Yes, a lot of people are picking up the practice, and we’ve done research that has been published in peer reviewed journals that shows that right now, there are three pandemics going on. I might check CNN, the BBC or some other news site, and that convinces me that nobody is giving news – they’re all giving opinion, so why bother? How have people’s perception of meditation changed over the past 30 years? Do you find more and more people are picking up the practice? If I do look at the news, I look at it once in the morning and I change every day. I don’t watch much of the news now because I’ve realised that the news is not news anymore – it’s all opinion. I do it in the morning and then I do it in the late afternoon and I don’t distract myself. When I do media time or technology time, that’s all I focus on. But do you think some people are overstimulated by what they’re seeing? How do you strike a balance? In the book, you also talk about “waking up” to everything that’s going on around us. Like what you see? Sign up to our newsletter to read more stories like this. There are only 25,000 genes in your body that are human, the rest are microbial – so you need to take care of them. There’s enough data that shows that mutation occurs when the genetic information in our bodies is stretched. We are part of it and if we don’t respect it, nature may decide that the human species is not a good experiment.įor me, there’s a direct connection between climate change and eco destruction and poisoning our body with contaminated nutrition and all kinds of other poisons. The pandemic is a sign that we are destroying our ecosystem. Meanwhile, nature is celebrating – the birds are singing, fish are returning to the canals of Venice and you can see the Himalayas. Now that the pandemic is here, everybody is shocked because they took their existence for granted. Every day I wake up and say I’m grateful that there is such a thing as existence. This pandemic has shown one thing to me, and it’s that people take their existence for granted. What I’ve been doing lately is encouraging people to reinvent their body, resurrect their soul, celebrate and be grateful for existence. Is there a lesson we can learn from COVID-19 and the political unrest that has plagued most of 2020?

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