Those are the core-skills we learn at school, and later in life we perfect them to become 'successful'. Letting go of those qualities of the mind seems like suicide. We are bombarded with sensory stimulation by the media and advertising industries, and we are feeling overloaded and confused. The promises that technology and industrialisation once held are giving way to disillusionment, pollution and stress. All this is creating an inner psychological space which I call the psychological greenhouse .
People feel trapped inside, agoraphobic, claustrophobic, stressed, distressed, depressed.
As a result our culture encourages people to strive even more, but in the process they usually entangle themselves more and more in the web of envy, greed, possessiveness, and attachment. We have now reached a stage where the only way out is in , where the only real way out of the pressures and false promises of the rat-race is the way inside to that inner place of sanctuary, sanity and soul. We are now more than ever in recent history, pushed to discover our real identity, our soul. The psychological greenhouse and the manifestations of stress and distress in our inner and outer worlds on this planet challenge us to realise that we need to find inner balance first if we want to create outer balance. This is the way of Yoga, Ayurveda and meditation that has been advocated by Eastern wisdom based in the Vedas for thousands of years.