Snapshot · The Shawn Ryan Show
Sadhguru states that for most human beings, less than 1% of their physical, mental, emotional, and energetic activity is performed consciously — making life feel accidental.
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In the mid-1990s, UN experts told Sadhguru that 60% of Tamil Nadu — one of India's richest agricultural states, with 12,000 years of farming history — would become desert by 2025. He drove across the state and saw it was already worse than predicted: three major rivers had gone dry, dozens of tributaries were empty, people had built homes on riverbeds, coastal villages were abandoned due to saltwater intrusion. He calculated that planting 114 million trees over six years would restore 33% green cover. To make villagers care, he used an embodied rather than intellectual approach: he made them sit in full sun for nearly two hours, then walked them under massive rain trees. The visceral relief — 'fresh life comes into you' — opened what argument never could. He then led a meditative process where they experienced exhaling carbon dioxide that the tree inhaled, and inhaling oxygen the tree exhaled. After that, he says, you cannot stop them from planting. He planted over 6 million trees in 3.5 days and describes how temperatures around the restored hill are now at minimum 4 degrees cooler than the surrounding city.
A hill stripped bare by an illegal furniture industry radiated heat in summer. Sadhguru took 4,500 volunteers, gave them two meals a day and one song, and planted over 6 million trees in 3.5 days. Twenty-seven years later, temperatures around the area are at minimum 4 degrees cooler than the surrounding city.
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