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You read that! Didn’t you, despite the spellings needing the best of Thesaurus to correct? What, however, was at work when you read that is, to quote Dr Deepak Chopra, a “network of intelligence” working continuously in human body, which is grounded in quantum reality. It is all there in the mind – a right or a wrong bit of information, depending on how you have programmed it there. Right information leads you to good health, whereas the wrong one just the opposite. These bits and pieces of information and this deep-rooted intelligence change the basic patterns that design our physiology. Impaired physiology is bad health, and bad health of course disease. Once afflicted, what we treat is the disease, and ignore its origin. Mind always needs mending, if you feel it is wayward, sways like a kite sans buoyancy, or has been programmed wrongly. It is very much like your computer hard disk; load wrong or pirated software, and your system is down with a thud. Mind is not a superficial psychological state. It is a deep-rooted entity that, if handled well, can give us a potential to defeat cancer, heart disease, and even aging itself. Mind can deeply move us, and become a chronicle of hope and healing; medicine, at times, cannot. Mind work, at times of illness, can be exciting, stimulating and highly fascinating. Most of the concepts on health and disease as written in Vedas – particularly Ayurveda – are replete with references to mind. As the research on mind continues and grows, a number of such Ayurvedic concepts find relevance to modern theories of health and illness. The rapidly developing field of psychoneuroimmunology exemplifies and supports these concepts, a step that testifies Ayurveda beyond the stone and pestle image. It also moves it a step ahead of catch phrases like vata, pitta, kapha, mamsa, medha, dhatu, dosha, authentic Ayurveda, original Ayurveda, subtle digestion and many more which, quite in a jaundiced manner, have become darling statements of many a contemporary Vaidyas or Ayurvedic physicians. Such narrow expressions only limit Ayurveda’s magnanimity and magic, push it away from your good life, and focus only on disease. Ayurveda is as much for healthy as it is for sick, an aspect that has been on a backburner since it is not a lucrative proposition. We may, however, avoid discounting these catch phrases only when they become statements, which is as much relevant to good health as to disease. When we uncover the sets and subsets of words as vata, pitta, kapha et al, we discover meanings within meanings, texts within lines, statements within phrases, and life within life. One of many things that may have prompted ancient saints and sages to call it the “Science of Life.” That was the stone and pestle age. Ayurveda was mind work then, and it is mind work even now. Stay healthy, and do visit back for more on mind next time. Wellness Wisdom Archive Author Interactive : Write to Sanjay Get Connected Promotional Support All Wellness Wisdom articles are copyrighted and reprint or distribution, electronic or otherwise, may please be done only after seeking the author's permission through the Reprint Request form below. |
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