My Health, My Responsibility

 

My Health, My Responsibility

I have been a sports person right since childhood, going out for an early morning run, soaking in the morning freshness while running. The rush of adrenaline as one gets the second breath and just striding on comfortably while others fell back while trying to catch up used to give me a real high. Through the years I have been running, doing yoga, meditating, eating to live rather than the other way round. Unless we control our own diet and exercise no one can help us. We can hire trainers, join gyms, etc. but at the end of the day unless we ourselves decide to lead a healthy, disciplined life there is no one on earth who can really help us to stay fit.

There are so many companies selling diet food, promoting this diet and that diet …. we now have nutritionists telling us what to eat, how to eat while trainers tell us how to exercise, how much to exercise etc. But believe me, in my experience if you follow a healthy regime your own body talks to you and you instinctively ‘know’ what is good for you and what is not. Most of us have stressed lifestyles – work, home, travel, irregular eating hours, eating junk from outside – all this has a direct impact on one’s wellness and wellbeing!

Your body needs detoxification if you feel you are putting on unnecessary weight, you feel that you are filled with gas and the body feels bloated, there is stress, tiredness and listlessness, dull skin tone and so on. Anything that makes you feel not ‘you’ – means the body needs detoxification.

With regular practise of yoga and meditation one can keep one’s body healthy. For detoxification of the body intermittent fasting and a judicious, healthy diet will help cleanse you from within. Fasting is extremely good for health – our ancestors recommended it, our religious festivals have it built into them – all of this has already been thought of by our ancestors – the question is do we believe them? It is fashionable to debunk our history in the name of modernism, when the entire western world is learning from our heritage and patenting products made out of our herbal knowledge.

If you want to remain healthy for a long period of time, become responsible for your own health – eat judiciously, fast intermittently, exercise regularly, meditate twice a day and cleanse your mind, body and soul – stay healthy, stay focused in the moment, radiate peace and love. Live by the dictum – My Health, My Responsibility!