Yoga for relief from ailments
Health is not a mere absence of disease. It is a dynamic
expression of life – in terms of how joyful, loving and enthusiastic you are
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
One who is stable and established in the self is healthy.
That is to say that identifying a healthy person doesn’t only entail physical
fitness, but what’s even more crucial is ones mental fitness. One cannot say
that ‘I’m healthy, but not interested in life’. The enthusiasm in life shows
how healthy you are.
Causes of sickness or ill health are generally noted as
impurities on the level of mind, body and speech. Your own speech can create
distress in you as well as other people around you. Even distress or discomfort
should be treated as an illness.
Body, mind and spirit are like a tripod – even if one aspect
isn’t functioning properly, our life will not be balanced and that will lead to
ill health. Yoga (a component of ayurveda) is that link which creates a harmony
by aligning all the three components (body, mind and spirit) into one. This
harmony, in turn exists to support life.
Yoga is an integral part of our lifestyle. It removes the
impurities from the level of mind and unites everything with the spirit. For
instance, insomnia could be connected to stress, anxiety or depression. You
have to address that issue instead of merely taking medication. This way, you
have a wider perception of your own mind, body, thoughts and emotions and
there’s more clarity and you are able to guide your prana (life force) in a
positive way to progress in life.
One can start practicing Yoga at any given moment of time
and you may start with meditation or directly with pranayama without even doing
the asanas (postures). Make sure that when you practice yoga asanas, you don’t
just stretch the body because the mind has to be with the body. You can’t be
watching television or reading the newspaper because if your awareness isn’t
there, the asanas won’t have much effect on you. But if each stretch is
synchronized with the breath and awareness, your practice will become a yogic
practice.
Role of Food In Keeping One Healthy
Yogis in The Himalayas can survive without food because they
don’t need to eat as their body survives on prana. But we need to eat and
maintain a healthy diet.
Did you know that your next day starts from your dinner?
What you eat, what time you eat and how much you eat affects your sleep, the
morning and your entire day.
Needless to say, ahaar (food) makes a profound impact on
your body and mind. Imbalance of vata, pitta and kapha (three prime energies in
the body) lead to most health-related issues. For instance, if someone’s pitta
(fire element) is high, certain foods can aggravate the pitta and cause
restlessness, lack of sleep and anxiety, which makes it a necessity to know
what foods are suitable for the body and mind by consulting an ayurvedic
doctor.
Second Most Important Aspect of Health
Vihaar (Daily Routine) plays a tremendous role in measuring
how healthy an individual is. A sadhak should know what is suitable for his/
her living.
There is a tendency in our body towards health. At one
level, our body intelligence signals that what we are doing is not alright, but
we all have our excuses because we are following our mind and emotion. That
intelligence fails when you become a slave to your mind and creates problems on
a physical level. And soon, it becomes a pattern.
A headache is not a disease, but a signal for something
bigger, and when we suppress that sign with painkillers, the real cause soon
surfaces on a much bigger scale.
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