question is regarding, because I’ve been following most of your videos. So, you always mention a need for collaboration of other people to be successful. You always mention that, to be successful, that’s the only time that we need the collaboration of other people. For other things, like our energy and our emotions, everything can come from within. My question...
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Synopsis: My question is regarding, because I’ve been following most of your...
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January 2, 2021
Should happiness be given more importance than any other emotion? | Sadhguru at Christ University | #15
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Synopsis: You were talking about how important happiness is. And to be happy, so...
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January 1, 2021
How to learn to accept the truth? | Sadhguru at Christ University | #13
Synopsis: How to learn to accept the truth? Because most of the time, truth is bitter and it is a hard path. So I always tend to make few adjustments and assumptions, which will make my life little easy, but I’m far from the truth. So how do I start learning to accept the truth?
Synopsis: How to learn to accept the truth? Because most of the time, truth is...
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January 1, 2021
How to help those who are unwilling to do yoga? | Sadhguru at Christ University | #5
Synopsis: In helplessness, many youngsters start thinking about taking the extreme step of ending their life. On this topic, many questions were asked. One of them is, many of my close friends are suicidal. What could I do to help my friends to get rid of this thought? And, they don’t want to do yoga.
Synopsis: In helplessness, many youngsters start thinking about taking the extreme...
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January 1, 2021
How can we get back our interest and enthusiasm in life? | Sadhguru at Christ University | #4
Synopsis: There are times when you feel worn out. It might be because of the external pressure, or emotional trauma that we’re going through. Or because of the lack of inner strength. In such a situation, or such a circumstance, what do you think would help us get back our interest and enthusiasm in life?
Synopsis: There are times when you feel worn out. It might be because of the external...
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January 1, 2021
How to build self-esteem? | Sadhguru at Christ University | #2
Synopsis: I often find myself in a situation where I’m not happy with myself. I compare my abilities, achievements, and even my appearance, with that of others. Also, I think since I’m a humanities student, people around me constantly compare me with my other friends who have taken up medicine or engineering. And that really puts me off. And I think that’s one reason for...
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Synopsis: I often find myself in a situation where I’m not happy with myself....
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January 1, 2021
What is the relationship between work that I need to do within myself and work that I need to do outside? | Sadhguru at Harvard University | #2
Synopsis: Taking forward the theme, Sadhguru, about the process inside and work outside. When we look around the country today, we see so many problems affecting our fellow Indians. Poverty, discrimination on the basis of religion and caste, and inequality. And of course, when I look inside myself also there are problems. I’m very far from having a good process, I’m definitely...
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Synopsis: Taking forward the theme, Sadhguru, about the process inside and work...
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December 31, 2020
Mental health tip: Keep your colon clean
Transcript: Whatever cleansing process that happens in the body, whether emptying your bowels, or emptying your bladder, or exhalation, or sweat. These are all different ways the body is trying to clean itself. In all these things, different bodies have different levels of efficiency. If you are in good health, if you're in very good health and if you're eating the right kind of food, when you empty your bowels,...
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Transcript: Whatever cleansing process that happens in the body, whether emptying your bowels, or emptying your bladder,...
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November 5, 2020
Mental health tip: Eat the right food
Transcript: In this country, we made food like this. If you have to do only physical jobs you eat one way, mental things another way. But today none of us are in that condition. We have to be both physically sharp and mentally sharp, isn't it? That exclusivity of just physical work and mental work is gone. All of us need to be physically good and mentally good. So eating the right kind of food becomes very necessary....
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Transcript: In this country, we made food like this. If you have to do only physical jobs you eat one way, mental...
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November 4, 2020
Mental health tip: Connect with nature
Transcript: Today it's become like this. Sunrise means they watch it on the phone screen, sunset means they watch it on the phone screen. Yes? So losing connection with all that supports and manages our life is going to be a serious challenge of the future. But, this is one thing that you can do, if you have children. Vacation means don't take them to Mumbai, Bangalore, Dubai, some other place. Just take them,...
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Transcript: Today it's become like this. Sunrise means they watch it on the phone screen, sunset means they watch...
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November 3, 2020
Mental Health Tip: Use your body
Transcript: Within the human being there is a certain allotment of energy for action, certain allotment of energy for intellect, certain allotment of energy for emotion. Like this there are various allotments. This differs from person to person. But generally the amount of energy allotted for, particularly, for physical action and emotional dimension, these are two things which are going completely unused in today's...
