Individual Actions and Impact on colloective consciousness

This is about collective society and how individual actions impact collective consciousness. In this article, I wish to highlight how we are fooled and we fooled in this society. We are selfish and how our selfishness impact individually and as a group. Let me explain to you with a simple example when we go shopping by mistake he gave more items but not billed, you realised it when you reach home. You want to return but you feel lazy or keep it for some other time. At the same time, if you missed your mobile or purse in the same shop, you must rush to shop in a short time. What happened in this context and where our laziness is gone or your tiredness is gone. Now let us put this in a larger perspective if everyone does same what happened and we convey the same message to a larger group but not intentionally. So basically our selfishness negatively impacts not one individual and it also impacts the whole society. However, it will come back to us in a different format.

Secondly how intentionally we fool others and create a loop. We continue to fool each other and blame others. We forget that we are also a contributor. This second-level fooling occurs in the form of survival or as a business. As I mentioned earlier, this level has a lot of inspiration from our society and we convert fooling others as a skill. Let us look into live example we get better service, nice talk, many calls, reminders till we buy or pay advance. Once their product sold they won’t be available or nice to us in all filed buying insurance,property, loan , credit card, services and so on. The list is very long, yes true competition is very high but knowingly they give partial information and fool customers brain with their communication skills.

When we call them for any follow-ups they come up with company policies and others unknown regulations which never explained before.

But we think only a few expecting this, Not at all and it’s the impact is not limiting there. People get a feeling of cheated and helpless. This affect our collective consciousness and we begin to practice and now it is visible in our society. We all use fooling as a skill in small and large level and many business build upon this skills.

How is continuing in our society

1. Manipulation

2. Adulteration 

3. Bribing 

4.Forced Marketing

5.Wrongly informed and partial information

6.Losing compassion and trust

7.Unethical business

8.Different treatment for different class

9.We forget we are the reason

This is a serious problem what humanity going to face if we all together not intervene consciously. We all need to aware and accept the individual level to be ethical. Encourage and share more rewards to ethical practice. This is a large issue but the solution is the same, where it started, begin from there. Our soul and mind, each individual despite education, salary, a position we need to practice ethical life and work. If we don’t practice, today you fool one tomorrow you get adulterated food and your family get affected,you won’t have right to question, as simple as that. Let’s consciousness inculcate ethical life and work and let it become part of our collective consciousness. May all have happy and peaceful life.

Shield of Love

Shield of Love

He feels the love 

How he protected in her shield

Made of her love and love 

The warmth of the mother

Stopping from escaping

Living with pain

Just want to see her again

Be in her loving lap

Every time dip in despair 

Saved with a shield of love

Love is rain in drought

Hope in the edge of life

She never knew 

How she was saving him

He was always born in her kindness

Fostered under her shield

Unconditional love was a shield

Knowing he is her shield 

Survival - Just for...

Donkey never used in the field

The horse never carry weight

The bull never used in war

An elephant never used to smell

Camel never used in hunting

But We see we do

The teacher need to Market

Police need to cook

Driver need to repair

Doctors need to do business

Engineers need to do policing

Lawyers need to be drivers 

Politicians need to do.....

We call it as survival

But unfortunate

The student becomes foolish 

Food becomes tasteless

Vehicle became useless

patients remain, patients

Technology will be ineffective

Innocence remains criminals 

Government stays visionless 

Authored By

Arun Sadasivan

14 June 2020

Note:- We human beings are skilled but we are forced to do many works which are not really their passion and finally, we do that for survival and end up in meaningless life. We call it as Survival.

Except human beings every being live based on its innate skills. 

Urban Mental Health- First News Paper Article

Resilience building vital to urban mental health quality

Resilience building vital to urban mental health quality

      

Arun S, Dec 5, 2014:,

• DEC 05 2014, 01:10AM IST
 
• UPDATED: DEC 05 2014, 14:20PM IST

Mental health issues are becoming matters of greater concern in contemporary society. Problems associated with mental health have been increasingly reported these days, especially in the urban spaces.

Mental health issues are becoming matters of greater concern in contemporary society. Problems associated with mental health have been increasingly reported these days, especially in the urban spaces.

Can we consider this as a new trend and, if so, how can we address this situation? Can we leave it as a matter to be discussed by the psychiatrists or psychologists or can we limit our discussions and debates around the time of observing World Mental Health day every year which falls on October 10?

The point one has to ponder is with respect to the real cause of this issue and the plausible solutions.

Mental health issues are not a new phenomenon. If we look into history, at any period of time, issues related to mental health were present in one form or the other. But every society had some mechanism to address the situation. It was the community-oriented social networking and interpersonal relations that enabled people to have better resilience against the odds.

