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Overview

SustainabilitySimplicitySufficiencySpirituality

Sustainability

Renewable,recyclable resourcesVs Non-renewable, non-

recyclable resources

Simplicity

Varna arrangement for body Get headlong start over

competition by specialization from childhood

Anxiety Epidemic

Nearly one in five -- 40 million American adults -- suffer from anxiety disorders, the most common class of psychiatric ailment we have. By comparison, a mere one in ten are plagued with mood disorders like depression, the second most-common class of psychiatric problems. - Daniel Smith, author of the new anxiety memoir Monkey Mind

USA – World Anxiety Champion

"According to the 2002 World Mental Health Survey, people in developing-world countries such as Nigeria are up to five times less likely to show clinically significant anxiety levels than Americans, despite having more basic life-necessities to worry about… What's more, when these less-anxious developing-world citizens emigrate to the United States, they tend to get just as anxious as Americans.” - Taylor Clark, author of Nerve

Is anxiety caused by the state of the economy?

No!Even when the economy were in great shape, as it was in 2004, Americans spent $2.1 billion on anti-anxiety meds, almost double the amount spent in 1997

Anxiety is the consequence of materialism

cintam aparimeyam ca pralayantam upashritahkamopabhoga-paramaetavad iti nishcitah “They believe that to gratify the senses is the prime necessity of human civilization. Thus until the end of life their anxiety is immeasurable. ” (Bhagavad-gita 16.11)

The Anxiety of Choice

Stanford psychology professor Hazel Markus asked Indian and American participants to report how many choices they'd made while doing a series of small tasks. "Though everybody made the same series of decisions" -- choosing a desk to sit at, choosing a pad to use, choosing whether or not to eat free candy, …

The Anxiety of Choice

…"Americans thought that they'd made twice as many choices as the Indians, 20 compared to 10. Too much choice can paralyze people and make them anxious.”

Sufficiency

Cities crowded with development refugees

Spirituality

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