In this article, Sadhguru explains that the basis of health lies in one’s energy system.
Fundamentally, the word health itself comes from the root word ‘whole’. What we call, ‘feeling healthy’ is that we have a sense of wholeness within us. If we are free of diseases medically, that is not health. If we feel like a complete human being in our body, mind and spirit, that is when we are really healthy.
If one has to experience this sense of wholeness and oneness, it’s important that one’s body, mind, and above all, one’s energy functions in a certain level of intensity within themselves. Now, physically, as per medical terms, one may be healthy, but energies may be lethargic. One doesn’t know why things don’t happen in life the way they should, both inside and outside; this is simply because one is not taking care of the well-being of his energy.
For every physical or psychological situation that you go through in life, there is an energy basis, which in turn has a chemical basis. When it comes to health, no human being gets to live in perfect conditions. The pressures of life, the food that we eat, the air that we breathe, the water that we drink, all these can affect us in many ways. The more our activities are in the world, the more we’re exposed to many things that can throw our chemistry off-balance and create health problems. But if the energy in our system is properly cultivated and kept active, these things will not have an effect.
So, in Yoga, when we say health, we don’t look at the body; we don’t look at the mind; we only look at the energy – the way it is. If your energy body is in proper balance and full flow, your physical body and mental body will be in perfect health. There is no question about it. Keeping the energy body in full flow is not about doing any kind of healing or things like that. This is about going to the foundations of your energy system and activating it in a proper way, building a foundational yogic practice that establishes your energy in such a way that your body and mind are naturally fine.
See, life functions in many ways. Let us say you don’t know what electricity is. This hall is dark. If I tell you to just press this switch and the whole hall will be flooded with light, will you believe me? No. Now if I just flip this switch, light appears. You will call it a miracle, isn’t it? Simply because you don’t understand how electricity works. Similarly, life happens in many different ways. You have limited yourself to just the physical, the logical – physical in experience, logical in thinking.
This life energy in you created your whole body – these bones, this flesh, this heart, this kidney and everything. Do you think it cannot create health? If your energies are kept in full flow and proper balance, it is capable of much more than just health.
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