Listening to all the debates on health and well-being one wonders why there are only so few people concerned about well being of world at large. There are numerous talks about Government Spending and getting World Health Organisation to come up with wellness policies. Representatives of various countries go all over the world rallying up each others government support for putting together a he alt agenda. What happens in the end is a beautiful report of where we are in terms of disease control and what the various health departments in all countries are doing to rein in and control various epidemics.
Now based on some surveys and reports of few agencies, are these people fully aware on what needs to be done for "Our" health and well-being. WHO acknowledges that health is not a mere absence of disease but wellness at mind, body, social and emotional level. So what happens to health of people who seemingly do not have any diseases or they have something that is not a concern of the few people concerned about World Health? Who is really responsible for my health? I think that should be ME. All surveys and statistics are collected for a pool of people and what comes out sometimes is misleading and actually not even important to an individual like ME. Well, I do not have diabetes or suffer from any heart ailment or have any serious issue so I am anyway out of radar of much of the discussion.
Medicine, whether its traditional or modern, works on a basic principle that one's own body is the primary healer. Allopathy drugs or homeopathy formulations work on this basic premise that providing certain chemicals on right proportion will allow the body to generate antigens to fulfil a deficiency or antibodies to fight a particular disease. This is passive way of working on one's body actually creates an imbalance within the body and makes the body work extra hard to correct that imbalance. Something is being done to ME to take care of my body and since the body has to work extra, much of the side effects to medication are lethargy and inactivity. Its the HE part in "HE"alth that is working on curing ME. I am myself not actively involved. I just pop a pill or take the formulation and just sit tight for it to work on myself.
But since these formulation or chemicals are not natural to the body, it starts to either get used to the prop to an extent that higher dosage is required to generate a similar response or the body outrightly rejects it. The doctors have not other choice but to increase the dosage or try a new chemical. If 100 mg chemical A does not work lets try 250 mg or give chemical B. Soon enough body develops enough resistance to all the chemicals and formulations that more drastic measures need to be taken.
Certainly there are other ways to take care of one's own health. The traditional Indian medicine techniques like Yoga, Naturopathy and to a great extent Ayurveda can be used. The traditional Indian medicine also works on the same basic principle of treating body as its own natural healer. However, the approach to evoke that response is also natural. These techniques have evolved from thousand of years and although there are very few direct research on these, they have been practiced and verified by millions of people over centuries and have found practical application. Modern science and its research techniques are only few hundred years mature and the research on them is few decades. Fortunately or unfortunately, we are living in these decades. We cannot have these few decades of research techniques defy wisdom of thousands of years and general logic of a human being.
The sages observed that bringing the body in a particular position evokes a slow and gradual but a permanent change in the body. They started to document, prescribe and practice those Yoga Postures. Sages also observed that certain habits in ones lifestyle be it work, food, behaviour or other wise also influence one well being. Thus came the practices in Naturopathy. A lifestyle was prescribed and followed for generations. Quality of life has been at its best when these practices are followed. However, these are active practices. One needs to be totally involved in ones well being to generate a natural response of own body. This is an Active way of taking care of own well-being. This putting ME in my own (he)alth. The active natural ingredient keeps one active even during the therapy.
The basic principle that an external agent will have a command over my own body for it own well being is an incomplete proposition. Indeed body needs help but the help needs to be for bringing it back on its own rather than forever cripple it to take an aid forever. How many times we have heard, if you start taking diabetes medication or cholesterol medication, there is no going back? The dosage only goes up. It proven that lifestyle changes encompassing naturopathy and Ayurvedic nutrition coupled with Yoga based physical activity can actually bring more permanent and long lasting benefits for these conditions.
No longer we should ignore our health and put it in somebody else's hand and make our body handicap and used to a crutch all the time. We should empower our body to take it own charge and actively heal ourself. The power of Yoga and Naturopathy is undisputed and together these can bring about a lasting improvement in our lifestyle. Put a ME in (HE)alth.
Now based on some surveys and reports of few agencies, are these people fully aware on what needs to be done for "Our" health and well-being. WHO acknowledges that health is not a mere absence of disease but wellness at mind, body, social and emotional level. So what happens to health of people who seemingly do not have any diseases or they have something that is not a concern of the few people concerned about World Health? Who is really responsible for my health? I think that should be ME. All surveys and statistics are collected for a pool of people and what comes out sometimes is misleading and actually not even important to an individual like ME. Well, I do not have diabetes or suffer from any heart ailment or have any serious issue so I am anyway out of radar of much of the discussion.
Medicine, whether its traditional or modern, works on a basic principle that one's own body is the primary healer. Allopathy drugs or homeopathy formulations work on this basic premise that providing certain chemicals on right proportion will allow the body to generate antigens to fulfil a deficiency or antibodies to fight a particular disease. This is passive way of working on one's body actually creates an imbalance within the body and makes the body work extra hard to correct that imbalance. Something is being done to ME to take care of my body and since the body has to work extra, much of the side effects to medication are lethargy and inactivity. Its the HE part in "HE"alth that is working on curing ME. I am myself not actively involved. I just pop a pill or take the formulation and just sit tight for it to work on myself.
But since these formulation or chemicals are not natural to the body, it starts to either get used to the prop to an extent that higher dosage is required to generate a similar response or the body outrightly rejects it. The doctors have not other choice but to increase the dosage or try a new chemical. If 100 mg chemical A does not work lets try 250 mg or give chemical B. Soon enough body develops enough resistance to all the chemicals and formulations that more drastic measures need to be taken.
Certainly there are other ways to take care of one's own health. The traditional Indian medicine techniques like Yoga, Naturopathy and to a great extent Ayurveda can be used. The traditional Indian medicine also works on the same basic principle of treating body as its own natural healer. However, the approach to evoke that response is also natural. These techniques have evolved from thousand of years and although there are very few direct research on these, they have been practiced and verified by millions of people over centuries and have found practical application. Modern science and its research techniques are only few hundred years mature and the research on them is few decades. Fortunately or unfortunately, we are living in these decades. We cannot have these few decades of research techniques defy wisdom of thousands of years and general logic of a human being.
The sages observed that bringing the body in a particular position evokes a slow and gradual but a permanent change in the body. They started to document, prescribe and practice those Yoga Postures. Sages also observed that certain habits in ones lifestyle be it work, food, behaviour or other wise also influence one well being. Thus came the practices in Naturopathy. A lifestyle was prescribed and followed for generations. Quality of life has been at its best when these practices are followed. However, these are active practices. One needs to be totally involved in ones well being to generate a natural response of own body. This is an Active way of taking care of own well-being. This putting ME in my own (he)alth. The active natural ingredient keeps one active even during the therapy.
The basic principle that an external agent will have a command over my own body for it own well being is an incomplete proposition. Indeed body needs help but the help needs to be for bringing it back on its own rather than forever cripple it to take an aid forever. How many times we have heard, if you start taking diabetes medication or cholesterol medication, there is no going back? The dosage only goes up. It proven that lifestyle changes encompassing naturopathy and Ayurvedic nutrition coupled with Yoga based physical activity can actually bring more permanent and long lasting benefits for these conditions.
No longer we should ignore our health and put it in somebody else's hand and make our body handicap and used to a crutch all the time. We should empower our body to take it own charge and actively heal ourself. The power of Yoga and Naturopathy is undisputed and together these can bring about a lasting improvement in our lifestyle. Put a ME in (HE)alth.
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