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Osho on Feelings , health and therapies

“You will find meaning in life
only if you create it.It is a poetry to be composed.
It is a song to be sung.It is a dance to be danced…”

― Osho

We are the cause of our own suffering. All therapies are Toys to Calm the Anxiety in our mind and relieve tensions from the Body. Therapies do help us for a while but they are not a permanent solution. We need to go to the root cause of the Disease and most of time it’s our life style and our Vision towards Life.

When we do any wrong act then our soul immediately intervenes but if we ignore that voice again and again, slowly that voice of our soul gets feeble and feeble and one day we cannot hear it.

When ever we suppress anything, that feeling is stored in our body at a particular place, over the period of time will lead to disease. It does not mean that we should hit other person when we are angry but we need to be more meditative. Meditation is the only solution.

We seek for Quick Remedies for a problem. They are certainly quick to show result but they are definitely not the Solution for that problem.

As one goes deep in meditation, slowly, slowly, feelings of jealousy, anger, hatred decreases. In short, the control of mind over us decreases and we become the master of our life for the first time. All meditative therapies like “Osho Mystic Rose”, “Osho No-Mind”, and “Osho Born Again” are techniques to be in touch with our real nature.

In these therapies all those hurtful feelings and emotions which we have suppressed in ourselves gets released and we feel very lighter. We become younger and fresh.

As these suppressed feelings are released, we get glimpses of our real nature and the joy which we used to feel as a child. Our spirit become alive like a child and the body looks younger in numbers.

Whenever the garbage our mind is carrying is thrown out in these meditative therapies and a deep silence is the next outcome of these therapies. This is one of the reasons that Meditation is the essential part of these therapies. Osho has designed them very scientifically. First the catharsis of suppressed emotions is done which is followed by Meditation.

Therapies are also wonderful in relieving disease and dealing with emotions. But at the same we should not become dependent on them and should change our life style that is causing the disease.

No therapy can give us permanent change unless we co-operate with it. Because, old patterns of life style and mind come back again. So to stop falling to old patterns of life one needs to be more meditative. All therapies should be followed by Meditation.

Nature is the Best therapy. Early Morning walk, Fresh Air, Lush Green Garden, Nutritious food prepared with Love, Sight of Sunset with beloved, sound of Rain drops and flowing water is all heals us. Any thing that connects us to our real nature or brings us close to nature can act as a therapy.

The Healer

The whole is the healer. To be healed means to be joined with the whole. The function of the healer is to reconnect it. The healer touches the body of the ill person and becomes a link between him and the source. The patient is no longer connected directly with the source so he becomes indirectly connected. Once the energy starts flowing, he is healed. Healing is one of the most delicate dimensions. And the delicacy consists in the healer not doing anything in it. To be a healer really means not to be. The less you are, the better healing will happen. The more you are, the more the passage is blocked.

Osho

Managing Individual’s Health – 360 degree

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

As an individual I am very conscious about my health these days as I am in my early thirties and I know I need to focus somewhat more to remain as energetic as I was in my twenties. When I discuss this with my friends and families I get avalanche of advices but most of these advices are converging on a mantra to have a healthy diet, do some exercise daily and focus on spiritual side such as yoga and meditation. All genuine advices, I love you all but with all due respect point is I have tried all of these and I am sure everybody of you out there must have tried some bits of these mantras sometimes in your life, but with the pace and stresses of life for a person like me, it is easy to lose focus and fall back to past unhealthy habits. Surely there are some much disciplined people out there who are sticking to the mantra; most of the people find it difficult.

Also with increasing cost of healthcare and in general everything all the health advisors are rightly advising to get medical insurance covers to cover one and his/her family adequately and most of the people I know are covered to some extent by insurance provided by either the employer or by themselves , but is the coverage adequate ? Are they covered for critical diseases? Do they know their health profile? Do they have some family doctor or a doctor who can they can reach for opinions? Do they know family medical history and how it can affect their and their kid’s health?

