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Awaken the Immortal Within ~ Ishan Shivanand

Name: Awaken the Immortal Within ~ Ishan Shivanand
Uploaded: 2025-07-12T06:57:21+00:00
Duration: 57 s
Channel: Aarti Samani
Description: In this segment of the talk, Ishan Shivanand highlights the alarming burnout rates—exceeding 60%—among professions such as healthcare workers, ER…

12 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment of the talk, Ishan Shivanand highlights the alarming burnout rates—exceeding 60%—among professions such as healthcare workers, ER surgeons, accountants, and engineers. He contrasts the robust physical safety protocols (e.g., hard hats, steel‑toe boots) that protect workers in hazardous environments with the absence of comparable safeguards for cognitive and emotional threats. Shivanand argues that we lack "emotional hard hats" and calls for meditative safeguards, specifically referencing the "yoga of immortals" and practices of immortality, as tools to cultivate inner peace and resilience against burnout.

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There are some professions that can lead to burnout. We have the percentage data. If you look at the healthcare workers, if you look at ER surgeons, if you look at accountants, if you look at engineers, and always the percentage is more than 60% that these are the professions where the burnout rate is at such a high percentile. And if we know that the workplace environment is hazardous What are the precautions that we are taking? Construction workers, they have to wear a hard hat and steel-toe boot. But when the threat is cognitive rather than physical, then where are our emotional hard hats? Where is our meditative precaution that can help us be in a state of peace? And the yoga of immortals, the practice of immortality, are some of those practices that can help you.