Learn to pay obeisance to your body, a gift of God.

Learn to pay obeisance to your body.
It is a sacred place of worship by itself. 


We pay respect to the mortal remains of a body after death with all pomp and religious fervor no matter what religion.  (I know of people who instruct and meticulously leave behind money for their funeral expenses and write down  point by point the after -death sequential activities to be carried out by the family members whilst alive , to execute it properly, lest it gets done  haphazardly  ) but when the body is in existence we have paid scant regard for it. This is my take. 

Our Mortal body is nothing short of a Miracle

1.    You should be thankful for your body as it shows you warning signs of when something goes wrong. Any disease that sets in first meets you at an aura level, which is your Ether double body. After that it penetrates to your physical body and then the mental body. So you are provided with ample time to improve upon yourself before it is too late.

2.     Stand focused on what you want to improve upon.  Your body has been blessed with many chakras for the overall functioning to a ripe age of 120 yrs.  Don’t quit the world earlier. See which chakra the problem relates to and improve upon that chakra. Your problems, no matter what they are in life, can all be addressed through the strengthening of the major chakras.

3.  Your body is in your hands literally. Each finger represents the Pancha bhoothas viz., Thumb represents fire element, Index represents air, Middle finger corresponds to space, Ring finger comprises of the earth element and the little finger signifies water. We came into being with everything so meticulously outlined such that we learn to heal ourselves with our own hands. No external help required, if only we knew how to take care of our body rather than downing lakhs of rupees in a corporate hospital time and again. Donating the amount for any charity would have been a better choice! Holistic measures are divine’s gift to mankind and the sooner we realize it the better. There is nothing which can’t be treated holistically, provided of course you came in not at the last juncture, but as soon as possible, heeding to body signals.

Citing an example:  I remember my mother ( Late Mrs Saraswathy Kalyanam)  telling me that my great grandmother used to remove Jaundice seated with a needle and a tumbler of water placed before the patient with “Namasmarana” on her lips, reciting the ‘Vishnu Sahasranama’. The entire water in the tumbler would turn yellow through the eye of the needle, by the time the chanting was done. There were hundreds of people who had got cured by her. Unfortunately none in the family ever bothered to learn the art. Possibly because it was a strenuous affair and my great grandmother would get fever and feel weak each time and would be rejuvenated holistically.  The point I am making here is that treatments are possible with our own hands at home as the above incident may seem magical and miraculous, but then we are nothing short of a miracle entity as human being, packed with immense power in the first place.    In today’s world, for jaundice, people go to corporate hospitals!  Mudras are available with our fingers and we can heal our body lovingly through Mudras.

4.    Our body is segregated as ‘Vata’, ‘Pittha’ and ‘Kapha’ as food we intake corresponds to that and we learn to avoid what is not ok for us based on these categories. Hence, one man’s food is another man’s poison.

5.     Ever wondered why you were created with two arms and two legs, two kidneys and two lips, two   eyes and ears and two bums, but just one nose, one liver, one heart and one uterus, one spine, one   tongue, one throat,   etc.  There is some sanctity behind the one and two for sure as we are a  wonderful creation of the Divine, who can’t be replicated in the name of Science or any advancement such as launches to the Moon.  Any attempt to belittle or replicate us would be futile. On a humorous note, I dread to think if we were given more than one anus to excrete, what could happen!

h    Why are we being blessed with so much in our frame of a Mortal body which  we know for sure is to be consigned to the flames or buried on earth sooner or later ?   It is not without a reason.  Ponder a moment and you will get the answers. See if it matches with the below which I have to state. If there’s something more that you can comprehend, please feel free to share in the comments of this blog, so that it is learning and development for all. It would be much appreciated.

We come across sayings as:
Love thy neighbor … in a lighter vein,   but not thy neighbour’s wife! J
Love all, serve all.
Love begets love
Love, Love, Love, Love there’s so much to it. But where does it all boil down to?  It all boils down to loving ourselves in the first place!!

The Divine Mantra is to LOVE YOURSELF first as you are focusing on becoming a better version. Everything starts with YOU.

