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April 2, 2026

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✎ Essay · Culture

The Anxious Generation Needs Pratyahara

Pratyahara — withdrawal from constant stimulation — isn't escapism. It's reclaiming your attention from algorithms designed to hijack it. A recent Newsweek investigation into Gen Z women reveals what many of us already suspect: an entire generation is drowning in anxiety. Forty percent of young women want to leave the country permanently. A third feel anxious about the future almost all the time. Their friends are cycling through antidepressants like they're trying on jeans. The culprits are familiar. Economic precarity. Climate doom. A dating landscape that treats people like products. And underneath it all, the relentless hum of nervous system overload from being constantly online. --- Read the full article: https://theyoga.club/the-anxious-generation-needs-pratyahara/ Original source: https://www.newsweek.com/gen-z-women-quiet-crisis-11686238 All content: https://mjh.yoga Concepts: Pratyahara · Santosha · Samskaras · Dharana #ashtanga #yoga #ashtangayoga #yogapractice #theyogaclub

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