“Health is wealth“,
is an age-old saying. Health has been the major concern at all times and much
more so in the modern times where man is to cope up with the ever increasing
stress and strain of living. The modern life brought along with varied
developments the related ills, sicknesses, and diseases. On one side there is
enormous technological development, modernized life exacting more and more from
the human for the overall rapid development. On the other side there is no concurrent
development in the rhythm of life giving way for many diseases, some of which
are very mysterious.
Man is drifting away
more and more from nature in his pursuit of social and economic development. As
a consequence normal natural rhythmic way of life is lost. The understanding of
time, the nature and characteristics of the seasons and healthy food habits are
lost. The capacity to assimilate food, which in turn maintains the vitality of
the body is lost. Medicines and vitamins are being eaten as much as food.
Nevertheless the growth of diseases is in geometrical progression while the
inventions and innovations of medical cure are in arithmetical progression.
Popular medical treatments are found to be inadequate to meet the varieties of
challenges that humanity encounters in terms of diseases.
A harmonious way of
living which prevents frequent falling into sickness and treatment of diseases
with medicines, which are not excessively poisonous or cause more side effects
than cure are the need of the hour.
A person’s way of
living has major impact on his health. The mental, the emotional and the
physical attitudes and habits decide the degree of health or its lack of it. The
attitudes of a person exist in him as seeds and sprout on a given occasion. A
balanced approach to life holds the key to health. Inner harmony and poise
contribute substantially to maintain stable health. In the present world generosity,
competition and the consequent jealousy are playing
havoc. An average mind is affected by them. Suspicion, anger, hatred, doubt
are the by-products. Fear, anxiety, depression are the further by-products. When
man’s mental and intellectual energies are affected by
such things then I don’t think a good health can be achieved.
Education about the laws of nature
and man’s right relations with it is becoming more and more relevant. Man
should be taught the human nature, the human constitution and its adjustment with
the surrounding nature. Until the right way of living is learnt, the rat-race
between the disease and the medicine continues to grow and health become sever
evasive.
That is reason we need to
learn, understand and practice fundamental of health. This depends on law of
nature that is food, water, air, environment and pattern or daily routine.
