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Man can also become diseased due to natural calamities or other factors. For cure of ailments four factors are essential: Treatment, self-control, knowledge of digestible and non-digestible and patience. In our quest to stay well and disease-free and sometimes when malady becomes unbearable, it is imperative to visit a doctor or take medicines. But this should not be only solution. Simultaneously, the solution lies in the practice of meditation and friendliness with disease to be sought so that one remains healthy and balanced. Suffering cannot be avoided altogether, but can be used to grow and move forward stronger, wise and healthier. Every wound offers an opportunity to discover its cause and purpose. When disease comes establish friendliness with disease as it enhances tolerance power also. By the power of determination, one establishes friendliness with the ailment and forget the pain altogether. People who establish friendliness with ailment render the ailment ineffective Life is a reward and it is given only to those who have earned it, who deserve it. Health is not a gift, but is an acquisition, which means something earned through right efforts in the right direction. Habits and lifestyle can win over genetic deficiency in most of cases.
The healing art is undergoing a gradual but radical revolution due to the growing realization that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of care. Preventive methods are being applied by the people themselves. It is possible to prevent nearly 90% of diseases that kills us. Observance of the laws of hygiene affords wonderful results in producing vitality and endurance. Insurance companies are discovering that even weak and sick people will, if they take good care
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