A healthy mind, goes a saying, resides (only) in a healthy body. Sound health is central to pleasing personality. Good health is home to discerning intellect. Mind shall be healthy only if body is. With a sickly body pleasures of material world remain distant dreams. So long as you neglect your health, your mind will not side with you. So if you desire a sound mind, focus attention on having a sound body first.
You must do all you can to look good, dynamic and a class apart. Do live in consonance with laws of nature. William Wodsworth said it best : ‘Nature never did betray, the heart that loved her.’
Weak Mind
A man with ill and feeble body frame tends to have a mind of similar nature. He looses self confidence. His thoughts fall into a negative spiral and he suffers from chronic fatigue, headache, depression and lack of interest in intellectual pursuits. His memory falters and self esteem touches an alarming low.
Why this viscious circle of weak body—weak mind? One significant cause for this could be lack of proper diet. Add to this riders like excess of intellectual activity, environmental pollution, domestic discord, erratic eating habits, lack of physical exercise or ‘Yogasanas’, and most of all a negative attitude towards life; and the problem gets elephantine. Intoxicants like smoking, drinking, chewing tobacco, opium etc. are highly inimical to physical and mental health. People with psychiatric disorder or aberration also tend to be mental duds. All aforesaid factors, as also the below listed, needed to be headed for sake of holistic personality.
❑ Get rid of preconceived notions and run-of-the-mill ideas and attitudes. ‘Do as the Romans do’ is no way to solve a problem. Rather, this mindset blocks proper reconnaissance of status quo and facing of it head on.
❑ May be you are astonished. Incredible though, a fact nevertheless, that you have made it. You have solved your problem. Now you are spreading love all around. Envy and hatred has nothing to do with you. You are fresh as fragrance. And a new surge of energy is making waves in your mind and body.
