Rajya Sabha | Which initiative should be prioritized to help people overcome attention-need?

## Breaking the Need for Attention — Awakening the Anahata Chakra In everyday life, many of us unconsciously depend on other people’s approval to feel good about ourselves. We look for appreciation from family, friends, colleagues and increasingly through likes, comments and followers online. Recent research shows that social-media reactions can influence feelings of validation and self-worth, while approval anxiety and social comparison can affect emotional well-being.

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THE SPH Bhagavan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam teaches that this constant search for approval is *attention-need—depending on others as the source of our energy instead of discovering that source within ourselves. THE SPH explains that the **Anahata chakra, associated with love, is locked when we continuously seek attention and love from others, and flowers when we begin expressing selfless love without expectation. Through meditation, self-awareness and becoming a *source of love energy, we can move from asking others to energize us toward overflowing and enriching others.

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