Sadhguru asks Americans: Joy or misery?

Sadhguru spoke to Newsweek about the state of world's mental health.

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Indian spiritual leader and environmental campaigner Sadhguru has spoken to Newsweek about the nation's mental health, offering his secret to achieving a good state of mind by choosing joy or misery.

He says: "One fundamental thing to understand is human well-being comes from within—all our problems and solutions are manufactured within us."

He went on to share his tips on how to make use of this knowledge.

The State Of Mental Health In America

Around one in five U.S. adults experience mental illness each year, according to the National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI), with one in 20 adults experiencing serious mental illness each year.

In the U.S., antidepressants are among the most prescribed medicines—around 13.2 percent of U.S. adults were using antidepressants between 2017 and 2018, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s most recent National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. This number is believed to have increased since then, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Last month, Newsweek found where Americans report the worst mental health, based on a nationwide online poll of 2,000 adults, conducted by Talker Research on behalf of health and wellness company Pendulum.

Participants were asked to rate their mental health on a scale from 0 (extremely poor) to 10 (extremely good). No region of the U.S. rated its collective mental health at a perfect 10, with most scores hovering just above average.

The South and Midwest rated their mental health the lowest, at 6.4/10, while, just behind, residents of the West put theirs at 6.5/10. Meanwhile, the highest score came from the Northeast, where residents rated their collective mental health at 6.6/10.

'Your Mental Condition Can Be Determined By You'

Sadhguru has questions for America: "Would you like to be joyful or miserable? Would you like to work and live with people who are joyful or miserable?"

And he believes people can "manufacture" their mental health. "As you can manufacture illness within you, you can manufacture well-being also," he said.

He believes there are multiple ways to do this, including meditation.

"People think it's a practice," Sadhguru said, "no—it is a quality that you bring about."

"It like a flower that has fragrance," he continued, "you don't try to produce fragrance—water the plant and the flower will blossom and it will give out fragrance."

Sadhguru spoke as he promoted an app he has recently helped launch, along with volunteer coders from the Isha Foundation, called Miracle of Mind. It offers a seven-minute meditation practice, backed by Harvard researchers and an AI-powered tool to deliver personalized yogic insights.

"Seven minutes is not a be-all for everything," Sadhguru said, "but, especially for people who are not suffering from any kind of mental illness yet—they are only experiencing a little stress here and there—a burst of anger and this and that—those kind of people can easily turn it around with the simple process of meditation."

Yogi Sadhguru poses for Europa Press during an interview at the Wellington Hotel, October 5, 2023, in Madrid, Spain. Yogi Sadhguru poses for Europa Press during an interview at the Wellington Hotel, October 5, 2023, in Madrid, Spain. AP

Sadhguru argues that, while "genetics have a strong influence" on people's mental health, "how your genetics work for you depends on what kind of epigenetics you create for yourself."

Epigenetics refers to gene expression that does not involve alterations to the DNA sequences itself, but changes influenced by environmental factors.

"So no matter what kind of genes you have, you can still make it work for yourself," Sadhguru said.

He added: "This is only possible if individual people take responsibility that 'my physical health is my responsibility,' 'my mental health is my responsibility.' This idea must come to everybody—this is the most important thing that people should understand.

"If this responsibility comes into a large segment of the adult population in the world, then definitely we'll be living in a better world."

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