Yoga

Yoga is in folks. I was in LA over the weekend, and there are yoga centers around every corner. Madonna has endorsed yoga. There is a new magazine named 'Yoga'. Its circulation went upto 300,000 from 100,000 last year. People are becoming more and more conscious of their health. There is a food store by the name of 'Whole Foods'. I went there and I think you should check it out too. It has aisles and aisles of organic foods. Low-carb spaghetti imported from Italy and healthy drinks differentiate it from regular grocery stores. Once you step into the store, you feel like cooking healthy food, you imagine yourself running and working out and getting into the shape you always wanted to get into. Atkins is also in. People have made businesses out of selling Atkins-friendly stuff. Not only that, there is also a South Beach Diet, and something else I can't think of at the moment.

What about our souls? Is there a yoga that could make me a better person? Is there a diet that would make my soul strong and curb my materialistic desires?

But why is materialism so bad? What is materialism anyways? Materialism is the name of looking 'only' at our extended and immediate lives, and not worrying about our inner life. See, wanting a healthy body is not materialism. Being able to run 30 minutes every day is not materialism. Wearing good clothes and looking nice is not materialism. Materialism is when you are 'only' concerned with the above, and nothing else.