Any balance is difficult to achieve when people today inhabit a one-dimensional world created by profit and the rules of the digital era. As people become more involved in this unending race for money and profit, they have less time to think. Instead of searching for answers to fundamental questions such as, where we are and where we are going, we uncritically accept the information that is being continuously and aggressively provided by a wide range of channels. A prime example of this is the huge quantity of, often contradictory, facts, advice and opinions we are confronted with about the source, trajectory, solutions and consequences of the current pandemic. Such an aggressive and continuous attack on the brain and common sense often leads people to become more and more unable to differentiate the truth from mere propaganda. The consequences of such a state are disastrous to the human mind and its multi-dimensional being. In such an environment, it is increasingly difficult for people to recognize real values, real truth and the right direction to go.

In recent past to till date many philosophers are observe life from four aspects: physical health, mental health and spiritual health and economical health, in totality four aspects of life, just like a wheel with fore spoke, if balance and life run smoothly just like swastika chinha (Symbol) meaning “conducive to well-being” use in Hindu Culture. During the current pandemic the fourth spoke economic health is imbalanced and may distort the wheel, may persist in the post-pandemic world also. So in my view said balance could not become more disturbed in the post-pandemic world of tomorrow.

The pandemic changed spiritual, social, ethical, and other dimentions of individual or social life. Let us to avoid from reducing them to trinity.

Any balance is difficult to achieve when people today inhabit a one-dimensional world created by profit and the rules of the digital era. As people become more involved in this unending race for money and profit, they have less time to think. Instead of searching for answers to fundamental questions such as, where we are and where we are going, we uncritically accept the information that is being continuously and aggressively provided by a wide range of channels. A prime example of this is the huge quantity of, often contradictory, facts, advice and opinions we are confronted with about the source, trajectory, solutions and consequences of the current pandemic. Such an aggressive and continuous attack on the brain and common sense often leads people to become more and more unable to differentiate the truth from mere propaganda. The consequences of such a state are disastrous to the human mind and its multi-dimensional being. In such an environment, it is increasingly difficult for people to recognize real values, real truth and the right direction to go.

In recent years, the World Health Organization changed its definition of "health" from "the absence of disease" to the broader definition: "the mental, physical and spiritual capacity to live life to the fullest." As a nutritionist, I am thrilled by this new, more inclusive definition and make the connection between food and these concepts clear to my students. Food, which is meant to be viewed as not just fat, protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, but as pleasure and a medicine that we do not quite understand fully, has been both a solace and a problem during COVID. In my (soon to be published) research on COVID-19 and changes in nutritional behaviors, I've seen that there have been both positive and negative outcomes when it comes to food, eating and pleasure. Most of the nearly 2,000 people we surveyed reported eating more healthfully during the pandemic because they are cooking more at home, but yet also eating and drinking (alcohol) more frequently and often consuming sweet or fatty "comfort foods.". For those who have disordered eating, the pandemic tended to exacerbate their disorder. And then there are those who, due to job loss or illness, could not enjoy the foods they normally consumed or even enough food for good health. Thus, it has been a very hard for connecting spirit, the palate, the mind and the body in the way every human being deserves to be able to do.

Nothing is happening at the moment that has not already happened in human history. Man has survived thanks to his ability of prediction and adaptation to different and often radical changes. How? In a way that he always responded to external changes by a change within himself and thus he assured his stationary state. It is impossible for each person to survive through all these processes.

Dear Colleagues,

As with all long-lasting and dramatic events, which take many lives and produce great material losses almost on a daily basis, future researchers will need a lot of time, effort and commitment to deeply and comprehensively investigate the key aspects of this pandemic, as well as its real causes and long-term consequences. All the truths, half-truths and untruths that accompany this pandemic will only truly come to light when the ground has settled and we return to anything like normality again. It is increasingly clear that this pandemic has highlighted the numerous risks and vulnerabilities of the digitalized, robotic and globalized world. Is it possibly, a kind of reflection of the world in which we live, with all its virtues and flaws?

Best Regards,

Radoica

Agree with Dragoljub Šarović

yes i think so

I doubt that the stress we are undergoing due to the pandemia will prompt similar individual responses.

To start with, compliance with the national rules set to contrast the spread of the disease is never 100%.

No matter how each of us is, has been, or will be, personally hit by the virus, the result in physical, mental and spiritual development is likely to be very different.

I guess we are underestimating the extent of these differences.

It seems that, about one year later, the consequences will be worst than expected.

While at the beginning fear and caution were the first responses, now tiredness and acquaintance seem to be prevalent. Today in Italy we had nearly 100 deaths, yet comments refer to the low probability to be among them.

The economy is, obviously, suffering, but I suspect that mental and spiritual issues will be even more adversely affected.