Acharya Prashant explains that the topic of spiritual wellness refers to the best possible state of the one we call 'I' or 'me'. It is the healthy state of the inner self. To talk about the health of the self, one must first consider what makes it unhealthy. The internal place that gets polluted and corrupted is the mind. The mind is born with a tendency to absorb influences from everywhere. Experiences, upbringing, parenting, education, and media all impact, deform, and stain the mind. This corruption and deformity of the mind under the influence of experiences is what constitutes the mind's sickness. The mind becomes an accumulation of foreign influences, losing its individuality. This individuality is the mind's inner cleanliness and purity, which it desperately misses. While the mind is born with a tendency to get corrupted, its deepest desire is to be healthy, pure, clean, and free of influences. This creates an urge within everyone to seek something that will lessen the inner burden, which is why no one is ever fully satisfied in life. We misinterpret this dissatisfaction to mean we are lacking something in life that we need to obtain. However, the fact is that we need to get rid of a lot, not additionally obtain something. The process of spiritual wellness, or inner health, is about getting rid of the needless stuff you are carrying in your mind. To achieve this, a very direct, honest, blunt, and impartial observation of one's life is continuously needed. If you can see what is yours and what is not, you will be free of all kinds of diseases and disorders. Spiritually, all disease is nothing but that which is not you but is pretending to be you. It is an encroachment. You have to clear your inner space of the encroachment. That is what spiritual wellness is about.
