Monday, December 28, 2009

Thursday, December 24, 2009

THE BILLION DOLLAR MACHINE THAT WENT TO THE DOGS

Today we live in the most modern of the worlds. We have gadgets, appliances, machines and what not. Some of them are wonderful and intelligent too. We have excellent communication devices and we can voice-chat anywhere in the world in real-time. We take care of these machines in accordance with the users’ manual as all these hitech gadgets come with.

Let me tell you, the human body is so far the most amazing, complex and complicated machine this world has ever seen. It has a brain, a mind and some people say a soul too. Then there are so called etheric-body, causal-body, astral-body, pranic-body and so on and so forth. Still we can’t find a users’ manual to show us how to take care of this body.

We use it, misuse it and finally abuse it. The result is ominous. We suffer strokes and some of us leave for the heavenly abode all of a sudden canceling all the future assignments; leaving our near and dear in hapless sorrow and grief. This has been happening all the time. News item are replete with this.

We get our motor car serviced at intervals. We change the batteries when they get worn. We change oil and spares when they wear out. We fill in the right grade of fuel so that the car doesn’t give us trouble in the middle of road. Most of us believe in preventive maintenance of our cars and sign up with the authorized service centre so that they pick the vehicle on due date and return us in good repair.

Yet we fail to take care of our own human body. If it aches we take pain-killers; if we get fever, we pop some pills and move on with our agenda.

These are the signs through which our body tells us that it is time to give it a little break. But we in our stride try at best to ignore these tell-tale signs and carry on the important jobs which we have promised ourselves to fulfill as per some agenda we have fixed for ourselves. These signs are akin to a child who tries to draw attention of his parents to his needs and problems and when fails repeatedly takes on his own course and grows up to be a menace. Then it is too late and we end up trying to salvage the situation which has already gone out of hand.

So beware! Take good care of your health. Spend some time daily for exercise and introspection. Then everything will be all right.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Body Pains and Western style kitchen

During the course of treatment of pains of people I have found one thing in common. People who stand a lot during their work have more problem than the people who don’t need to stand for a lot of time.

Housewives have to stand a lot of time in the kitchen doing their chores; cooking food, breakfast, brewing tea and all. Sometimes I wonder how come Indian kitchens are designed on the western style.

In the western world they buy food and then warm it before they eat. In India the concept of cooking is very much alive except where the husband and wife both work and the wife doesn’t find time to cook. So they end up eating out or they carry in food and warm it before eating.

In a typical home the housewife spends so much time standing in the kitchen that she contacts so many pains from head to toe. In contrast their mothers and mother in laws did not have than much pain as they used to cook sitting in the chowka (kitchen).

It is high time they think over it and turn back to the traditional style to save themselves from the excruciation pains they suffer due to this mistake.

I can only hope that the better sense will prevail and save the Indian housewife from the painful charade.