1.    Your arms are blessed to hug someone, why even hugging yourself too!  In fact one can even hug a tree to get positive energy. So try hugging one and see the difference it makes to your life. It is because of the energy that it exudes that travelers used to take rest under a tree when going for long distances.  
Your arms can carry you a long way if you learn to love another and encircle your arms by hugging another to comfort or send joy. Feelings are reciprocated through the arms, so as long as you take care of your arms they will work hard to execute what you need them to.   Have feelings and empathy. Your arms will never ache when you carry heavy things as we are made to shoulder burdens.  They are made to work more dedicated to serve others.  The more your arms stretch out to give, the more the better. BE THANKFUL FOR YOU HAVE TWO HEALTHY ARMS that help you to achieve your Mission on earth, for some came into this world without arms or had their arm(s) removed.
‘Hands that help are holier than lips that pray’ – Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Prasanthi Nilayam,  Parthy.        
2.       Your legs are blessed to take you far and near, to places you wish to reach out. You can run from danger or jump down from the top of a tree with ecstasy but remember in your old age, they falter but try their best to keep you moving.  It is essential to have thanked the pair for trudging long miles each day, as thankfulness helps them to serve you for a longer time without diseases of arthritis, numbness of feet, Varicose veins, nerve weakness, etc.  You could spare a moment to massage them each night to show them that they are loved. The feeling you demonstrate goes a long way for their performance. Just like when a child is given a “ V.Good” in her assignment by her teacher , the child tries to make it better in the same subject with a “V.Good”  yet again.  But if she does not get it again, the feeling is felt. So the body too has feelings and reciprocates the way we treat the part of the body after it serves you. BE THANKFUL FOR YOUR ACHING FEET EACH DAY >>> there are people born lame!

3.       Every human body has wear and tear no matter if it is an Avatar on earth.  Illness, injury and temporary breakdowns happen before the final calling, but eventually your body tries its best to provide you whatever is possible by it under the best circumstances. Embrace your body for it longs for such hugs and goes all out for you.  Your body is always backing you and is on your side favoring you at all costs.  You need to understand it a little better and sprinkle showers of love every now and then, with some treats for serving you so far. Treats could be massaging too. BE THANKFUL FOR WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN BESTOWED WITH IN THIS LIFE, IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE.

4.     Your body is super intelligent. Do not underestimate its glory.  It knows what it needs.  When the body is deprived of water, it makes you feel thirsty; if you are depleted of energy it shows signals of hunger pangs to let you know that you need some food intake;   if you should not meet somebody for any reason or take a flight as ordained, and your stomach churns, it is an indication to you of something unpleasant or detrimental that is in store.  Cancel the appointment as intuitively the body has tried to communicate. Listen to your body signals.  Also, when there is something going wrong, your body will show signs of pain to alert you. Do not ignore the pains. They are a blessing to communicate to you that all is not well. So always check for signals in your body and communicate your love to your body, be it rain or shine, morning or night.  BE THANKFUL  YOUR BODY KNOWS WHAT IT NEEDS  AND ASKS WHAT IT WANTS DISCREETLY
  
5.       All parts of your body have different roles to play. Nothing remains idle for a moment unlike us.   Each organ works round the clock without you instructing or reminding it. Ever realized that? In a world where we are forever having to check on so many things be it before boarding a flight, or sending a note to our spouse for something that ought to be taken care of in our absence, instructing the maid or the driver on what to do, informing the secretary on appointments which are crucial, and ever so much in this mundane activities, have we ever thought of this wonderful body which is a blessing and A MEANS TO GET OUR TASKS fulfilled? There are many who commit suicide and they ought to know that this is grossly wrong.  This body is provided to love and not to kill oneself no matter what troubles we are entrenched with. We have come to this world to experience a slice of life as per our Karmas. What cannot be cured has to be endured. BE THANKFUL FOR EACH AND EVERY PART OF YOUR BODY.

Make your children learn treatments holistically. Teach them to respect their body.  It is definitely more advantageous to them in life and will serve them dutifully, far better than the bookish knowledge they strive for as subjects at schools and colleges. Looking after one’s body is also an art to be inculcated when young.  They need to treat the body as a treasure from God and abstain from misuse and apprehensions.
      What you are is God's gift to you and what you make of yourself is your gift to God.

