A FEW WORDS ABOUT HEALTH
Health is defined as a state of the
body, the mind and the heart. So, we have phrases like good health, excellent
health, poor health, ill health, physical
health, mental health, spiritual health, etc.
In simple terms, a man
is healthy when he has no illness or disease.
In a modern society there is provision for a health care department
which is supposed to be responsible for looking after the health of all the
people in a country or an area. However, it is unfortunate that although such a
department exists all over the world, most of the humanity continues to be unhealthy.
Innumerable diseases are becoming a
common feature to be treated by latest medicines and surgical skills. All said
and done, Man, the Son of God, remains
unhealthy, physically, mentally, and spiritually.
It should be forgotten that besides all other health-friendly
aids, good health requires practice of cardinal virtues like chastity, temperance,
charity, diligence, patience, kindness and humility, and abstention from deadly
sins like pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and idleness
Here are four eternal advisories about the importance and maintenance
of good health.
“Regularity in the hour of rising and retiring, perseverance in
exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and
nutritious food , and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regiment
of health. ----American author Mrs. Lydia H. Sigourney (1791-1865).
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is
by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail
to alleviate the tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or
resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we
naturally fly; but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter
in the arms of sickness.----English author Samuel Johnson (1709-84).
Regimen is better than physic. Everyone should be his own physician. We ought
to assist , and not force nature. Eat with moderation what agrees with your
constitution. Nothing is good for the
body what we cannot digest. What medicine can improve digestion? Exercise.
What will recruit strength? Sleep. What will alleviate incurable evils? Patience. ---French
poet and dramatist Francois Marie de Voltaire
(1694-1778).
Few things are more important to a community than the health
of its women. If strong is the frame of the mother, says a proverb, the son
will give laws to the people. And in nations where all men give
laws, all men need mothers of strong frames. – American clergy Thomas Wentworth
Higginson (1823-1911).
TAILPIECE
In the current
merciless onslaught of Covid-19, accept medication but also rely on meditation and prayer.
16th
May 2021 G.R.Kanwal
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