Celebrating World Mental Health Day: Mindful Well-being in Action
Dr. Piyali Mitra walks the threshold where philosophy meets bioethics, where questions of being, birth, and becoming find new resonance in the age of technology. Her scholarship on reproductive ethics, genomics, and AI is both inquiry and invocation, seeking harmony between science and spirit. As Deputy and Associate Editor of the Asian Bioethics Review and Director of ICAEPA (UK), she curates dialogue between cultures and moral worlds. A Wellcome Trust awardee and poet-philosopher, she writes of embryos, algorithms, and the shared humanity that binds them. Through her words and work, Dr. Mitra reimagines ethics not as constraint but as compassion — a bridge from the laboratory to the living heart of human experience.
In the hush between two breaths,
the world softens—time unfolds.
Stress, once a storm within,
now whispers lessons untold.
The racing mind slows its stride,
as awareness lights the way;
each heartbeat becomes a guide,
each thought learns where to stay.
From tension’s tangled thread,
emerges strength refined;
like steel born of fire’s bed,
so too the tempered mind.
In calm, the seeds of focus bloom,
productivity takes flight;
clarity dispels the gloom,
and turns the dark to light.
Gratitude hums its quiet tune,
compassion breathes in grace;
positivity, a rising moon,
illumines the heart’s vast space.
Mindful living—gentle art,
to dwell in each today;
transforming storms that tear apart,
into peace that lights the way.
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