Much is said today about peace of mind. In a tumultous world, where people are rushed all day and the news is constantly filled with reports of war or disasters, people feel a strong need for solace, some kind of reassurance. And so many turn to the various techniques that have been developed to make people feel better about the world. And there are many of these; Yoga, Buddhism, and other religious or quasi-religious systems have been developed. Many people are very enthusiastic about them, insisting that they have gained tremendous inspiration from these systems. But what do these beliefs really do? In most cases, they work by separating a person from the world. Rather than being more "in-touch" with themselves and the world around them, as they claim to feel, these methods make a person feel better by teaching them to meditate in their own sphere and separate themselves from the world's everyday realities. This does indeed make a person feel better, in much the same way that drugs make a person feel better by helping them to forget their problems. Little wonder, then, considering how many people have an almost spiritual fascination with marijuana, that many people love these mental blockage tricks as well. It is clear that people focusing on themselves is, in large part, what created the world's problems in the first place. People acting as though theirs were the most important problems in the world, and focusing on them alone while ignoring the predicaments of other people, is the very attitude that has made the world something to be escaped from in the first place. Only by opening our eyes to the world, and realizing that our deepest troubles are probably trivial compared to the everyday lives of some people, can we actually make the world a better place, instead of just feeling like it's a better place. When we stop making time for ourselves and bear the heavy burden of reality, the world will be a better place.