When compared to the early days, in the present society, especially in the urban spaces, people are enjoying many luxuries. And yet, they are the ones who have been largely affected with mental health problems which include increasing rate of suicide among youth, usage of substance, depression, marital breakup, divorce and the like.

So the question here is, despite having many facilities and technologies to lead a comfortable and easy going life, why are the urban areas more affected with mental health related issues? Can we locate a single cause for this aberration and come up with a solution?

Mental health is as important as physical health. But the general public does not make a conscious effort to ensure the quality of its mental health. According to World Health Organisation (WHO), mental health is defined as a state of well-being in which “every individual realises his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully and be able to make a contribution to his or her community”.

It is not just the absence of mental illness. Poor emotional, social and spiritual quotient can result in a weaker mental health situation, too. This affects the health of an individual, family as well as the society.

In order to make optimum utilisation of an individual’s potential and to have maximum output, mental health is crucial. The stability of a society also depends on the mental health of its people. The visible forms of mental health problems – higher suicide rate, depression and substance abuse – are the indicators of a pathological society. Therefore, the issue of mental health needs to be addressed at three levels - societal, familial and individual.

People in urban India – except the vulnerable ones who are homeless and who live in the margins of the city – are actually blessed with all their basic needs and most luxuries. The urban middle and upper middle class forms a privileged lot. They rarely experience greater risks or uncertainties at the societal level like terrorism, war or conflict that can have an impact on their mental state. In Indian cities, we do not have any serious incidence of starvation as is the case with many African nations. We do not experience any uncertainty as is experienced by the people of Afghanistan or Palestine. So, what is lacking in our society?

Every individual, an island

We live in a society comprising individual islands. What we lack is the social quotient. In a technology-driven era where everything is accessible on our finger tips, people lack interaction with their fellowmen. How long can we neglect our neighbours while remaining immersed in Twitter, Facebook or WhatsApp? It is important to promote a socially conscious society with an increasing cultural involvement of people. If each individual contributes a little in the form of social consciousness, we can positively alter or enhance the quality of mental health of our own society.

As Indians, we consider family to be the most important institution that moulds an individual. It is expected to play an important role in nurturing the basic value system of its members. Today, a family provides everything including economic security, material comforts and basic needs that a child needs from it. But what is lacking is communication between family members.

For many children, family is either a shelter/ physical space or a money winding centre. What we need to revamp is the warmth and the strong bond between family members. Importance of interaction has to be inculcated, promoted and nurtured as a family ritual on everyday basis. Proper communication between parents and children will give room for emotional ventilation and will help to improve both emotional quotient as well as social quotient. These are very much essential for sustaining a sound mental health.

It is highly evident that our youth are more vulnerable to mental health issues. Every third person in an Indian city today is youth and therefore we need to be concerned about the mental well-being of our future generation. The major reasons for the mental health issues that boggle our youth have been related to work place stress and unhealthy lifestyle. Youngsters today lack interpersonal relationships. This difficulty in maintaining relationships, both in the family circle and outside can lead to depression and substance abuse.

In a technologically driven society, where social media determines the social space, the nature of communication change as well. Impersonality – which is a mark of modernity – has pervaded all spheres of human life in an urban space, affecting the quality of mental health. The need of the hour is to think about the ways to increase the resilience of individuals. Let us work towards resilience building as a life skill to enhance the quality of mental health in urban spaces.

(The writer is Research Officer, Regional Technical Training Centre, NIMHANS, Bengaluru)

Solicitor

Solicitor 

Always been alone.

It was not anticipated

It was an accident

But I evolved in this journey 

The journey from the bunched city

To serine shore of the stream 

A solo walking with no baggage

No acting or no pretending

Just floating at the moment

Absent of all source of ego 

It is a meaningful journey

Daring journey

Breathtaking life

Be alone in soul finding.

No interpreter 

Only direct learning 

Authored by

Arun Sadasivan

10 June 2020

Answer to our attitudes

There are so many 

People with Disabilities

Have you ever thought

Why they are not visible

That's is the answer to us

Because they are kept inside

Just because of social attitude

If you see them in public

Theatre and malls

No doubt we can say

That society is civilised 

Most compassionate humans 

Their leaders are educated

Because all souls

Enjoy their life 

Despite their limitations 

His Touch

Every line is beautiful

But one line is more

Every line is close to the heart

But one line is more

Every line convey emotions

But one line is everything

Every line is has some people

But one line for everyone 

Every line is from my mind

But one line is not

Every line has my touch

But one line has his touch 

Authored by

Arun Sadasivan

10 June 2020