Some smart people out there will shout their heart out , yes I know I know , but for lesser morons like me , the answers seems in a sorry state , some yes some no some not clear , overall a nebulous feeling. In earlier times when we were kids and our parents and their parents were working, the scenarios were very different, families were large, societies were well bonded and most of the people were in government jobs or with public sector units who were taking care of health. Health cost were bit less and with the simple lifestyle they were living , lifecycle diseases such as diabetes, high BP etc were not that prevalent. But with today’s lifestyle which is even stressful for kids and with rising aspirations, competitions and living cost, looking after one’s health is becoming difficult day by day. Though the quality of health services has improved immensely yet access to them in a disciplined manner has become difficult and costly.

Need of the time is proper health management of individuals. In our country despite of so many qualified doctors and hospitals, it becomes difficult to get a right direction and ways to manage health. We all have been hearing from our childhood “Health is Wealth “ and this idiom is much more relevant in today’s time as it has been observed that many a times families loose all their fortune on health related issues. While we are young we think we are perfectly healthy and nothing can happen to us, but it takes one unfortunate moment and health starts deteriorating.

India has already been called as disease capital of the world and following facts compliment my viewpoint:

• By 2025, India will have the dubious distinction of having 70 million diabetics, 213 million hypertensive’s and 60 million arthritics. The cost of these including welfare losses is estimated to be Rs 15, 01,200 crores by 2015. According to the WHO report Preventing Chronic Diseases – A vital investment, 388,000,000 people will die in the next 10 years of a chronic disease. A significant proportion of this will be in India. 
• Only a quarter of the population can afford Western medicine, with the rest relying on traditional remedies or alternative treatments, such as acupuncture and Ayurvedic medicine (which can at least boast fewer adverse reactions).
• Eighty-one per cent of health care across India is paid from private funds, mainly individual pockets. To compound the problem, the booming economy has attracted millions into the cities and away from the country’s rural network of hospitals.
•  It is estimated that by 2020 cardiovascular disease will be the cause of over 40 per cent deaths in India as compared to 24 per cent in 1990. Globally, it causes 17.3 million deaths annually.
• Changing lifestyle pattern, coupled with lack of physical exercise has put 74 per cent of urban Indians at risk of suffering from cardiovascular diseases (CVD), a recent study has revealed.
•  Research has found that 59 per cent of people between the age group of 30-49 years have high risk levels of cholesterol, while an additional 61 per cent in the 30-49 year age group are with dangerously low levels of HDL cholesterol.
•  In the 30-34 age group, 96 per cent of those who were taking medication for controlling blood pressure were at high risk of developing CVDs.
•  According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, in 2009 lower-income groups in India had less access to health care than 15 Asian countries surveyed, where, on average, only 55 per cent of health care is paid from private funds.
•  The number of inhabitants aged 60-plus is estimated to reach 189 million by 2025 – three times the 2004 total.
• A combination of the “thrifty gene hypothesis” (i.e. our genetic predisposition towards obesity and diabetes) and frantic lifestyle has brought us on the brink of a healthcare catastrophe.
• According to the WHO, India has an estimated 15 to 20 million asthmatics out of a worldwide figure of 100 to 150 million. It also accounts for 20 per cent of the world’s TB cases.

Though much is needed to be done in healthcare field in India by government as well as private bodies on an infrastructure as well as execution level, what I found lacking today is proper management of health history of individual, less personal connect between patients and doctors, low exposure to various health related products and in general less priority to our own health at a starting level.

A product is needed to cover all aspects of healthcare of an individual from an individual’s perspective, which intends to start bridging the gap at the starting level and be ready for the future revolution which is bound to happen in India if we want to see India as a Healthy nation.

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Welcome to blogging Aman

Seeing so many high quality blogs getting published on WordPress and getting chance to enhance my life through other’s perspective and experiences I was always thinking to start blogging .

Though I am not a very good writer but thought this might give me a chance to hear suggestions on my writing from others and help me to learn and grow.

So here I am taking the plunge in the world of blogging and will def try to be remain active.

Thanking in advance to make this world so beautiful with your experiences.

Aman