Book Title: Family and Nation
Author(s): Mahapragna Acharya, A P J Abdulkalam
Publisher: Harper Publications India

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________________ CREATING HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS 105 desires leads to skin disease. Mental suffocation leads to headache. Jealousy is linked to ulcers and too much ambition causes diabetes.' The fundamental element of spiritual therapy is purity of emotions. The best medium to understand and explain human attitude and behaviour is the medium of emotions. There are five important facts to understand about this medium: (1) Hypothalamus is very sensitive to emotions and feelings; (2) The emotions continue to affect the body through the involuntary nervous system and the endocrine glands; (3) We have no control on the involuntary nervous system but it can be affected by emotions; (4) The waves of emotions are amenable to transformation by the subconscious mind; and (5) Treatment of disease is possible through transformation of emotions. With each emotion, certain subatomic material clusters are formed. Ominous emotions form inauspicious material clusters that weaken the mind and body. Good emotions, on the other hand, form positive material clusters that strengthen the immunity system of the body. FEARLESSNESS The third aphorism of health is an environment free from fear. Modern man's mind is impulsive and unsteady and easily affected by circumstances, especially those that give rise to fear. Fear generates tremendous tension. Sudden fear may even cause a heart attack. There is an intimate relationship between freedom (svatantrata) and fearlessness (abhaya). Freedom makes man fearless and slavery instils fear. In fact, both freedom and fearlessness are two sides of the same coin; one without the other is impossible. In Ayurveda,3 three kinds of humours are indicatedvata (wind), pitta (bile) and kapha (phlegm). If all the three are in perfect balance, there is good health. An imbalance Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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