Avoid Medicines With Yoga
The use of medicines has increased due to today’s sedentary lifestyle. We can almost say it has become as necessary as air, water, and food for day to day survival. Some people are addicted to medicines. It is a result of artificial comforts of life and getting detached with nature. The situation in so-called civilized western societies is that people are unable to digest food without medicines and can not sleep without sleeping pills. They have to take medicines for clearing their stomach or to control high blood pressure or any other health related problems.
Western culture has entered Indian houses and has started influencing our culture. So as a result, Indians are moving towards artificial comforts of life and getting detached from nature. People were very close to nature a few decades ago for their life style, living conditions diet and discipline, which led to a healthy and happy life without medicines. Medicines were necessary in case of an illness, but the situation changed gradually and now it has totally changed.
Ayurveda is an ancient Indian health building science. Ayurveda also gives a diet and regimen to be followed along with disciplined life style. The prescribed rules and principles are as suitable as and relevant today as before. The only difference being that we were more closer to them in olden days, but that closeness has converted into distances and reached to the level of ignorance today. Therefore, people are not aware of these principles and rules. If we follow them properly, it will lead a healthy and happy life.
Positive feeling denotes happiness and negative feeling denotes unhappiness, pain and trouble. Illness is one of the reasons for pain and unhappiness, which affects the body, mind and brain directly. The sickness of body, mind and brain denotes unnatural condition. When the natural balance of mind and body gets disturbed the disease starts building up in the body. In order to understand this point we need to understand the body constitution and structure relating to health.
According to ayurveda thirteen things i.e. tridoshas –vata, pitta and kapha, seven humours –taste, blood, flesh, fat, bones, marrow and sperm and three faeces –sweat, urine and bowel, (in total 13), are active in our body. These doshas - humours and faeces are the main bases of our body. The different fluids are produced in the body with these factors and the body holds them. All the internal processes of the body are based on external efforts. The physical health and illness are also based on these three factors. Any type of fault or disorder in any one of the factor imbalances the mutual action and results into the health and the body falling sick.
According to ayurveda when vata-pitta-kapha are in equilibrium, the digestion process is working normally, the function of seven humours is normal, the soul, ten sensory organs and mind remain cheerful then the person is said to b healthy. The definition of a healthy person mentioned here is practical.
The digestive system digests normally whatever food we eat and it directly affects the tri doshas. Therefore when a person eats wrong or unhealthy food then the doshas increase or decrease and become toxic. This affects the humours and this toxicity develops disorders. Eating right food and following proper life style maintains proper balance in doshas. So to balance tri doshas is extremely necessary for a healthy person says ayurveda. Ayurveda says that it is not only sufficient to b free of diseases to be healthy but should be in condition, which does not affect the mind and body.
Saint Kashyapa has said that a person who feel hungry on time, the food is digested properly, faeces, urine and gas is evacuated properly, the body feels light, the sensory organs are functioning properly without any disorders, the person sleeps well, who is able to think properly, is physically strong, has clear complexion, enjoys good longevity, the mind is cheerful, the digestive fire digests food properly, all these are considered to be the symptoms of good health. The absence of any of these or opposite symptoms indicates sickness.
It is proved that regular practice of yogasanas prevents and cures diseases.. Every asana affects the internal and external organs of the body so the practice of corresponding asana related to the organ corrects the problem and also cures the related diseases. The body becomes healthy. E.g. Bhujangasana cures almost all the problems of the body and increases digestive power so practice of Bhujangasana makes a person healthy and keeps healthy. In other words regular practice of Bhujangasana increases digestive fir and cures all the stomach related and spine related diseases and also arouses the Kundalini.
In the same way practice of different Asanas cures diseases and makes the and makes the person healthy keeps away from medicines. So everybody should share some time everyday for yogasanas and yogic kriyas to be healthy and to keep fit without medicines.
