The Crisis of Modern Health: A Call for Awareness
By Swami Anand Bodhi Sattva,
(wellbeing mentor, yoga meditation master)
We are living longer—but are we living better?
Our lifespans have grown, but have our harmony and wellbeing deepened?
We’ve gained access to the world’s information, but lost touch with our own intuition. We have advanced in science and technology, but regressed in real wellbeing and self-awareness.
Is this truly health—or merely the maintenance of a fragmented life?
Modern science can extend your life—but can it restore your wholeness?
We have built machines to measure health—but slowly loosing the melody of our inner harmony. It seems we have conquering diseases, but at the same time we are becoming more discontent. Despite our longer lifespans, our level of stress, anxiety, burnout, and emotional fatigue are going higher.
Is this the progress we are really desiring for, or we are moving into an illusion of progress?
These are the most crucial questions that pooping up again and again in our mind.
We must take a pause and reflect on the quality of life that we are living?
We need take a strong note that modern health challenges are not just of physical; mostly they are just manifestation of our psychological and emotional imbalances. While we may live longer, we are not living better in psychological and emotional dimensions. Our mental and emotional stability are not maintained rightly, our joy of living drastically declined , and our harmony of body-mind-heart is deeply disrupted. This disconnection coming from a deeper crisis—not just of the body, but of lifestyle, values, and awareness.
The Hidden Imbalances
Modern man, deeply conditioned and trained by speed, ambition, and external success, are unknowingly walking the path of disharmony. Since last 2000 years We have been overvaluing the mind, the intellect, the brain—and in this overemphasis, we are gradually neglecting the significance of our body and feelings for shaping holistic and harmonious living.
The Modern Misalignment
Let us look at the modern human being. The physical body is fatigued due to low prana-toxic food, lack of proper movement, and inadequate sleep. The emotional body is neglected, silenced, and repressed—struggling under the weight of unexpressed feelings. The mind is bombarded with excessive stimuli—information overload, worry, comparison, ambition, distraction.
We are gradually out of sync, out of rhythm and out of breath.
When these three layers—body, mind, heart—fall out of alignment, we cannot experience joy, harmony and meaning in life. we cannot rest and relax properly; we cannot live in peace. This is the crisis we are finding and facing in everyday life.
A Holistic Perspective to Life and Health is Needed
In yogic understanding, health is not merely the absence of disease. It is a state of harmony, balance, and integration. And today, the whole base of wellbeing and wholeness are deeply destabilized.
Health is a deep harmony across three vital dimensions:
- Sharirika Swasthya – Physical Health
- Manasika Swasthya – Mental Health
- Bhavnatmaka Swasthya – Emotional Health
And beyond these three is the fourth: Adhyatmika Swasthya – Spiritual Health. But unless we harmonize the first three, the door to spiritual health remains unopened.
The Call to Return and Relook
This growing disconnection calls for a return—not backward, but inward. Health is not something to chase outside, it has to be found inside. We need to rediscover the art of living holistically and harmoniously. We need to honour the sacred rhythm of body, mind, and emotions.
We need to remember that health is harmony, and harmony is health.
Let this be a call to grow in awareness and mindful living.
Health is our natural state. It is the music of a balanced life, the fragrance of self-awareness and the silence beneath the noise. But to reclaim it, we must become sensitive once again. We must learn to listen—not just to doctors, but to our body, mind and heart all together. Not just to logic, but to life as a whole.
Let this be a beginning.
Let this be the first breath toward “Swasthya—toward being rooted in the Self”.
Key Reflection for Life
“To be healthy is to be whole.
To be whole is to be in harmony.
To be in harmony is to be present more in the body, still in the mind, and receptive open in the heart.”- Anand Bodhi Sattva
In my coming articles, I will share the yogic vision of holistic health in depth—how to find it? How to restore balance through right food, right forms of activities, and above all, inner rootedness.
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