With advancement of civilisation the modern man is becoming less and less active physically. Modern machines, vehicles, computer and television have certainly enriched the life of human being to a great extent. But they have also made him psychologically strained and physically lethargic. Change in dietary habits has overburdened his digestive system. Stiff competition and mad race for worldly comforts have caused serious imbalance between the already complicated relations of mind and body. All these things create a fertile breeding ground for diseases, tension, pain, failure and conflict in our life. Like our ancestors we don’t have a natural way of healthy living any more. We have to think and plan it.
TAKE EXERCISE REGULARLY
Taking exercise is the most effective step to ensure a healthy body and good working stamina. Without a daily dose of exercise your body becomes weak and lazy. Its wall of immune system becomes weak. Studies show that regular exercise reduces the risk of death due to heart trouble and stroke, prevents diabetes, hypertension, arthritis, and some forms of cancer, strengthens our bones and immune function. Regular exercise improves the efficiency of heart and other body parts and we live longer. Exercise is the best method to help you to control weight. Overweight people are always at the risk of getting diseases. Exercise also improves the working of our brain. Psychological health of physically fit persons is also better comparing to those who don’t take exercise.
Many persons want to know how much exercise a person needs to improve general health and reduce the risk of diseases. According to U.S. National Institutes of Health as little as 30 minutes every day of purposeful, moderately strenuous physical activity—for example, rapid walking, jogging, swimming, or dance aerobics is sufficient. There is no evidence to prove that a rigorous exercise routine, such as running many miles per day, as opposed to walking or jogging daily, will add years to a person’s life. Begin with a 10 minutes exercise session and gradually increase it upto 30 minutes.
Exercise should be suitable to your physique. Although you should take the exercise you enjoy yet only your desire can not decide the type of exercise you should take. Many persons have a frail physique. Any strenuous exercise can do more harm than good to them. You must warm up your body before you take any strenuous exercise like fast running, weight-lifting etc. It will save you from muscle injury. Never force yourself to do an exercise which your body doesn’t want to do. Listening to music while doing exercise adds fun to it.
AVOID JUNK AND SPICY FOOD
Our body equally needs balanced diet. Eating for taste may ruin your health after a few years and cause irreparable damages to your organs. How can you move ahead happily in life if your health is constantly dragging you down? Therefore cut down consumption of junk food (pizza, burger, pastry, chocolates etc.), spices and oil. Avoid eating outside and never be lured to mouth-watering dishes of home delivery services of mushrooming restaurants. Eat home-made food, fruits and vegetables. Drink enough water.
Avoid cold drinks or alcohol. Many tests have proved that most of the cold drinks contain caffeine and pesticides. You become addicted to them and spoil your health. Alcoholic drinks not only rob you out of your wealth, family peace and health but also drag you to early death. Don’t even touch them.
Today if you fill your stomach with all sorts of unhealthy things just because of taste, tomorrow you will get dangerous diseases and repent. So it is better to discipline your dietary habits and keep your stomach light. Then it will keep you healthy and prolong your life-span.
RELAXATION IS NECESSARY
Many persons do physical exercise, take balanced diet still they suffer from various ailments. Though exercise and diet help them to reduce the intensity of a disease and their immune system fights a disease better yet their strained mind hampers the healing process. It is like sending positive waves from one side and the negative from the other. So it is necessary to keep your mind relaxed and positive to maintain a good health. To relax, solve the problem, pursue a hobby, go for travelling (out of your city) at least once a year, listen to music, talk to your intimate friends, and meditate daily.
WORK VERY HARD IN LIFE
Harland Sanders has wisely said: Hard work beats all the tonics and vitamins in the world. Hard work never harms anyone in life but laziness does kill many. We must learn to work very hard in life. Various emotions in varied degrees rise in our mind all the time. They need to be utilised to keep our mind and body in tune. Therefore we need to work hard to achieve our goals or to fulfil our wishes. It will streamline the functioning of our body and mind. The best defence system for a country is to strengthen its boundaries today to prevent the entry of enemy tomorrow. In the same way you can be free from diseases in future if you work hard for the empowerment of your body’s immune system today.
HEALING POWER OF YOUR MIND
Our mind can not only help us to become successful in life but also heal our body. Faith in the healing powers of our mind is also necessary to keep ourselves healthy and fit. Immune system of our body is able to fight the enemies of health in a better way if is reinforced with rays of faith and positive thinking. Heart-break, disappointments, negative thinking and crushing tension break the wall of our immune system reducing its defence or healing power.
The great Scottish surgeon and teacher of anatomy, James Hunter said, "As one state of mind is capable of producing a disease, another state of mind effects a cure." Dr. Bernie Seigal of America cured patients having serious illnesses by inculcating faith in their mind’s healing power. In his sanatorium he helped the patients to change their life style. In his book ‘Love Medicine and Miracles’ he declared that hope is the main ingredient in fighting cancer. The hopeful individual appears to be most resistant to cancer or any other serious disease. After immense research Norman Vincent Peale was convinced that faith of a person played major role in overcoming diseases. In his book ‘Power of Positive Thinking’ he wrote that if a person allows the picture of health sink into the subconscious this powerful part of mind will send forth radiant health energy. If the real thought is negative, the results will also be negative. If the real thought is positive, a person will get positive and healing results.
French physician called Emile Coue was responsible for thousands of remarkable documented healings at the beginning of the 20th century. His remedy was to combine western medicine with the power of affirmations. Patients were made to repeat positive healing affirmations to themselves while in a relaxed frame of mind. Coue's most famous affirmation was "every day, in every way, I am getting better and better."
