I have been working with a company that works with a firm called DELOS over the last few weeks.

DELOS is an awesome company that is being led by Dr. Deepak Chopra, among others.

I love the idea of the company – helping people understand and effectively place wellness elements into their lifestyle.

Whether its diet, air, water, light, or food intake, we can all get healthier and more efficient. DELOS, among many other practitioners out there, is helping lead the way as a national brand and face of the wellness movement.

Today, TIME, did a really nice write up on the company. Check it out —— here.

Some excerpts from the piece:

“Delos, recently partnered with Columbia University Medical Center to conduct a four-year review of 4,000 scientific studies relating to health and the environment, including building technologies. Their findings are now part of a database that helps builders create spaces that are more health- and wellness-friendly.”

“Here’s how it works. The data that the team of medical experts, policymakers and designers developed comprise a new certification standard that Delos calls WELL. To meet the WELL Building Standard, spaces must contribute to a person’s well being by providing, among other amenities, filtered or purified air and water, as well as adequate opportunities for fitness, and even psychological comfort and nourishment in the form of proper lighting to balance mood and reduce stress.”

One of our readers sent us a message saying,“Reading Steve Jobs’ commencement speech is a very lucid practice. Even if you’ve done it before like I’m sure both of you might have.”

Click to read (not watch) the transcript of Steve Jobs’ epic Stanford commencement speech.

We encourage you to read the transcript but if you prefer to listen:

“In this modern world, everything is instant. No one has patience. Everyone wants to have [everything] as soon as possible. In yoga also it has become like that. Many places you go, they certify you in 15 days, one month. Always someone who’s coming to India, they think, “Oh, I’ll be here for one month, I should get a certificate that I’m studying here.” We get many phone calls. Last week also there were three phone calls, one from Delhi, one from England, another from America. Straight away they said “Oh, do you have teacher training.” Yoga is getting big but it is getting crazy also. It’s not that yoga is crazy. People are making it crazy. They’re not understanding the sense of yoga, the purity of yoga. A yoga teacher should always maintain the purity of the practice.

You know when I was a child, whenever I used to see a Chinese or a Japanese, I thought they knew Karate. We used to stay away from them because we thought they knew Karate. Because we had been to see ‘Enter the Dragon,’ the Bruce Lee movie. Then there was no television or anything, the only entertainment was to go to a theater and watch a movie. So, we watched that movie, and we thought every Chinese, Japanese knows martial arts. So he can beat us up, so stay away from them. And now [the] same thing has happened to yoga. Whoever looks like an Indian, if he is dressed in a saffron, or even a lungi (traditional South Indian dress), he becomes a yogī. Many yogīs are sprouting up everywhere. Why I’m saying this is, for a practitioner [of yoga] it is very important to choose your teacher. A teacher who can guide you properly. A teacher who knows, who has been practicing for many years, who has come from a lineage. That is very important.”

-R Sharath Jois (January 2012, Mysore Conference)