MALINI KALYANAM alias USHA

The writer is a  Mudra – Yoga- Dance fusion therapist,  Tarot card reader,  Pottery artist , Holistic healer, Inner child therapist, Reiki Grand Master,  Works with God,  Switch words,  Angel therapist , Agnihotra Practitioner and Trainer, Soft skills trainer , Garden enthusiast  and Conserves nature,  has a  Spiritual bent of mind, loves travelling, meeting people, giving  Spiritual discourses and executing turnkey projects on garden composting .



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Your Organ’s body clock... change your lifestyle accordingly

Image
Your Organ’s body clock ... change your lifestyle accordingly for healthy living Most people are unaware that the first thing that they need to do on getting up is to drink hot water. The Mahatma or Father of the Nation sipped a large marble tumbler of hot water daily , it used to be so hot that he used to hold it with a napkin between his fingers   says my dad, who I guess imbibed   the habit   as his Personal Secretary and at  96   is  fit as on date. Not surprisingly, I too took to it as a fish takes to water.   Hence I can vouch for the same. The worst time to drink coffee is early in the morning as it contains caffeine. Old habits die hard but the fact is   Caffeine is a diuretic and takes water away from your colon to your kidneys and bladder for evacuation. Your  body  needs plenty of water in the morning to do its repair and maintenance of the large intestine and colon.  Comfortably sit and sip as much a...
Read more

A day in the life of the Mahatma

Image
A day in the life of the Mahatma                                                                                                                                                                      Gandhiji always got up at 3.30 A.M.   After his ablutions, he held prayers from all communities in his room where he expected all inmates of the ashram to assemble and participate. Similarly, before going to bed at 9 P.M., he always prayed.  So he described prayer as “The key of the morning and bolt of the evening”. Immediately after his prayers he would ha...
Read more

Living on the edge -- bypassing long-term health issues, insensitive to environment

Image
  Living on the edge:  bypassing long-term health issues, insensitive to environment Whilst every day is a new one, life goes on each to his or her mundane routine.   Do we ever contemplate on:   what fabric is good for me and what is bad?   Seriously, I think colors, texture and design should no longer be the only criteria for an impulsive buy. You and your family need to be aware of that in the first place rather than checking on what is trending.   With online shopping and best buys for the season, it’s time to seriously look into the FABRIC aspect that makes a potent cocktail when you hit town. Many a times we are confronted with unhealthy choices of fabrics that resemble the Siamese twins. We love the design, get into raptures , unaware of the material’s hazards, due to lack of knowledge or sheer ignorance. When was the last time you checked on an aspect that your skin should be the criteria for a buy? Today the women’s market of apparels is flo...
Read more

English is alive … keeps ticking!

Image
ENGLISH IS ALIVE ... KEEPS TICKING! E nglish certainly is a queer language as any you see, with all its plurals as different as can get to be for no reason or rhyme. Consider for example:  the plural of ox is oxen but the plural of fox is not foxen but foxes.  But then that is English, call it the British or American version. Although it’s a borrowed language, it finds its way being alive and ticking when it comes to the Corporate world, just in the same fashion as their US$ rules the roost as a form of exchange. Those who are in the fifties age bracket are now confounded with so many words that our past generation didn’t have, but they are words that are only too familiar with the teenage college-goers. So consider a family where there are three generations in the age group of 88+, 55+ and 20+. A conversation typically is: “Hey, I wanted to touch base with you.  Our company has rolled out some good plans.  You can download them and check it out. L...
Read more

A red-letter day for all Industrial drone segments in Bharat

Image
A red-letter day for all Industrial drone segments in Bharat   The PM of India Shri. Narendra Modi ji inaugurated the Bharat Drone Mahotsav at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi today amidst a packed  audience.  He congratulated all those involved in the drone segments across India and said he wasn’t late for the inauguration today  --  that he came on time but was so absorbed in listening to what the drone sector was geared for, assimilating what they had to deliver, and listening to the many participants at the stalls that he didn’t realize time was ticking away and that he was late for the inauguration. He confessed he certainly would have liked to know more as the information provided to him was spell-bounding on the subject , making him thrilled at the prospects of what lay in store for Bharat. Policy making with technology, better governance and a lot more were capable of being handled by drone technology and when he visited the stalls, he was proud and co...
Read more

Secret behind living 120 yrs on Mother Earth with ease (PART - 2)

