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Right Labor ≅ Right Exercise ≅ Right Vocation ≅ Right Health

"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."  ~ Voltaire Life and labour are synonymous. But we are trading our wealth for labour. People who do not do physical labour are considered privileged and those who have no option but engage in physical labour are considered unlucky. What we need to be aware of is that too much labour kills and that too little labour also kills. Each person should find according to his constitution how much labour and what kind of labour is best suited for his temperament. We need to choose the right labour –for our body, mind and soul... The health of our cells depends not just on the nutrition we get from our diet, the stimulation it gets from various form of exercise but also from the intellectual and spiritual nourishment it gets as part of   the process of its...

What is Health?

Dr. Samuel Hahnenmann who founded the system of homoeopathy says in the first aphorism in the Organon   “The physician’s high and only mission is to restore the sick to health, to cure, as it is termed.”   It is important to note that he does not begin by  praising the virtue of homoeopathy or any other system, but with a simple yet powerful statement.  Cure is nothing but restoration of health. And, this one needs to knows the things that derange health and cause disease. So, what are the things that cause disease? If we consider the word ‘disease’, it means we are in a state of dis-ease, not at ease. This means that our health is deranged. World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as ‘Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well- being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.’ The above definition covers two very important aspect concerning health, one is the stress on social well-being and the other is that the me...