Healing won’t happen from distractions or avoiding feelings
Harsh Goenka recently posted an insightful write-up on X where the industrialist talked about what healing truly means. Healing is necessary to move on, be it from a bad break-up, a sudden layoff, the loss of someone special, or when things do not go your way. If you fail to break free from these emotional patterns, they grow inside you, dictating your reactions, clouding your judgment, and holding you hostage.
According to Harsh Goenka, healing is deeper than you think and cannot be achieved by distracting yourself and engaging in superficial activities such as going for a spa session, lighting up a scented candle for a relaxing bath, embarking on a vacation to the hills or the beach and dropping travel-based reels on Instagram. The industry mogul also disapproved of the notion that healing is equal to going ‘monk mode’ and dissociating with everyone until you feel okay.
Healing isn’t a spa day, a scented candle or a week in the hills.
Nor a “monk mode” bio or a Goa detox reel.It’s when the same old memory stops spoiling your fresh cup of morning chai.
When you remember the hurt, but it no longer decides your mood.You don’t heal by deleting…
— Harsh Goenka (@hvgoenka) March 3, 2026
Take life’s steering wheel in your hands
Explaining what healing truly looks like, Harsh Goenka painted a picture of reality, which, although a little diffiucly, cleanses your mind for the better. He revealed that an individual heals when the same troubling memory of a bad incident stops spoiling their everyday mood, when you stop replaying the moment over and over in your head, and when you accept the hurt and channelize it into something productive. In conclusion, Goenka does not want you to forget what happened by suppressing painful memories. He wants you to accept things that are beyond your control, respond differently and write your own story, even change the ending if required, as you are the main character.
The post received multiple reactions. One user pointed out that while memories fading away is growth, it is sometimes integrated through distance. Another agreed that healing is when the past stops affecting your present. A person noted that healing isn’t grand gestures but quiet transformation.
Harsh Goenka’s net worth is a whopping $4 billion, as per a report by Forbes.