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Transcript: Within the human being there is a certain allotment of energy for action, certain allotment of energy...
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November 2, 2020
How can we heal ourselves from our past pain? | Sadhguru at University of Toronto | #1
Synopsis: Nobody goes through life unscarred. Everybody has had a past experience with a person or a situation that left a permanent scar on them. Such that, whenever we are reminded of this, the sadness, or loneliness, or pain associated with the memory comes back regardless of how much time has passed. Is there truly a way for us to move on from things that have hurt us in the...
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Synopsis: Nobody goes through life unscarred. Everybody has had a past experience...
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August 26, 2020
How do I live in the moment? | Sadhguru at University of Toronto | #3
Synopsis: So Sadhguru, going back to what you were saying, that we need to be part of the solution. And going back to what Daniel was saying that mental health is such a problem here. At UofT we are constantly challenged by new ideas, by some of the great minds in the world. And in such a competitive environment, which I sometimes describe as a rollercoaster ride we got onto knowingly...
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Synopsis: So Sadhguru, going back to what you were saying, that we need to be part...
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August 26, 2020
How do we learn to see the bigger picture when we fail at something? | Sadhguru at University of Toronto | #6
Synopsis: When we’re all in this journey of life, we tend to set a lot of short-term goals. And when we don’t achieve them, we don’t know how to deal with failure. And that is something we deal with a lot at UofT in specific. But, in that moment when we can look back and say, ya this is fine. But in that moment, how do we hold our ground and how do we learn to see the bigger...
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Synopsis: When we’re all in this journey of life, we tend to set a lot of short-term...
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August 26, 2020
How to get out of depression?
Transcript: If things are going wrong with your life, it's bad enough. If you get depressed, you're only multiplying the problem. For this, the activists have been, you also, you also? Okay. Okay, I'll explain that. I very much understand, I'm closely associated with various people who are in the profession. And, there are many people, because everyday I'm meeting thousands of people, not everybody is perfectly...
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Transcript: If things are going wrong with your life, it's bad enough. If you get depressed, you're only multiplying...
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August 26, 2020
What is the one hope to cling to when you are fully shattered?
Transcript: When he's fully shattered, what can he do? The question is, do you want to allow yourself to be full shattered? That's the question. And many things that don't work out in your early life, you will see later on, it is a great blessing. Even if you're put through the most horrible situations, either you can come out, using that experience, as a better human being, or you can use the experience to become...
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Transcript: When he's fully shattered, what can he do? The question is, do you want to allow yourself to be full...
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August 25, 2020
Who is responsible for the anger and resentment within you
Transcript: If you are given a choice, that you can either live joyfully, blissfully, or miserably, or in anger, or in stress, or in resentment. What is your natural choice? You must choose, I'm going to bless you right now. What is your natural choice? Joyfully, isn't it? Because every human being is looking for highest level of pleasantness for himself or herself. You can call it joy, you can call it bliss,...
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Transcript: If you are given a choice, that you can either live joyfully, blissfully, or miserably, or in anger,...
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August 4, 2020
How to overcome fear? What is the root cause of fear?
Transcript: The fear is simple because you're not living with life, you're living in your mind. Your fear is always about what's going to happen next, that means your fear is always about that which does not exist. If your fear is about the non-existent, your fear is 100% imaginary. If you are suffering the non-existential, we call that insanity. So people may be in just socially accepted levels of insanity. But,...
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Transcript: The fear is simple because you're not living with life, you're living in your mind. Your fear is always...
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June 27, 2020
Stress causes damage way beyond just physical health
June 26, 2020
Stressed? – Watch this now
Transcript: Stress if one aspect of life that is making too many people's life bitter. Stress is like friction in a machine. Stress is not a part of your life. If you know how to manage your body, your mind, your emotions and your energy there is no question of stress. Most people think it is their job, it is their family, it is their life situations, it is the taxes, it is the unpaid bills, which are stress....
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Transcript: Stress if one aspect of life that is making too many people's life bitter. Stress is like friction in...
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June 23, 2020
Why are even successful youth like Sushant Singh Rajput committing suicide?
