Monday, August 15, 2016

Health, Mind, and six enemies

Today thought of writing on spirituality and its relations with mind and in turn on health.
Our scriptures have mentioned below as our enemies -
Lust
Greed
Anger
Arrogance
Attachment
Jealousy

Why are they called enemies?
So, what does an enemy do to us? An enemy causes us financial loss, family loss, material loss, health loss, status loss or some other loss. Now, when we take a look at these above 6 enemies, they are within us. If we are prey to any of these, our mind becomes a slave to that, this causes some emotional changes that in turn cause physical changes. Consider anger. Too much anger affects our blood pressure. Any changes in our system, though subtle, is going to sow the seed for some disease, either in near term or long term. Also, an impure mind makes wrong decisions. If the mind is under the influence of arrogance, that mind may cause relationship problems, either at home front or at business front.
Thus, these enemies are going to cause some or other loss and hence they prove their name as 'enemies'.
How to conquer them?
Now that you have above knowledge, you need to observe the same. How to detach yourself from yourself and start observing rise and fall of these enemies within yourself?

The only technique that has survived all changes, all invasions, all times and still prove to be successful is Yoga. Learn wherever you can. I preach Art of Living (@SriSri, @artofliving).
That will give you the capability to observer our own mind, tune it, in turn tune your health for a better living.

Yateen..

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