Yoga health care A tale is told about two Ayurvaid doctors arguing about who one had cured a patient.
They were standing under an apple tree in an orchard. All of a sudden an apple fell from the tree, hit one of the doctors on the head then, bounced off and hit the other. This was when they both came to realize that even although they both might have helped, it was Mother Nature that had, in fact, cured the patient. Yoga teaches us that, in fact, only nature cures; all we can do is care.
This is what constitutes Yoga health care. Only the Yogis intrinsically knew that no medicine can match one’s body's own capacity to heal itself. All kinds of treatment can, at best, just help that process.
The ancient Yogis had also said, "Nature is the doctor of all diseases." So, it is. Let's examine how the easy and effective techniques of Yoga help change our lives for the better.
There is no denying that prevention is better than cure. This is why it is so important to lead a life that keeps illness at bay. Rather than develop and have to deal with it afterwards, we’d rather be fit and healthy and remain that way.
Unfortunately, things have changed, and we have strayed away from nature. For one thing, nutrition and vitality, is nowadays, sadly lacking from our lives. To top it all, our ever-increasing materialistic outlook on life has left most, if not all, of us dull and uninspired.
Here are 2 important points to consider:
- Cleanliness
- Vitality
Cleanliness has 2 aspects to: internal and external. By and large most of us are preoccupied with the way we look externally. However we don't pay much attention to our interiors. Even though we bathe daily and keep our bodies relatively clean externally, we also stuff so much down our throats that our innards probably resemble a clogged-up sewer pipe. Yoga firmly believes that germs don't cause disease in a body; they are a sign of it. Germs scavengers that feed on dirt, toxins and dead matter in the body that cause the disease in the first place. This includes the vast majority of major diseases in the world.
Vitality comes from our own energy resources. We get energy from the environment – from the sun, from the food we eat, the water we drink and air we breathe. That energy is vital energy to the body; it becomes the vitality that keeps us alive. This comes, essentially from Prana, the vital energy or life force through the air we breathe. The more vitality w have, the stronger we become, the greater our physical well-being, and the more inspired we feel.
Yoga teaches to know ourselves, to take responsibility for our own health, to be our own doctors. That doesn’t mean we're never going to need medical treatment. But at least you can minimize the chance.
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