Page 14 - Seniorstoday May 2024 Issue

First Person

Let Mother Earth Nourish You

Ever since, the beginning of Indian civilisation, we understood the benefits
of sitting directly on the floor whether grass, sand or stone and connecting
directly with the earth’s energy, writes Vickram Sethi

One of my earliest memories of my the Chatais on his head every three or
mother is her sitting on the floor on a four months. My mother would buy a new
“Chatai” (Bamboo mat), cutting vegetables, Chatai and the old one would be given to
mending, stitching, knitting and doing odd the Mali (Gardener).
jobs on the floor. As a toddler I would be Millions of people in India sleep on the
sitting with her on the mat. A man from floor and have their meals sitting cross-
south India would come to the door with legged on the floor, all religious rituals
are conducted sitting on the floor unless
you are physically not able to sit on the
ground. Ever since the beginning of
Indian civilisation, we have understood
the benefits of sitting directly on the floor
whether grass, sand, stone connecting
directly with the earth’s energy. In today’s
fast paced and digitally driven world,
many of us have disconnected from nature,
we spend most of our days sitting on the
chairs, surrounded by concrete and focused
on screens.

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