Transcript: Suicide is not a pleasant thing. Not at all a pleasant thing because for a human being to make... see when somebody dies, commits suicide, we are just thinking oh, he committed suicide. It's not like that. You must look at what psychologically that person goes through to come to that decision. It's the most horrible part of one's life where somewhere, they feel so trapped. Either by physical situations,...
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Transcript: Suicide is not a pleasant thing. Not at all a pleasant thing because for a human being to make... see...
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June 17, 2020
How to overcome suicidal thoughts?
Synopsis: During a Youth & Truth event, a student asks sadhguru - "In helplessness, many youngsters start thinking of ending their life. On this topic many questions were asked. One of them is - many of my close friends are suicidal. What could I do, to help them to get rid of this thought. And, they don't want to do yoga." Sadhguru first explains that yoga is not about impossible postures. He says - yoga...
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Synopsis: During a Youth & Truth event, a student asks sadhguru - "In helplessness, many youngsters start thinking...
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May 22, 2019
Depression: Cause, Effect & Solution
This is a must read article for insights into mental health. Sadhguru tells us - "Fundamentally, you expected something to happen and it did not happen." This is the root of depression. Most of the depression is self-created, though few are pathologically ill. Depression makes one cynical and self-damaging. Sadhguru says - "..when you get sad, if you are going to get irritable and angry, and think the whole world is wrong, you are a fool." For one who is wise, one can also use this situation as a tool to grow. How to get out of depression - "One of the simplest and best ways of establishing balance is lots of physical activity in a natural environment – ideally from an early age."
September 30, 2020
Yoga Benefits for Mental Health
Mental health issues like depression and anxiety seem to be rampant in many parts of the world now, including India. The pandemic seems to have contributed to this even further. Sadhguru tells us the reasons why mental illnesses are on the rise; one reason is because we have pulled down the support systems. Family was one such support system. Sadhguru says - "Family was one bunch of people who were like a net for the circus that you did. Whichever way you fell, there was someone to hold you for some moments." Sadhguru also explains how yoga can be a tremendous tool to bring balance and help in such situations.
August 17, 2020
How to overcome Fear?
Sadhguru explains the fundamental cause of fear. He says - "Fear is simply because you are not living with life, you are living in your mind." He tells us that we are only suffering our memory, and our imagination. So, how does one overcome fear? Sadhguru says, "The only thing you can do about this is, come down to reality. If you just respond to what is there right now and not imagine something that does not exist, there is no room for fear."
July 26, 2020
Relieve Stress and Anxiety Just By Sitting This Way
Most of the ailments in the body, other than infections, come from within. So, it is your own responsibility to fix it. When it comes to mental health, it is a little more sensitive. But that is your responsibility too. The doctor can not fix your sadness. Do not confuse between sadness and psychological illness. If you are medically ill, through chemicals, they can fix it to some extent. Stress and Anxiety in the system indicate that something is out of balance. You can bring balance to the system through some simple ways. The simplest thing is to sit in a particular way.
May 25, 2019
What Causes Depression?
The first thing to understand is that depression is not a natural process. Sadhguru says - "Depression means that you are not able to keep the exuberance of life within you". The essential cause is that a large part of your energy gets consumed compulsively and not consciously. In many ways, depression means, that though you have everything, you have nothing. Sadhguru says - "As we work on the outside, we must also fix the inside". And, that is what a spiritual process is.
February 22, 2018
Is ADHD / ADD Really a Disorder?
Every human being has a different physical and mental capabilities. What should be the level of attention at different age can not be standard for everyone. Not everyone will have the same level of attention. Sadhguru says - "What one human being can do physically or mentally, another human being may not be able to do. You do not need to get a title for that, like attention deficit disorder, ADD, or whatever else".
November 10, 2017
Why Are Mental Illnesses Growing?
Mental illness is becoming like an epidemic in the world now. In many ways, mental illness is even more painful than physical ailments, even for the family members of those suffering. Sadhguru says - "Mental illnesses are growing like never before because we are pulling out all the supports that people have but we are not replacing those supports with anything".
October 10, 2017
Depression: Cause, Effect & Solution
September 30, 2020
Yoga Benefits for Mental Health
August 17, 2020
How to overcome Fear?
July 26, 2020
Relieve Stress and Anxiety Just By Sitting This Way
May 25, 2019
What Causes Depression?
February 22, 2018
Is ADHD / ADD Really a Disorder?
November 10, 2017
Why Are Mental Illnesses Growing?
October 10, 2017
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