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If you think
wellbeing can be found in medical cures, think again.
Fundamentally, the word health itself comes
from the root word ‘whole’. Feeling healthy is having a
sense of wholeness within us. If we are free of diseases,
medically, that is not health. If we feel like a complete human
being in our body, mind and spirit, that is when we are really
healthy. There are many people who are medically healthy, but
not healthy in the real sense because they do not experience a
sense of wellness within themselves.
If one has to experience this sense of
wholeness and oneness, it’s important that one’s body, mind,
and above all, one’s energy functions on a certain level of
intensity within themselves. Now, physically, as per medical
terms, one may be healthy, but energies may be lethargic. One
doesn’t know why things don’t happen in life the way they
should, both inside and outside; this is simply because one is
not taking care of the well-being of one’s energy. For every
physical or psychological situation that you go through in life,
there is an energy basis, which in turn, has a chemical basis.
In a way, modern allopathic medicines have become just chemistry. For
every problem that arises in your body, you are just trying to
take in some medicine, a chemical, and come to some kind of
balance. If you use one chemical to bring down one aspect, or
enhance another, there is also a side effect to this. For this
side-effect, there is an antidote; for the antidote there is
another antidote, it’s an endless chain. Whatever is happening
on the chemistry level in your body is only controlled by the
way your energies function. Because a man has got excess acids
within him, you ingest some alkaline medicine into him. But why
does he have excessive acids? Because of the way his mind, his
body, and above all, his energy functions.
So in yoga, when we say health, we don’t
look at the body; we don’t look at the mind; we only look at
the energy—the way it is. If your energy body is in proper
balance and full flow, your physical body and mental body will
be in perfect health. There is no question about it. Keeping the
energy body in full flow is not about cures. It is about going
to the foundation of your energy system and activating it in a
proper way—building a foundational yogic practice that
establishes your energy in such a way that your body and mind
are naturally fine.
When it comes to health, no human being gets
to live in perfect conditions. The pressures of life, the food
we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink, all these affect
us in many ways. The more our activities are in the world; the
more we’re exposed to many things that can throw our chemistry
off balance and create health problems. But if the energy in our
system is properly cultivated and kept active, these things will
not have an effect. Without a doubt, the physical body and the
mental body will be in perfect health.
Life functions in many ways. Let us say you
don’t know anything about electricity—you don’t even know
what electricity is. This hall is dark. If I tell you that if
you press a button, the whole hall will be flooded with light,
will you believe me? No. Now I just do it, and light appears.
You will call it a miracle, isn’t it? Simply because you
don’t understand how electricity works. Similarly, right now,
medical sciences are limited to knowing just the physical body. If
anything happens beyond that, you think it’s a miracle. I call
it another kind of science, that’s all. Life functions in so
many ways. You have just limited yourself to the physical and
the logical. This life energy in you created your whole
body—these bones, this flesh, this heart, this kidney and
everything else. Do you think it cannot create health? If your
energies are kept in full flow and proper balance, it is capable
of creating much more than just health.
By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Source: CW
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