When Vikram Dhar recently felt like ditching his screaming schedules and screens, he headed straight to his roots in the mountains. Stretched ahead were seven days free of agendas, just chants etching across the hush of monasteries. The stillness stirred in him something familiar: the joy of truly ‘being,’ not ‘doing.’

“As a mountain boy at heart, I find the rhythm of city life both thrilling and draining,” says the international neuro-language programming (NLP) Master Coach and founder of the NLP Coaching Academy. “Like many, career and education pulled me into the urban culture, where being ‘busy’ is worn like a badge of honour and exhaustion celebrated as a proof of achievement.”

Worshipping the hustle

That highlights a dire irony of our time: a breathless pursuit of exclusivity leav

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