Future of Well-being

Systems approach for bringing Well-being among people using Vedic approach

Today, India is one of the world’s largest economies and with rapidly growing economy, there is an
increase in a numerous amount of issues related to ever so many things and one such issue is the
problem of ‘ill-being’ thinking about the very necessity of tackling the problem of ill-being, the
project aim at restoring the problem of ill-being

The project finds some interesting touch points and are as follows: When someone has to speak of
corporate culture in Indian context, the corporate culture emerged in India a few decades ago. Due
to the climate changes and decreasing scope of agriculture, the indigenous farmers (Who are the
lifeline of the country) started migrating from their rural belt to the manically developing urban
areas, it straight away affected the quality of agrarian products, Of course there is a surplus amount
of agrarian production still there is question of quantity and quality of food products, which is of
most importance. There began a deliberate use of chemical induced farming, also to the increase in
the labor cost. What did it directly result in? Now the majority of urban dwellers are eating ‘less
nutritious ‘food.

This geographical dislocation of the Indian farmers has also led us through various problems like
waste management, population explosion in cities, pollution (most of the Indian cities are
continually ranked among most polluted cities of the world, widespread of contagious diseases
during rainy season, traffic congestion in metropolitan cities etc… All these scenarios are causing
damages in multiple ways; lot of physical and mental stress, accidents, suicides, depression etc…

In a sense our life in the cities have become the life in JS Eliot. “Unreal cities” few decades ago this
author mentioned how the famous river in England polluted, England had faced the same issue of
urbanization about 100 years ago, he got inspired by Vedas and he got solution proposition through
Vedas

Thus finding some meaning in the ancient Vedic science which is highly sustainable, the project
tackles the problem of ill-being by spreading awareness of importance of Vedic principles, to
understand people, samples were taken from campus itself which comprises of students from
various geographic locations and culture, metaphor elicitation techniques were imparted which
revealed the ‘X’ factor of their well-being and highlights are 5% were interested in building
intelligence (being conscious) 60% of them want lavishness.

Project started with contextual inquiry pertaining to well-being, Desktop research was done to know
the definition and perception of Wellbeing across the globe namely World happiness index, Gross
national well-being, gross domestic product spiritual well-being etc...

After analysing different types of wellbeing, it is identified that health is the root of all sorts of
wellbeing, qualitative research was done to know definition of ‘health’ and well-being according to
different people, factors that affect health were mapped and brainstormed various aspect of it.
Expert interviews were made to understand multiple scenarios and to identify the leverage point
system map was plotted and identified "Stress" which caused by dependency of each scenario and
simultaneously small portion of implementable Vedic system is studied in which Ayurveda,
Kundalini, Bhagavad-Gita (Indian holy book) etc… we have tried to connect data in systemic
holistic approach, interaction and interlink between various aspects of well-being.
Considering those days of indigenous lifestyle of India, it is understood that the average “Healthy life
expectancy” of Indians were very high. Indians followed a set of interesting techniques to stay
healthy and happy such as: Dinacharya (Daily Rituals) and Ritucharya (Seasonal Rituals) which have
been sparely found in the modern life style, people are lost and engrossed in modernization and
urbanization, hardly realizing the fact that they are the culprits and they are the victims in their life.

From mental health to biological health, an environmental health to ecosystem health every aspect
of the system is interlinked and interconnected to give outcomes to influence human behaviour,
Human feelings, emotions and human productivity. From the olden concept of veda i.e Ayurveda
and vedic principles. Every individual requires to attain a certain amount of awareness to introspect
itself for reading the reaction of their own body based on emotions, food, physical activity,
environment medicines etc. Self-assessment is the area where many innovation of toolkit that can
be designed. Many products in the market are already lunched for physical and biological health. But
for mental health toolkit are very limited and uninformative under Individualism.

When introspecting and understanding the Mental habits (sanakara) in perspective of reaction for
every emotion based same situations. The self is immersed into the space of being. And with that
being tool one knows the purushotma nature of self or higher identity of self beyond the just body
and name identity.

It dewels individual in the perspective of an opportunities of every situation either in good or bad
situation with retrieving our own mental health in the non-reactive but in calmer and non wavering
state of mind. Which then is used in intensifying the focusing ability of human mind with a subtle
frequency of nervous activity of our Psychological and mental health for happiness, wellbeing and
peace.

Thus project out come mainly aimed at encompassing people with spiritual quotient which includes
both emotional and intelligent quotient

As an outcome around 90 ideas are developed at various micro and macro levels and approaches
such as policy design, service design, pedagogy design were conceptualized and various stakeholder
were connected with concepts are on its way to implementation. Giga map can be used as a tool for
any individual and has a scope for self-analysis and get aware/ figure out factors affecting / helping
for their well-being and act upon it