Healthy Mind & Body - A doorway to Salvation

There are people obsessed with health, people who are health conscious and people who are health unconscious.

“We waste our Health to earn Wealth,

We waste our Wealth to earn back Health.”

Few but very meaningful lines J

As a teenager I was thin, trying to gain mass by all means.

Now I am Obese, trying really hard to lose weight.

So Human Beings are never satisfied in terms of Health & Wealth.

Everyone is in the pursuit of building an ideally fit & healthy body and very few people achieve it with proper understanding of the human body and acting accordingly.

Like I mentioned earlier there are three types of people.

People who are Health Unconscious:

These are the people who fall sick very often and are prone to diseases of all kinds.

They are vulnerable all the time knowingly and unknowingly.

Such are the people who don’t exercise, don’t follow a balanced diet, don’t eat on time and others could be hereditary.

As per my survey, Quite a part of our current generation “The Youth or the Yongistaan” falls in this category.

People working hard in earning livelihood but not considering health e.g. IT sector, Call center jobs etc.

Lazy and Obese teenagers like school & College kids who have been pampered a lot by family.

People who are Health Obsessed:

Well, these are the people who are all ears. They hear from different sources this and that is good, but they don’t use their minds. They don’t research even after living in the age of technology available at hands.

“What is good?” is a wise question followed by obvious Answers.

This & That are good.

“Well, good is always good.”

But

“How much good is good?” is a much wiser question.

“What is good?” should always be backed by “How much good is good for the body?”

People obsessed with health keep a healthy & nutritional diet for longer periods but they just focus on particular food.

“Too much good is never good for the body”

For example 

people eat too much food which leads to excess glucose in the body. If there is less insulin in the body or the insulin doesn't work properly, the blood sugar level rises. 

Increase in blood sugar level above the reference level for a long time can cause Hyperglycemia, Diabetes, Ketoacidosis (Diabetic coma) and other diseases.

Similarly people consuming lots of meat and high protein diet for longer periods will face problems like obesity, high cholesterol levels leading to heart attack or stroke, Kidney Stones, Gout and many other diseases.

People who are Health Conscious:

These include active sports players, Actors, Doctors etc.

These people take good precautionary measures to keep themselves physically and mentally fit. Their way of life includes exercise, nutritional food, consultation with dieticians/doctors, regular health checkup etc.

They know how to balance and maintain all body essential minerals & vitamins.

They monitor their calorie intake for the day and opt many other methods to keep their health on the right track

That is why you never hear actors, sports person, doctors getting sick unless it’s a medical emergency.

My Understanding of the HUMAN BODY

Our Body, Mind and Soul combined the Intellectual Being is a gift given to us by the Almighty. 

Staying Alive is all about using these three together.

The Body is like a Horse chariot driven by Mind, the charioteer, and Soul, the Traveler.

Mind & Body is enough for a ride but sometimes it takes the Soul to finalize the path for the chariot. Taking good path or bad path is up to the soul.

Another Analogy is that the Body is like a temple.

If you keep the temple clean, people will like it and people will befriend the temple & the priest (the mind) & the God (the soul).

But if you don’t, people will not visit your temple.

Trying to explain it from my religious aspect

I am a Buddhist and I prefer calling Buddhism as a way of science not exactly religion.

Great Minds like Gautama Buddha knew people where lazy and they would not care for the body. He was clever, so he devised a plan.

If you ever come across the Buddhist way of worship you will see that the devotee joins hands in Namaste and then bows to the ground. 

This is done in repetitions of 108 times or more, well actually a really good exercise for the legs.

The benefits of Bowing:

• Better concentration, increased frontal lobe activity
• Better spinal alignment
• Lower blood sugar levels
• Lower stress levels
• Cardio intensity similar to fast walking
• Better digestion
• Deep breathing
• Better joint health
• Increased muscular strength and endurance
• Improved personality
• Fat burning
• Deeper humility
• Cures insomnia
• Reduces bad karma # not quite sure about this

Buddha taught his followers this way of worship so that they may keep themselves fit at all times, he also introduced light fasting, meditation and other disciplined way of life.

A new outlook towards life through Buddha’s eyes

The Eight fold path introduced by Buddha has a rule not to intoxicate the body by means of alcohol and drug abuse or to harm the body by any means.

THE EIGHT FOLD PATH

Buddha preached nonviolence even before Gandhi made Nonviolence, the voice & weapon for the independent India.

Anyways, my conscious effort is to promote Health awareness not religion.

My blog title says "Healthy Mind & Body- a doorway to salvation"

Religion serves the same purpose.

Suggestions to my blog readers:

1.     Be Health Conscious

2.     Plan for a full Body Checkup either quarterly or on half yearly basis or at least once in a year.

3.     Know your Body well.

     Try to understand the anatomy and what purpose different organs, blood, and other vital parts serve to the body

You don’t have to be a doctor for this, its General Science we read in class IX & X and is readily available in NCERT books for reasonable prices