Preksha Dhyana Human Body

Author(s): Jethalal S Zaveri
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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Introduction
Human body is one of the most exciting of nature's miracles. It is a very complex multicellular organism in which the survival and health depends upon proper organisation and co-ordination of a number of physiological and biochemical functions. Integrated result of these activities enable man to live happily and to maintain health. Health-care by proper co-ordination of various bodyfunctions-breathing, eating and thinking is an important facet of the system of Preksha-dhyana.
Everybody desires and has a right to remain healthy and avoid sickness. But to remain free from disorders and diseases, we must have adequate knowledge of the various systems of the body and their mutual relationship. Strange as it may seem, though everyone lives with one's own body, each moment of one's life, one knows little about the structure of its vital organs and less about how they function. Our medical knowledge and experience has developed wonderfully well and advanced to an extent which enables us to treat and cure such dreadful diseases as typhoid and pneumonia. Our surgical techniques can now repair and even replace a faulty heart. But how many of the unfortunate millions who overcrowd the world's clinics and hospitals know which one of their body systems failed to function properly? Sure, we have developed pharmaceutical wonder drugs to treat psychosomatic diseases such as hypertension. But did any one of the thousands of hypertension victims know that it could have positively been prevented? It appears that the good old adage "Prevention is better than cure" has been very nearly removed from the book of proverbs.
Each facet of our environment affects our body and its health, sometimes obviously and directly, and sometimes far more subtly. An endless variety of health hazards, such