From IIM Ahmedabad To Happiness

Author(s): Vijay K Jain
Publisher: Vikalp Printers

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FROM IIM-AHMEDABAD TO HAPPINESS
source, for the simple reason that an auto-suggestion is generally backed by the objective convictions of the patient, whereas a suggestion by another may directly contravene the patient's objective reason and experience.
What is true of physical health is also equally true of mental well-being, the rule governing them both being the same, namely, ‘as one thinks, so one becomes'.
In a matter as important as health, one cannot afford to ignore the significant contributions that modern medicine has made over the last two centuries. Modern medical researchers have achieved remarkable breakthroughs in their understanding of the wonderful and complex encasement of our souls, i.e., the human body. Medicine in 1800 was a scary combination of chance and quackery; today, with great advances in pharmacology and surgery, and in the fields of pathology, obstetrics, and vaccination, the profession can claim to have remedies for most diseases and ailments that our body is liable to suffer from. In the area of preventive medicine, vaccines have been developed for most deadly diseases including smallpox, tuberculosis, diphtheria, pertussis, polio, measles, mumps, rubella and hepatitis-B. Eradicating the scourge of smallpox on a global scale has been a story of man's determination and scientific endeavour. Surgery has undergone massive changes with access to new diagnostic procedures and technologies.
But it is also true that while many diseases are on the wane - such as polio and cholera - many others, like AIDS, alcoholism and stress, are on the up. It can be safely surmised that medicine has fallen far short of what once seemed a realistic goal of conquering all diseases and bringing health to all.
Technological developments in various fields, especially during the last two to three decades, have provided us with bodily
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