Your innings on earth: 120 glorious years with ease!  This is relatively very simple to follow. First of all, determine what Nakshatra you come under. I have listed out all the nakshatras below for your ready reference. Then arrive at what Raasi you belong to as per your birth chart.   Nakshatra is different from Raasi for those of you who are not familiar with Astrology.  Raasi is the house or planetary position when you are born, while Nakshatra is the ruling star of the day on which you are born. There are a total of 27 Stars (also known as  Nakshatras) and each of us would fall under one particular star, depending on which star ruled on the day  we were born. Incidentally I may mention that the English version of signs as Aries, Saggitarius, Libra, Leo, etc.,  are not the same as this 12 Rasis as a Saggitarian may have birthday  appearing in December but could fall under a Rasi of Thula and not Meena  as given in serial order ...
Read more

English is alive … Keeps ticking (PART # 2)

Image
English has gone a long way … such a long way that I fear keeping track of it may be tougher than I expect to.  The language has undergone a sea change so much so that one would need to have the latest dictionary to keep track.  Sounds crazy, but well we have no other option. I shudder to think of the plight of my Webster’s and Oxford which hold a place of pride at home. They remain as  old editions of by gone era.  The next gen can now relate to them as antique collection of books. They no longer contain words that are important  and tech savvy to me for daily parlance and have become extinct, just like many other things that have gone extinct in our day to day lives.  For instance, I cannot imagine my would-be daughter in law sitting on the grinding stone of those days like we used to, every alternate day for making fluffy idlis/ Dosa.  I distinctly remember my sister and I used to sit on the  " Kalloral "  or grinding stone which...
Read more

Clay is Joy, lets you ENJOY

Image
  Clay is Joy, lets you ENJOY Merely watching a clay session churning out pieces of art is sheer joy and lets you enjoy – be it wet clay or leather hard when chiseling out finer aspects.   Experiential and experimental learning   Of all the fine arts prevalent, one that has caught on fast and favorably to all, especially the IT, Medical , Banking sector and children’s segment alike  is Pottery during Corona crisis. The art has many found takers,  thanks to the necessity and need to destress.  It has, of late, been recognized as one that is a perfect tactile, with all the messiness and clumsiness that goes into the making of an art with damp clay and the cool temperature that gets warmer by virtue of  mashing it. The thrill and kick of hand-building is to be experienced and seen to be believed. No denying it is a mindful gesture to put down your tablets, phones and computers aside , forget everything around you and delve into nuances of pottery...
Read more

Secret behind living 120 yrs on Mother Earth with ease

Your innings on earth: 120 glorious years with ease !   The human being is intricately designed so as to live for a ripe 120 years. That is the normal life-span created for him by the Creator.  The Almighty was generous to provide all that is outstanding and nice to the human species for such a glorious lifespan :   the Sun and Moon ,  five Pancha Bhootas, Ida-Pingala-Sookshma nadis for heat /cold balance to match the Spine.  The body in turn got segregated as Vata, Pitta and Kapha bodies of subtle variations for each. Human beings were sent to earth with a generous dose of all they could long for in Mother Earth to make life a pleasure to survive. They were blessed with the acupressure points in their own  body to heal themselves. They were blessed with Reiki, Pranic healing, Color therapy, Magnet therapy, Ayurveda, Yoga, Homoeopathy, Siddha, Varma, Angel therapy and so many abounding therapies. In short a  truly blessed holistic route...
Read more

Costly lessons imparted by #Sridevi for free. Care to listen ‘n’ learn?

Image
Costly lessons imparted by #Sridevi for free.   Care to listen ‘n’ learn? Beauty personified at the cost of one’s life seems a bit dicey and difficult to digest.   Actress Sridevi had a natural charm about her that one can attribute as a plus factor. It was a gift from God.   She probably earned it on account of her past Karma.   All she needed to have was a sense of maturity to realize that one has to age gracefully and not overdo it. Stress can take a toll on life is the lesson we can all learn from her untimely death.   Certainly 54 years is not an age to die but one to relax and enjoy the delicious fruits of labor. She rose to the limelight with her acting prowess and she could have still retained her slot in the field as a star of yesteryears for a lifetime, and forever more, with no one to snatch it from her, no matter what her weight or wrinkles were.   But then Madame Death snatched it from her on account of her callous attitude towards her ...
Read more