Many IITians and IIMians drink. Many in top positions drink. Many doctors smoke and drink. Many famous achievers also drink and smoke. Why?

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Qn. Many IITians and IIMians drink. Many in top positions drink. Many doctors smoke and drink. Many famous achievers also drink and smoke. Why?

If highly educated, highly intelligent and high end achievers drink or smoke or involve in any kind of health compromising habits/behaviours, it does not mean it is right. We should not take them as role models in these behaviours. Sadly our adolescents and early adults copy them in these too!!

If someone practices any health compromising habit it shows that the individual’s mind or body or social relationships is stressed. These three elements of life cannot remain stressed for long, like the way electrons cannot remain at higher energy levels for a long time. It is an unstable stressed situation. So, mind or body applies coping skills or defence mechanisms on its own or learnt from others. Sadly all these methods cause diseases or disorders of the mind and body. They kill the relationships too. Heath enhancing life style is the right way!!

Our ancient culture teaches how to live without stress and how to manage the default stresses in a health enhancing way through cognitive methods (philosophies of life), behavioural methods (positive life style with yoga, meditation etc) and positive affect or emotions.

Sadly we follow the health compromising ways, increase the stresses and spoil the peace, health, lose jobs, lose relationships and lose life too!!

It is the worst disrespect, punishment and irresponsibility we can give/show to our parents, teachers, all those whom we love and those who love us and to the country. No mother wants to see their son with disease, taking medicines and injections or see him dead in front of her.

It is not worth achieving anything under the sky by spoiling the physical, mental and social well-being!!

The first and fundamental education or knowledge or skill or wisdom any parent should get and teach their children is ‘How to live peacefully, happily, healthily at any place on earth under any life situation!!’. Without this all the education, fame, authority, power, money, wealth we have acquired becomes a waste and meaningless.

Families, educational institutions, organisations and other social systems should teach and profess this as their value system and back bone of functioning.

Sadly the leaders of various kinds have made us ‘not to think and not to use our COMMON SENSE’ and blindly follow them. No wonder we run for peace!!

So, let us use our common sense, follow ancient culture of stress free life with health enhancing life style, have peace, have health, be achievers, live in happiness with strong and lifelong relationships.

Let us be the best role models and heroes for our own children in all domains of life, else, they will follow other role models in the society and probably can get rotten!!

Peacefully yours…Rams…Psychologist!!